New Book: Glorious Days and Nights

Glorious Days and Nights is a personal account of the jazz photographer Herb Snitzer, with a special focus on his years in New York City from 1957 to 1964. A photojournalist for Life, Look, and Fortune, Snitzer was the photo editor and later associate editor of the influential jazz magazine Metronome.

In the memoir, Snitzer recalls what it was like to go on the road with these musicians. His reflections run the gamut from serious meditations on his development as a young photographer working with musicians already of great stature to more conversational recollections of casual moments spent having fun with the jazz artists many of whom became close friends.

The second half of the book features 85 black-and-white photographs including a number of iconic jazz images. Click through to see images from the book.

Outstanding Academic Titles

Three University Press of Mississippi titles have been named to the latest Outstanding Academic Title list from Choice. The 2010 selections from UPM are:

• Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature by Eric Gardner. Gardner recovers the work of early African American authors and editors such as Weaver who have been left off maps drawn by historians and literary critics
  
  
• Dictionary of Louisiana French:As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities. The definitive reference tool for understanding the large inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana
  
  
• Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books by Jean-Paul Gabilliet, translated by Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen. Originally published in France, this book documents the rise and development of the American comic book industry from the 1930s to the present.

These outstanding works have been selected for their excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of their contribution to the field, and their value as important--often the first--treatment of their subject. Choice Outstanding Academic Titles are truly the "best of the best.