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Two of our titles have been selected as finalists in Poz Magazine's annual awards for Literature! Criminalized Lives: HIV and Legal Violence by Alexander McClelland and Funny Boy: the Richard Hunt Biography by Jessica Max Stein. Vote for your favorite here: https://lnkd.in/eszQpNip

Our author Melissa Ludtke recently was interviewed by ABC News' Jonathan Karl for "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" about her new book "Locker Room Talk: A Woman's Struggle to Get Inside." https://lnkd.in/dz2bXFrs?

Read Barbara Smith’s firsthand account of her peaceful protest in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic convention. With peaceful demonstrations across college campuses today and inevitable protests at the upcoming Democratic convention in Chicago in August, Barbara Smith’s short essay—“Chicago Firsthand” (a selection from "The Truth That Never Hurts")—is amazingly prescient today. https://lnkd.in/euCBqRgU #Palestine #PeacefulProtests #Gaza

Today, the?2024 Media Award nominees?were announced in advance of the returning?The James Beard Foundation?Awards ceremonies presented by Capital One. The list includes nominees in Book, Broadcast Media, and Journalism categories. We are thrilled to share that?"Resilient Kitchens: American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis: Essays and Recipes" edited by Harry Eli Kashdan, Ph.D. and Philip Gleissner (on sale now) was nominated in the Food Issues and Advocacy category. This year’s winners will be announced at the Media Awards ceremony in Chicago on the campus of Columbia College Chicago on Saturday, June 8. Check out all of the nominees?at the link below. https://lnkd.in/e5xFeb6j

Amy Zheng, our graduating intern, represents Rutgers University Press at this year’s Rutgers Day. https://lnkd.in/ePaf4Gew #RutgersUniversity #RutgersDay

Nina Martin at Mother Jones interviewed author Lori Freedman about her recent book "Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals" and the state of emergency care in blue states. (Freedman Lori) Bishops and Bodies is on sale now: https://lnkd.in/edzQJpJ6

Check out an excerpt of Aaron Leonard's "Meltdown Expected" in Jacobin Magazine! "Meltdown Expected: Crisis, Disorder, and Upheaval at the End of the 1970s" is on sale May 17, 2024. "Aaron J. Leonard has produced a fascinating account of an era that is growing quickly away from contemporary public attention. He shows that the world we live in today had not yet taken definitive shape, that the fluidity of social movements still alive from the 1960s, in some ways still growing, had the capacity to enhance democracy but fell toward failure. The power on the other side proved too great. Still, the?details offer important clues for what may yet become the dynamos of tomorrow's American promise." ??~Paul Buhle, co-editor with Mari Jo Buhle of the "Encyclopedia of the American Left"

"Suffering Sappho!?Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture" by Barbara Brickman won The Publishing Triangle's 2024 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. The?Judy Grahn Award?honors the American writer, cultural theorist, and activist (b. 1940) best known for?The Common Woman?(1969),?Another Mother Tongue?(1984), and?A Simple Revolution?(2012). It recognizes the best nonfiction book of the year by or about lesbians, bisexual women, and/or trans women, or that has a significant influence upon the lives of queer women. Read more about the other 2024 finalists here: #LGBTQ #Awards #PublishingTriangle

Rutgers University Press will publish two new titles by?Eric Alterman, Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College and author of?the national bestseller?"What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News".?Alterman?has been a columnist for?The Nation,?The American Prospect,?Rolling Stone, and many other publications. He is the author of eleven previous books. Alterman's first book with Rutgers will be a part of the Jewish studies list, and his second will focus on The City University of New York and will be on the higher education list. https://lnkd.in/exkcbZkG

Jessica "Max" Stein's "Funny Boy: The Biography of Richard Hunt" has been a labor of love. The book is finally publishing on March 15, 2024, but if you want to learn more now about Max's process and Hunt's magnificent life, check out Max's original piece in The Gay & Lesbian Review. https://lnkd.in/ec93zKSm #Muppets #JimHenson #Elmo #Biography #nonfiction #books