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Gaylord Nelson, the former Wisconsin governor and U.S. Senator,
died Sunday, July 3rd, 2005. He was an eloquent defender of the
natural world, and a man who brought skill and integrity to politics.
He will always be known as the founder of Earth Day. Here are
some related links that speak to his life and work: Visit www.madison.com and search for
Ron Seely's story and John Nichols's column, "Nature
nurtured Nelson: His Clear Lake roots inspired a movement," July 5, 2005.
See The Washington
Post, and The New
York Times
To find out more about Gaylord Nelson and
his book Beyond Earth Day, follow this link to www.beyondearthday.com
The Mosse Program in History has many programs honoring Professor George L. Mosse,
the late UW—Madison history professor, scholar and mentor. The University of Wisconsin Press has
a new series, the George L. Mosse Series
in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History, which
is supported by a bequest in connection with this program.
Study of Brazilian Theater and AIDS wins Steinberg Book Prize
Tentative Transgressions: Homosexuality, AIDS, and the Theater in Brazil, authored by Severino J. Albuquerque, has won the 2008 Elizabeth A. Steinberg Prize for a book that has brought great distinction to the University of Wisconsin Press. more
Bill Lueders's Cry Rape was
an "Editor's Pick" in the April 2007 issue of the popular
lesbian/women's magazine, Curve: "Very rarely do true
crime books tackle women's victimization in such a strikingly feminist
way".
Bill Christofferson appeared on the nationally syndicated public
radio program, Earthbeat Radio, on April 17, 2007to discuss Gaylord
Nelson and The Man from Clear Lake.
The New York Times did a very
large writeup on performance artist Tim Miller and his book 1001
Beds. Tim Miller was also on the nationally syndicated
public radio show, To the Best of Our Knowledge.
There was also a New York Times feature on the new original
version of Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin, which we published
as The Uncensored Boris Godunov.
Cafe Wisconsin Cookbook was
written up in Bon Appetit magazine— "delightfully
unpretentious." The book's inclusion of a Snickers salad recipe got the attention of a Chicago Tribune food writer, who blogged it: leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/thestew
Marc Galanter
(Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture, 0299213501
cloth / 0299213544 forthcoming paper) was interviewed on Court
TV Radio, a satellite radio service. The interview ran twice
on 6/21/06.
John Roosa's
Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement and Suharto's
Coup d'État in Indonesia (0299220346 paper / 0299220303
cloth) will be reviewed in Publishers Weekly on 6/26/06.
Woodland
Reflections: The Art of Truman Lowe is a Fall 2003 title that explores the art and influences of Truman Lowe, a sculptor whose large abstract works in
wood and metal are inspired by many elements of the natural world,
river eddies, willows, waterfalls, bluffs and dunes, and the
architecture of the handmade canoe. An internationally acclaimed
artist whose works are displayed in major museums, Lowe grew
up on the banks of Wisconsin's Black River, where his parents
were skilled craftsmen in their Ho-Chunk tradition. A search
of the UW–Madison web universe will yield more information
about Truman Lowe.
Alan Cheuse, the NPR reviewer
who recommended Plum Wine for "Summer Reading,"
also wrote a print review of the book for the Chicago Tribune.
It ran on June 11, 2006, and was picked up the same day by the
Baltimore Sun. The opening sentence: "Angela Davis-Gardner's
Plum Wine is a wonderfully romantic and well-composed novel."
And the closing words: ". . . a novel that starts out in what
appears to be a post-mortem mood opens itself, and the sensitive
reader, to life rather than death."
Tim Miller got a
great review in the L.A. Times of 1001 Beds (0299216942 paper / 029921690X cloth), and got a feature in an
important weekly, L.A. City Beat.
The Palm Beach Post has given Edward
Field's The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag: And Other Intimate
Portraits of the Literary Era (029921320X) a review.
Marc Galanter's Lowering the Bar:
Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture
(0299213501 cloth / 0299213544 paper, forthcoming) was the focus
of an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on May
19. It was picked up by the Cox News Service and has so far appeared
in at least one smaller paper (the Oxford Press in Oxford,
Ohio).
We recently learned that the major French
journal L'Homme reviewed Spirit Possession
(ISBN-10: 0299166341 paper / ISBN-10: 0299166309 cloth) in a 2001 issue.
Helen Laird
was interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio this week about her
book, A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family,
1888-1982 (0299214508). The interview is archived at http://clipcast.wpr.org:8080/ramgen/wpr/mlr/mlr060516g.rm
Outlook,
a Jewish magazine from Vancouver, has reviewed Book Two
of Chava Rosefarb's The Tree of Life in the Lodz Ghetto
trilogy, From the Depths I Call You, 1940-1942 (0299209245),
"[The] elegant orchestration of . . . voices that instills in
the reader the type of admiration that guarantees Rosenfarb's
characters and her work a significant afterlife."
The Chronicle of Higher Education usually lists one to three of our titles in its
listings of new scholarly books. The May 12 issue listed
Transformations: Thinking after Heidegger (029921544X
paper / 0299215407 cloth).
IMDb (www.imdb.com)
the extensive on-line movie database, now lists Marilyn Ann
Moss's Giant (0299204308) on the George Stevens page,
an appropriate nod for this definitive work.
The
L.A. Times feature on Marc Galanter's Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal
Culture was picked up by the L.A. Times/Washington
Post News Service, and ran in Portland's daily, the Oregonian,
on Jan. 10.
Publishers
Weekly's review of Kaiso:
Writings by and About Katherine Dunham, VèVè
A. Clark and Sara E. Johnson, eds., is coming out on 1/30/06.
Merrill
Joan Gerber's Glimmering Girls:
A Novel of the Fifties was reviewed in the L.A. Times.
The review ran Saturday 1/28/06.
Daniel Kleinman's
Controversies in Science and Technology,
vol.1. The book is featured in Madison Magazine.
The
Jerusalem Report will review Proletpen:
America's Rebel Yiddish Poets, edited by Amelia Glaser
and David Weintraub.
Susan Krieger's had an interview on
To the Best of Our Knowledge about Things
No Longer There: A Memoir of Losing Sight and Finding Vision.
Dance Teacher
magazine is reviewing Kaiso!: Writings
by and about Katherine Dunham, edited by VèVè A. Clark and Sara
E. Johnson.
The
Montreal Gazette recently ran a
nice review of Tree of Life in the
Lodz Ghetto. This trilogy won two major awards in its
original Yiddish.
Doug Moe of The Capital Times has
featured the Rideout book Sherwood
Anderson: A Writer in America, Vol. 1. Both Moe and fellow
Capital Times columnist Heather Lee Schroeder mentioned Farm Boys and Brokeback Mountain
in recent columns.
Choice
Magazine's Feb. 2006 Issue mentions the upcoming Ulysses in Black
in the African American Studies listings; and reviews two "recommended"
recent books: Lowering the Bar:
Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture, saying Marc Galanter
was one of the best-qualified authors imaginable to write the
book; and Elizabeth J. Czarapata's Invasive
Plants of the Upper Midwest, which it recommended for
"all libraries in the Upper Midwest" as well as agricultural,
horticultural, and forestry libraries elsewhere.
Betty Berzon,
author of Surviving Madness,
died of cancer 1/24/06. An obituary from the Associated Press
pays her tribute.
The new paperback edition of
Larry Stillman's A Match Made
in Hell: The Jewish Boy and the Polish Outlaw Who Defied the
Nazis got a great review in Kliatt, the magazine
for librarians serving young adult audiences. Although the book
was not explicitly intended as a young adult title, it certainly
is an accessible and "hard-to-put-down" way to learn
about the Holocaust.
Two very good reviews came in ForeWord
magazine's Jan/Feb issue, for Djuna Barnes's Collected
Poems: With Notes Toward the Memoirs ("Her reflections
on expatriate life equal anything by the better-known memoirists
of Paris between the wars.") and Marc Galanter's
Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal
Culture (an "excellent compendium of lawyer jokes
and their historical and sociological niche in society,"
"brilliant and comical").
The January 2006 issue of Choice Magazine calls
Olga Matich's Erotic Utopia:
The Decadent Imagination in Russia's Fin de Siècle
"essential" for college and university libraries, recommends
Jan Coombs's The Rise and
Fall of HMOs: An American Health Care Revolution for
general readers and university libraries, and recommends Eran
Kaplan's The Jewish Radical Right:
Revisionist Zionism and Its Ideological Legacy for "general
libraries and up."
Because
of a story involving disappeared honeymooners who, it turns out,
were drinking absinthe, Jad Adams (author of Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil
in a Bottle), was interviewed on MSNBC, Monday, 1/23/06.
He was also interviewed by Associated Press, with the story already
appearing in at least two major papers (Hartford Courant,
and the Sydney Morning Herald, in Australia).
Walter Rideout's
Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in
America, Vol. 1, has received rave reviews from the Chicago
Sun-Times and the Denver Post. More reviews are expected
at papers including the Philadelphia Inquirer, closer
to the official publication date (but the book is already available
for order). "This book is not just praiseworthy as
a superb portrayal of its subject. It is a testament—even
a throwback—to the sort of dedicated, painstaking literary
scholarship that is rarely seen anymore in our technophilic age."
Edward Field's
The Man Who Would Marry Susan
Sontag: And Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian
Era was called "wonderfully entertaining" (if "gossipy!")
in very good review in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Will Fellows's
Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from
the Rural Midwest continues to get great coverage thanks
to it being used as background and inspiration reading for the
co-stars of Brokeback Mountain. The latest is a mention
on the website of the Chicago's ABC7 TV station; the story came
from the Associated Press.
The L.A. Times expects to run their
review of Merrill Joan Gerber's Glimmering Girls: A Novel of the Fifties soon. Glimmering
Girls was also featured recently on Connie
Martinson Talks Books, a book show that airs in L.A. and
New York.
Publishers Weekly
is running a review of Kaiso!:
Writings by and about Katherine Dunham, VéVé
Clark and Sara E. Johnson, editors.
The National Review has commissioned
a review of Walter B. Rideout's Sherwood
Anderson: A Writer in America, Vol. 1,
Library Journal has
featured Janet Burstein's Telling
the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing since the 1980s,
in a positive review that recommends the book for Jewish studies
collections.
The NYC Irish newspaper, The
Irish Echo, is featuring Irene Whelan's The Bible War in Ireland: The "Second
Reformation" and the Polarization of Protestant-Catholic
Relations, 1800–1840.
Will Fellows's
Farm Boys and its connection
to the film Brokeback Mountain have been featured in the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, on numerous websites (including
the website for GLAAD as well as Gay and film blogs).
The next MLA International Bibliography
will include our Towards a
Rhetoric of Everyday Life: New Directions in Research on Writing,
Text, and Discourse, Martin Nystrand and John Duffy,
editors.
A poem by Jim Daniels—whose
book, Show and Tell, the
UW Press published in 2004—was offered to newspapers around
the country in late November as part of the U.S. Poet Laureate's
column, "American Life in Poetry." Show
and Tell was mentioned in his bio. So far five papers
in small to medium markets have printed the poem (Duluth, MN;
Grinnell, IA; Rapid City, SD; Yankton, SD; and Victoria, TX)
Will Fellows's A
Passion to Preserve got a terrific mention in the New York Times
Magazine this past Sunday, in the second paragraph of a feature
on the gay role in urban renewal.
Meanwhile, the connection of Fellows's
earlier book, Farm
Boys,
to the movie Brokeback Mountain has already garnered two
nice pieces of media: a item on Out magazine's website
and a mention in a feature in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Locally, Fellows also was invited to be interviewed on
WIBA and for a Wisconsin Public Radio spot.
A column on the American Bar Association's
website featured the Marc Galanter book.
The L.A. Times ran
their feature on Marc Galanter's Lowering
the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture on 1/9/06. You
can find it on-line at L.A.Times Galanter
feature
On Sunday, January 29, 2006, the Public
Radio International show, To the Best of Our Knowledge,
will interview Susan Krieger (author of Things
No Longer There). To the Best of Our Knowledge
airs in Madison on WERN 88.7 FM from 9:00–11:00 a.m. and
WHA 970 a.m. from 1:00–3:00 p.m.
Two UW Press books made
"best of 2005" lists: Douglas Martin's They Change the Subject was recommended
by Richard Labonte of the gay and lesbian book review Books
to Watch Out For, and Galanter's Lowering the Bar
was recommended by Carlin Romano
in Philadelphia's daily, The Inquirer.
 Publishers Weekly gave a starred review
to
Jennifer Michael Hecht's Funny
Funny
Hecht, Jennifer Michael (Author)
ISBN: 0299214044
University of Wisconsin Press
Published 2005-11
Paperback, $14.95 (88p)
Poetry | American | General
"Hecht's sophomore effort is one of the most entertaining,
and most original, books of the year. Its conceit, barring a
few introductory sonnets, is to riff on jokes-become-aphorisms,
dismantling assumptions as quickly as she dishes punch lines.
"What did the sadist do to the masochist?/ Nothing"
generates a brisk, hyperintelligent lyric about the ideas of
need and mastery, studded by frequent half-rhymes and internal
rhymes. "How many gorillas does it take/ to screw in a lightbulb?"
prompts three pages of subtle, wise meditation on human evolution
and human error. "Are You Not Glad?" turns a knock-knock
joke into smart couplets about regret and love: "Orange
you glad? No, I'm not. I ate the berries./ I was hungry. I was
young." Switching deftly between the caricatured protagonists
of the jokes themselves and more nuanced memories from real lives,
Hecht sees how many jokes depend on familiarity and surprise,
and how many highlight the disappointments ordinary experience
can provide: "One way or another we all become/ the other."
The New York-based Hecht (The Next Ancient World ), who
also writes books of popular philosophy (Doubt: A History ), appends a neat 11-page prose essay about the relations between
jokes and poems: even without the essay, this book brings the
two forms tantalizingly close." —Reviewed 2005-10-24, Publishers Weekly
Information about UW Press authors who
were presenters at the 2005 Wisconsin Book Festival is still
available on the Festival Web site at Wisconsin
Book Festival.
Leary
selected as interim director of UW Press
Sheila Leary, a 22-year veteran of university
press book publishing, has been selected as interim director
of the University of Wisconsin Press, effective Aug. 22, 2005.
more
 Gaylord
Nelson, the former Wisconsin governor and U.S. Senator, died
Sunday, July 3rd, 2005. He was an eloquent defender of the natural
world, and a man who brought skill and integrity to politics.
For more, see news archives.
Nelson's Beyond
Earth Day and a biography, A Man from Clear Lake, are available from the UW Press. See related
links for recent articles about his life and work.Gaylord
Nelson, the former Wisconsin governor and U.S. Senator, died
Sunday, July 3rd, 2005. He was an eloquent defender of the natural
world, and a man who brought skill and integrity to politics.
For more, see news archives.
He will always be known as the founder
of Earth Day. On April 22, 1970, an estimated 20 million people
responded to his call for a day devoted to working on behalf
of the environment.
 After leaving the Senate, Nelson began work with
the Wilderness Society. He made pre-election headlines last year
when he called the Bush administration to task for its poor record
on the environment.
Nelson's Beyond Earth Day and
a biography,
A Man from Clear Lake, are
available from the UW Press. See related
links for recent articles about his life and work.
 Raphael
Kadushin, of the UW Press, received a 2005 Distinguished Alumni
Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Association's GLBT Alumni Council
on July 17, 2005.
As senior humanities editor, award recipient
Raphael Kadushin has established the University of Wisconsin
Press as one of the nation's leading
publishers of books on GLBT issues. He launched the press's "Living
Out" series, America's only book series devoted solely to
gay and lesbian
autobiographies. www.news.wisc.edu/11335.html
 Lying Together: My Russian Affair by Jennifer Cohen received a good review by
The
New York Times on 9/26/04. Go
to review.
Numerous
books published and distributed by UW Press were among those
celebrated at an event the week of May 2, 2005, sponsored by
the UW–Madison Center for the Humanities. Our titles to
be represented there included Barnstorm
and the Documentary History of the
Ratification of the Constitution, both edited by academic
staff.
Emily Auerbach, Searching
for Jane Austen
Daniel Kleinman, Controversies in Science and Technology (vol. 1)
Jonathan Schofer, The
Making of a Sage: A Study in Rabbinic Ethics
Harold Scheub, African
Tales
Marc Silberman, The
Brecht Yearbook 29 / Mahagonny.com.
Gwen Schulz, Wisconsin's
Foundations
Raphael Kadushin & faculty contributors,
Barnstorm
Jerry Apps, Ringlingville
USA
John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, Richard
Leffler,
and Charles H. Schoenleber, The Documentary
History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Volume XXI
Kemal H. Karpat and Markus Koller, editors
of Ottoman Bosnia: A History
in Peril
 Indian Mounds of Wisconsin, authored
by Robert A. Birmingham and Leslie E. Eisenberg, has won the
2005 Elizabeth A. Steinberg Prize. The annual prize is awarded
by the University of Wisconsin Press to honor top-quality books
with Wisconsin connections. Follow this link for details: Elizabeth A. Steinberg
Prize
 Alan Lelchuk's Brooklyn
Boy received a California stage treatment which is now
Broadway-bound. See the Playbill site page for more information. UW Press is reprinting Lelchuk's
controversial classic about life in the halls of academe in the
sexually charged 1960s, American
Mischief.
Hideous Absinthe by Jad Adams, one of the titles on our 2004 list,
was chosen as one of the "Outstanding University Press Books
Big Ten" by ForeWord magazine.
Rochelle Saidel's book The Jewish
Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp was a finalist
for the JBC National Jewish Book Award in Holocaust category.
The New
York Times on 9/10/04 reviewed a photo exhibit featuring
the work of Bruce Davidson documenting the life of Isaac Bashevis
Singer. This exhibition has been organized by the Mead Art Museum
at Amherst College with whom UW Press has collaborated on a companion
book to be released in October, Isaac
Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side, photographs
by Bruce Davidson, with contributions by Isaac Bashevis Singer,
Ilan Stavans, Jill Meredith, and Gabriele Werffeli.The photo
exhibition will be traveling to cities across the country in
celebration of Singer's Centenary.
Publishers Weekly reviewed
Marie Béatrice Umutesi's Surviving
the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refuge in Zaïre.
In the same issue of Publishers
Weekly, you'll also find major coverage of the University
of Wisconsin Press's commitment to GLBT publishing, featuring
Wonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing,
edited by Raphael Kadushin; Just
Married: Gay Marriage and the Expansion of Human Rights
by Kevin Bourassa and Joe Varnell ; Wrestling
with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition by
Rabbi Steve Greenburg; and A Passion
to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture by Will Fellows. |
