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Friends in Nashville/Williamson Co. who support libraries, please join me & the great Pete Weber at the Love Our Libraries fundraiser benefiting the Williamson County Library Foundation on Feb. 20. Now more than ever it's important to support libraries, literacy & books!

In the 10th anniversary edition of Strong Inside that came out a few months ago, I've included an epilogue that illustrates the damage of anti-DEI hysteria. In this case, conservative parents at one school in Nashville took an axe to a beautiful story of reconciliation🧵

Preorders signed & coming to a mailbox near you (& some extras are available at Lucy Yu !). PUB DAY IS ONE WEEK AWAY AHHHH vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/9780826507716/…

It's pub day for I Would Define the Sun! Being an author has been a dream for as long as I can remember (and definitely since third grade, when I put my name on a book for the first time in Mrs. Follensbee’s class). I hope you enjoy. ☀️

Great night at the Love Our Libraries fundraiser for the Williamson County Public Library. SRO crowd all got copies of STRONG INSIDE 10th anniv ed. w/ Voice of the Nashville Predators Pete Weber moderating. Nice to be among supporters of books, libraries & the freedom to read!

A poem from my new book, I Would Define the Sun (Vanderbilt University Press), is up at Literary Hub today! Thank you for the feature ☀️ lithub.com/information-wo…

Find short story collections, memoirs, chapbooks & more in our roundup of new books out from Archipelago Books, Baobab Press, Wandering Aengus Press & Trail to Table Press, @JacklegPress, Zephyr Press, Blackwater Press, Vanderbilt University Press, Read Furiously, @GreenWritersPub & more indie presses: clmp.org/news/books-lau…

From the mouths of babes: I have included this photo of Perry Wallace in my presentations on Strong Inside for the last 10 years. This morning, I was invited to speak to children in kindergarten through second grade at our kids' amazing school in Nashville.🧵

Patrick Samuel, Operations Manager at Vanderbilt University Press, spent a week in our office as part of an AUP sponsored "Week in Residency Program". Vanderbilt University Press AUPresses 📚 #VanderbiltUniversityPress #AssociationOfUniverstyPresses

Joseph Harris GlobalHealthPoliticsPodcast Amherst College Dr. Jallicia Jolly UC Davis Health Adeola Oni-Orisan Lehigh University College of Health Eduardo J. Gomez Hopkins Press Themrise Khan Daraja Press HistMedJHU Stanford Press Tim Schwab Macmillan Publishers Northwestern Anthropology Adia Benton U of MN Press UCR Political Science kim yi dionne (@dadakim.bsky.social) UC Berkeley Sociology In the 10th episode of the GlobalHealthPoliticsPodcast, Georgetown SFS Prof. Emily Mendenhall discusses #diabetes, #mentalhealth, and her award-winning book, "Unmasked: #COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji," from Vanderbilt University Press. Listen here: …lhealthpoliticspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2364394/episod…

Join us on Thursday at 6:30 EST for an event with Orisanmi Burton Mary Phillips Donna Murch and Françoise N. Hamlin on state violence: prisons, police, politics, moderated by Jeanne Theoharis & Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine and live-streaming online. eventbrite.com/e/cbfs-state-v…

Olga Sendra Ferrer reviews "Books against tyranny: Catalan publishers under Franco" by Laura Vilardell Vanderbilt University Press doi.org/10.1080/146362…

Great reception last Thursday in Washington, DC, with friends from Congress, NGOs, academia & journalism to discuss my book "Drug Cartels Do Not Exist", narconarratives, militarism, and transnational violence. Hosted by my friend Hector Sanchez Barba, president & CEO of Mi Familia Vota.

Special thanks to Vanderbilt University Press for gifting copies to the attendees!

Join us next Friday 4/11 at 3pm ET for the Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas’s virtual Feria del Libro. Each presentation is 20-minutes, with a 10-minute Q&A - great for students, too! Register here for zoom: dartmouth.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Wan Sonya Tang will present her new book, Specters, Monsters, and the Damned. Fantastic Threats to the Social Order in 19th-Century Spanish Fiction ( 2024 Vanderbilt University Press): vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/9780826507129/…

How cool that Metro Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell referred STRONG INSIDE in his State of Metro address today! Here's the passage he cited before saying that the city must not lose sight of its high aspirations & that our response to the "chaos of the moment" is our competence

Mayor Freddie O'Connell referred to Perry Wallace & STRONG INSIDE in his State of Metro address today, citing the book as "an important glimpse of sports & society anchored here in Nashville." He quoted a passage on 'high aspirations' in stating the city must not lose of its own

¡Ya viene la Feria del Libro de #LASA2025! Gracias a Vanderbilt University Press, @[email protected], #UniversityofPittsburghPress que se suman este año con sus aportes a los Estudios Latinoamericanos. #ExpositoresLASA #FeriaDelLibro #LASA2025

📚 We are looking forward to our upcoming book roundtable (July 14-18, 2025) on *From Rights To Lives* by Françoise Hamlin & Charles W. McKinney Jr. Featuring essays by Marcia Chatelain, Brett Gadsden, Wesley Hogan & Shannon King. Vanderbilt University Press aaihs.org/online-roundta…