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12/05/2025

Ends January 6! Scan the QR code or go to casemateipm.com/imprint/george-f-thompson-publishing/

12/02/2025

You’re invited to a virtual presentation of Nina's children’s book, Aldo Leopold’s Shack: Nina’s Story (a new edition) hosted by the Aldo Leopold Foundation on Thursday evening, December 11th. The talk will be recorded and can be accessed at a later time.

Trish Stevenson, Aldo’s granddaughter and Nina’s daughter, will be sharing Leopold family stories during the presentation.

Please use the following link to register for the presentation:

11/14/2025

"Drive-in movie theaters peaked in popularity after World War II, a time of prosperity in the United States when households had both vehicles and discretionary income. Like roller-skating rinks and video-rental stores, such theaters have fallen out of favor with the public to the point where if one still operates, it’s largely as a curio. ...

photographer Steve Fitch has viewed plenty of these silent sentinels during numerous drives criss-crossing the United States, focusing on neon and painted murals that often graced the backs of the oversized screens. Images from those journeys fill his new book "The Drive-In Theater in America" (George F. Thompson Publishing), as well as the exhibition "Screen Towers" at photo-eye Gallery.

Here's your weekly roundup of some of the must-see, must-do things that need to be on your radar this week.

11/14/2025

"Last night, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) hosted a reception and talk for Professor of Art Michael Kolster’s new book titled “Mongrels of Our Making: The Plastiglomerates of Hawai’i.” The book captures the blending of human activity and the course of the Earth’s geological record through the formation of rock and plastic hybrids called plastiglomerates."

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11/11/2025

"Scott Wallace’s Central America in the Crosshairs of War; on the Road from Vietnam to Iraq is really several books at once that cohere into a magnificent whole. It is the evocative, at times nostalgic, at others harrowing, personal account of a young journalist’s coming of age during his first foreign journalism assignment, always keenly observant and thoughtful. But it also offers a carefully developed analysis of the nature of U.S. foreign policy, at least in those poorer parts of the world where it has intervened militarily or more clandestinely, or heavily supported the wars waged by its clients. Wallace has witnessed these wars both earlier and later in his life, as a citizen and journalist."

Scott’s Wallace’s Central America in the Crosshairs of War; on the Road from Vietnam to Iraq is really several books at once that cohere into a magnificent whole. It is the evocative, at times nostalgic, at others harrowing, personal account of a young journalist’s coming of age during his fir...

11/11/2025

On December 5 at 4pm (not 10am)

11/06/2025

Steve Fitch -- book signing and reception at photo-eye on 11/8
https://www.photoeye.com/gallery/artists/Steve-Fitch/portfolio/Screen-Towers/12652/Portfolio9

10/31/2025

Frej's guide finally received a copy of Unforgotten! Photo by Arturo Rojas, Lima, Peru.

10/28/2025

Our author Melanie Choukas-Bradley in the Washington Post!

The Post examined data that shows how the decisions being made now about what trees to plant in place of dying ones will change the city’s treescape.

10/14/2025

October 8, 2025 - Hiking the AT Book Talk at Tidewater Appalachian Trail Club, Norfolk, VA
https://gftbooks.com/hiking-the-at-in-the-virginias-a-septuagenarians-journey/

10/13/2025

Book Signing and Fundraiser, Co-sponsored by the Harrisonburg Appalachian Trail Club and Center for the Study of Place
Friday, November 7, 2025 from 5:30–8:00 p.m.
Music by Jane Cox 5:30–6:15 p.m.
Author’s presentation 6:30–7:15 p.m.
Book signing 7:30–8:00 p.m. with more music by Jane Cox
Lobby of the Hotel Madison, 710 S. Main Street, Harrisonburg, VA 22801 (Parking is available in the Hotel Madison section of the JMU deck accessible from MLK Jr. Boulevard.)

07/10/2025

Interview with Wallace!

It all started with a Polaroid Sw***er camera and leather-bound diary