Reconsider John Cage. Read Marjorie Perloff’s essay from the Los Angeles Review of Books here. Rethink Cage with our 50th Anniversary edition of Silence, with a new foreword by Kyle Gann.
Remembering Janet Collins
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Click here to view Time Out New York‘s slide show of the 92nd Street Y’s celebration of Janet Collins. To learn more about this phenomenal woman, check out her biography, Night’s Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins here.
The passing of Christopher Small, Wesleyan author and musicologist
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Christopher Small, respected author and musicologist is dead at age 84. Read his obituary from the New York Times here. Read about his book Musicking here.
Congratulations Dr. Mel!
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Congratulations to Dr. Mel Goldstein who is retiring after a quarter of a century of service at WTNH. Check out his book, Dr. Mel’s Connecticut Climate Book…good reading for during the hurricane.
Jeannette Hopkins, press director (1980-89), dies
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The literary world suffered a great loss last week when Jeannette Hopkins, renowned book editor, died unexpectedly at the age of 88. Hopkins died while in the hospital due to complications from a medical condition on Aug. 4, according to her niece, Carol Gray. Hopkins was director and editor-in-chief for the Wesleyan University Press and…
Liz Lerman NEA Podcast Interview
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Interviews with Liz Lerman are available through the NEA website. Podcast Part I Podcast Part II
Ask Rae Armantrout your questions now!
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Rae Armantrout is participating in an interactive Poet Q&A through Smartish Pace. Questions will be accepted through August 29th. Click here to access the Smartish Pace website.
Becker awarded Michael Nelson Prize
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Congratulations to Christine Becker, recipient of the 2011 Michael Nelson Prize, given by the International Association for Media and History. Becker was honored for her book It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television.
Joanna Russ-New York Times obituary
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Read the New York Times obituary for Joana Russ here. Wesleyan University Press reissued two of Russ’s books, We Who Are About To… and The Two of Them, in addition to publishing, On Joanna Russ, a book of critical essays edited by Farah Mendlesohn.
Joanna Russ, 1937-2011
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We are saddened at the passing of Joanna Russ. She was one of the “greats” in science fiction and in feminism. The Press has two of her works, We Who Are About To… and The Two of Them, in print. Her classic novel, The Female Man, is still in print through Beacon Press. Read more…
