From the Director

Dear friends of the Press,

As you begin to think of longer and warmer days, we are delighted to offer you a broad range of books to keep you company with the changes that spring brings. We have a significant new book in our long list of contributions to the understanding of Bruce Springsteen and the people—fans, collaborators, and others—who helped produce both his music and public persona. We also continue to build our list of graphic books, and we are proud to present an illustrated edition of W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk, with accomplished illustrator Paul Peart-Smith’s art, Paul Buhle’s and Herb Boyd’s masterful editing, and an introduction by Rutgers University’s president, Jonathan Holloway, who is a respected Du Bois scholar. In addition, we are publishing a graphic biography of famed screenwriter George Clayton Johnson, known for Ocean’s Eleven, Logan’s Run and classics like The Twilight Zone and Star Trek. Resilient Kitchens is a stimulating look at immigrant lives in the U.S. through the lens of food and—with delicious recipes. Also forthcoming: more books in our new Other Voices of Italy series, including new translations of works by Guiseppe Berto and Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello. And, as always, we are excited to present a range of books in our film and media studies, comics studies, anthropology, sociology, regional, and Jewish studies lists. Along with our own books, new books from our partners the University of Delaware Press and Bucknell University Press round out our season’s offerings. As we enter warmer days, ever optimistic that we will continue to move further away from the pandemic, we hope that these books offer illumination, surprise, engaging distraction, interest, and, as always, happy reading.

—Micah Kleit, Director

Recent Highlights

The Paris Commune by Carolyn Eichner:

See more highlights on the inside back cover

• The Nation reviewed The Paris Commune “[An] informative and moving new history.”

• New Books Network interviewed Eichner and reviewed The Paris Commune

“The book is short and rich, clear and dramatic, an excellent resource for students, readers academic and non, and anyone interested in a smart, clear introduction to these events and figures… it’s also a fascinating account for those more familiar with the Commune.”

Here to Stay by Geetika Rudra:

Here to Stay

• ABC’s Good Morning America Book Club contributor and author Min Jin Lee selected Here to Stay as a recommended read for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month on May 25, 2022.

In Praise of Disobedience, Clare of Assisi: A Novel by Dacia Maraini:

• Publishers Weekly reviewed In Praise of Disobedience.

“The life of Italian saint Clare of Assisi gets a clever feminist reimagining in this biography-cum-epistolary novel by playwright Maraini (Voices)...Creatively structured and thoughtfully executed, this genre-smashing blend of history and fiction is delightfully original.”

Way Down in the Hole by Angela Hattery and Earl Smith:

• WNYC’s The Takeaway interviewed Angela Hattery and Earl Smith. the show is syndicated on National Public Radio and available as a podcast.

Fashionable Masculinities edited by Vicki Karaminas, Adam Geczy, and Pamela Church Gibson:

Day of the Dead in the USA, Second Edition by Regina Marchi:

• NPR Houston and Boise interviewed Regina Marchi about Day of the Dead in the USA on November 2, 2022 and October 16, 2022.

• The Washington Times mentioned Day of the Dead in the USA on October 31, 2022.

• Vulture (NY Magazine) included Fashionable Masculinities in their 17 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Summer list.

“Fashionable Masculinities picks apart our understanding of manhood, showing how ‘masculinity has become a style that can be worn, assumed–or abjured’.”