The University of Michigan Press today announced one of the shortest marketing campaigns in the history of new books: #NewBooksIn5Words, a Twitter hashtag that accompanies micro-previews of new scholarly and trade titles. You can see the first postings at the UM Press Twitter feed. For example: Annie Finch’s A Poet’s Craft turns into: Be poet – now show it. #NewBooksIn5Words http://bit.ly/nguzLH Christopher Bigsby’s Arthur Miller: 1962–2005 is: After Marilyn: Miller, Act Two. #NewBooksIn5Words http://bit.ly/oQbCER And Theo…
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Jacob Soll, a Professor of History at Rutgers University who has published both of his books to date with the University of Michigan Press, was named this week as a 2011 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. The fellowship, which carries a $500,000, no-strings-attached grant for the next five years, is awarded to scientists, researchers, and exceptional people in the public sector based on “creativity, originality, and potential to make important contributions in the future.”
Library Journal recently reviewed Becky Thacker’s new novel, Faithful Unto Death, declaring is to be “a crime story with Midwestern gothic overtones, not unlike Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood.” “Authentic atmosphere and a remarkable portrayal of brave children make for a good read… the courtroom scenes are riveting,” reviewer Teresa Jacobsen continues. The book traces the mysterious death of Anna Spencer Thacker in Benzonia, Mich., in 1894. Suicide, accident… or murder?
Philip Levine, a native Michigander, Detroit poet and author of several University of Michigan Press books, has been named poet laureate of the United States. “How can I put it? It’s like winning the Pulitzer,” he told The New York Times. “If you take it too seriously, you’re an idiot. But if you look at the names of the other poets who have won it, most of them are damn good.” Levine is the author…
Starting today, July 18, all you have to do is “like” the University of Michigan Press Facebook page and you’ll have access to ongoing chapters of two brand-new novels. Check in every week and you’ll have read all of both books by the end of the summer! Barbara Kingsolver said she read Marjorie Cole’s Spell on the Water and “couldn’t put it down.” It’s about a woman struggling to put her family back together in…
After a distinguished career in publishing, University of Michigan Press Director Phil Pochoda will be (technically) retiring September 1. Over the past decade, Pochoda took the Press from being a publisher concentrated on traditional delivery of books to being an innovator in the field. Virtually every book the Press now produces is available to read or hear in a multitude of ways, from traditional words on paper to a variety of electronic, ebook and audio…