What is the place of poetry in the modern world? In Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public (Columbia UP, 2025), Keegan Cook Finberg, an Associate Professor of English at University of Maryland, Baltimore County narrates the contemporary history of poetry as the emergence of a public literary form. The book shows poets' engagement with social an ... Show More
Oct 28
Book Marketing vs. Book Publicity with Jeffrey Yamaguchi
What should authors be doing to market their books, and when? Book marketing expert Jeffrey Yamaguchi, a writer and poet with 25+ years in publishing, joins Sarah Russo on “The Publishing Playbook” to explain why book marketing and book publicity aren’t the same thing, and why a ... Show More
25m 55s
Oct 27
BAM!: John Madden, the NFL Explosion, and the Video Game that Changed Sports with Scott Howard-Cooper (Diversion Books, 2026)
John Madden retired abruptly from coaching in 1979, five months after receiver Darryl Stingley suffered a paralyzing injury against his Raiders. The tragedy would never leave him. He had no intention of entering broadcasting. Yet, within a decade—BAM!—he had become the most recog ... Show More
47m 46s
Oct 25
From Blood to Ink: How the Press Covered the Gettysburg Campaign with Matthew J. Larson (U Georgia Press, 2026)
The first book ever on how the press covered the Gettysburg campaign, From Blood to Ink: How the Press Covered the Gettysburg Campaign (U Georgia Press, 2026) chronicles the rise of the press through the Civil War and how its coverage of Gettysburg not only misled the people of t ... Show More
47m 11s