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  • Books We Love – Week Two

    The Road Author: Cormac McCarthy Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction Follow the journey of a father and son through post-apocalyptic America. The world is still, the falling snow is gray, and their destination is the coast to survive the winter. They have few possessions, barely enough to fill a supermarket shopping cart.…

  • Judy Blume

    Judy Blume was born two days before Valentine’s Day in 1938 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She was the second child of her parents, Rudolph and Esther Sussman. Blume loved to read as a child, and she was always imagining new stories. She went to an all-girls’ high school, and later…

  • 8 Things You May Not Know About Alice Walker

    Alice Walker—novelist, poet, feminist, and civil rights activist—was born February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia. She is most famous for her novel The Color Purple (1982), which was later turned into a movie (1985) directed by Steven Spielberg and is still performed as a musical today. She had her hands…

  • Writing for Change- Ryan Coogler

    Every year, the Organization of Black Students (OBS) at the University of Chicago invites a guest speaker to deliver the “Kent Lecture”  to the University population. The speaker is generally involved, in some measure, with promoting black culture in the United States and speaking about their work regarding  black issues.…

  • Books We Love – Week One

    Here at the University Press, we love books, and to celebrate Library Lover’s month, we’ll be posting some of our all-time favorite novels and stories. Here are just a few to start us off: 1984 Author: George Orwell Genre: Dystopian, political fiction, social science fiction Written in 1948, George Orwell’s…

  • “Turn Back Before Baghdad” Cover Reveal!

    The long-awaited, new edition of Laurence Jolidon’s novel, Turn Back Before Baghdad, will be launching on April 8, 2017. To tie you over until then, here’s the beautiful cover of this highly anticipated wartime novel.  

  • Upcoming Release: Turn Back Before Baghdad!

    Turn Back Before Baghdad travels back in time to a quarter century ago to the morning of January 12, 1991. There was a scramble by the news outlets to reach their Eastern Saudi Arabia stationed reporters, because it happened, war was inevitably coming, and Saddam Hussein was refusing to surrender…

  • Happy Birthday Langston Hughes!

    When I was in second grade, I fell in love with a poet. This was the first time I remember truly being in awe of words and their power, and I carried around his maroon book for a solid couple of months. It was The Dream Keeper and other Poems…