University of Tennessee Press Blog

UT Press director Scot Danforth talked books and discussed the press’s 70th anniversary on this week’s The Scruffy Citizen with Jack Neely. Check it out at http://www.knoxivi.com/index.php/lifestyle/the-scruffy-citizen.

Harper Lee’s classic To Kill a Mockingbird was published 50 years ago this year. The press has published one of the few secondary works about this famous novel, Alice Hall Petry, ed., On Harper Lee: Essays and Reflections. For more information on the anniversary, see the NY Times article here.

See UT Press’s list of forthcoming fall/winter titles.

“David Madden’s Abducted by Circumstance is a captivating presentation. Carol Seaborg, who witnesses an abduction then begins to inhabit the life of the woman abducted, is not crazy, though she continually toes the line. She takes care of her children, including scared, precocious 7-year-old Melissa. In the meantime, detectives and TV news announcers confirm the [...]

Several UT Press titles are available as eBooks and the list is growing. Currently available: Voices from the Nueva Frontera White Collar Radicals Boys at Home

Download full interview “David Madden continues to push the envelope of literary fiction in subtle and profoundly sophisticated ways. Abducted by Circumstance is a quirky, utterly compelling novel in pieces that in its very structure speaks to the work’s twenty-first century theme:

UT Press has received a grant for $30,000 from the Appalachian Regional Commission to begin production on an electronic version of the Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Dr. Ted Olson is assisting the Press in developing the first section, Music, which is slated to go live in 2011.  

Mike Guillerman, author of Face Boss: The Memoir of a Western Kentucky Coal Miner talks with 570 News (Ontario, Canada) about the dangers of coal mining. Listen to the interview.

Abducted by Circumstance A Novel David Madden Hardcover, 152 pages, $25.95 “Abducted by Circumstance is a thrilling crime story, a dark and complex psychological study, a rich contemplation on contemporary life. It is also a masterful moral drama about the centuries-old conflicts that arise from the juxtaposition of the flesh and spirit.” —Allen Wier, author [...]