News from Univ of New Mexico Press

October 2011

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Saturday, October 22 from 2-5pm: Lawrence Welsh signs BEGGING FOR VULTURES: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2009 at Bill Rakocy Studio in El Paso, TX.

Monday, October 24 at 6pm: G. Emlen Hall, Fred M. Phillips, and Mary Black discuss REINING IN THE RIO GRANDE: People, Land, and Water at Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe, NM.

Thursday, October 27 at 7pm: E. B. Held discusses and signs A SPY'S GUIDE TO SANTA FE AND ALBUQUERQUE at the Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos, NM.

Saturday, November 5 at 12pm (book signing at 1:30pm): Paul Berkowitz (with Billy Malone) discusses THE CASE OF THE INDIAN TRADER: Billy Malone and the National Park Service Investigation at Hubbell Trading Post at the Heard Museum's "Gathering of Weavers: Navajo Weavers Marketplace" in Phoenix, AZ.

Saturday, November 5 at 8:30pm: Jesse Lerner discusses THE MAYA OF MODERNISM: Art, Architecture, and Film at Artists' Television Access in San Francisco, CA.

Thursday, November 10 at 7pm: E. B. Held will present a talk with slides based on A SPY'S GUIDE TO SANTA FE AND ALBUQUERQUE as part of the Tony Hillerman Writers Conference at the Hotel Santa Fe in Santa Fe, NM. This free event, hosted by Wordharvest, is open to the public and a book signing will follow.

Saturday, November 12 from 10am-2pm: Demetria Martínez and Rosalee Montoya-Read will sign GRANDPA'S MAGIC TORTILLA at the ABQ Kids Children's Book Fair sponsored by UNM Bookstore in Albuquerque, NM.

Saturday, November 12 from 2-5pm: Lawrence Welsh reads from and signs BEGGING FOR VULTURES: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2009 at Barnes and Noble (East) in El Paso, TX.

Sunday, November 13 at 2pm: Robert Julyan discusses and signs his new novel, SWEENEY, at Alamosa Books in Albuquerque, NM.

Wednesday, November 16 at 7pm: Thomas Fox Averill discusses and signs his novel, rode, at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM.

Thursday, November 17 at 7pm: David Stuart discusses and signs PUEBLO PEOPLES ON THE PAJARITO PLATEAU: Archaeology and Efficiency as part of the Authors Speak Series at the Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos, NM.

Thursday, November 17 at 7pm: Nasario García signs BOLITAS DE ORO: Poems of My Marble-Playing Days as part of An Elegant Autumn Evening at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM.

Saturday, November 19 at 2pm: Lawrence Welsh reads from and signs BEGGING FOR VULTURES: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2009 at Alamosa Books in Albuquerque, NM.

Sunday, November 20 at 2pm: Lawrence Welsh (BEGGING FOR VULTURES: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2009) and Joan Logghe (THE SINGING BOWL) read from and sign their works at Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, NM.

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KUDOS AND SALUDOS

UNM Press Joins Major University Press E-book Initiative

The University of New Mexico Press is pleased to announce that it will participate in a groundbreaking initiative that will allow its books to be distributed electronically to libraries, researchers, and students worldwide. UNM Press has signed on as a member of the newly created University Press Content Consortium (UPCC), a merger of two major university press e-book initiatives, Project MUSE Editions (PME) and the University Press e-book Consortium (UPeC). UPCC eBook Collections on Project MUSE will launch January 1, 2012.

UPCC allows e-books from over 65 university presses and non-profit scholarly presses--representing as many as 15,000 frontlist and backlist titles--to be discovered and searched in an integrated environment with content from journals currently on MUSE.

"We are excited about the opportunities presented by the University Press Content Consortium initiative and anticipate that the digital collections being compiled will appeal to a wide range of libraries and institutions," said John W. Byram, director of UNM Press. "This collaboration brings together important university-press produced e-book content and makes it even more accessible to scholars and educators."

NEW FROM UNM PRESS

SWEENEY by Robert Julyan

This quixotic tale of Sweeney's journey of survival and self-discovery offers a wry glimpse of the oddities and opportunities of small-town life, featuring aliens, nudists, naked bull riders, Druids, phony Indians, real Indians, and above all, Sweeney's crazy citizens, because, as one of them says, "Crazy ideas are the only kind that work around here."

THE LATEST WORD FROM 1540: People, Places, and Portrayals of the Coronado Expedition edited by Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint

This book examines the environmental and cultural impact of the Coronado expedition while also placing it in the context of what was happening in Mexico as Spain expanded west and north of Mexico City.

AUTHORS ON THE AIR

Monday, October 24 at 10am and 7pm MST: Roberta Price discusses ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE: A Photo Chronicle of the Counterculture on Colorado Public Radio's "Colorado Matters."

Sunday, November 20 at 6pm MST: Gloria Zamora reads from and discusses her memoir, SWEET NATA: Growing Up in Rural New Mexico, on KKOB's "Reading Albuquerque."

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