News
WSU Press has recently released several
new titles, including America's Nuclear
Wastelands, about issues related to nuclear weapons
production and waste disposal, and Crooked River
Country, about North Central Oregon's thrilling
history. Check out our New
Titles page for more information.
Author, speaker, and food historian Jackie
Williams has been awarded the Pacific Northwest
Historians Guild 2008 History Award. Her Washington State
University Press book, The Way We Ate, was
published in 1996.
On June 1, 2007, Dear Medora author
Sydney Stevens was interviewed on the
KMUN After Deadline radio program by Matt Winters, editor
and publisher of the Chinook Observer. Listen to the
podcast
.
Catastrophe to Triumph author Richard S.
Hobbs and The Mapmaker’s Eye
author Jack Nisbet were interviewed by
Megan Sukys on KUOW, Seattle’s National Public
Radio affiliate. Podcasts of her program “The Beat” are
available. Original broadcast dates were February 6, 2007
(listen)
and February 14, 2006 (listen).
Coming
Events
WSU Press authors give presentations at venues throughout the Pacific Northwest. Please contact the specific organizations for scheduling details, as these sometimes change.
MAY 2008
Wednesday, May 7, 1:00 p.m.
Sydney Stevens, author of Dear Medora, will present Mother-Daughter Conversations from Early Oysterville, for the Research Club's annual tea to be held at Saviour's Lutheran Church, 324 Jackson Street in Raymond, Washington. The event is open to members and guests.
Saturday, May 10, 2:00 p.m.
In honor of Mother’s Day, Dear Medora author Sydney Stevens will have a reading and signing at Adelaide's Books and Coffee, 1401 Bay Ave in Ocean Park, Washington.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Dr. Max S. Power, author of America’s Nuclear Wastelands and former Yachats resident, will speak at the writer's festival at the Yachats Commons, 441 North Highway 101, in Yachats, Oregon, (541) 547-4734.
Wednesday, May 28 7:00 p.m.
Dr. Max S. Power, author of America’s Nuclear Wastelands will be speaking on the WSU Tri-Cities campus.
SEPTEMBER 2008
Saturday, September 13, 1:00 p.m.
Historian and Dear Medora author Sydney
Stevens will bring regional history to life at
the Ocean Park Timberland Library, 1308 256th Place in
Ocean Park, Washington.
Awards
Catastrophe to Triumph
Richard S. Hobbs
Fall 2007 Washington Reads Selection
Washington State Library
Spokane and the Inland Empire: An Interior Pacific
Northwest Anthology
David H. Stratton
Summer 2007 Washington Reads Selection
Washington State Library
The Funhouse Mirror: Reflections on Prison
Robert Gordon
Spring 2007 Washington Reads Selection
Washington State Library
The Mapmaker's Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia
Plateau
Jack Nisbet
2006 Best of the Best from the University Presses
American Association of School Librarians
Captured Honor: POW Survival in the Philippines and
Japan
Bob Wodnik
2004 Best of the Best from the University Presses
American Association of School Librarians
The Oil Prince
Karl May
Translated by Herbert Windolf
2004 Best of the Best from the University Presses
American Association of School Librarians
The Restless Northwest: A Geological Story
Hill Williams
2003 Washington State Book Award
The Funhouse Mirror: Reflections on Prison
Robert Ellis Gordon
2001 Washington State Book Award
Home Mountains: Reflections from a Western Middle
Age
Susan Swetnam
2001 Idaho Book Award Honorable Mention