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Amy Zheng, our graduating intern, represents Rutgers University Press at this year’s Rutgers Day. https://lnkd.in/ePaf4Gew #RutgersUniversity #RutgersDay

Nina Martin at Mother Jones interviewed author Lori Freedman about her recent book "Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals" and the state of emergency care in blue states. (Freedman Lori) Bishops and Bodies is on sale now: https://lnkd.in/edzQJpJ6

Check out an excerpt of Aaron Leonard's "Meltdown Expected" in Jacobin Magazine! "Meltdown Expected: Crisis, Disorder, and Upheaval at the End of the 1970s" is on sale May 17, 2024. "Aaron J. Leonard has produced a fascinating account of an era that is growing quickly away from contemporary public attention. He shows that the world we live in today had not yet taken definitive shape, that the fluidity of social movements still alive from the 1960s, in some ways still growing, had the capacity to enhance democracy but fell toward failure. The power on the other side proved too great. Still, the details offer important clues for what may yet become the dynamos of tomorrow's American promise."   ~Paul Buhle, co-editor with Mari Jo Buhle of the "Encyclopedia of the American Left"

"Suffering Sappho! Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture" by Barbara Brickman won The Publishing Triangle's 2024 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. The Judy Grahn Award honors the American writer, cultural theorist, and activist (b. 1940) best known for The Common Woman (1969), Another Mother Tongue (1984), and A Simple Revolution (2012). It recognizes the best nonfiction book of the year by or about lesbians, bisexual women, and/or trans women, or that has a significant influence upon the lives of queer women. Read more about the other 2024 finalists here: #LGBTQ #Awards #PublishingTriangle

Rutgers University Press will publish two new titles by Eric Alterman, Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College and author of the national bestseller "What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News". Alterman has been a columnist for The Nation, The American Prospect, Rolling Stone, and many other publications. He is the author of eleven previous books. Alterman's first book with Rutgers will be a part of the Jewish studies list, and his second will focus on The City University of New York and will be on the higher education list. https://lnkd.in/exkcbZkG

Jessica "Max" Stein's "Funny Boy: The Biography of Richard Hunt" has been a labor of love. The book is finally publishing on March 15, 2024, but if you want to learn more now about Max's process and Hunt's magnificent life, check out Max's original piece in The Gay & Lesbian Review. https://lnkd.in/ec93zKSm #Muppets #JimHenson #Elmo #Biography #nonfiction #books

A collection of work by members of the Rutgers University community of faculty, students, staff, and alumni, capturing their reflections on 2020, comprises the new book “Reflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed.” Edited by the late SC&I Part-Time faculty member Teresa Politanto, the volume includes work by SC&I faculty members Marc Aronson, David Greenberg, Amy Jordan, Katherine Ognyanova as well as many other Rutgers voices. Read more on the SC&I website: https://lnkd.in/giRK_Te5 and the coverage in New Jersey Monthly: https://lnkd.in/gCJgzcdS #RutgersResearch #RutgersExcellence

Congratulations to RUP author Derek Penslar and his book "Zionism: An Emotional State" which was a finalist for the Jewish Book Council's 73rd National Jewish Book Awards' Mod­ern Jew­ish Thought and Experience Dorot Foun­da­tion Award in Mem­o­ry of Joy Unger­lei­der Mayerson. Congratulations are also in order for our friends over at University Of Nebraska Press who had a finalist in the same category and Oxford University Press, whose author Jeremy Brown won the category! It's amazing to see so many University Presses represented for the JBC Awards' winners and finalists: University of California Press,The University of North Carolina Press, New York University Press, Cornell University Press, Stanford University Press, Indiana University Press, Yale University Press, Princeton University Press, Brandeis University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Penn State University Press. Check out all the winners on the JBC website: https://lnkd.in/eAac464d

It is with a heavy heart that we mourn the passing of Rutgers University Press author Teresa Politano. She was a wife, mother, award-winning author and editor and university professor. We offer our condolences to Teresa’s family and all those who knew her. We are honored to have been a small part of Teresa’s life.

The holiday tradition of “Scotch and Donuts” continues—albeit a bit delayed this year! And it marks the second year of the addition of Coquitos into the mix! #HolidayTradition #Scotch #Coquito