SU Press Launches Read New York Challenge
SU Press recently launched a Read New York Challenge, a fun way to learn the history, culture and literature of New York State. The Press is providing a list of twelve books in its New York State and Regional Studies Series to read. Open to all, readers can sign up to participate in the challenge by emailing jadams23@syr.edu and will receive a free e-book each month, a coupon for 40% off the print edition and a monthly newsletter spotlighting the book of the month. Readers can follow SU Press on social media (Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube or Blue Sky) for updates on each month’s selection, author profiles and an opportunity to share your thoughts on the book. Community and historical groups, bookstores and others might consider setting up their own book clubs around the Read New York Challenge.
The Read New York Challenge includes:
- January: Declaring Disaster: Buffalo’s Blizzard of ’77 and the Creation of FEMA by author Timothy W. Kneeland
- February: Finding Judge Crater: A Life and Phenomenal Disappearance in Jazz Age New York by Stephen J. Riegel
- March: The Soul of Central New York: Syracuse Stories by Sean Kirst
- April: Wild Forest Lands: Finding History and Meaning in the Adirondacks by Philip G. Terrie
- May: Peconic Bay: Four Centuries of History on Long Island’s North and South Forks by Marilyn E. Weigold
- June: River of Mountains: A Canoe Journey down the Hudson by Peter Lourie
- July: A Force of Nature: Paul Schaefer’s Adirondack Coalitions by David Gibson
- August: The Grandest Madison Square Garden: Art, Scandal, and Architecture in Gilded Age New York by Suzanne Hinman
- September: The Loon Counters: Short Stories by Roger Sheffer
- October: Resting among Us: Authors’ Gravesites in Upstate New York by Steven Huff
- November: Reservoir Year: A Walker’s Book of Days by Nina Shengold
- December: The Tumble Inn by William Loizeaux
About Syracuse University Press:
Syracuse University Press, part of Syracuse University Libraries, was established in 1943 and has published groundbreaking works such as Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Ernst Bacon’s Words on Music, Jay Dolmage’s Disability Rhetoric, Siao-Yu’s Mao Tse-tung and I Were Beggars, and Barry Chevannes’s Rastafari: Roots and Ideology.
In its eighth decade of academic publishing, SU Press continues to be committed to serving New York State—as well as the region, nation, and globe—by publishing vital scholarship, sharing ideas, and giving voice to important stories that may not have otherwise been told.