“Alive with hard-earned understanding and affirmation, these poems are for everyone who ever tried to leave a formative place of pain but found that person and place could never be fully untwined.”
“Every page not only delights and instructs but also provokes and moves us, lingering like a remembered dream. . . . Waiting will quietly pull you in and knock you out.”
High Yella: A Modern Family Memoir recounts the story of Steve Majors’ life. The following is a Q&A with Majors himself in which he expands on how the struggles detailed in his book helped him move forward in the conceptualization of his own identity and offers opinions on what the future could look like for…
The American Chestnut tells the story of the titular tree from Native American prehistory through the Civil War and the Great Depression. Some of the tree’s history dates to the very founding of our country, making the story of the American chestnut an integral part of American cultural and environmental history. The following is a Q&A…
Other Girls to Burn is a collection of essays that explores the relationship between women and violence within such contexts as the 2014 Isla Vista shooting, early Christian virgin martyrs (discussed in relation with modern true crime stories), mixed martial arts, and rape culture. The following is a Q&A with the author, Caroline Crew, about the…
Prophet of Discontent is a new look at King’s economic and political theories amid expanding awareness of the Black radical tradition. The following is a Q&A with the authors, Andrew J. Douglas and Jared A. Loggins, about past and present develops in the world of Black radical discourse and how they pertain to King. 1)…
On this episode of Annotations, Lindsay Bernal discusses her collection What It Doesn’t Have to Do With. Her collection explores—through sculpture, painting, pornography, and performance art—changing views on gender and sexuality. The elegiac meditations throughout this collection link the objectification of women in art and life to personal narratives of heartbreak, urban estrangement, and suicide. Haunted…
Today is the third day of the University Press Week (#UPWeek) Blog Tour, and we are celebrating “The Neighborhood.” One of the South’s oldest, richest, and most diverse traditions is put on a plate every day. To celebrate our regional food traditions, we interviewed Sandra Beasley, editor of Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways…
Kirsten Lunstrum, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, sits down with us today to explore themes, style, and inspiration for her newest book What We Do with the Wreckage (available October 15, 2018). Kirsten’s characters reveal survivors’ instincts when placed in situations of intimate crisis. Their choices echo throughout each story as snapshots into…
Wang Ping has written many books and poems, but her latest book is one that’s been in the works since she could write. Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi (out this month) is the story of her life, about the things that happened in China and America to the people she grew up with, met,…
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