Recent News
Kirkus & PW Give Starred Reviews to Latest Amish Mystery
July 11, 2008
Two starred reviews in major magazines have jump-started the publication of P. L. Gaus’s Separate from the World: An Ohio Amish Mystery. Publishers Weekly called Gaus’s “excellent sixth Ohio mystery” “another winner in this fine regional series”; Kirkus Reviews called it a “sharp mystery” and “A perceptive look at problems that have no easy solutions.”
Jordt’s Expertise on Burma Continues to Draw Media Attention
May 29, 2008
Ingrid Jordt, the author of Burma’s Mass Lay Meditation Movement, (Nov. 2007) continues to be tapped by national media outlets for nuanced information about Burma. Last fall it was the uprising by monks against the repressive government that led The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and WBAI Radio to seek Jordt’s insights. This spring, in the days and weeks after the devastating Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar, Jordt has been interviewed again in the Chronicle, on WISN-TV in Milwaukee, and in a religion story picked up by The Washington Post and USA Today. For links to these and other stories, visit the book webpage and look under “Downloads & Resources” as well as “Reviews.”
Young Lions Fiction Award Goes to Currie
April 30, 2008
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.
Event(s) for May 12, 2008
Author Book Signing
Gene Logsdon
The Last of the Husbandmen
Barnes & Noble, Mansfield, OH
1 p.m.
Upcoming Events
NBC TV 4 Feature
Mary Alice Mairose
Our First Family’s Home
Columbus, OH
8–9 a.m.
Author Program
Metropolitan Quilters
Gayle Pritchard
Uncommon Threads
Ohio State School for the Blind
7 p.m.
Poetry Reading
Roger Sedarat
Dear Regime
Dodge Poetry Festival, New Jersey
Poetry Reading
Roger Sedarat
Dear Regime
Cornelia Street Café
Poetry Reading
Roger Sedarat
Dear Regime
Asia Society Museum
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.

