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Untranslatable Tuesdays – Work
To mark the publication of Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, we are delighted to share a series of playful graphics by our design team which illustrate some of the most...
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Untranslatable Tuesdays – Media
To mark the publication of Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, we are delighted to share a series of playful graphics by our design team which illustrate some of the most...
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Clear and Simple as the Truth has author Steven Pinker’s seal of approval
Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, and The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, was recently featured in The New York Times Sunday Book...
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Celebrate National Grammar Day with Frank Cioffi’s One Day in the Life of the...
Grammar: It’s the difference between knowing your stuff and knowing you’re stuff. Some even say it saves lives (see below). If you haven’t noticed, today is National Grammar Day (March 4), so here at...
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PUP celebrates National Poetry Month
Princeton University Press will be kicking off National Poetry Month by featuring a new poetry-related title each week on the blog, starting with Colm Tóibín’s deeply personal introduction to the life...
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An interview with Jeff Nunokawa, author of “Note Book”
Each morning since 2007, Jeff Nunokawa, English professor at Princeton University, logs onto Facebook and writes something. But unlike most of us who take part in this simple exercise in connection,...
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Jeff Nunokawa on the day after taxes
Comprised of 250 handpicked meditations from a Facebook page that has garnered past attention from The New Yorker, Note Book by Jeff Nunokawa is a new kind of literary work for the age of social...
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Poetry by Heart
For the final entry in this year’s National Poetry Month (#npm15) series, we have a special piece by Catherine Robson, author of Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem, on what changed her...
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An interview with Frank Cioffi, author of One Day in the Life of the English...
This week we had the opportunity to ask Frank Cioffi questions about his new book, One Day in the Life of the English Language, which was recently featured in Inside Higher Ed. Cioffi offers insights...
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Which of these 15 myths of digital-age English do you believe?
One Day in the Life of the English Language by Frank Cioffi, a new style guide that eschews memorization in favor of internalizing how sentences actually work, handily refutes these 15 myths of...
View Article#WinnerWednesdays: Congratulations to our authors!
In the past couple of weeks, our authors have received an impressive number of honors: Winner of the 2015 Legacy Award, Presidents and Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science...
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A Letter From Your Publicist
Happy pub date to you, happy pub date…. Congratulations on your new book! Whether you’ve just put the finishing touches on your first book or have been down this road before, you’re probably eager to...
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The New Yorker’s Fall Reading List; Cioffi’s “One Day in the Life of the...
Unsure of what to add to your Fall Reading List? Refer to New Yorker‘s Mary Norris. Mary “comma queen” Norris, contributor and proofreader for the New Yorker, likes to keep up-to-date on the latest...
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Writers on Writers Giveaway
We have a new giveaway! Enter for a chance to win the complete set of Writers on Writers, a series of brief, personal books by contemporary writers about an author, past or present, who has inspired...
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An interview with Jesse Zuba, author of “The First Book”
Literary debuts both launch and define careers, and have a unique impact on the literary marketplace. In The First Book, Jesse Zuba has written a cultural history and literary analysis of “first...
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An interview with poet Fiona Sze-Lorrain on “The Ruined Elegance”
© Dominique Nabokov, 2015, Paris Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a poet, literary translator, editor, and zheng harpist. In her new collection—an intercultural journey that traces lives, encounters, exiles, and...
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(Stanley) Fish Food for Thought: Personal Reflections
From 1995 to 2013, Stanley Fish’s provocative New York Times columns consistently generated passionate discussion and debate. In Think Again, he has assembled almost one hundred of his best columns...
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(Stanley) Fish Food for Thought: Aesthetic Reflections
Welcome to Part 3 of PUP’s Stanley Fish series, Fish Food for Thought. All selections are excerpted from Fish’s new book, Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law,...
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University Press Week Blog Tour Day 5: Author Conversations
The final day of the University Press Week blog tour focuses on presses in conversation with their authors. Here at Princeton we would like to take a moment to thank all of our wonderful authors across...
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George Marsden on “Mere Christianity” and the conversion of C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis’s eloquent and winsome defense of the Christian faith, has a rather dramatic origin story. Recently George Marsden took some time to talk about C.S. Lewis’s Mere...
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