November 2024 Roundup

November flew by like the leaves that fell with it, but not without some wonderful achievements from our authors and great travels from our staff. This month, a slew of innovative scholarly titles came to life, from Stephanie Bosch Santana’s Forms of Mobility to Isobel Palmer’s Revolutions in Verse. Adam J. Frank’s Radio Free Stein, a close look at Gertrude Stein’s parlor plays, was a special book for us in its format: a charming square that will fit perfectly on any bookshelf!

Two of our acquisitions editors, Faith Wilson Stein and Megan Stielstra, visited a plethora of scholarly conferences this month, celebrating with our current authors and meeting potential future authors as well. Megan was able to celebrate Michelle Liu Carriger’s (Theatricality of the Closet) award ceremony at ASTR for the Barnard Hewitt Award, as well as spend time with Kate Bredeson, whose new translation The Inheritor was published this month as well. Faith adventured at the ASA and ASEEES conferences, spending time with old acquaintances and meeting new up and coming scholars. Conference season is one of our favorite times of the year!

November Publicity

November was another great month for NUP authors in the news!

Lynn Ellen Patyk’s Dostoevsky’s Provocateurs has been shortlisted for the 2024 AATSEEL Best Book in Literary Studies prize.

Booklists:

Laura Chow Reeve’s A Small Apocalypse named a Best Debut Book of 2024 by Debutiful and featured on Electric Lit’s “Most Exciting Debut Short Story Collections of 2024” list.

Interviews:

Poet Perry Janes discussed his collection Find Me When You’re Ready with Debutiful.

Joanna Fuhrman discussed her collection Data Mind with the Poet to Poet substack and the Writing Sandwich substack.

Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay discussed their book Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction on the New Books in Film podcast.

Reviews:

Michelle Suzanne Mirsky’s essay collection Here, Now was reviewed in Shelf Awareness.

Laura Chow Reeve’s collection A Small Apocalypse was reviewed for Book Riot and MER.

Michael Chang’s collection Synthetic Jungle was reviewed in The Cincinnati Review.

Tatyana Gershkovich’s book Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds was reviewed in the journal Novel.

Jessica Tanner’s Sex Work, Text Work: Mapping Prostitution in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel reviewed in the journal Nineteenth Century French Studies.

Carolina Sá Carvalho’s Traces of the Unseen: Photography, Violence, and Modernization in Early Twentieth Century Latin America was reviewed in the Latin American Literary Review.

Author Original Pieces:

Joanna Fuhrman wrote about her collection Data Mind in Heavy Feather Review.

Looking Ahead to December

Looking forward to December, we have a phenomenal lineup of scholarly titles for all audiences, from museum studies to a new title in Flashpoints to a new translation of a vital Chilean study on the Western university. Stick with the blog this month for gift suggestions and staff picks, holiday flash sales, and a great blog piece from Sarah Dowling (Here Is a Figure). Happy start to the holiday season, from us to you!

December 2024 titles:

Books for Sagittarians

December is for the Sagittarians! Born between November 22 and December 21, Sagittarians are the ultimate free spirits. Represented by the centaur archer, Sagittarius is the sign of freedom. Sagittarians are generally optimistic, friendly, and playful. Lovers of travel and adventure, Sagittarians are the life of every party they attend. Consider one of the books below for the Sag in your life!

Happy birthday, Sagittarians!