University of Texas Press

Like I really enjoyed telling people on quantum criminals.

Like that's when, cause that was the university of Texas press shout out to the UT press, um, those amazing people over there who put out our book and our crazy steely dan book and took a chance on this bizarre thing that one was printed in china and i really enjoyed telling people that it was coming on a slow boat from china like literally like because i guess like that's the was the you know they you can print four color books in america it's probably harder i don't know actually where random house printed this one i can't tell you where it's coming from it's undisclosed location

I posted some on Instagram last night and it was basically like one of those, like the perfect cover doesn't exist.

And then this is, this is like a perfect cover that the art, the illustrations are so good.

Well, we're so thrilled to be joined today by Murat Yildiz, Associate Professor of History at Skidmore College.

Murat's first book, The Ottoman World of Sports, Refashioning Bodies, Men, and Communities in Late Imperial Istanbul, is out this year from University of Texas Press.

And it tells the story of the role played by Muslim, Christian, and Jewish sports aficionados in the making of a shared sports culture in Istanbul during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Murat, welcome to the show.

I mentioned the Saragudo book.

You can find that at University of Texas Press.

If you just look up my last name, Syring, S-Y-R-I-N-G, you'll find that book, plus my earlier book about the hill country of Texas.

They were both published by that press.

Dr. Gall is an associate professor of Arabic studies at the University of Maryland College Park.

She's the author of Nile Nightshade, The Reason for Today's Conversation, and co-editor of Making Levantine Cuisine, published by University of Texas Press in 2021.

She is the recipient of the Global Food History Prize for an Emerging Historian and a James Beard Media Award.

Annie blogs at Cooking with Gal.

I feel the same way.

But in terms of making it a book, it was really only when my advisor was like, hey, you should talk to UT Press and make it into a book.

And I said, okay.

So I was really more engaged with the process of doing the research and creating an effective dissertation.

My guest today is Drew Ayers, a professor of film and director of the film program at Eastern Washington University and the author of Action Bodies, VFX, Identity and Embodiment in Blockbuster Cinema.

The book is out now from the University of Texas Press.

Drew, welcome to the show.

Thanks, Corey.

What are the answers? Well, that sounds great.

Once again, the book is Action Bodies, VFX, Identity and Embodiment in Blockbuster Cinema.

It's out now from the University of Texas Press.

Drew Ayers, thanks for joining me.

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about? Right now, UT Press has my Knight Rider book, but it's in line.

I guess for people who don't know what it means, what exactly was the Knight Riders?

The Knight Riders? For our

But he said spread it out more than just that.

than the war, but tobacco in general.

Anyway, the UT press has got it now and it's in line.

And the other day I talked with the press and the fellow who I've always dealt with, he said, are you doing a piece on the Red River? I hadn't told you that.