Press Notes: 2010 Annual Catalog of Titles Now Available

The month of November saw continued interest in Athens author John Thorndike’s memoir, The Last of His Mind: A Year in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s. A review in the Washington Post Book World capped the national coverage, but reviews also appeared in regional media like The Athens News and Cape Cod Times. Interview requests also came from the likes of AARP and more author events were planned into 2010.

Ohio University Press also published its first annual catalog in November. The list of new books has traditionally been divided into two seasons, but in an effort to reduce printing and mailing costs, a single annual edition for 2010 was produced. Work on the catalog began in the summer and the result—also in a new smaller format—is an attractive marketing piece.

Ohio University Press Titles Published and Promoted Since September:

Children in Slavery through the Ages, edited by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller. This first anthology devoted to the study of children in slavery acknowledges that significant numbers of enslaved people have been children.

Missouri’s War: The Civil War in Documents, edited by Silvana R. Siddali. Published as part of a series, The Civil War in the Great Interior, this is a collection of documents—letters, diary entries, song lyrics, army reports, newspaper editorials—illuminating the war within and across Missouri’s borders.

Between You and I: Dialogical Phenomenology, by Beata Stawarska. Published as part of the Series in Continental Thought, Between You and I suggests that phenomenology is best practiced in a dialogical engagement with other disciplines.

Indiana’s War: The Civil War in Documents edited by Silvana R. Siddali. Also in The Civil War in the Great Interior series, this collection draws from a range of sources unique to Indiana’s experience in the war.

In recent weeks, Ohio University Press has learned of books and authors having received press from the following places:

Woman’s Art Journal, Author Exposure Book Club, NEO (Literary Review), The International History Review, Mansfield News Journal, Choice, Cape Cod Times, Book News, Inc., Barbara Brackman’s Material Culture blog, Indiana Magazine of History, Études Anglaises, The Slavonic and East European Review, The Athens News, Woman’s Day, Story Circle Book Reviews, Brontë Studies, Kay’s Bookshelf, KCBX-NPR (San Luis Obispo), Africa (UK), Book News, Inc., PsychCentral, ForeWord Reviews, The Journal of African History, Living Crafts, H-Africa, The International History Review.

Jeff Kallet