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Readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to each new collection of Thomas Hauser's articles about today's boxing scene. Reviewing these books, Booklist has proclaimed, "Many journalists have written fine boxing pieces, but none has written as extensively or as memorably as Thomas Hauser. . . . Hauser remains the current champion of boxing. . . . He is a treasure." Hauser's newest collection meets this high standard. The Universal S...

Winner, 2020 J.G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association "I reckon stranger you have not been used much to traveling in the woods, " a hunter remarked to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft as he trekked through the Ozark backcountry in late 1818. The ensuing exchange is one of many compelling encounters between Arkansas travelers and settlers depicted in Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804-1834. Thi...

This whip-smart collection is a playful celebration of feminine power." --Publisher's Weekly "What a beautiful book." > "With the verve of Alice Fulton and the panache of Gerald Stern, Sysko keens into the canon, a welcome voice. Sing, indeed, heavenly muse." > Finalist for the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Selected by Patricia Smith The Daughter of Man follows its unorthodox heroine as she transforms from maiden to warrior--then to queen,...

Sarah Neidhardt grew up in the woods. When she was an infant, her parents left behind comfortable, urbane lives to take part in the back-to-the-land movement. They moved their young family to an isolated piece of land deep in the Arkansas Ozarks where they built a cabin, grew crops, and strove for eight years to live self-sufficiently. In this vivid memoir Neidhardt explores her childhood in wider familial and social contexts. Drawing upon...

Here, with George Fisher at his very best, is a unique telling of the story of Arkansas and much of America from the time Orval Faubus first came to represent the state to the nation and the world until the year Bill Clinton assumed that role on a very different stage. Fisher's cartoons have put into perspective much of what has occurred in Arkansas and a good deal of the United States From the 1970 to the early 1990s. These cartoons are also,...

Beer Places is, most essentially, a road map for craft beer, taking readers to various locales to discover the beverage's deep connections to place. At another level, Beer Places is an academic analysis of these geographical ties. Collected into sections that address authenticity and revitalization, politics and economics, and collectivity and collaboration, this book blends new research with a series of "postcards": informal conversations and...

Although more than one hundred novels set in the Ozarks were published before it, Thames Ross Williamson's 1933 novel The Woods Colt was the first to achieve notable success both popularly and critically. Written entirely in regional dialect, The Woods Colt is the story of the violent and reckless Clint Morgan, whose attempts to secure love and freedom force him down a path of self-destruction. With an introduction and explanatory notes from P...

Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins is a collection of essays from Brooks Blevins that explore southern history and culture using [the] author's native Ozarks region as a focus. From migrant cotton pickers and fireworks peddlers to country store proprietors and shape-note gospel singers, Blevins leaves few stones unturned in his insightful journeys through a landscape 'wedged betwixt and between the South and the Midwest - and ...

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Stateswomen celebrates the centennial of women serving as members of the Arkansas General Assembly. The book features concise biographies of all the women legislators who have served in the assembly to date, situating their political activity within the history of the expansion of the role of women in the public sphere"--

In How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave, winner of the 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, Maya Salameh explores the intimate relationships we have with our devices, speaking back to the algorithm that serves simultaneously as warden, data thief, and confidant"--

The Provisions of War examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and institutions have used food and its absence as both a destructive weapon and a unifying force in establishing governmental control and cultural cohesion during times of conflict. Historians as well as scholars of literature, regional studies, and religious studies problematize traditional geographic boundaries and periodization in this essay collection, analyzing various ...

In 1962, James Meredith famously desegregated the University of Mississippi. Drawing upon historical research and creative inspiration, this graphic history depicts the civil rights icon's relentless pursuit of justice"--

Winner, 2023 J. G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association Because Johnny Cash cut his classic singles at Sun Records in Memphis and reigned for years as country royalty from his Nashville-area mansion, people tend to associate the Man in Black with Tennessee. But some of Cash's best songs-including classics like "Pickin' Time, " "Big River, " and "Five Feet High and Rising"-sprang from his youth in the sweltering cotto...

In Reporting for Arkansas, Dale Carpenter and Robert Cochran present a biography of the pioneering Arkansas documentarian Jack Hill alongside a filmography celebrating the reissue of several of Hill's works newly hosted online by the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History"--

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