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I was on the radio! I really loved this conversation with @batkvetch about my memoir for WORT 89.9 FM, and I'm grateful that they've archived the show here. wortfm.org/author-richard-sc…

Author Richard Scott Larson Talks the Power of Masks in "The Long Hallway" - WORT-FM 89.9

Richard Scott Larson’s debut The Long Hallway (University of Wisconsin Press, April 2024) is a lyrical memoir that expresses a boy’s search for identity while navigating the darkness and isolation […]

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In celebration of #PrideMonth, we're offering a 30% discount on dozens of books, from LGBTQ+ studies to memoir, and fiction to poetry. Use code PRIDE24WISC on in-stock books AND preorders at uwpress.wisc.edu/books.html. Check back throughout the month as we feature more titles!
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"In a way, I position myself more like the book’s antagonist . . . I don’t expect readers to always sympathize with me." —@Gallows_Ticket, in conversation with @larsonrichard in this week's double interview: full-stop.net/2024/06/04/int… @UWiscPress @northwesternup
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Many thanks to @SELFmagazine for selecting Suzette Mullen's THE ONLY WAY THROUGH IS OUT as the June 2024 SELF Well-Read Book Club pick!
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‘The Only Way Through Is Out’ Is Our June SELF Well-Read Book Club Pick

Author Suzette Mullen on the terror and absolute joy of coming out later in life.

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We're pleased to announce the launch of a new book series, Women and Gender in Africa, edited by Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué and Aili Mari Tripp! Learn more: tinyurl.com/yc3cddaj If you're at #ASA2023 and want to learn more, @MacBrien and the series editors would love to chat!

UW Press announces new book series: Women and Gender in Africa

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Big Ten Open Books' first open access collection of 100 books on gender and sexuality studies launched today! bigtenopenbooks.org #OA #openaccess #ReadUP #humanities #BigTenOpenBooks @northwesternup @iupress @msupress @UWiscPress @UofMPress @PurduePress @kamccready
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Reminder! PA applications are due tomorrow, Friday, April 21st, to Mosse Director Skye Doney ([email protected]) and @UWiscPress Editor in Chief @MacBrien ([email protected])!
George L. Mosse Program@GLMosseProgram14 Apr 2023
PAship Opportunity for @UWMadison Grad Students: apply for a 50% PAship with the Mosse Program & @UWiscPress! Applications are due to Mosse Director Skye Doney and UW Press Editor in Chief Nathan MacBrien (@macbrien) by next Friday, April 21st!
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Verso Books@VersoBooks18 Apr 2023
A joint press release by @Ed_Lafabrique (Paris) and Verso Books (London) on the detainment (and later arrest) of Ernest Moret, foreign rights manager for the French publisher Editions La Fabrique, under the Terrorism Act, upon his arrival to the UK for London Book Fair.

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Winners of the @texas_letters 2023 Literary Awards were recently announced! Congratulations to @earthandstars, winner of the John A. Robert Johnson Award for First Book of Poetry, and @iamsteveadams, a finalist for the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction!
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And if you're not in Boston, you can still check out the virtual exhibit (tinyurl.com/4y4rhnuh) w/ discount code AAS23UWISC and connect with @MacBrien by e-mail!
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Our #AAS2023 booth is all set up and the exhibit hall opens tomorrow morning! If you're in Boston for the meeting, please stop by to say hello to editor-in-chief Nathan @MacBrien, chat about your project, and check out some of our recent books!
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Submissions for the Mosse First Book Prize are now open until August 1! Proposals can be sent directly to @UWiscPress editor in chief @macbrien at [email protected], and more information can be found here: go.wisc.edu/843v02
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And @WIWetlandsAssoc will also host Josh Kapfer for a Wetland Coffee Break this Friday at 10:30 AM! Join us on Zoom: tinyurl.com/47rr7p7j
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All titles are heavily discounted at $30 or less, including Joshua Kapfer and Donald Brown's stunning 1176-page volume, Amphibians and Reptiles of Wisconsin, just released in November!
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Our booth's all set up for @WIWetlandsAssoc's Wetland Science Conference and we can't wait to see you all! If you're at the meeting in Stevens Point, please stop by to chat with editor-in-chief Nathan @MacBrien and browse our latest books!
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one thing I'm trying to get better about from here on out is writing and thinking even less defensively. trying to craft sentences into fortresses is a waste of valuable time and effort. what would you say if you were speaking to someone who's trying to understand you? say that.
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Hot off the presses! This is a great one, folks!
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The 2022 Jerusalem Mosse Lectures have been a success! Yesterday, Celia Applegate presented "Music as Work: The Musical Profession in the Long Nineteenth Century" and today "Music at Work: Singing and Self-Organization in the Workplace," here with chair Ofer Ashkenazi.
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🎉 Happy publication date to Mary Alice Hostetter, whose PLAIN: A MEMOIR OF MENNONITE GIRLHOOD is out in the world today! 📚
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We're excited to host the #AUPresses2022 Traveling Book, Jacket, & Journal Show through the end of January!
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