Strand Magazine reviews four of our most recent true crime titles.
“Kent State University Press has been publishing some of the most interesting historical true-crime stories in recent years. Some of these cases dominated the headlines nationwide; others were simply nine-day wonders in small towns and rapidly faded into obscurity. The publisher’s True Crime History series […]

Elizabeth De Wolf, author of The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories, speaks to Bangor Daily News about this 19th-century tale of abortion and murder.

“’This is a story about women in the workforce, and the price of progress and who should even be in the workforce,’ said University of New England professor Elizabeth De Wolfe, […]

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine reviews Queen of the Con: From a Spiritualist to the Carnegie Imposter by Thomas Crowl. 
“Crowl offers an eye-opening and often amusing romp through a more innocent time, when trust was easily earned and just as easily abused. Chadwick’s real name was Elizabeth Bigley and she began stealing and defrauding as a […]

Don’t miss Poachers Were My Prey author Chip Gross. He speaks to Bear Grease podcast about undercover wildlife agent RT Stewart of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources who was a lead agent on the largest turkey poaching sting in US history. Pt. 1 of 3.
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The Journal of Inklings Studies offers praise for A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien’s Literary Canvas by Peter Grybauskas.
“Grybauskas’s book manages to provide a fresh look at the subject matter, all the more valuable on account of his comprehensive studies of individual works. All in all, the volume is a must-have […]

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 […]