Penn Press Log

Chambers’s Book is Choice Editors’s Pick

Choice Reviews Online includes Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry by Jason Chambers among its Editors’s Picks for July, calling the book  "a cogent… READ MORE

Inexpressible Privacy–Now in Paperback

Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature Milette Shamir 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3906-5 | $55.00 | £36.00 Paper… READ MORE

Bloom’s Public Housing Commentary

"Public housing that works is a legacy that New York would be foolish to squander," argues Nicholas Dagen Bloom, author of Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth… READ MORE

Tragicomic Redemptions–Now Available

Tragicomic Redemptions: Global Economics and the Early Modern English Stage Valerie Forman 296 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4096-2 | $59.95 | £39.00 Valerie Forman contends… READ MORE

Bruce “Monty” Montgomery

The staff of Penn Press was saddened by news of the passing of Bruce Montgomery, composer, educator, director, and author of Brothers, Sing On!: My Half-Century Around the World with… READ MORE

Blum Interview on Religion Dispatches

W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet author Edward J. Blum recently discussed the inspiration for his research with the online daily magazine Religion Dispatches. Here’s an excerpt from the… READ MORE