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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 of Tehano

“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: how do we find connection in a fragmented world. In this new book Madden is at the height of his considerable power.”
—Robert Olen Butler

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. Hoskins read a statement to the university trustees proposing the establishment of the Press. It became one of many prestigious university presses founded during the first half of the twentieth century, including the University of North Carolina Press in 1922, the University of Georgia Press in 1938, the University of South Carolina Press in 1944, and the University Press of Kentucky in 1949. Continue reading UT Press Celebrates 70th Anniversary →

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 . . . Did You Know?

James Lee McDonough and Myron King Jr.

UT Press Publicist Tom Post and Carl Kell

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. Please see our previous SFB post for the complete list of authors who participated.

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 Booksellers; and on a Pub Crawl that highlighted locations discussed in the book. Jack’s next appearance will be at Knoxville’s Brewer’s Jam on Oct. 24.

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 Anthony Cavender
Voices from the Nueva Frontera: Latino Immigration in Dalton, Georgia
Donald Davis
In the Tennessee Mountains
Bill Hardwig
Yale’s Confederates: A Biographical Dictionary
Nathaniel Hughes
Against the Wind: The Moderate Voice in Baptist Life
Carl Kell
The Atomic Bomb and American Society: New Perspectives
Rosemary Mariner
The Wars of Myron King: A B-17 Pilot Faces WWII and U.S.-Soviet Intrigue
James Lee McDonough
A Backward Glance: The Southern Renascence, the Autobiographical Epic, and the Classical Legacy
Joseph Millichap
Mississippi in Transition: The Role of the Mississippi Humanities Council
Cora Norman
TVA Archaeology: Seventy-five Years of Prehistoric Site Research
Erin Pritchard
Great Things Are Expected of Us: The Letters of Colonel C. Irvine Walker, 10th South Carolina Infantry, C.S.A.
Charles Denny Runion
Reminiscences of an Old Georgia Lawyer: Judge Garnett Andrews
S. Kittrell Rushing

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.