Finalists for NEPCA Book Prize

The winner won’t be announced until later this summer, but here are the top six contenders for NEPCA’s Rollins Book Prize:

Author

Book Title

Publisher

Charles Seife

Virtual Unreality

Viking Press

Chris Smith

The View from the Back of the Band

University of North Texas Press

Kimberly Chabot Davis

Beyond the White Negro: Empathy and Anti-Racist Reading

University of Illinois Press

Mariah Adin

The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s

Praeger

Matthew Hughey

The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption

Temple University Press

Thomas Stubblefield

9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster

Indiana University Press