In celebration of UT Press’s 70th anniversary and African American History Month, select titles are on sale for 20% to 50% off retail. For details, please visit http://utpress.org/whats-on-sale/.
The University of Tennessee Press this year celebrates 70 years of publishing distinguished books for both scholarly and general audiences.
On February 15, 1940, UT President James D. [...]
UT Press Celebrates 70th Anniversary
UT Press is 70!
UT Press celebrates its seventieth anniversary this year! We’ll take a look back all year long, and celebrate with special sales on some of the books that have helped define us. We’ll also provide you with some fun facts along the way so be on the lookout in BookNotes, our e-newsletter, for UT Press . [...]
Another Successful Southern Festival of Books!
Despite a brief evacuation of the War Memorial Plaza on Friday due to weather, the Southern Festival Books was a great success this year. By Saturday the sun was shining again, the temperature was warmer, and the book buying public in Nashville, TN, was out and about. Fourteen UTP authors took part in panel discussions. [...]
Neely on the Square
Jack Neely, author of Market Square: A History of the Most Democratic Place on Earth has been busily educating the Knoxville community about the city’s enigmatic Market Square area. Jack recently signed copies of Market Square at Wine on the Water, a benefit for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation; at the Square Room; at Carpe Librum [...]
UT Press at the Southern Festival of Books
UT Press will once again have a booth at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville Oct. 9–11. Fourteen UT Press authors will be at the festival discussing their new projects:
Beech Mountain Man: The Memoirs of Ronda Lee Hicks
Tom Burton
A Tennessee Folklore Sampler: Selections from the Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin, 1935-2009
Ted Olson and [...]
Kephart Gets Mention on Burns’s Park Documentary
Horace Kephart’s Camping and Woodcraft and Our Southern Highlanders received mention in the Smoky Mountains segment of Ken Burns’s highly anticipated PBS special, National Parks: America’s Best Idea.
Pub Crawl with Jack Neely for Market Square Saturday, September 12, 3pm
Market Square: A History of the Most Democratic Place on Earth
Jack Neely
Market Square District Association is having a book signing and Market Square Pub Crawl with Jack Neely on Saturday, September 12, 2009. Mr. Neely will sign copies of the book beginning at 12 noon on Market Square. At 3 p.m., meet at [...]
IN THE NEWS
Randy Norris and Jean-Philippe Cypres were recently at Carpe Librum in Knoxville, talking Delta talk and offering up some top-notch blues harmonica (thanks JP!). Read more about their book, Highway 61: Heart of the Delta, with a Foreword by Morgan Freeman at http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/aug/16/ut-press-book-explores-delta/
View forthcoming titles in UT Press’s fall/winter 2009 catalog.
Author and columnist Jack Neely (MetroPulse, Knoxville Magazine) discussed his new book, Market Square: A History of the Most Democratic Place on Earth, on this month’s DIALOGUE, WUOT-FM’s monthly call-in show. The podcast will be available Thursday (Aug. 6) at www.wuot.org.
Tom Burton @ Johnson City, TN Barnes & Noble
Meet Tom Burton
Author of Beech Mountain Man: The Memoirs of Ronda Lee Hicks (Foreword by John Shelton Reed)
Sat., July 25, 12 noon
Barnes & Noble
3030 Franklin Terrace
Johnson City, TN 37604
Tel. 423-952-5577