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WVU Press will be at #MountaineerWeek for the Arts & Craft Fair! Friday, Nov. 13 - Sunday, Nov. 15 Mountainlair Ballrooms 📚

Virtual Artists' Talk: The Architecture of Care with Connective Tissue Series Editor Renee K. Nicholson "The Architecture of Care" is an invitational exhibition that interrogates the "Invisible Care Labor" sustaining our world—work that often remains unrecognized in both clinical and domestic spheres. Moving beyond "art for art’s sake," this project functions as a site of Knowledge Production, centering the physical and emotional regulation required for caregiving, the domestic maintenance of chronic illness, and the reclaimed presence of the body in transition. Register for the Zoom event here: 🔗wvu.libcal.com/calendar/even… WVU Libraries #wvupress #connectivetissueseries #healthhumanities #wvulibraries

Happy Booktober! Our Spring 2027 catalog is out with five new titles plus an anniversary edition of Neema Avashia’s Another Appalachia! wvupress.com 🖤 Black Space: Appalachian Reunion, Celebration, and Homecoming | Edited by William Isom II A vibrant collection of photography, oral histories, artifacts, and essays, documenting the celebration, fellowship, and resilience of Black Appalachian life. 🦇 The Mothman Chronicles: Investigating the Unseen in America | Troy Rondinone and Jeremy N. Chandler Combining historical research, folklore studies, cultural analysis, photography, and firsthand reporting, this book traces the Mothman’s journey from a regional mystery to a fixture of American popular culture. 🌲 Regenerating the Land: The Weeks Act and the People, Politics, and Policies that Created the Eastern National Forests | Char Miller Over twenty million acres of conservation land are now under federal protection under the 1911 Weeks Act. But their establishment, which allowed the federal government to purchase private land, was anything but simple. Environmental historian Char Miller explores in depth the stark purpose public lands give to the nation. 🛤️ Collected Stories of Scott McClanahan | Scott McClanahan These thirty-three stories, including two new stories in print for the first time, are snapshots from growing up in a small, rural Appalachian town. 💊 More Abundantly: A Novel | Kayla Jean Murphy Ruby Faye, struggling with an unexpected pregnancy and alcoholism, returns to her small Appalachian hometown, where she becomes entangled in a multilevel marketing vitamin wellness scheme and returns to her childhood Pentecostal church. ⛰️ Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place - Anniversary Editin | Neema Avashia, Foreword by Ed Simon Afterword by Robert Gipe with Neema Avashia An expanded edition of Neema Avashia’s memoir about growing up as the queer, desi daughter of Indian immigrants in West Virginia that has proven itself to be one of the most celebrated and impactful Appalachian origin stories. #wvupress #appalachianlit #booktober #mothman #cryptids #queerlit #blackinappalachia #forestconservation

Black life in Appalachia often gets covered in black-and-white, as a relic from the past; Black Space, forthcoming from WVU Press March 2027, demonstrates how communities are alive and thriving now, illustrating that resiliency through celebration, gathering, and reunion as mechanisms of resistance and continuity. Here’s a special preview of photos from the book—perfectly captured by Holly Rainey, Jessica Tezak, and Jabari Guthrie.

New on our Booktimist blog—an excerpt from Beyond Ourselves: Contemporary Poets on Muriel Rukeyser, edited by Catherine Gander and Stefania Heim. 📖 Link in bio!

Stian Rice’s Elsewhere is out now and available for purchase at wvupress.com. 🍴

On October 14th, author Rouzbeh Yassini will be discussing his book, The Accidental Network, with the Stow, MA Historical Society. The Accidental Network shares the untold story of the invention of the cable modem by the small, struggling tech company LANcity in the early 1990s, illustrating how Yassini overcame a cascade of technical challenges, investment community naysayers, and unnerving business obstacles to create the cable modem technology that has changed the way billions of individuals across the globe now manage their daily lives and commerce. Listen to a recent BBC interview with Yassini: bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct986d

Henry and Priscilla Ireys will be doing a reading of their book The Keep on October 20th with The River House Writer’s Club whose mission is to foster creative writing on all levels. 📖 Club members discuss all genres of writing and meet the third Sunday of each month from 1-3pm. Everyone is welcome—to participate or just listen!

📣 It’s pub day for Judy Sandler’s What Kind of Mother—a memoir that reckons with her son’s descent into severe mental illness. Available at wvupress.com.

On Tuesday, September 8th, WVU Press author Helen Kapstein will be speaking as part of a panel during this year’s Energy@Stanford & SLAC—an annual conference for Stanford graduate and professional school students interested in energy. 🗣️ Link in our bio for further event details and more on Petroforms on our website!

Meghana Mysore’s short story collection Let All Our Ghosts Depart is out now! 🩵 Available on our website as always—wvupress.com.

For the love of football 💛💙 take 50% off two John Antonik titles now through September 15 at wvupressonline.com 🏈 Almost Heaven: How Bobby Bowden's Ten Years at West Virginia University Helped Him Become One of the Winningest Coaches in College Football History 🏈 The Backyard Brawl: Stories from One of the Weirdest, Wildest, Longest Running and Most Intense Rivalries in College Football History #WVUFootball

We spoke with Mark Paris—dean of WVU Libraries and Press—about his rural upbringing, what drew him to WVU, what he’s reading right now, and so much more. 🔷🔸 Full interview on Booktimist at the link in bio! 🔗

Author Rachel Weaver is in a recent episode of the ICU Podcast where she touches on her memoir Dizzy—link in bio!