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01/22/2025

"A fascinating insight into one of the most interesting musical groups of all time."

Read Reading Religion's full review of SPEAKING WORDS OF WISDOM edited by Michael McGowan here:

“More popular than Jesus.”Despite the uproar it caused in America in 1966, John Lennon’s famous assessment of the Beatles vis-à-vis ...

01/21/2025

NEW YORK WOMEN OF WIT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Sabrina Fuchs Abrams was reviewed in The Space Between:

New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century. By Sabrina Fuchs Abrams. Penn State University Press, 2024. 234 pp. $119.95 (cloth), $23.99 (ebook).Reviewed by Allison Nick, Millsaps CollegeIn New York Women of Wit ...

01/17/2025

Monday! Join Ekaterina V. Haskins, author of REMEMBERING THE WAR, FORGETTING THE TERROR for a discussion about the book at 5:30 CET:

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01/17/2025

Monday! Join Denva Gallant, author of ILLUMINATING THE VITAE PATRUM, for a book presentation at Sapienzà Universita di Roma. More information can be found in the below image.

01/16/2025

Nicholas R. Jones was featured on the New Books Network podcast! Listen to the full episode here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/cervantine-blackness

01/15/2025

Friday! Join Robert P. Wolensky, author of SEWN IN COAL COUNTRY and more, for a reception and discussion for the “The Knox Mine Disaster” Documentary Exhibit at the Everhart Museum in Scranton at 6pm. Entry fee to the museum is required. A cash bar and refreshments will be included.

01/14/2025

Nicholas R. Jones's CERVANTINE BLACKNESS was featured on The Page 99 Test: https://page99test.blogspot.com/2024/12/nicholas-r-joness-cervantine-blackness.html

Nicholas R. Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He is the author of the prize-winn...

01/13/2025

Read a review of NEW YORK WOMEN OF WIT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Sabrina Fuchs Abrams in Frontiers:

Are women funny? Sabrina Fuchs Abrams, professor of English at the State University of New York, Empire State, and author of New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century, asserts not only are women funny, but women humorists in the interwar period “used satire, irony, and wit as an indirect form...

01/13/2025

The Museum of Modern Art has a new exhibition called "Lillie P. Bliss and the Birth of the Modern" running through March 29, 2025: https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5737

For related reading, sign up to be notified when Nancy Locke's CEZANNE'S SHADOWS is published: https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09879-1.html

Modernism has often been described as a rejection of the art of the past, but Cézanne’s Shadows makes an eloquent case for precisely the opposite artistic practice.

01/10/2025

WITH DARKNESS CAME STARS by Audrey Flack was named one of Hyperallergic's Best Art Books of 2024!

This expansive genre includes any title with a bearing on the multifaceted art world — from Audrey Flack’s memoir to Caitlin Cass’s “Suffrage Song.”

01/10/2025

"A significant contribution to humor studies."

Read HUMOR's full review of Sabrina Fuchs Abrams's NEW YORK WOMEN OF WIT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY here: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/humor-2024-0026/html?lang=en

01/09/2025

Read Reading Religion's review of ODIOUS PRAISE by Eric MacPhail:

This book reveals a tradition of thought overlooked in our intellectual history but enormously influential even now: the tradition of odious praise. Distinct...

01/09/2025

Blake Leyerle, author of CHRISTIANS AT HOME, was featured on the New Books Network podcast! Listen to the full episode here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/christians-at-home

12/23/2024

❄️The PSU Press offices will be closed for winter break through January 1st. We'll see you in 2025!❄️

12/20/2024

David J. Collins, SJ, author of DISENCHANTING ALBERT THE GREAT, was interviewed by New Books Network Listen to the full interview here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/disenchanting-albert-the-great

12/19/2024

Barbara Biesecker, author of REINVENTING WORLD WAR II, was interviewed on New Books Network Listen to the full interview here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/reinventing-world-war-ii

12/19/2024

The December issue of our newsletter, PSU Press News, is here! Read on for awards and reviews, journals news, and more: https://www.psupress.org/emailassets/psupressnews-December_2024.html

12/18/2024

Association of University Presses has put together a list of selected books, journal articles, reading lists, and commentary from its member presses on the topic of democracy.

You can find the full list, including our selections, here: https://digitaldigest.up.hcommons.org/2024/12/09/on-democracy/

On Democracy December 9, 2024Books for Understanding, Books That MatterAnnette Windhorn Essential Reading from University Presses 2024 has been a big year for democratic elections around the world, as more than 3 billion people in 72 countries have gone to the polls. Robust elections definitely cont...