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 […]
“On Saturday, June 5, 2021, author Lincoln Mitchell spoke with the Dusty Baker-Sacramento and Lefty O’Doul-San Francisco Bay Area SABR chapters about his new book The Giants and Their City. The book covers major league baseball in San Francisco from 1976-1992.”
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Treat yourself to this great interview with retired Press Director Will Underwood.
“Underwood spent 30 years at Kent State Press, 15 of them as director. The work was in his genes. He grew up Syracuse, New York where his father’s career was at Syracuse University Press. Underwood started working there as a teenager.”
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“Rollye James was joined by Author and radio legend Norm N. Nite, a.k.a Mr. Music, to talk all things rock n’ roll. Listen in while Norm and Rollye discuss Norm’s latest book The House That Rock Built which showcases the fascinating history of the behind the scenes deals that ultimately led to the Rock & […]
Be sure to catch this excellent review of Lincoln Mitchell’s The Giants and Their City: Major League Baseball in San Francisco, 1976–1992. Brought to you by Tom Hoffarth’s Farther Off the Wall blog.
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Civil War Books and Authors reviews No Place for Glory: Major General Robert E. Rodes and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg by Robert J. Wynstra.
“No Place for Glory is the product of a rigorous primary source investigation in newspapers, archives, and published sources of all kinds. Another very fine contribution to the Gettysburg historiography, this […]
The Medical Humanities blog reviews Kathleen O’Shea’s So Much More Than a Headache.
“O’Shea’s anthology will be empowering for migraineurs, comforting to those close to them, and essential for medical professionals”—Medical Humanities.
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Learn about chronic migraines on The Real Life Show: Living with a Chronic Illness podcast with So Much More Than a Headache author Kathleen O’Shea.
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