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    Boson Books

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    Boson Books is an independent publisher based in Raleigh, North Carolina. It was founded in 1994 by Nancy McAllister, President and Director of Acquisitions, and David McAllister,[1] Vice President and Director of Technical Operations. The company publishes e-books and paperbacks; it also features a limited number of titles from The New South Company.

    History

    Initially, Boson Books published acclaimed contemporary writers of American Southern literature, such as Fred Chappell[2] and Kelly Cherry, named by Virginia governor Bob McDonnell in 2011 as the state's new poet laureate.[3][4] Over time, the company published more broadly, including American and international authors of fiction, non-fiction, and drama. As of 2012, the company publishes 140 titles. From the time of its founding, Boson embraced emerging technologies such as e-books and participated in academic conferences of the IEEE[5] and SIGDOC.[6]

    Notable authors

    Fred Chappell, poet and novelist

    Kelly Cherry, poet and novelist

    Phillip Gardner[7][8] novelist and English faculty member at Francis Marion University

    Leon Katz,[9] dramatist and professor emeritus at Yale University

    Robert Rodman, computer scientist and novelist at North Carolina State University

    Steven Vivian, novelist and liberal nationalist social critic[10][11][12]

    References

    1. ↑ "Computer Science at North Carolina State". http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/directories/faculty_info.php?id=238. Retrieved March 7, 2012. 
    2. ↑ "Fred Chappell to receive Caldwell Award". North Carolina Humanities Council. http://www.nchumanities.org/news/2010/07/29/fred-chappell-receive-caldwell-award. Retrieved March 7, 2012. 
    3. ↑ "Kelly Cherry named Virginia Poet Laureate". The Washington Post. January 28, 2011. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/local-breaking-news/virginia/gov-bob-mcdonnell-has-named.html. Retrieved March 7, 2012. 
    4. ↑ Elliot, Okla. "What Kelly Cherry Knows". Inside Higher Ed. http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/the_education_of_oronte_churm/what_kelly_cherry_knows. Retrieved March 7, 2012. 
    5. ↑ "The IEEE Society on the Social Implications of Technology". "The Impact of Digital Books upon Print Publishing," Proceedings ISTAS '02, June 2002. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. http://www.ieeessit.org/conferences_sub.asp?Level2ItemID=23&Level3ItemID=95. Retrieved March 7, 2012. 
    6. ↑ McAllister and McAllister. "Providing education electronically to nontraditional sites: new delivery to a new audience". Association for Computing Machinery. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=238273. Retrieved March 7, 2012. 
    7. ↑ "South Carolina Fiction Project: 2008 Winners". South Carolina Arts Commission. http://www.southcarolinaarts.com/fictionproject/2008/2008winners.shtml. Retrieved March 7, 2012. 
    8. ↑ "FMU professor's book published". Francis Marion University. http://www.fmarion.edu/news/c2001/article9326c1223179.htm. Retrieved March 7, 2012. 
    9. ↑ "Leon Katz discusses the Gertrude Stein notebooks". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8HsyHAXFIU. Retrieved March 7, 2012. 
    10. ↑ Vivian, Steven. "Spoil Your Inner Child". Impact Press. http://www.impactpress.com/articles/octnov98/inner101198.html. Retrieved March 7, 2012. 
    11. ↑ Vivian, Steven. "A Price We're willing to Pay". Impact Press. http://www.impactpress.com/articles/febmar99/hmnrghts2399.html. Retrieved March 7, 2012. 
    12. ↑ Turner, Bill. "Steve Vivian: The Per Contra interview". Per Contra. Archived from the original on September 10, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110910070019/http://www.percontra.net/7vivian.htm. Retrieved March 7, 2012. 
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