Jon Venn reviews Kathleen O’Shea’s So Much More Than a Headache: Understanding Migraine through Literature for The Polyphony.
“This compilation, nevertheless, represents an essential intervention and contribution into a phenomenon. The choices (both of selection and of their organization) give a profound sense of the complexity and depth of the ‘migraine’ as a phenomenon, one that is […]
Joseph Beilein’s Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri is named one of “The Five Best Books on Civil War Guerrillas” by The Civil War Monitor.
“Through his extensive social and genealogical research into the kinship networks of Confederate bushwhackers, Beilein illustrates how the female relatives of men in the bush (wives, […]
Congratulations to Rona Simmons for winning the Military Writers Society of America’s 2021 Gold Medal Award for her excellent book The Other Veterans of WWII: Stories from Behind the Front Lines.
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Don’t miss this informative interview with Ellene Glenn Moore, winner of the 2020 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and author of the forthcoming poetry collection How Blood Works from the KSU Press.
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Great news! Here’s your chance to receive a signed bookplate directly from George R. Dekle Sr., author of The East River Ripper: The Mysterious 1891 Murder of Old Shakespeare. Don’t pass on this book or this incredible offer!
“To celebrate the publication of this book, I am offering a free personalized bookplate bearing my signature to anyone […]
KSUP’s Bandersnatch and The Faun’s Bookshelf earn praise as Good C.S. Lewis Studies Books That Did Not Win the Mythopoeic Award Part 3 from A Pilgrim in Narnia blog. OK, we think they’re more than “good” but we get the point.
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Bandersnatch: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the […]
The True Murder podcast interviews George R. Dekle Sr. on his latest tome, The East River Ripper: The Mysterious 1891 Murder of Old Shakespeare, a gripping tale of New York’s Ripper-style murders.
Congratulations to Rona Simmons, author of The Other Veterans of WWII: Stories from Behind the Front Lines for being a finalist in the Military Writers of America 2021 competition. We’ll get the results, Gold, Silver or Bronze, in September. Stay tuned.
“The Other Veterans of World War II is a historical tour de force, bringing to light […]
Don’t miss this informative review of So Much More Than a Headache by Kathleen O’Shea.
“If you want someone to gain a better understanding of what living with migraine means, and particularly if you or someone you know has a love of literature and the English Language, then I’d highly recommend this book.”—Migraine Association of Ireland
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BookNotes reviews A Notable Bully: Colonel Billy Wilson, Masculinity, and the Pursuit of Violence in the Civil War Era.
“Many Civil War-era figures make it hard on potential biographers… The book should have a lot of crossover appeal for those interested in Wilson himself, Civil War history, midcentury New York City immigrant politics and culture, and […]
