A Solar Flare by Candace Nunag: An Excerpt
January 31, 2025
This is a history of telegraphy. This is a history of suicidality. This is a history of a cathedral. This is a history of women’shandbags. This is a history of… READ MORE
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“The New Self-Soothing” An Excerpt from The Pillow Museum: Stories by Claire Bateman
January 24, 2025
The earth was able to breathe again when we’d finished feeding the sky our cobweb-crackedsmartphones, chipped CorningWare, scalped Barbies and American Girls, the smidgens and scraps ofour inconvenient, incriminating, and… READ MORE
Excerpt: The Flat Woman by Vanessa Saunders
November 19, 2024
Introducing The Flat Woman Today, we’re excited to share an exclusive excerpt from The Flat Woman: A Novel by Vanessa Saunders. This thought-provoking novel, out today, takes readers on a… READ MORE
Excerpt: The Castle: A Novel by Seth Rogoff
October 8, 2024
February 6 (morning)Yesterday, toward evening, I returned to the schoolhouse. I searched the teacher’s desk and discovered a notebook. I stayed up late into the night reading it. It contains… READ MORE
Mighty by Sacrifice – 80th Anniversary of the Destruction of an American Bomber Squadron
August 29, 2024
As we mark the 80th anniversary of one of the many tragic events of World War II, we honor the extraordinary sacrifice of the 20th Squadron of the 2nd Bombardment… READ MORE
Double-Check for Sleeping Children: An Excerpt
August 22, 2024
STOP IN FOR A FREE COFFEE IF YOU’RE FROM ARKANSAS The apartment turned out to be a crash pad on concrete behind a garbage-filled courtyard. Her sons rode their bikes… READ MORE
Pride Feature: “There is Only One Ghost in the World.” Commentary and excerpts from coauthor Sophie Klahr.
June 28, 2024
From Sophie Klahr: Experiences of gender and sexuality shift continuously from one first-person voice to another throughout the vignettes of There Is Only One Ghost in the World; no expression of one… READ MORE
Celebrating Pride with “Reclaiming Queer” by Erin J. Rand!
June 5, 2024
For The University of Alabama Press’s Pride Month Celebration, we invited our authors to share their LGBTQIA+ experiences and scholarship. Today, Erin J. Rand, author of Reclaiming Queer, will discuss… READ MORE
Excerpt: Deep South Dynasty by Kari Frederickson
March 22, 2024
The critical questions of war facing the nation coincided with more personal dilemmas facing the Bankhead grandchildren Eugenia and Tallulah, who were enrolled at Fairmont Seminary as the nation girded… READ MORE
Sara Mayfield and Zelda Fitzgerald — An Excerpt from Odyssey of a Wandering Mind
January 12, 2024
Sara’s circle of friends in their neighborhood on the tree-shaded streets of Montgomery included Sara Haardt, born 1898; Zelda Sayre, born 1900; and Tallulah Bankhead, born 1902 and, along with… READ MORE
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