This was painful to watch. The strange glee in revealing it.

Submissions for the Mosse First Book Prize are now open until August 1! Proposals can be sent directly to U of Wisconsin Press editor in chief @macbrien at [email protected], and more information can be found here: go.wisc.edu/843v02

Our #AAS2023 booth is all set up and the exhibit hall opens tomorrow morning! If you're in Boston for the meeting, please stop by to say hello to editor-in-chief Nathan No longer here, chat about your project, and check out some of our recent books!

And if you're not in Boston, you can still check out the virtual exhibit (tinyurl.com/4y4rhnuh) w/ discount code AAS23UWISC and connect with No longer here by e-mail!

We are delighted to open submissions for the third year of the George L. Mosse First Book Prize! If you aren't sure whether your project fits the scope of the series, please do write; I'm happy to chat.

At U of Wisconsin Press, our series New Perspectives in Southeast Asian studies is accepting submissions for empirically rich manuscripts across history and social science. And our lists in critical human rights and film incorporate work across Asian contexts. Please drop by! #AAS2023

Congratulations to author and Association for Asian Studies member John Roosa, who has won the George McT. Kahin Prize for "Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965-1966 in Indonesia." #AAS2023 attendees: Stop by our booth to check out the book and say hello! U of Wisconsin Press

Winners of the Texas Institute of Letters 2023 Literary Awards were recently announced! Congratulations to Drina Drummond, winner of the John A. Robert Johnson Award for First Book of Poetry, and @iamsteveadams, a finalist for the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction!

Join us next year!

A joint press release by La fabrique éditions (Paris) and Verso Books (London) on the detainment (and later arrest) of Ernest Moret, foreign rights manager for the French publisher Editions La Fabrique, under the Terrorism Act, upon his arrival to the UK for London Book Fair.

Reminder! PA applications are due tomorrow, Friday, April 21st, to Mosse Director Skye Doney ([email protected]) and U of Wisconsin Press Editor in Chief No longer here ([email protected])!

My inbox is open for questions as well as proposals for this exciting prize.

Big Ten Open Books' first open access collection of 100 books on gender and sexuality studies launched today! bigtenopenbooks.org #OA #openaccess #ReadUP #humanities #BigTenOpenBooks Northwestern University Press Indiana University Press MSU Press U of Wisconsin Press University of Michigan Press Purdue University Press kamccready

We're pleased to announce the launch of a new book series, Women and Gender in Africa, edited by Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué and Aili Mari Tripp! Learn more: tinyurl.com/yc3cddaj If you're at #ASA2023 and want to learn more, No longer here and the series editors would love to chat!

Please stop by our booth and say hello! I’m also happy to talk about our new book series Women and Gender in Africa.

A great post from Derek and Andrew. Authors, if we expend the effort to disagree with you, that's a good thing and worth engaging in wholehearted conversation.

"In a way, I position myself more like the book’s antagonist . . . I don’t expect readers to always sympathize with me." —Matt Lee, in conversation with richard scott larson in this week's double interview: full-stop.net/2024/06/04/int… U of Wisconsin Press Northwestern University Press

Many thanks to SELF for selecting Suzette Mullen's THE ONLY WAY THROUGH IS OUT as the June 2024 SELF Well-Read Book Club pick!

In celebration of #PrideMonth, we're offering a 30% discount on dozens of books, from LGBTQ+ studies to memoir, and fiction to poetry. Use code PRIDE24WISC on in-stock books AND preorders at uwpress.wisc.edu/books.html. Check back throughout the month as we feature more titles!

I was on the radio! I really loved this conversation with @batkvetch about my memoir for WORT 89.9 FM, and I'm grateful that they've archived the show here. wortfm.org/author-richard…