Syndey “Syd” Lea, author of a forthcoming book from University of Michigan Press tentatively titled Hundred Himalayas, has been selected Poet Laureate of Vermont by Governer Peter Shumlin. A public ceremony honoring Lea will be held on November 4 at the Capital Plaza Hotel in Montpelier.
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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…
Along with welcoming students back to campus and pulling our sweaters down from the attic, we busied ourselves with the production and finalization of several new works this month. A new issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review was published. Volume 50, Issue 1 features a little bit of everything, from Michael Reid Busk’s article on the No Coast Derby Girls to francine j. harris’ aptly named poem “what you’d find buried in the dirt under…
July and August were fairly quiet months for MPublishing, with a few journal issues coming out as we did our best to keep cool in the heat and launch a new publication or two. Here’s what’s new from the end of the summer: ARKIVOC, the open access organic chemistry journal, published more than 20 new articles. Articles from ARKIVOC are freely available for all to read or download. A new issue of the Journal of…
John Marsh is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State University and the author of Hog Butchers, Begars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry, available this month from University of Michigan Press. Let’s start with a quiz. Fill in the blank:
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?
A new issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing is now available online. Guest-edited by Kevin Hawkins, head of digital publishing production here at MPublishing, this issue features seven articles on the theme of standards in the publishing industry. In addition, the issue includes a book review and a detailed follow-up to a widely-read study published in JEP last year, The Short-Term Influence of Free Digital Versions of Books on Print Sales. The contents of the…
MPublishing is pleased to announce the publication of a new open access journal, Fragments: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Ancient and Medieval Pasts. Fragments will provide a forum for dialogue and exchange between scholars in all fields of the humanities and social sciences who study the premodern world. The journal encourages scholars to pursue subjects of broad interest to colleagues working in other places and times, and to pursue comparative and connective approaches in…
June saw a flurry of new content released across disciplines, genres, and publishing models. Here’s what’s new halfway through 2011: ARKIVOC, an online journal of organic chemistry, published 19 articles in June. This open access journal, hosted at MPublishing since 2009, is published by ARKAT USA, and has recently undertaken a publishing partnership with King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia that will help to sustain this publication into the future. Michigan Quarterly Review 49.4 became available…
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…