From the Director

As Spring approaches, we are all awaiting warmer weather, longer days, and hope: for the end of the pandemic and more reunions with our friends and family. At Rutgers, we approach the season with books that we hope you’ll enjoy as part of these pleasures. We are excited to publish OutWrite, a collection of speeches from the decade-long, foundational conference that helped to establish LGBTQ literary history. In that same vein, Beats in Mexico examines the way Mexico featured so prominently in Beat writers’ lives and also introduces readers to the larger universe of these writers, including pivotal women who are often overlooked in books about the Beat movement. We’re proud to publish a short history of the Paris Commune—the rst volume in a series of books on the Commune—on the heels of its 150th anniversary. The Press has long published foundational books in Jewish studies, and this season is no different: we are incredibly excited to present The Holocaust and the Exile of Yiddish, an important book that shows how the rich history of Yiddish knowledge, while tragically interrupted during the Holocaust, was never extinguished by it. As always, we have intriguing regional offerings including the celebratory New Jersey Fan Club and the launch of Ceres: Rutgers Studies in History with two volumes, Taking Sides in Revolutionary New Jersey and Separate Paths: Lenapes and Colonists in West New Jersey. We are honored to publish vital books from our partners at Bucknell and Delaware as well.

Happy reading,

—Micah Kleit, Director

Nothing Is Impossible by Ted Osius:

• POLITICO Playbook coverage,October 8.

• Newsweek feature, October 8.

• Business Insider reported on the Politico item on October 8 and Yahoo! reported on the Business Insider piece.

• Salon excerpt, October 12.

• Rolling Stone reported on the Politico piece.

The Audacity of a Kiss by Leslie Cohen:

•Cohen was interviewed by Business Insider on June 30.

• The Gay & Lesbian Review published Leslie Cohen’s essay about The Audacity of a Kiss on July 12.

• The San Francisco Bay Times spotlighted the book on October 7.

•Rosie O’Donnell posted a photo of The Audacity of a Kiss on Instagram on November 6.

•Leslie Cohen was feature on the cover of Queer Forty magazine in September.

The Movie Musical by Desiree J.Garcia:

•The Chicago Tribune reviewed The Movie Musical on June 4:

“Dartmouth College professor and author Desirée J. Garcia’s tightly packed and deeply researched study examines the genre’s illumination of more than just our collective daydreams and escape impulses.”

Welcome to Wherever We Are by Deborah J. Cohan:

• Ms. Magazine featured an excerpt, July 7.

•Cohan’s “Tiny Love Story” appeared in the New York Times Modern Love section on October 12.

The Red Thread by Jacob Zumoff:

•The July 2021 issue of New Jersey Monthly Magazine featured The Red Thread

• Jacobin Magazine reviewed The Red Thread by Jacob A. Zumoff in the July 2021 issue:

“Jacob A. Zumoff pulls the story of one of New Jersey’s longest work stoppages from the historical shadows.”

“Red Thread is a sobering study on the reality of police brutality and repression against workers (the history of the nineteenth and early twentieth century tends to show that if you’re wondering why workers in the United States put up with such terrible conditions, violence and terrorism from the ruling class can never be ruled out)....Zumoff argues convincingly that Communist organizing was not the cause of the strike’s defeat; rather, Communist activism allowed the strike to go on for as long as it did. He rightly refrains from spinning the defeat as a victory — in fact, he criticizes the Communists for doing this — nor does Zumoff try too hard to explain the defeat. It’s common for strikes to fail.”