Here’s your chance to catch Norm N. Nite coauthor of The House That Rock Built on the Geri Petito Show, recorded 7/24/21. He discusses the origins and process of bringing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to Cleveland.
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So Much More than a Headache: Understanding Migraine through Literature author Kathleen O’Shea has been nominated for the 10th annual WEGO Health Awards: Rookie of the Year for Patient Advocacy.
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“This week on Elevations, we interview author Gordon H. Shufelt on his new book The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown: How a White Police Officer Was Convicted of Killing a Black Citizen, Baltimore, 1875.”
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“This meticulous description of the 1875 trial and unlikely conviction of a Baltimore policeman of Irish immigrant heritage for […]
The Potato Masher Murder: Death at the Hands of a Jealous Husband. wins the first place Walter Williams Award in the Missouri Writers’ Guild 2021 Presidents Writers Contest. Congratulations to author Gary Sosniecki and all involved.
“Gary Sosniecki delivers an intriguing true crime book that is close to his heart—the murder of his great-grandmother. Putting aside […]
The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown: How a White Police Officer Was Convicted of Killing a Black Citizen, Baltimore, 1875 by Gordon H. Shufelt has been accepted for submission to The Museum of African American History (MAAH) Stone Book Award. The Kent State University Press is pleased to be listed among such prominent authors as […]
Slow Down and #ReadUP. From the Association of University Presses.
“Books to pick up when you have a chance to slow down! University presses around the globe publish compelling, entertaining, enlightening reads.”
Includes The Kent State University Press’s own Cold War Secrets: A Vanished Professor, a Suspected Killer, and Hoover’s FBI by Eileen Welsome.
Great news! Press author Kathleen O’Shea’s latest book, So Much More Than a Headache: Understanding Migraine through Literature, has been nominated for a Reader’s Choice Award from TCK Publishing. Here’s your chance to let your voice be heard. Vote today!
Don’t miss Guernica magazine’s comprehensive review of Alfredo Aguilar’s On This Side of the Desert.
“A singular collection . . . at their core, Aguilar’s poems believe that holding people and their geographies in words offers them a sustaining and even transformational tenderness. Language may be as ‘common as sky,’ but it is also as mighty. […]
“When one publishes a book that wins an acclaimed PEN America Award where does one step next from those exalted heights?”
Find out in this Along the Way article from our friends at the Record-Courier.
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Lincoln Mitchell discusses his new book The Giants and Their City: Major League Baseball in San Francisco, 1976-1992 on the Baseball by the Book podcast. You can listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.
“From 1976 to 1992, the San Francisco Giants were mostly mediocre, rarely loved in their own city and constantly looking for a […]
