New This Month

First off, apologies to all three of my readers for not updating in months. I promise this will never happen again, sincerely (uproarious cackle).

Here's a list of new books coming out this month that would be of interest to you and the folklorists in your life:

• The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh - David Damrosch. Henry Holt & Company, 315 pp. The story of how the epic was discovered and deciphered by George Smith in 1872.
  
• Morality and Expediency: The Folklore of Academic Politics - F. G. Bailey. Aldine, 237 pp. Paperback reissue of text from the 1970s. Read review of book here.
• Irish American Folklore in New England - E. Moore Quinn. Academica. St. Patrick's Day is only three days away! Living here in Boston, I can't escape this. Proffesor Quinn's homepage can be found here.
• Apollodorus: Library and Hyginus: Myths: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology - Apollodorus and Hyginus, translated by Stephen Trzaskoma and R. Scott Smith. Hackett Publishing Company, 247 pp. Two Greek and Roman mythographs collected in one handy-dandy volume.
  
• Blackfeet Indian Stories - George Bird Grinnell. Riverbend, 144 pp. Originally collected in the 1870s, is actually available in many different editions.
• Flower of Paradise and Other Armenian Tales. Bonnie C. Marshall and Virginia Tashjian. Libraries Unlimited, 232 pp. Part of the World Folklore Series.
  
• Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2: Tales from Eastern Europe - Dan Ben-Amos and Dov Noy. Jewish Publication Society, 550 pp. Both editors are heavy-hitters in the field, this is a collection I look forward to getting my mitts on. It appears that the publication date pushed back till May, but what the hey, I'll still mention it here. Also, the Israel Folktale Archive is named for Professor Noy.
  
• Ganesh Goes to Lunch: And Other Tales of Ancient India - Kamla Kapur. Mandala Publishing, 128 pp. Collection of tales from the Ramayama and Mahabharat.
• Remedies and Rituals: Folk Medicine in Norway and the New Land - Kathleen Stokker. Minnesota Historical Society, 260 pp. I look forward to reading this, Professor Stokker has an interesting bibliography. Her homepage is here. I've already added her Folklore Fights the Nazis to my ILL request page.
• Thebiad: Seven Against Thebes - Publius Papinius Statius, translated by Charles Stanley Ross. Johns Hopkins University Press, 432 pp. New translation of work from 92 C.E.
  
• Wild Ride: The History and Lore of Rodeo - Joel H. Bernstein. Gibbs Smith, 176 pp.
  
• Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy - Martha Feldman. University of Chicago Press, 432 pp. This is showing a September release date, but it somehow made it into my March pile.
• Senet, Gaming with the Gods, the Games of Senet and Ancient Egyptian Religious Beliefs - P. Piccione. Brill Academic Publishers, 320 pp. Part of the Egyptological Memoirs Series.
• Fossil Legends of the First Americans - Adrienne Mayor. Princeton University Press, 488 pp.
  

If you are one of the authors or publishers of the above books, and you stumbled upon this link by googling your own name, then please give me a shout-out. I intend on getting most of these books by interlibrary loan, but, hey, review copies are most appreciated!