Monday, June 29, 2009

Short Takes


An article about how UGA Press is planning for tightened state budgets appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution this morning.

Reviewed this weekend:
TENNESSEE WOMEN in the Knoxville News-Sentinel (“a terrific and timely contribution to Vol history”)

WILLIAM FAULKNER AND THE SOUTHERN LANDSCAPE in the Mobile Press-Register

A PORTRAIT OF HISTORIC ATHENS AND CLARKE COUNTY in the Athens Banner-Herald
A recent article in Asia Times prominently mentions Charles Horner’s RISING CHINA AND ITS POSTMODERN FATE.

Four UGA titles have strong reviews in the most recent Journal of American History:
THE BIG TENT -- "superb and revelatory"

ENTREPRENEURS IN THE SOUTHERN UPCOUNTRY
-- "Well-argued and linked to broad historical issues, it is a model community study that deserves a wide readership."

CLOSER TO TRUTH THAN ANY FACT -- "Refreshingly lucid and cogent . . . . I look forward to periodically rereading 'Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact' and to wrestling with its conclusions."

CARRY IT ON -- "A brief review cannot do justice to Ashmore's skill in weaving together the economic and political aspects of a still-unfinished effort to remake Alabama along more just and egalitarian lines. Her book, like Kent Germany's NEW ORLEANS AFTER THE PROMISES, signals a new level of breadth and sophistication in civil rights scholarship."

The Asheville Citizen-Times recently reviewed WHAT VIRTUE THERE IS IN FIRE.

Early press for our forthcoming AWP Creative Nonfiction Award winner GHOSTBREAD recently appeared in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

The July 2009 issue of The Writer Magazine features full-page reviews of Sue William Silverman’s FEARLESS CONFESSIONS and Barbara Shoup and Margaret-Love Denman’s NOVEL IDEAS.

Poetry news:
Zoland Poetry Series reviews FIELD FOLLY SNOW.

Poets & Writers online includes Anna Journey’s collection of poems IF BIRDS GATHER YOUR HAIR FOR NESTING on their summer reading list.

A poem from WINTER SKY by Coleman Barks ran in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry column last week.

Ed Pavlic (WINNERS HAVE YET TO BE ANNOUNCED) received the Georgia Author of the Year Award in poetry this month. The book was recently reviewed at Coldfront : “one can only imagine the kind of mad-trip Pavlic must have taken his own self on in order to write this thing.”

Blackbird reviews Kevin McFadden’s HARDSCRABBLE.
Slashfood reviews and recommends CRAIG CLAIBORNE’S SOUTHERN COOKING using pimiento cheese and biscuits as a test case: “There's only one right way to make either of these Southern staples and that's the way your mother, her mother, her mother's mother, ad infinitum did. That said, these'll definitely do in a pinch. For those sans Mississippi ancestry, your new Uncle Craig's renditions of this pepper-kicked cheese spread and deeply savory, lard-rich biscuits is all you'll need. Instructions are thorough, simple and forgiving of variances.”