September 2024 Roundup

Our Fall 2024 season has gotten off to a phenomenal start.

In September, Northwestern University Press released eight new titles. Our September list includes scholarly works on such subjects as the politics of theater and grief as well as debut poetry and essay collections in our trade list:

Milton’s Moving Bodies by Marissa Greenberg & Rachel Trubowitz – Featuring contributions from established and emerging scholars, this collection brings unprecedented focus to the forms, spaces, and implications of embodied motion in Milton’s writing.

Film and Everyday Resistance by Marguerite La Caze – Taking Václav Havel’s concept of “living within the truth” as a throughline, Marguerite La Caze’s reading of international cinema reveals how ordinary people can enact their own philosophies of defiance in the face of authoritarianism and totalitarianism.

Nightmare Remains by Ege Selin Islekel – Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mourning and Epistemologies of Disappearance shows how collective mourning in settings shaped by an overwhelming presence of death mobilizes resistant epistemologies, opening up new modes of memory, understanding, and archiving.

The Theatricalists by Theron Schmidt – The Theatricalists: Making Politics Appear shows how theatrical conditions are interconnected with political struggles: who is seen and heard, how labor is valued, and what counts as “political” in the first place.

Max Reinhardt by Peter Marx and Translated by Robert E. Goodwin – A panoramic study of a pathbreaking artist’s work, describing not only his methods and best-known productions but also the cultural conditions of his visionary enterprise.

Altars of Spine and Fraction by Nicholas Molbert – From Louisiana’s fishing village of Cocodrie comes a debut collection on masculinity, hurricanes, and how a child of the Gulf Coast carries, honors, and revises Southern traditions.

Find Me When You’re Ready by Perry Janes – A lyric coming-of-age journey that sweeps from Detroit to Los Angeles, Find Me When You’re Ready interrogates the myths we carry and explores how we can set them aside.

Miss Southeast by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers – A collection of narrative essays explores the search for belonging as a queer person and woman in the American South—and beyond.

As a University Press, September is always an exciting time. Students return to campus, grad assistants and interns join us for their tours of service, and the sleepiness of summer falls away.

This month, the Press participated in:

Publishers Row Literary Festival (September 7 & 8) – NU Press descended upon the Publishers Row neighborhood of Chicago for the thirty-ninth annual festival celebrating Chicago’s rich literary community. We shared a booth with our pals down at the University of Chicago Press and were able to connect with many folks in the community and spread the word about our books.

SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) Conference (September 26-28): The inimitable Faith Wilson Stein, our Manager of Acquisitions, represented the Press at SPEP’s annual conference in Rochester. Five Northwestern University Press titles were selected for book sessions:

Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology

Knowing by Heart

The Healing Body

Heidegger and the Destruction of Aristotle

Turning Emotion Inside Out

September Publicity

September was a blockbuster month for our new trade books and some of our backlist scholars! See below for some of the best coverage from magazines to podcasts to interviews and everything in between:

Archive of Style, Cheryl Clarke in BOMB Magazine, LARB, BUST
Altars of Spine and Fraction, Nicholas Molbert in New Books Network, Talking Poem Podcast, Southern Review of Books Interview with NUP author William Fargason
Find Me When You’re Ready, Perry Janes in Read to Know Basis Substack, A2 Pulp Arts Magazine
Miss Southeast, Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers in LitHub, Autostraddle, Southern Review of Books
Koan Khmer, Bunkong Tuon in East Windezine
The Time We Have, Michele Weldon in The Ethel
The Backwards Hand, Matt Lee in XRay Lit Mag
Hatch, Jenny Irish in The Lives of Writers Podcast
Quiet Armor, Stevie Edwards in Publishers Weekly
Portrait of Us Burning, Sebastián H. Páramo in Of Poetry Podcast
Feminism, Capitalism, Ecology, Johanna Oksala in UChicago Journals
Disoriented Disciplines, Rosario Hubert in Taylor & Francis Online
Brutal Beauty, Jisha Menon in Cambridge Journals, Project Muse

Looking Ahead to October

We’re so excited to have entered spooky season (officially, though Starbucks got started in August…)! Whenever you start your full autumn festivities, October is no doubt prime time to enjoy the cooling weather and snuggle up with a good book. Luckily, we have many coming your way: an exploration of the internet through the lends of a non-digital native in Joanna Fuhrman’s Data Mind, a history of Northwestern’s iconic improve/sketch/rock show Mee-Ow in The Mee-Ow Show at 50, and so much more. The blog will be featuring Joe Radding talking to some current Mee-Ow show directors about the past and the present, and in the true interest of all things spooky, the press has received a Tarot reading from our very own upcoming author Sarah Lyn Rogers (Cosmic Tantrum) that we can’t wait to share with you.

Finally, if you’re local, we have an exciting event to share with you! Perry Janes will be joining Charif Shanahan at Evanston’s very own Bookends and Beginnings on Monday, October 14^th at 6pm! Register here and go see a wonderful conversation between some fantastic authors.

Data Mind

Extimacy

Here, Now

The Mee-Ow Show at 50

Traveling Freely

Books for Libras

October is all about Libra! Born between September 23 and October 22, Libra is the socialite of the Zodiac. Represented by the scales, Libras are well-suited mediators, especially since they hate conflict. Able to see all sides, Libras are infamously indecisive. Libras love to surround themselves with beautiful things, so consider one of the books below for a Libra in your life.

Happy birthday, Libras!