NBN Book of the Day

Marshall Poe

Private Censorship

Censorship

Free Speech

Social Media

Economic Inequality

First Amendment

Social Mobility

Western History

Wealth Accumulation

Sex Robots

America’s New Racial Battle Lines

Jews

Antitax Movement

Tax Policy

Global Enlightenment

Chinese Science

Political Legitimacy

China

Henry III

Guido Alfani

The "NBN Book of the Day" features the most timely and interesting author interviews from the New Books Network delivered to you every weekday. Support our show by becoming a premium member! newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

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John Davis

Author of "Keep Your Ear to the Ground, a history of punk fanzines in Washington DC"

Georgetown University Press

Episode: John R. Davis, "Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC" (Georgetown UP, 2025)

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan

Assistant Professor of English at Rice University and author

Rice University

Episode: Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, "Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone" (Columbia UP, 2025)

Hannah Pool

Senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute of the Study of Societies and author of 'The Game: The Economy of Undocumented Migration from Afghanistan to Europe'.

Max Planck Institute of the Study of Societies

Episode: Hannah Pool, "The Game: The Economy of Undocumented Migration from Afghanistan to Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Dr. Justine De Young

Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology specializing in art history and fashion history.

Fashion Institute of Technology

Episode: Justine De Young, "The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Gerta Keller

Author of The Last Extinction, a leading authority on catastrophes and mass extinctions

Princeton University

Episode: Gerta Keller, "The Last Extinction: The Real Science Behind the Death of the Dinosaurs" (Diversion Books, 2025)

Kolby Hanson

Professor of Government and Global South Asian Studies at Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

Episode: Kolby Hanson, "Ordinary Rebels: Rank-And-File Militants Between War and Peace" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Mark Vellend

Professor of Biology at Université des Cherbrooke and author of Everything Evolves.

Université des Cherbrooke

Episode: Mark Vellend, "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Mary E. Hicks

Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

Episode: Mary E. Hicks, "Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2025)

Dr. Debra Michals

Associate Professor and Chair of Humanities at Merrimack College, women's historian focusing on 20th-century issues, particularly post-WWII women's entrepreneurship.

Merrimack College

Episode: Debra Michals, "She's the Boss: The Rise of Women’s Entrepreneurship since World War II" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

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Host of engaging discussions capturing a range of authors and their literary works, offering insights into contemporary culture through literature.

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John R. Davis, "Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC" (Georgetown UP, 2025)

Q: Can you talk a little bit about that, like 21st, like what, the more modern stuff that's going on too?

I really wanted to talk about the DC Zine Fest, which is this amazing thing that happens in DC every year.

John R. Davis, "Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC" (Georgetown UP, 2025)

Q: Can you talk a little bit about the importance of having those images, having examples of not only the zines, but photographs, photographs of folks that were part of this sort of scene?

It really felt like a must for me to try to include those images and to have them be color if possible, and just to try to convey the palette of punk to the reader, to the viewer.

John R. Davis, "Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC" (Georgetown UP, 2025)

Q: Could you start by talking a little bit about why you wanted to put this book together, how this came to be?

It goes back decades really for me because I, as a teenager, grew up in the Washington DC area and became immersed in the punk subculture in the DC area as a young teenager in the early 90s, and was a fanzine creator and a musician and a part of that punk scene for pretty long time.

Maria Fedorova, "Seeds of Exchange: Soviets, Americans, and Cooperation in Agriculture, 1921–1935" (Northern Illinois UP, 2025)

Q: Why was the American and Soviet agricultural relationship abandoned?

Political reasons played a crucial role, as growing anti-communism in America and the Soviet Union's shift toward collectivization led to a gradual decline in exchanges.

Maria Fedorova, "Seeds of Exchange: Soviets, Americans, and Cooperation in Agriculture, 1921–1935" (Northern Illinois UP, 2025)

Q: How did you bring women's voices into this book?

I made a conscious effort to include women's perspectives, showing how they supported agricultural projects and capturing their contributions through letters and photographs.

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