Don’t miss this informative video interview with Jason Prufer, author of Small Town, Big Music: The Outsized Influence of Kent, Ohio, on the History of Rock and Roll on WKYC-TV

Kent State University’s College of Arts and Sciences website features Problem Plants of Ohio written by faculty members Megan E. Griffiths, Melissa A. Davis and David Ward
“We really did try to write the book without too much fancy botanical terminology,” Griffiths-Ward said. “It’s there, but we’ve really toned it down and tried to write the text in such […]

Don’t miss this great interview with Stephen Peterson, coauthor of The Turnpike Rivalry: The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Browns, with Joe Cronauer on WKYC-TV

Tolkien’s Cosmology: Divine Beings and Middle-earth by Sam McBride is reviewed by Lembas 40 (Number 193), December 2020: A Publication of Unquendor, The Dutch Tolkien Society
“Readers with varying degrees of familiarity with Tolkien’s legendarium will be able to enjoy Tolkien’s Cosmology as, variously, a sort of clear, very readable overview, refresher course, or even encyclopedia. And I […]

Don’t miss this great interview with Pete Peterson, coauthor of The Turnpike Rivalry: The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Browns, on the “Savran on Sports” podcast. Starts at 33:40.

The Northwest Indiana Times calls The Belle of Bedford Avenue: The Sensational Brooks-Burns Murder in Turn-of-the-Century New York by Virginia A. McConnell “A well-written, intriguing true crime story.”
“A rich young woman running wild, her boyfriend left for dead in a low-rent hotel room and lurid headlines such as “Brooklyn is a modern sodom” might seem […]

Publisher’s Weekly reviews The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown: How a White Police Officer Was Convicted of Killing a Black Citizen, Baltimore, 1875
“A close and engrossing look at an obscure 19th-century homicide”
“A good job illuminating race relations and the criminal justice system in post–Civil War Baltimore.”
—Publisher’s Weekly
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Rolling Stone brings you this eye opening cover of The House That Rock Built: How it Took Time, Money, Music Moguls, Corporate Types, Politicians, Media, Artists, and Fans To Bring the Rock Hall To Cleveland.
“The House That Rock Built traces the saga through every twist and turn, packed with details that have never appeared anywhere […]

“Norm N. Nite’s The House That Rock Built is the ultimate gift to Cleveland music fans” according to Cleveland.com.
“The House That Rock Built is an insider’s perspective of everything that happened next. How Nite arranged a meeting between key figures in Cleveland and the group in New York. How money meant everything and Cleveland was […]

Hemingway in Comics gets a front page view on Lit Hub with this extended excerpt.
“Comic book artists and writers similarly make choices that require both surface and thematic readings, with narrative information being absorbed through a spare, meticulous pairing of text and artwork.”—Robert K. Elder
Read the article “Why Ernest Hemingway Makes a Great Subject for […]