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12/23/2025

Happy Holidays! The University of Pittsburgh Press office will be closed from December 24 - January 4th. See you in 2026!

12/22/2025

Congrats to Lara Egger, her collection, FLOP ERA, has been named on the New Yorker's Best Books of 2025!

The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

12/18/2025

Congrats to Samyak Shertok! His debut poetry collection, No Rhododendron, has been longlisted for the 2026 PEN Open Book Award!

PEN America is honored to announce the Longlists for the 2026 Literary Awards, which will confer nearly $350,000 to writers and translators.

12/15/2025

"He wrote out on the street, in restaurants and bars, watching and listening to people. Like an anthropologist, he absorbed his surroundings rather than reading books."

Terrific interview with Laurence Glasco about his forthcoming biograpghy of August Wilson, "August Wilson's American Century."

In ‘August Wilson’s American Century: Life as Art’ (Univ. of Pittsburgh, Feb.), the historian unpacks the complex relationship between the playwright and his native Pittsburgh.

12/09/2025

Thrilled that included two of our titles in their Spring 2026 Preview!
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Make sure to check out August Wilson’s American Century by Laurence Glasco and Steeplechase by Angela Ball!

Both will be published on February 10th!
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https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/99234-spring-2026-fiction-nonfiction-preview-memoirs-biographies.html

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/99236-spring-2026-fiction-nonfiction-preview-poetry.html

12/03/2025

Congrats to Brian Gyamfi! His debut collection, What God in the Kingdom of Bastards, was named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2025 by the California Review of Books!

Reviews by David Starkey As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year's books of poetry--at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I've entitled my annual round-up--one review for every day of the final month of the year--something like Outstandin...

12/01/2025

Give the gift of reading to yourself and others! Here's a handy guide to our recently published books to help you get started.

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All University of Pittsburgh Press titles published in 2025 are included in this sale.

Use promo code 29GIFT25 to receive a 25% discount on featured titles included in the University of Pittsburgh Press online gift guide sale. Offer ends December 12, 2025. Free domestic shipping is included.

12/01/2025

Publishers Weekly calls August Wilson's American Century "a fresh angle on the oeuvre of a preeminent American dramatist."

Read the full review here: https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780822948544

11/24/2025

Woke up to the terrific news that The New Yorker reviewed Flop Era by Lara Egger!

“Are these feelings / faux fur or genuine leather?” asks one of the poems in this enchanting collection, which exhibits a keen attunement to the ways seduction can become destruction, language can become meaning, and delusion can become belief. Animated by an irreverent zaniness, Egger’s poetry fuses elements drawn from contemporary idiom and from lyric tradition to render a surreal world that interrogates existential questions about desire and grief. “Truthfully, / I’m an imposter, deathly afraid / of heights,” she writes. “One way to explain sorrow / is to assume / god never looks down.”

(Online now in the Briefly Noted section, 12/1 print issue)

Short reviews of recent releases.

11/18/2025

"Definitive" "masterfully" "significant" "Shakespeare"
Advanced praise for August Wilson's American Century is in!

Take a look at these incredible endorsements and preorder your copy today!
https://upittpress.org/books/9780822948544/

11/12/2025

🍂Our November new releases! 🍂

Settle into the season with one of our new monographs. From history of science in the Renaissance to 19th century environmental history, there’s something for everyone.

Now available at your favorite indie bookstore!

11/10/2025

Last month we celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and current winner, Bill Gaythwaite with a reading at and an awards dinner at . Bill was joined by past DHLP winners Caroline Kim and Kelly Sather for a terrific reading and conversation about the prize and all things short story! Thanks to everyone who helped to make the events so special and fun. Here’s to the next 45 years!