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Fall/Winter 2012 catalog
Changes in sales representation
New books now available
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Kurt Ambruster
Kathleen Flenniken
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Our Fall/Winter 2012 catalog

For video trailers of six new titles, please see our digital catalog here.
changes in sales representation

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Beginning July 1, 2012, Columbia Sales Consortium will handle sales representation for the University of Washington Press to booksellers in the United States, with the exception of Washington State. Neither international sales representation nor sales fulfillment will change.

 

Contact information:

New York City (including Long Island)

Dominic Scarpelli

212-459-0600, ext. 7129; [email protected] 

 

East Coast and South

Catherine Hobbs 804-690-8529, [email protected] 

 

Midwest

Kevin Kurtz

773-316-1116, [email protected] 

 

West (except WA)

William Gawronski 310-488-9059, [email protected] 

 

Washington State

Rachael Levay, 617-871-0295, [email protected] 

 

new books now available


Contagion, edited by Bruce Magnusson and Zahi Zalloua and copublished with Whitman College

Disappearing Traces, by Dorota Glowacka, in the Stephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust Studies; A Modern Language Initiative book

The Promise of Wilderness, by James Morton Turner, in the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series
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 July 2012
Greetings!

July is almost here -- isn't that incredible? This year is flying by and we're gearing up for a busy fall. We have a great event in late June with Kurt Armbruster and a mid-August event with Kathleen Flenniken (at the innaugural Mazama Festival of Books) on the horizon.

A bit of news -- effective July 1, 2012, the University of Washington Press will be represented by the Columbia Sales Consortium (with the exception of Washington State, which I will handle personally). More details are below, but if you have any questions, please let me know.

Last but not least, we're excited to announce a new UW Press staff member -- Ranjit Arab. Ranjit served as an acquisitions editor at the University Press of Kansas for the last three years, where he oversaw the lists in Native American, environmental, and Western history, as well as Women's Studies and the CultureAmerica series. Prior to working in acquisitions, Ranjit spent six years as the press's publicist, promoting titles and authors among major media and review outlets. At Washington he will oversee the press's lists in Native American studies, Western and environmental history, and Asian American and American Studies. He holds a master's in journalism from the University of Kansas, with an emphasis on documentary filmmaking.

All the best,
Rachael
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Before Seattle Rocked
Before Seattle Rocked
"Finally, for those who prefer to trace local music history even further back, Seattle historian and musician Kurt E. Armbruster offers this extensively researched and compelling book." -Brangien Davis, Seattle Magazine

The rich, deep roots of Seattle's musical heritage have profoundly affected the city's cultural life and history. For this once remote city, music forged links as real as those created by railroads and steamships. Personal anecdotes and memories from many of Seattle's most beloved musicians and historic photographs of the changing music scene enrich this entertaining panorama of Seattle music from the 1890s to the 1960s, "before Seattle rocked."

Kurt E. Armbruster is a Seattle native, historian, professional bassist, and singer-songwriter. He has played music of many genres, from Beethoven to balalaika, Sousa to swing, and has written three books, including Orphan Road: The Railroad Comes to Seattle, 1853-1911. He is a proud member of the Seattle Musicians' Association, afm Local 76-493.

Join Kurt on
Wednesday, June 27, at 7:30 p.m. at Horizon House, with Elliott Bay Books 
kathleen flenniken
Plume
Plume
The poems in Plume are nuclear-age songs of innocence and experience set in the "empty" desert West. Award-winning poet Kathleen Flenniken grew up in Richland, Washington, at the height of the Cold War, next door to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, where "every father I knew disappeared to fuel the bomb," and worked at Hanford herself as a civil engineer and hydrologist. By the late 1980s, declassified documents revealed decades of environmental contamination and deception at the plutonium production facility, contradicting a lifetime of official assurances to workers and their families that their community was and always had been safe. At the same time, her childhood friend Carolyn's own father was dying of radiation-induced illness. Plume, written twenty years later, traces this American betrayal and explores the human capacity to hold truth at bay when it threatens one's fundamental identity.

The book's personal story and its historical one converge with enriching interplay and wide technical variety, introducing characters that range from Carolyn and her father to Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and Manhattan Project health physicist Herbert Parker. As a child of "Atomic City," Kathleen Flenniken brings to this tragedy the knowing perspective of an insider coupled with the art of a precise, unflinching, gifted poet.

PRAISE FOR PLUME

"Washington state's new Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken gives an elegantly rendered example of another of [John] Morgan's dicta that 'poetry gives form to our feelings and helps us come to terms with them.'" -Barbara Lloyd McMichael, The Bellingham Herald, March 2012

"When it aims to, poetry can treat history in ways history books or photographs cannot: It drops us in our human skin into another time and place like no other medium. . . . Plume is difficult to put down and difficult to forget." -Mike Dillon, City Living, April 2012

"Many of the poems wrestle with the bomb factory's legacy of environmental contamination, illness and even death from exposure to radiation. But she also wrote them to honor the people she grew up with." -Mary Ann Gwinn, The Seattle Times, April 2012

Watch the book trailer here and join Kathleen on

Saturday, August 18 at the Mazama Festival of Books