Shout It from the Treetops

The new Chronicle of Higher Education features an essay by Alex Vernon that poses the question, "Should We Take Tarzan Seriously?"

Vernon should know; he is the author of the forthcoming ON TARZAN, the first book-length investigation of a century's worth of the Jungle King's incarnations and our varied imaginative responses to them.

Bookforum has also taken note of ON TARZAN, listing it in the "Pub Dates" section of the Sept/Oct/Nov issue.

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Short Takes

Interviews:
Sharon White, author of VANISHED GARDENS, on WRTI-Temple University's Creatively Speaking, this Saturday at 11:00 a.m.

Adele Oltman, author of SACRED MISSION, WORLDLY AMBITION, on the 8/25/08 audiocast of Laura Flanders' RadioNation.

News and Notes:
The UGA Press is featured in this months' Georgia Magazine.

David Shi, president of Furman University and author of THE SIMPLE LIFE, has been named to The Chronicle of Higher Education/New York Times Higher Education Cabinet, "a new organization of university presidents and chancellors who are charged with identifying the key issues and trends in higher education."

Mort Zachter's memoir DOUGH is now out in a paperback edition from HarperCollins. Here's a nice notice from The Villager, a New York neighborhood newspaper.

Nathalie Dupree and her book SOUTHERN MEMORIES get a nod in "A Little Jiggle from Down South," a food article in the Washington Post on congealed dishes.

Reviews:
SAVAGE BARBECUE in Salon.com.

DRAGONFLIES AND DAMSELFLIES OF GEORGIA AND THE SOUTHEAST in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

GEORGIA ODYSSEY in Augusta's Metro Spirit, and the Albany Herald.

CORNBREAD NATION in the Winston-Salem Journal.

We get blogged:
A NATURAL SENSE OF WONDER in Georgia Books and Water.

WALKING THE WRACK LINE, STIRRING THE MUD, and ENTERING THE STONE in the Amazon.com blog Omnivoracious.

Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in Emerging Writers Network.

BLUE-EYED CHILD OF FORTUNE in With Sword and Pen.

OF THEE I SING, in a "Timothy Liu MEGA-Post" in Asian American Literature Fans.

Come See Us at the Decatur Book Festival

We'll be at the Decatur Book Festival most of the Labor Day Weekend. Here's a schedule of events by authors who have published books with the UGA Press. See you there!

Obama and King

In her August 18 Nation article, Adele Oltman situates Barack Obama in an American religious tradition closely associated with Martin Luther King--MLK, Sr., that is.

Oltman is the author of SACRED MISSION, WORLDLY AMBITION which reveals how business principles and religious faith informed and reinforced each other in Jim Crow-era, middle-class black communities.

Oltman will be talking more about Obama's faith in the coming days on Air America Radio and Al Jazeera English. Check back often for details.