Wayne State University Press

07/02/2021

The countdown to the 4th Annual Detroit Festival of Books! FREE! has officially started!

To celebrate, we are offering *30% off* all WSUP titles during the *month of July* when you use *code DFB1* at checkout!

Attend the festival virtually or in-person and you can still walk away with a solid stack of reading material!
(Please note: WSUP will not be in physical attendance this year.)

The countdown to the 4th Annual Detroit Festival of Books! FREE! has officially started!

To celebrate, we are offering *30% off* all WSUP titles during the *month of July* when you use *code DFB1* at checkout!

Attend the festival virtually or in-person and you can still walk away with a solid stack of reading material!
(Please note: WSUP will not be in physical attendance this year.)

07/01/2021

Summertime and the livin' is easy!

So kick up your feet and dig into a good book.

Here are our recs: https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/promotion
(with a breezy discount of 40% off when you use code JUL1 at checkout!)

cc: The Faygo Book Detroit Historical Museum Detroit 1967 Jean Alicia Elster Books Maureen Dunphy Detroit Tigers Boblo Island Amusement Park

Summertime and the livin' is easy!

So kick up your feet and dig into a good book.

Here are our recs: https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/promotion
(with a breezy discount of 40% off when you use code JUL1 at checkout!)

cc: The Faygo Book Detroit Historical Museum Detroit 1967 Jean Alicia Elster Books Maureen Dunphy Detroit Tigers Boblo Island Amusement Park

06/30/2021

Scratching the Surface | Bentley Historical Library

Thanks to Bentley Historical Library for the fantastic feature on Harvey Ovshinsky, Author's SCRATCHING THE SURFACE!

For more on the book:https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/scratching-surface

The Bentley Historical Library is open by appointment only for U-M faculty, students, and staff. Please see our full announcement here.

06/29/2021

How can librarians partner with faculty to integrate TDM into the classroom? Join the upcoming webinar to learn how librarian Alexandra Sarkozy partnered with ProQuest and Wayne State University faculty to integrate TDM into the classroom.

Register today: http://ow.ly/PsnL50Fl19T https://pic.twitter.com/YX0axoZxAl

06/29/2021

Only a couple more days left in June to take advantage of this excellent discount (40% off!) on some award-winning titles!

Visit https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/promotion for details!

06/28/2021

Congratulations to Joe Harris on winning a Midwest Independent Publishers Association - MIPA Book Award in the category of Fiction - Short Story/Anthology!

For more on the book that Charles Baxter called "compassionate in its understanding of an entire population group that is proud even in defeat," visit: https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/youre-wrong-place

Official award announcement: https://mipa.org/midwest-book-awards/2021-winners/

Congratulations to Joe Harris on winning a Midwest Independent Publishers Association - MIPA Book Award in the category of Fiction - Short Story/Anthology!

For more on the book that Charles Baxter called "compassionate in its understanding of an entire population group that is proud even in defeat," visit: https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/youre-wrong-place

Official award announcement: https://mipa.org/midwest-book-awards/2021-winners/

06/28/2021

Excerpt: Building the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit

"Kahn lived the life of five architects, and in the process did more to shape the twentieth century than almost any other designer. His ascent from poverty, his outsized influence on both industry and architecture, and his proximity to epochal world events make his life story a tableau reflecting America’s rise to power."

Excerpt from Michael H. Hodges' BUILDING THE MODERN WORLD: ALBERT KAHN IN DETROIT just dropped on Nu?Detroit!

For more on the book: https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/building-modern-world

Want 50% off this and other WSUP books? Sign up to be a Nu?Detroit member today!
https://www.nu-detroit.com/membership/

by Michael H. Hodges

06/28/2021

We can't wait to see Jean Alicia Elster Books new book gracing the shelves at Book Beat!

A continuation of the plots begun in Elster’s two novels WHO'S JIM HINES? and THE COLORED CAR, HOW IT HAPPENS continues the story for an older audience and begins with Addie’s life before the turn of the century in the South
https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/how-it-happens

06/25/2021

Perspective | Bad Holocaust education leads to bad Holocaust analogies

Avinoam Patt, author of several WSUP books including his most recent THE JEWISH HEROES OF WARSAW, has an op-ed up on the Washington Post.

More on his book: https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/jewish-heroes-warsaw

It’s not about the facts of the Holocaust, but how we present them.

06/24/2021

Daybreak Africa

Elizabeth Baer, author of THE GENOCIDAL GAZE, spoke with #DaybreakAfrica via Voice of America - VOA about the first genocide of the 20th century (starts at 22:07).

More on her book: https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/genocidal-gaze

Each day, Daybreak Africa looks at the latest developments on the continent, starting with headline news and providing in-depth interviews, reports from VOA correspondents, sports news and a selection of listeners' letters.Daybreak Africa is paired with the 30-minute World News Now program at 0330,....

06/24/2021

Book Presentation & Discussion: “The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews After the Holocaust”

ICYMI the book presentation for THE COMPROMISE OF RETURN with the Austrian Cultural Forum Washington and Embassy of Austria, Washington D.C.

More on the book: https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/compromise-return

The ACFDC and the Austrian Embassy are proud to present the newest publication of Dr. Elizabeth Anthony, historian and director of Visiting Scholar Programs ...

06/23/2021

06/22/2021

BOOK PRESENTATION | The Compromise of Return

TONIGHT AT 6PM EST!

Thanks, Austrian Cultural Forum Washington and Embassy of Austria, Washington D.C.!

cc: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

BOOK PRESENTATION | The Compromise of Return - Hybrid Format

06/22/2021

An Evening with Carl Levin - JCC Cultural Arts

TONIGHT AT 7PM EST with JCC of Metro Detroit!

We’re celebrating Senator Levin’s birthday with a very special online event. After a live premiere of Silver Screen Studios Presents Coming of Age: Featuring Senator Carl Levin, the former Senator will discuss his new memoir, Getting to the Heart of the Matter, with local broadcasting legend Har...

06/22/2021

Was Ethel Rosenberg really a tragic figure?

"So while FBI director J. Edgar Hoover recommended a 30-year sentence for Ethel Rosenberg, #LucyDawidowicz, later a noted Holocaust historian, called for the couple’s ex*****on."

Intrigue!

Read more about the incredible complexities of Dawidowicz in Nancy Sinkoff's National Jewish Book Award winning book:
https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/left-right

Like the protagonist of the Dreyfus Affair, the Rosenbergs were unsympathetic Jewish victims of malfeasance.

06/22/2021

We Shouldn't Ignore This Groundbreaking Jewish Novelist's Disability

A great piece in Alma from Lori Harrison-Kahan on Emma Wolf's physical #disability helped to hone her skill as a writer.

Lori Harrison-Kahan and Barbara Cantalupo have just re-released Wolf's 1900 novel, HEIRS OF YESTERDAY:
https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/heirs-yesterday

“I have discovered that to be a Jew, turn wheresoever you will, is to be socially handicapped for life,” states Philip May, the physician-protagonist of Emma Wolf’s 1900 novel, “Heirs of Yesterday.”…

06/22/2021

2020 Foreword INDIES Winners in Adventure, Sports & Recreation (Adult Nonfiction)

Richard Bak's WHEN LIONS WERE KINGS: THE DETROIT LIONS AND THE FABULOUS FIFTIES won a silver Foreword Reviews INDIE award in the category of Nonfiction: Adventure, Sports and Recreation!

https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/when-lions-were-kings

These are the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the cherries on top a metaphorical ice cream sundae of indie books. The Adventure, Sports & Recreation winners of the 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.

06/21/2021

Happy #Juneteenth! DWR is committed to amplifying the voices of Black creators and Black authors, and we celebrate this day recognizing the end of slavery.

Join us in supporting Black authors and their stories. For the month of June, you can get 40% off select titles from the Wayne State University Press using the promo code JUN1. Check out the books at
wsupress.wayne.edu/promotion

06/21/2021

An Evening with Carl Levin - JCC Cultural Arts

*TOMORROW!*

https://culturalarts.jccdet.org/events/carllevin/

We’re celebrating Senator Levin’s birthday with a very special online event. After a live premiere of Silver Screen Studios Presents Coming of Age: Featuring Senator Carl Levin, the former Senator will discuss his new memoir, Getting to the Heart of the Matter, with local broadcasting legend Har...

06/17/2021

Harvey Ovshinksy Looks Back on a Complicated Relationship With His Famous Dad in New Memoir — The Jewish News

Happy Fathers Day to Harvey Ovshinsky, Author and everyone else managing tangled relationships with their father figures

Harvey Ovshinsky’s relationship with his father is one of the themes in his fascinating memoir, "Scratching the Surface" (Wayne State University Press, 2021), though the book, well, merely scratched the surface.

06/15/2021

Opinion | I’m a woman who runs on rural roads. The fear is always there.

Natalie Ruth Joynton, author of the award-winning memoir WELCOME TO REPLICA DODGE, wrote this incredibly powerful op-ed for the Washington Post.

For more on her book about place, interfaith, and what it means to come home, visit: https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/welcome-replica-dodge

I hoped the murder of Mollie Tibbetts would spark a national conversation, but it never came.

06/15/2021

Excerpt: Getting to the Heart of the Matter

Excerpt: Getting to the Heart of the Matter

by Carl Levin

06/14/2021

Keep your eyes out for Jean Alicia Elster Books new book, HOW IT HAPPENS, coming to Source Booksellers and your favorite bookseller this September!

https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/how-it-happens

All smiles behind the masks! Great time at Midtown Detroit’s Source Booksellers purchasing gift books and chatting with bookstore owners Janet Webster Jones and Alyson Jones Turner. #SupportIndieBookstores Wayne State University Press

06/11/2021

Teaching Resources – International Ovidian Society

Would you consider yourself #Latin curious?

Give in to temptation and explore the table of contents and first chapter of one of our bestselling titles, LATIN VIA OVID here:
http://ovidiansociety.org/teachingresources/

Or get your own copy today!
https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/latin-ovid

The resources listed below are excerpts from published, Ovid-related materials that have been shared by their authors for the purpose of encouraging the teaching of Ovid in the classroom. If you would like to contribute materials to this list or have suggestions for materials that should be added, p...

06/11/2021

Margaret Noodin — Gimaazinibii’amoon (A Message to You) | The On Being Project

Feast your ears on the June 11 episode of The On Being Project
#PoetryUnbound with Margaret Noodin, author of WHAT THE CHICKADEE KNOWS!

https://onbeing.org/programs/margaret-noodin-gimaazinibiiamoon-a-message-to-you/

cc: Association of University Presses UWM Department of English

#ReadUP #poetry #Anishinaabemowin #Ojibwemowin
#Anishinaabe #ojibwe

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PST! Don't sleep on the bonus episode of an interview with the poet -- an On Being first!
https://onbeing.org/programs/bonus-a-conversation-with-margaret-noodin/

A poem sung in two languages — Anishinaabemowin and English — about land and memory and the space between people.

06/11/2021

Author Thisbe Nissen releases another short story collection

“My faith keeps coming back to the small presses,” Thisbe Nissen said. “That’s always been where my heart has been." (via The Gazette)

Check out the full interview with the Iowa Writers' Workshop grad here: https://www.thegazette.com/books/author-thisbe-nissen-releases-short-story-collection-how-other-people-make-love/

Get her new collection here: https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/how-other-people-make-love

‘How Other People Make Love’ chronicles the lives and choices of people questioning the heteronormative institution of marriage.

06/10/2021

Stateside: Whitmer’s economic recovery plan; the pandemic fade; poet Petra Kuppers

Petra Kuppers a poet, disability culture activist, a performance artist, and a University of Michigan Department of English professor, explores the beauty and strangeness of bodies in a new collection, GUT BOTANY.

Listen in on her interview with Michigan Radio below.

More on the book here: https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/gut-botany

Today on Stateside , Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced her plan to spend more than a billion dollars in federal money. A reporter talks us through some

06/10/2021

All Write in Sin City Shorts 86

Thanks to All Write in Sin City for this excellent interview with Harvey Ovshinsky, Author!

Treat your favorite father figure to a copy of Harvey's memoir this Father's Day (and treat your wallet to 30% off when you use code SS21 at checkout!)
https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/scratching-surface

Harvey Ovshinsky is a writer, producer, story consultant, educator, and public speaker. He was only seventeen when he started The Fifth Estate, one of the co...

06/10/2021

Island Adventures - Michigan Blue Magazine

Summer is the time for travel. Explore the islands of the #GreatLakes in person and through Maureen Dunphy's award-winning book via this excerpt in Michigan BLUE

https://www.mibluemag.com/features/island-adventures/

Get a copy of the book and plan your next adventure today!
https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/great-lakes-island-escapes

Guidebook author outlines tempting tour of seven Great Lakes-surrounded nature destinations