The first entry in our Author Reflections series comes from Matt Delmont, author of The Nicest Kids in Town. In The Nicest Kids in Town, Matt deftly places the TV show American …
Read More >This summer not one, but two books about Everett Ruess, the 20-year-old aspiring writer and wilderness explorer who disappeared without a trace in 1934, are being released. One is Philip Fradkin’s Everett …
Read More >UC Press author and associate professor of government at Claremont McKenna College Frederick Lynch published an op-ed in today’s New York Times about the AARP’s identity crisis and the actions the organization …
Read More >In the video introduction to Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression, written by Dale Maharidge with photographs by Michael Williamson, Bruce Springsteen talks about how the authors inspired him …
Read More >Now that The Oprah Winfrey Show has come to an end, will Oprah’s fans find a new icon to worship? In the run-up to the show’s final episode, which aired today, media outlets …
Read More >The legendary civil rights activist, writer, and organizer Grace Lee Boggs was the subject of a recent multimedia profile in The Nation. The feature included a podcast interview, a video from her …
Read More >We are pleased to announce that W. Joseph Campbell has received the Sigma Delta Chi Award in Research from the Society of Professional Journalists for Getting it Wrong: Ten of the Greatest …
Read More >In the latest UC Press podcast, Dale Maharidge, author of Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression, talks about his experiences reporting on working-class America for the last three decades. …
Read More >This month, we’re publishing Hidden Alcatraz, a unique collection of images taken by thirty-four photographers who were granted unprecedented access to the island. Guided by rangers, they explored places off the normal …
Read More >Many people look at a vacant lot and see failure, destruction, or nothing at all. Grace Lee Boggs sees possibilities for a cultural revolution. Boggs, a 95-year-old Detroit-based activist and author of …
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