University Press of Kentucky

10/09/2024

Two University Press of Kentucky authors and University of Kentucky sports icons will be at Keeneland THIS FRIDAY for Big Blue Day! Jack “Goose” Givens and Nate Northington join other UK royalty this Friday at the track to celebrate Homecoming weekend 🏈 🎉

Find more information here: https://buff.ly/3zOzjJJ

Jack "Goose" Givens' THEY CALL ME GOOSE: https://buff.ly/417lspu

Nate Northington's STILL RUNNING: https://buff.ly/3BESje6

10/04/2024

We're proud to announce we'll be publishing John Billheimer's next book—the fascinating work HOLLYWOOD ENDINGS!

09/25/2024

We're proud to be announce that we'll be publishing Sonya Lea's next book—the critically necessary work AMERICAN BLOODLINES!

09/24/2024

HALF-LIFE OF A SECRET, Emily Strasser's award-winning memoir, is now available in paperback! https://buff.ly/3L7bpLg

09/23/2024

We're proud to be publishing legendary basketball coach Orlando Henry "Tubby" Smith's memoir! Check out the Publisher's Marketplace announcement below, then get more details in UKNow's feature here: https://buff.ly/3ZCct2i

09/20/2024

Thank you to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture for recognizing Chris Aluka Berry's valuable work!

AFFRILACHIA: https://buff.ly/3ZtpGL1

09/18/2024

Don't miss Tim Newby at Pickett Brewing Company tomorrow—"Beers. Baseball. Bluegrass." will be celebrating the release of Tim's newest book, THE ORIGINAL LOUISVILLE SLUGGER (https://buff.ly/4grtNgw) alongside live music!

Find more information, RSVP, and snag your $25 ticket here: https://buff.ly/3MPLybU

Louis "Pete" Rogers Browning was one of the greatest baseball players of the nineteenth century. His skills with the bat made the difficult art of hitting a ...

09/17/2024

It's release day for Tim Newby's THE ORIGINAL LOUISVILLE SLUGGER and the paperback edition of Emily Bingham's MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME!

🪕 MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME (paperback) - https://buff.ly/3ZoJvmB
🪕 For almost two centuries, "My Old Kentucky Home" has never been just a song—it continues to be a resonant, changing emblem of America's original sin, whose blood-drenched shadow haunts us still. This book investigates the tune's hidden history, lodged in the nation's cultural DNA, and ends with a startling solution for what to do with this artifact of race and slavery.
🪕 BONUS: "While the story of “My Old Kentucky Home” is a national one, for Largehearted Boy I tapped into music mostly by Louisville and Kentucky-connected musicians that conveys the inspiration, frustration, determination, release, and hope that went into my writing of this book." Check out the playlist author Emily Bingham created to accompany her book on the Largehearted Boy blog: https://buff.ly/4d7yE3x

⚾ THE ORIGINAL LOUISVILLE SLUGGER - https://buff.ly/4grtNgw
⚾ Learn the truth behind the myths surrounding the larger-than-life figure of Louis "Pete" Rogers Browning, who is recognized as not only the namesake but also the genesis for the famed Louisville Slugger, as the Hillerich & Bradsby Company shaped the first ever custom-made bat based on his instructions. Author Tim Newby uncovers the thin line between fact and fiction, and presents an extensive account of Browning as both a legendary baseball player and flawed human being.
⚾ BONUS: Celebrate the release with Tim Newby himself this Thursday at Pickett Brewing Company in their "Beers. Baseball. Bluegrass" event! Doors open at 6PM and tickets are $25. Find more information and RSVP here: https://buff.ly/3MPLybU

09/16/2024

"I COULD NAME GOD IN TWELVE WAYS is a testament to the power of vulnerability —in both walking one’s path and retracing one’s steps to tell the story." Read the rest of this glowing review of Karen Salyer McElmurray's latest essay collection in Chapter 16:

Award-winning writer Karen Salyer McElmurray’s collection of essays, I Could Name God in Twelve Ways, is many things at once: memoir, travelogue, and prayer.…

09/16/2024

Listen to the latest episode of the Forgotten Hollywood podcast to hear Kathleen Spaltro discuss her new book on one of the most under-appreciated members of the famous Barrymore acting family—LIONEL BARRYMORE: https://buff.ly/4gsJiEN

LIONEL BARRYMORE: https://buff.ly/4eq5lKM

In this episode, I spoke with author Kathleen Spaltro about her book "Lionel Barrymore: Character and Endurance in Hollywood's Golden Age". Once called "the mos

09/10/2024

The paperback edition of Emily Strasser's HALF-LIFE OF A SECRET will be available on the 24th of this month! Pre-order it now before our warehouse sale ends on the 15th, and use code FWARE24 for 30% off, plus free media mail shipping: https://buff.ly/3L7bpLg

09/06/2024

Joseph B. Atkins, author of the IPPY Bronze Award-winning HARRY DEAN STANTON (https://buff.ly/3z3Qjv9), discussed the art of writing and the unique challenges of authoring nonfiction versus fiction in this week's StoryBeat podcast episode: https://buff.ly/3MyMJw5

Don't forget that HARRY DEAN STANTON and all of our other print titles are 30% off—with FREE shipping—until September 15th on kentuckypress.com using code FWARE24!

The noted author and teacher, Joseph B. Atkins, is a veteran writer and professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Mississippi. Joe’s latest book...

09/03/2024

Get a sneak peek at Chris Aluka Berry's upcoming AFFRILACHIA, the first book of its kind to document the vibrant culture of Black communities in Southern Appalachia, in this ASHEVILLE MADE feature: https://buff.ly/4g41ncp

Powerful narratives from the people who inhabit these places complete this comprehensive collection, and contributions from Appalachian writers Kelly Elaine Navies and Maia A. Surdam offer poignant and powerful poems and essays that offer historical perspective and broaden the book's archival importance.

Pre-order now on our website and use code FWARE24 for 30% off, plus free media mail shipping: https://buff.ly/3ZtpGL1

WITNESS IN THE WOODSChris Aluka Berry at home with Sasha in Madison County. For years, he has traversed northern Georgia, eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina photographing the historic Black communities of Southern Appalachia.Portrait by Lauren Rutten Photographer Chris Aluka Berry recalls...

08/27/2024

The paperback edition of Emily Strasser's HALF-LIFE OF A SECRET will be available September 24th! Pre-order it now before our warehouse sale ends on September 15th, and use code FWARE24 for 30% off, plus free media mail shipping: https://buff.ly/3L7bpLg

08/21/2024

⏰COVER REVEAL TIME ⏰ Happy birthday to Jane Armstrong Tucker, who became better known as Agnes Parker during her ten-week job as an undercover detective! In the forthcoming ALIAS AGNES, find out how this Boston stenographer's path crossed with the infamous Madeleine Pollard, former mistress of a US Congressman. Written in engaging prose with all the intrigue and suspense of a detective tale, author Elizabeth A. DeWolfe explores how a shared lack of power did not always create female allies, and chronicles the lives of women at the cusp of the twentieth century—the opportunities that beckoned them and the challenges that thwarted their dreams.

Pre-order today via the QR code or the following link: https://buff.ly/3WXT490

08/19/2024

Happy birthday to Union General Stephen Burbridge 🎊🎂 As both a Kentuckian and the local architect of the destruction of slavery, find out how Burbridge earned the title of THE MOST HATED MAN IN KENTUCKY during the Civil War: https://buff.ly/3yAeykp

(Don't forget, if you order through our website, you can use code FWARE24 for 30% off the print edition, plus free media mail shipping!)

For the last third of the nineteenth century, Union General Stephen Gano Burbridge enjoyed the unenviable distinction of being the most hated man in Kentucky...

08/12/2024

Happy birthday to Cecil B. DeMille 🎂 🎬 Check out CECIL B. DEMILLE'S HOLLYWOOD to find out more about this director whose work in Hollywood's Golden Age changed the course of film history forever: https://buff.ly/4ctLs3L

(Don't forget, if you order through our website, you can use code FWARE24 for 30% off the print edition, plus free media mail shipping!)

In Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood, Robert S. Birchard offers a detailed and definitive chronicle of the most successful filmmaker in early Hollywood history, g...

08/12/2024

Come to Cooper House next Tuesday at 5:30PM to celebrate acclaimed sportscaster Tom Hammond and the launch of his new book covering his trailblazing career! Tom will be onsite to share his story and sign copies of RACES, GAMES, AND OLYMPIC DREAMS 🎙️📖

RSVP here: https://buff.ly/4fKTDLZ

More event information: https://buff.ly/4dpT7BB

Book Details: In sports, not all the long shots who succeed are athletes. In 1984, Tom Hammond, a forty-year-old sportscaster who had primarily worked in Kentucky and the Southeast, got an unlikely opportunity to appear on the NBC Sports telecast of the inaugural Breeders' Cup. Assigned to report fr...

08/12/2024

Fill up your TBR with our variety of unique upcoming titles! Take advantage of our warehouse sale to preorder your new favorite read 📚📦

Get this 30% off deal—plus free media mail shipping—using code FWARE24 on our website: https://buff.ly/3AhK4Uv

(Discounted sale prices will appear at final checkout. Offer valid for print titles [paperback and hardcover books] only. Free shipping on US media mail rate only. Expedited and international shipping available for an additional fee. Discounts cannot be combined with any other promotions.)

08/06/2024

“Great books explore what it means to be human, and that’s always timely, whether or not the world of the book is on the nightly news. The complexity of the human condition will always be a story with an audience.” Read the rest of Laura Leigh Morris's compelling essay on writing timely fiction in Cleaver Magazine: https://buff.ly/4dt4RD2

Then pre-order Laura's new novel THE STONE CATCHERS here: https://buff.ly/3YEuBYK

Get 30% off the print version PLUS free shipping using code FWARE24, only until September 15!

Laura Leigh Morris WRITING TIMELY FICTION Picture it: Twenty-five university professors in dresses and sports coats crouched in a dark classroom, waiting for a gunman to walk through the door. More nervous than we should have been, given this was only a simulation, the only sound our ragged breathin...

08/02/2024

TONIGHT at 6:30PM—Newsradio 630 WLAP is airing Dick Gabriel's interview with legendary sportscaster Tom Hammond! Tune in to the 630 AM frequency to listen to their discussion about Tom's storied career and his upcoming book that covers it all, RACES, GAMES, AND OLYMPIC DREAMS:

In sports, not all the long shots who succeed are athletes. In 1984, Tom Hammond, a forty-year-old sportscaster who had primarily worked in Kentucky and the ...

07/25/2024

⏰ COVER REVEAL TIME ⏰ Appalachian and plant-based cooking are no longer at odds in THE MODERN MOUNTAIN COOKBOOK! Appalachian vegan Jan A. Brandenburg updates the meals of her eastern Kentucky childhood to make them accessible to everyone—including cooks of any skill level—looking to incorporate more veg-friendly fare into their rotation 🥕 🍅 🥬 Brandenburg feeds both body and soul as she folds in lessons learned from generations of women and memories of family gatherings around the table with sure-to-please recipes, from eggless scramble for breakfast, to fried chick'n for supper.

Pre-order today via the QR code or the following link: https://buff.ly/3LE86eZ

07/24/2024

Head to the Erlanger Branch of the Kenton County Public Library tonight at 6:30PM EST to meet Blair Thomas Hess, one of the authors of the upcoming KENTUCKY Y'ALL!

Pre-order this entertaining and informative love letter to the state, written with Cameron Ludwick, today: https://buff.ly/3TK4TiK