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Riegel interviewed on WARC Radio’s The Other Side of Midnight

Stephen Riegel, author of Finding Judge Crater: A Life and Phenomenal Disappearance in Jazz Age New York was interviewed for WABC Radio’s The Other Side of Midnight with Frank Morano on April 22, 2022. From their website: Frank Morano serves up another Morano Mystery with Stephen Riegel, practicing litigator, former Federal Prosecutor and the author. Listen to the interview.


Riess receives 2022 Guy Lewis Award

At the 50th annual meeting of the North American Society for Sport History, Steven A. Riess was the recipient of the 2022 Guy Lewis Award for contributions to the field of Sport History in recognition of exceptional contribution to the field of Sport History. Riess is the author of Horse Racing the Chicago Way Gambling, Politics, and Organized Crime, 1837-1911 and The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime: Horse Racing, Politics, and Organized Crime in New York 1865­–1913.




Suzanne Hinman wins book award

The Victorian Society of America has awarded Suzanne Hinman’s The Grandest Madison Square Garden one of three 2020 Victorian Society in America Book Awards. This award recognize scholarship that contributes to the understanding of America during the Victorian Era. The book award committee was most impressed by the quality of the scholarship.   Recent praise . . . “Hinman uses the construction of the second Madison Square Garden as an armature upon which to hang a depiction of the Gilded Age.”—The Washington Post




The Last Bohemian reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement

Lance Pettitt’s The Last Bohemian: Brian Desmond Hurst, Irish Film, British Cinema was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement. “Pettitt’s heartfelt admiration for his subject shines through, and with good reason.”—Times Literary Supplement


Translating Oman: Virtual Book Talk

Marcia Lynx Qualey, author, translator, and editor of ArabLit, moderated a conversation on the art and challenge of carrying literature from the edge of the Arab world across linguistic and geographical boundaries. Participants: Marilyn Booth, translator of Honey Hunger, winner of the 2025 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation Zia Ahmed, translator of The Raven of Ruwi and Other Stories from Oman Bushra Khalfan, author of Dilshad, shortlisted for the 2022 International Prize for Arabic Fiction