Pittsburgh, PA – The University of Pittsburgh Press is pleased to announce the launch of Power Currents: Asian Media in the World, a new scholarly book series that recenters media within Asian studies and Asia within media studies. The transformations in Asia’s media landscapes are both shaping and being shaped by histories, traditions, demographics, industrial structures, and governance dynamics that demand analyses and approaches drawn from Asian points of reference. This series aims to showcase research on analog and digital media forms past and present as they course in, around, and through Asia, with an emphasis on projects that explore…

Pittsburgh, PA — Bill Gaythwaite of Union, NJ, is the winner of the 2025 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, one of the nation’s most prestigious prizes for a collection of short stories. Gaythwaite’s collection, A Place in the World, was selected by Manuel Muñoz. A Place in the World will be published on October 7, 2025. “These are captivating stories that reveal how intertwined we really are with our past selves,” shares Manuel Muñoz, author of What You See in the Dark and The Consequences. “A fantastic collection about facing up to the ghosts of our mistakes and our fears, and…

AWP takes place in Seattle from March 8–11, and we would love for you to stop by our booth, our happy hour, one (or more!) of our author signings, and our author panels! If you’re not able to make it all the way to Seattle, you can peruse our online “exhibit booth” and get copies of our discounted titles shipped straight to your home. Conference Events Find us at booth #301/303 during exhibit hall hours for discounted poetry and short fiction titles, author signings (schedule below), or just for a chat! After hours, swing by the Seattle Beer Co. on Friday…

The University of Pittsburgh Press is pleased to announce that William Masami Hammell has joined the Press as senior acquisitions editor. Will has 20 years of publishing and editorial experience, including over a decade in scholarly book acquisitions, most recently at Cambridge University Press, where he acquired new titles and managed multiple series in African and Middle Eastern studies, focusing on history, politics, religion, and anthropology. Prior to that, he was editor and director of publications at the Harvard University Asia Center, acquiring and producing award-winning monographs in East Asian studies. He got his start in book publishing at Temple…

Brazil marks the bicentennial of its political independence today, September 7th, but for many Brazilians it has been difficult to generate much excitement to celebrate the great date. Despite the country’s strong public health tradition and its high vaccination rate, its experience of the Covid-19 pandemic has been a brutal one, with almost 700,000 deaths second only to the United States. As Brazilians face the same inflation worries as much of the globe, the strong economic growth the country enjoyed in 2021 in the aftermath of the worst of pandemic-related woes has faltered this year. And the health of its…