1869, The Cornell University Press Podcast

Greg Britton, editorial director at Johns Hopkins University Press, and Zach Gresham, editorial assistant at Vanderbilt University Press, join me to chat about the recent AAUP annual meeting in Austin, TX. Twitter, best ways to present, most interesting things learned about scholarly publishing, and much more!

Interview with Alan E. Bernstein, author of Hell and Its Rivals: Death and Retribution among Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Early Middle Ages.

Jim Lance, senior acquisitions editor at Cornell University Press discusses the state of scholarly publishing, the things that excite him about his work, and much more.

Michael McGandy, editorial director of Three Hills, the new regional, trade imprint from Cornell University Press, chats about the imprint and why we're starting it.

Rosemary Vestal, Publicity Manager at University of Nebraska Press, joins us to discuss BookExpo and BookCon and what it means to publishers generally and university presses in particular.

A chat with Keith L. Bildstein, author of Raptors: The Curious Nature of Diurnal Birds of Prey about these fascinating birds and their place in the world and our society.

1869 is the podcast of Cornell University Press. In episode 4, we chat with Gordon Lafer, author of The One Percent Solution: How Corporations are Remaking America One State at a Time. Lafer talks about the impact big business has on our daily lives and how so few people pay any attention to it because it happens at the state level and not the federal level. Visit cornellpress.cornell.edu or sagehouse.blog to find out more about this book and the others published by Cornell University Press.

In episode 3 of 1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast we interview author and journalist Suzanne Gordon about veterans' health care and her new book The Battle for Veterans' Healthcare.

Interview with Glenn C. Altschuler, Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions and Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies at Cornell University, in which we discuss his book, coauthored with Isaac Kramnick, Cornell: A History, 1940-2015.

Peter Conners, author of Cornell ’77: the Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead’s Concert at Barton Hall joins us. Peter has written extensively about music and counterculture, including his books Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead, JAMerica: The History of the jam Band and Festival Scene, and White Hand Society: The Psychedlic Partnership of Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg. Peter lives in Rochester, New York, where is publisher of BOA Editions, Ltd.