Don’t miss this year’s Ohioana Book Festival, April 22, 2023 at the Columbus Metropolitan Library’s Main Library. This year includes appearances by KSU Press authors Tom Batiuk, Former Ohio governor Richard F. Celeste, Guy L. Denny, John J. Grabowski, & Lauren R. Pacini.
VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center calls Philip Irving Mitchell’s The Shared Witness of C.S. Lewis and Austin Farrer “One of the finest works of comparative analysis that I’ve come across.”
“Mitchell explains that his “goal is to give readers a larger sense of Lewis and Farrer’s intellectual worlds in hopes that their continued […]
Kent State Today calls us a “Bookworm’s Delight” and highlights some of notable recent books. All titles are on sale now at 30% off. Use code: ENJOY30.
“’We’ve had a stellar lineup of titles for 2022, including two books with KSU’s Wick Poetry Center: Dear Vaccine, which was featured on the PBS NewsHour and Sister Tongue, […]
Congratulations to Tom Batiuk for providing 50 years of fun and laughter with Funky Winkerbean, Crankshaft, and other strips you know and love.
The Northeast Ohio native Batiuk announced he will be retiring his long-running “Funky Winkerbean” comic strip at the conclusion of 2022. The 75-year-old made the news official with a post on his website, writing that […]
The Akron Beacon Journal gives us “5 Takeaways” from former Governor Dick Celeste’s new memoir In the Heart of it All: An Unvarnished Account of My Life in Public Service.
“Celeste describes a number of guerilla campaign tactics he used to get his name before voters. They included having himself paged at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport […]
Smile Politely reviews The Brilliance of Charles Whittlesey: Geologist, Surveyor, Military Engineer, Civil War Strategist.
“Stanley Totten’s readable and fact-packed book from original sources is an excellent tribute to a man who previously has barely surfaced in the history of the Midwest, despite his enormous contributions to our area and nation.”
—Smile Politely
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Kathleen O’Shea, author of So Much More Than a Headache: Understanding Migraine through Literature speaks Daily Remedy about her early experiences with migraine and how she discovered healing through literature.
“This was 1978; there were no headache specialists, no migraine support groups, no medications specifically designed to treat this disease. In fact, it wasn’t even known […]
Dear Vaccine, the interactive Global Vaccine Poem launched by Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center and the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center to promote the COVID-19 vaccine, will soon become a staged theatrical production.
The performance, titled What We Learned While Alone: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic, will have its opening night at 7 p.m. on […]
Our favorite cartoonist Tom Batiuk has launched a brand new website, TomBatiuk.com. Check it out!
“I’m also very excited to let you know that I recently launched a brand new website — TomBatiuk.com which will take the place of FunkyWinkerbean.com. This new website allows me to promote and discuss all my strips including Funky, Crankshaft, and […]
Zachery A. Fry has won the John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil War History during 2018. His study, “McClellan’s Epidemic: Disease and Discord at Harrison’s Landing, July-August 1862,” appeared in the March 2018 issue of Civil War History. The prize recipient was selected by the journal’s editorial advisory board. The prize earns the recipient a $1,000 award from The Kent State University Press.
