Beautiful Province by Clarence Coo Wins the 2012 Yale Drama Series Award
The winner of the Yale Drama Series Award for Emerging Playwrights is Clarence Coo’s Beautiful Province. After much deliberation and over a thousand submissions, Beautiful Province by playwright Clarence Coo has been selected as the 2012 winner of the Yale Drama Series Award. For winning this prestigious award, Coo will receive the $10,000 David C. Horn Prize, and his … Read more
The Meaning of Mary: The latest edition in Yale’s ‘Spirit Of…’ series looks at the Holy Virgin
Yale’s pioneering ‘Spirit of…’ series is an enlightening collection of books that investigate the spirit and essence of the world’s faiths. Today we take a look at the series, as well as its most recent edition, The Spirit of Mary, an intriguing and insightful anthology of Marian writing taken from two millennia of Christian history. In … Read more
Sign of the Times: Extract from ‘The Hollywood Sign’ by Leo Braudy
Published in paperback this month The Hollywood Sign by Leo Braudy (part of Yale’s Icons of America series) is a fascinating account of how a temporary real estate advertisement erected in 1923, took on a life of its own and become a permanent icon of American culture. In this exclusive extract from the book’s ‘dazzlingly enjoyable exposition’ (The Independent) … Read more
Will Schutt wins the Yale Younger Poets Prize 2012
Will Schutt has been awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize 2012. Schutt’s volume Westerly will be published in Yale’s pioneering Younger Poets series next year. Yale University Press is pleased to announce a winner in the 2012 Yale Younger Poets competition. The judge, prize-winning and critically acclaimed poet Carl Phillips, has chosen Will Schutt’s manuscript, … Read more
Music to Our Ears: New Books in Yale’s Musical Instrument Series
The Trumpet and The Bassoon are the latest editions to be published in the acclaimed Yale Musical Instrument series, a suite of books that trace the history and development of a particular instrument from its origins to the present day. Here we take a look at these two fascinating new titles, as well as the Yale Musical Instrument Series as a whole. For those … Read more
