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DRAWING ON THEIR JEWISH HERITAGE: DR. MAYA KATZ EXPLORES THE ROOTS OF SOVIET ANIMATION Larry Yudelson of the New Jersey Jewish Standard interviews Maya Balakirsky Katz about her new book Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation.  When we think about Soviet Jews — or any citizens of greater Russia under the Communist regime — our imaginings tend to be in black and ...

FALL HARVEST FESTIVAL: SCOTT McLEMEE HIGHLIGHTS NEW BOOKS DUE OUT FROM UNIVERSITY PRESSES THIS FALL Daniel Karpowitz's College in Prison: Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration is featured in Scott McLemee's roundup of new books from university presses. Highlighting  surging interest in books that draw the curtain on the criminal justice system, McLemee points to Karpowitz's new book as a bea...

  SUPER ASIAN AMERICA: COMIC-CON AND BEYOND Nancy Wang Yuen, author of Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism (Jan 2017), takes an in-depth look at Asian American representation in comics and comic book movies on the ground in San Diego at Comic-Con 2016.

FRANCES GATEWARD AND JOHN JENNINGS WIN EISNER AWARD FOR THE BLACKER THE INK Frances Gateward and John Jennings have won the 2016 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work for their edited collection, The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art. The Blacker the Ink is the first book to explore not only the diverse range of black cha...

ELLEN FREUDENHEIM, ABROAD IN BROOKLYN Ellen Freudenheim, author of The Brooklyn Experience describes her deep-seated love of Brooklyn and takes The New York Times's Dan Shaw on a tour of her Park Slope brownstone in this feature for the real estate section’s “What I love” column.

GETTING THE FULL BROOKLYN EXPERIENCE https://youtu.be/ywKok8lwOGk Jack Ford interviews Ellen Freudenheim, author of The Brooklyn Experience: The Ultimate Guide to Neighborhoods & Noshes, Culture & the Cutting Edge, for PBS Thirteen's Metrofocus. From Coney Island to Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s varied and eclectic neighborhoods that have been home to names like Barbra Streisand, Jay-Z, a...

We are pleased to announce that Micah Kleit has been appointed Director of Rutgers University Press. Micah joins us from Temple University Press where he worked for over 15 years, ascending the editorial ranks from senior acquisitions editor, to executive editor, interim editorial director, and ultimately editor in chief.   Micah will be replacing Marlie Wasserman who has served as our Pr...