Welcome to the fifth and final day of the University Press Week (#UPWeek) Blog Tour. Today’s theme is “Science,” and we’re looking at the history of—and tension between—conservation and industry in the South. A piece of southern history that is often overlooked is the story of the South’s conservation efforts after the Civil War. William…
In addition to our spotlight on Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction, we are also posting Dustin Parsons’s Decatur Book Festival discussion panel. Parsons’s Exploded View: Essays on Fatherhood, with Diagrams is a novel view of fathers and the gadgets that make up childhood. In the book “graphic” essays play with the conventions of telling a life story and…
New this week on Annotations: André Gallant at the Decatur Book Festival. Gallant is the author of A High Low Tide: The Revival of a Southern Oyster. He uses the bivalve as a jumping-off point to tell the story of a changing southeastern coast, the bounty within its waters, and what the future may hold for the area…
First off, let me say: Happy 73rd Birthday, Pat Conroy! Today, we both celebrate the wonderful, vibrant life of Conroy and mourn his loss. As you’ll come to hear, Conroy was an stirring writer, beloved by many, and the subject of Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy. The collection comes from more than sixty contributors,…
Today’s episode features another book talk from the Decatur Book Festival: Staci L. Catron and Mary Ann Eaddy discuss Seeking Eden: A Collection of Georgia’s Historic Gardens, a project years in the making. Seeking Eden promotes an awareness of, and appreciation for, Georgia’s rich garden heritage. Updated and expanded here are the stories of nearly thirty designed landscapes first…
The latest in our episodes featuring events from the Decatur Book Festival, today we’re airing Michael Martone and Beth Ann Fennelly’s panel on the essay. Martone is the author of Brooding: Arias, Choruses, Lullabies, Follies, Dirges, and a Duet, a collection of twenty-five personal essays that speak from different platforms. Martone covers a range of topics…
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Around 9:00 am on Saturday, Sept. 3, the University of Georgia Press began releasing notices on its social media that its van, packed with books and supplies for a display at the 2016 Decatur Book Festival (DBF), had been stolen. The missing van has been located. Through circumstances that the Press (with invaluable assistance from…
The Decatur Book Festival is one of the South’s premier book festivals and will hit the streets of Decatur, GA, September 4-6. As usual, the UGA Press will be there, selling books in our booth, chatting up bookish locals, and enjoying the company of Georgia readers. Stop by our booth and receive a FREE signed copy…
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