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Stripping as an Art Form
Judith Lynne Hanna has visited many exotic-dance clubs around the world where “I would feel comfortable dancing—if I could wear the high heels. And I was younger.” As she says so, the veteran scholar,...
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After more than 50 years of publishing and some 2,000 books, the University of Missouri Press is slated to close. Tim Wolfe, president of the UM system, made the announcement this morning, according to...
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Hatfields, McCoys, and Scholarly Publishing
Nothing to feud about here. A hit miniseries from the History Channel can do wonders for a university press’s backlist. In 1982, the University Press of Kentucky published The Hatfields and the McCoys...
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D.C.’s Go-Go Soul
From Club U to the H St. corridor to Prince George’s County, go-go is the local music of Washington. At music halls, packed dance clubs, and on the street, the syncopated rhythms of rototoms and...
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Critics Attack Closing of U. of Missouri Press
U. of Missouri President Timothy M. Wolfe At a time when university presses are arguably faring relatively well, the decision of the University of Missouri System to shut down its press has angered...
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U. of North Carolina Press Names New Director
The University of North Carolina Press announced today that its new director is John Sherer, currently the vice president and publisher of Basic Books. Sherer will succeed Kate Torrey, who is retiring...
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The Best Book They’d Ever Acquired
Acquiring minds wanted to know: what was the best book they’d ever signed for their presses? That was the totally unfair question posed to a panel of acquisition editors this past week in Chicago, at...
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My Daily Read: Jenny Davidson
Jenny Davidson is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Q: What’s the first thing you read in the morning? A. Email! Does anybody say anything else?...
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Recalling Northrop Frye
With the final book out last week, the University of Toronto Press could not have had better timing for completion of its 30-volume Collected Works of Northrop Frye. July 14 marks the centenary of the...
View ArticleShake-Up at the ‘Oxford American’
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that Marc Smirnoff is out as editor of the Oxford American, a literary magazine that has been based at the University of Central Arkansas since 2004. Smirnoff...
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My Daily Read: Imani Perry
Imani Perry is a professor at the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. Q: What’s the first thing you read in the morning? A. When I first wake up I check to see if I have text...
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U. of Alaska Press Under Fire From Columnist
As a columnist, the Alaska Dispatch’s Craig Medred is not one for restraint. “Big city reporters are morons,” was the decorous beginning of one recent piece. So perhaps there was no surprise in his...
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A Yawning Field of Study
Consider the exploits of Frenchman Joseph Pujol, history’s most melodic master of flatulence. Early in life, in the 1860s, he discovered a rare ability to draw air into his rectum—to use as an organ of...
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My Daily Read: Steven Barthelme
Steven Barthelme is a professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. His new collection of short stories, Hush Hush, will appear in October from Melville House. Q: What’s the first...
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‘A Clockwork Orange’
Fifty years after it was published, English novelist Anthony Burgess’s disturbing A Clockwork Orange has lost little of its power. At least, that impression will soon be tested anew. Next month W.W....
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Roger Hodge, New Editor of ‘The Oxford American’
Roger Hodge/Photo by J. Henry Fair Roger D. Hodge has been named the new editor of The Oxford American, a much-acclaimed quarterly that has been based at the University of Central Arkansas since 2004....
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Clair Willcox Is Rehired as Editor in Chief at U. of Missouri Press
Clair Willcox After a long squabble, the University of Missouri has rehired Clair Willcox, whom it laid off in July as editor in chief of the University of Missouri Press. Willcox now holds that...
View ArticleNational Book Award Finalists
This morning’s announcement of National Book Award finalists included academics in three categories, with a cluster of poets published by university presses. However academics have gone missing, oddly...
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Mo Yan and the Oklahoma Connection
The naming of Mo Yan as the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature was not just a honor for the Chinese writer. It was also a coup for an American university press already poised to release one of the next...
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My Daily Read: Donald P. Green
Donald P. Green is a professor of political science at Columbia University. He is the author of four books, including Get Out the Vote: How to Increase Voter Turnout (Brookings Institution Press,...
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