News for July 18, 2007

Good Roots Selected As Book Festival Theme
July 18, 2007

The Ohioana Book Festival: A Good Roots Celebration will be held in Columbus, Ohio on September 15, featuring ten contributors from Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio. Sponsored by the Ohioana Library, this first annual book festival was inspired in part by the living literary legacy that is evident in the pages of Good Roots. The writers will be joined by book critics, publishers, and readers from around the state for two days of events. For more information, visit ohioanabookfestival.org.

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Thorndike Book a Finalist for ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award
March 16, 2010

The Last of His Mind: A Year in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s, by John Thorndike, has been named a finalist in ForeWord magazine’s Book of the Year Award in the autobiography/memoir category. Finalists were chosen from 1,400 entries in 60 categories and represent independent publishing at its best. Winners will be determined by a panel of librarians and booksellers and announced at the May 25 BookExpo America show in New York City. The Last of His Mind was also named one of the best memoirs of 2009 by The Washington Post.

Tate Memoir Nominated for Weatherford Award
February 23, 2010

Linda Tate’s 2009 memoir, Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative has been nominated for the 2009 Weatherford Award in the nonfiction category. The Weatherford Award, sponsored by the Appalachian Studies Association, is given to published works that “best illuminate the challenges, personalities, and unique qualities of the Appalachian South.” Weatherford winners will be announced at the 2010 Appalachian Studies Conference on March 19th. In Power in the Blood, Tate alternates personal memoir with imagined family narrative in journeys that traverse both physical and psychic terrain.

Ohio University Press Author on CNN Independent Voter Panel
February 15, 2010

Dr. Omar Ali, author of In the Balance of Power: Independent Black Politics and Third-Party Movements in the United States (2008), has appeared on CNN-TV three times in the past couple of weeks as part of an Independent voter panel analyzing the recent political scene. "People are angry,” Ali commented on the Feb. 14th broadcast. "Anger will come and go, but there is an underlying frustration that the American people are feeling and that's a combination of being angry and not being able to do something about that anger because of the bipartisan structure of our political system.”

Thorndike Interview on AARP Bulletin
January 28, 2010

John Thorndike, the author of the 2009 memoir, The Last of His Mind: A Year in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s, is interviewed extensively about his caregiving experience in the January 28th issue of AARP Bulletin Today. An excerpt from the book is also included on the AARP site.

Ohio University Press Author on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360
January 28, 2010

Omar Ali, the author of In the Balance of Power: Independent Black Politics and Third-Party Movements in the Unitd States (2008), is scheduled for a roundtable appearance on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” on Friday, January 29th, at 10 p.m. The topic of the discussion will be independent politics and a State of the Union follow-up.