Required Reading: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

Making up almost 30% of NYC’s population, the Latinx community is an integral part of the city. This Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re celebrating the richness of Latinx history, along with… READ MORE

The background is a photo of the New York City skyline when the Twin Towers still stood. Above the image is the book cover for 110 Stories.

Random Notes—September 11, 2001, 4:00 P.M. by Paul Auster

Excerpted from 110 Stories: New York Writes after September 11, edited by Ulrich Baer Our fourteen-year-old daughter started high school today. For the first time in her life, she rode… READ MORE

Brown and Gay in LA: A radical redefinition of what it means to be a gay person of color in America.

Excerpt from Brown and Gay in LA by Anthony Christian Ocampo “We need to talk,” my partner Joe tells me the night after the 2016 election. “If something happens to… READ MORE

Consuming True Crime: A Conversation with Diana RIckard

Consuming True Crime: A Conversation with Diana Rickard

How has true crime storytelling changed in the last 10 years? What is “the new true crime”? What impact has this narrative shift had on the way people consume true… READ MORE

Required Reading: Labor Day

Required Reading: Labor Day

Did you know that the first Labor Day was celebrated in NYC in 1882? Thousands marched from City Hall to Union Square in a protest against low wages, unfair hours,… READ MORE

Can a Font Save the Planet?

January 8, 2009

The answer, apparently, is yes! Check it out: Ecofont uses 20% less ink than normal fonts by putting small holes in the letters. At large sizes these holes are obvious,… READ MORE

The People’s Podcast Party

January 7, 2009

Two new populist podcasts for your aural enjoyment. Against the Grain, Tuesday January 6th 2009: Download program audio (mp3, 48.47 Mbytes) How many incompetently represented people get convicted, or even… READ MORE

Still Climbing, 10 Years Later

January 6, 2009

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of Still Lifting, Still Climbing: African American Women’s Contemporary Activism, edited by Kimberly Springer. Prof. Springer was kind enough to offer… READ MORE

Of Politicians, Pastors, and Prayer

January 5, 2009

Phillip Luke Sinitiere and Shayne Lee, authors of Holy Mavericks: Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace (NYU Press 2009), discuss Rick Warren, Barack Obama and the issues surrounding the inaugural… READ MORE

Walt Whitman Wishes You a Happy Christmas!

December 25, 2008

For those of you with access to various university databases, you can now check out our complete archive of Whitman’s writings as an ACLS Humanities E-Book. Thanks, Walt! (Or if… READ MORE

A Party Fit for Little Rebels

December 19, 2008

NYU Press and the Tamiment Library & Wagner Labor Archives hosted a fabulous party for the editors of Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children’s Literature. Besides the… READ MORE

Podcasts Potpourri! Lopate, Lehrer and More!

A lot of excellent interviews online for NYU Press authors this week: Editor Julia Mickenberg and contributors Charlotte Pomerantz and Joe Molner talk about their anthology of radical children’s literature,… READ MORE