Recent News
April 30, 2008
Young Lions Fiction Award Goes to Currie
The 2008 Young Lions Fiction Award was given to Ron Currie, Jr., for his novel God Is Dead at an April 28 ceremony in New York City. Swallow Press’s Peter Malae, author of Teach the Free Man: Stories(2007), was one of the five finalists. According to Rachel Weiss, a Young Lions member and marketing manager for the Association of American University Presses, Teach the Free Man is the first university press book ever to be included among the Young Lions Fiction finalists. A follow-up story in the New York Times’s blog, “Papercuts” notes that a “terrific” reading from Teach the Free Man was delivered at the Young Lions ceremony by actor Michael Shannon.
April 18, 2008
Olmanson Wins Jackson Prize
Eric Olmanson’s 2007 book, The Future City on the Inland Sea: A History of Imaginative Geographies on Lake Superior is the winner of the 2007 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize awarded by the Association of American Geographers. The annual prize is given to American geographers who write books about the United States which convey the insights of professional geography in language that is interesting and attractive to a lay audience. Our congratulations to Eric for receiving this honor.
April 18, 2008
Granary of Rome Wins Geography Award
Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial History in North Africa, by Diana K. Davis, is the winner of the 2007 Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography. Awarded by the Association of American Geographers, the annual prize goes to a book that makes an unusually important contribution to advancing the science and art of geography. Congratulations to Diana, whose book has also won the 2007 George Perkins Marsh Prize in Environmental History.
April 14, 2008
Matthew Cohen Wins Benda Prize for Best Book in Southeast Asian Studies
The Komedie Stamboel, Matthew Cohen’s 2007 study of popular theater in colonial Indonesia, is the 2008 winner of the Harry Benda Prize for best book on Southeast Asia, awarded by the Association for Asian Studies. “It is a tremendous career honour for me,” said Cohen, who lives and teaches in London. The award was presented at the AAS annual meeting in early April.
April 14, 2008
William Logan Foreword on New Critics Appears in VQR
Poetry critic William Logan’s foreword to the forthcoming anthology Praising It New: The Best of the New Criticism (June) appears in the spring 2008 issue of Virginia Quarterly Review.
Event(s) for April 08, 2008
Wilson Center Public Policy Seminar
Elizabeth Schmidt, others TBA
Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946–1958
Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars
Washington, DC
3:30–5:30
Author Presentation
Gayle Pritchard
Uncommon Threads
Cleveland Heights Senior Activity Center
11 a.m.
Upcoming Events
Ohioana Book Festival
Gene Logsdon
The Last of the Husbandmen
Columbus, OH
Weeklong Memoir Writing Workshop
Thomas Larson
The Memoir and the Memoirist
Ghost Ranch
Santa Fe, NM
Poetry Reading
David Yezzi, Adam Kirsch, Michael Lind, and Lisa Williams
Azores
West Chester University Poetry Conference
4:30–5:45 p.m.
Poetry Reading
David Yezzi
Azores
Carmine Street Metrics
Greenwich Village Bistro
New York, NY
4 pm
Author Program
Metropolitan Quilters
Gayle Pritchard
Uncommon Threads
Ohio State School for the Blind
7 p.m.
Book Seminar
Gayle Pritchard
Uncommon Threads
American Quilt Study Group, Columbus, OH
9 a.m.–11 a.m.
Author Presentation and Signing
One Book, One Community participants
Gene Logsdon
The Man Who Created Paradise
Kent State University-Tuscarawas Campus
7 p.m.
