The DarkHorse Podcast bring you in-depth interviews with the authors of books being published by the University Press of Kentucky. The Podcast offers perspective into the writers' side of the publishing process, and listeners will enjoy hearing the authors discuss their research methods and creative processes.

The University Press of Kentucky is a leading publisher of the Bluegrass state, and offers a wide selection of books appealing to fans of popular culture, Kentucky writing, American history, film, and many other areas of interest. Check in every few weeks for a new DarkHorse podcast. Now available on iTunes, and YouTube.

In Kentucky Horse Country: Images of the Bluegrass, renowned photographer James Archambeault captures the natural beauty ofKentucky's Bluegrass region and the thoroughbred industry for which it is famous. Kentucky Horse Country contains 165 full-color images, from tender scenes of mares and foals grazing, to the excitement of race day at Keeneland, to gorgeous landscapes of white fences enclosing lush rolling hills. The book also includes rare photographs of some of the legendary horses that have made horse racing so exciting and popular: Affirmed, Spectacular Bid, Secretariat, Seattle Slew, and others.

James Archambeault has been an independent photographer for over twenty-five years. He has published five books: James Archambeault's Historic Kentucky, Kentucky, Kentucky II, Kentucky III, and The Gift of Pleasant Hill. His work has appeared in several national publications, including Architectural Digest, National Geographic, and the Smithsonian Guides to Natural America.

Thirteen Women Strong chronicles the 2006-07 season of the Northern Kentucky University women's basketball team. A year after NKU powered their way to an outstanding 28-5 record, expectations were sky-high for the team as they welcomed back all five starting players. Led by a core of upperclassmen and revered head coach Nancy Winstel, the NKU Norse expected a run to glory, much like their NCAA Division-II title in 2000.

Author Robert K. Wallace was granted unparalleled access to the team that consistently overcame adversity. Wallace followed the team through practices, drills, emotional meetings and of course, the heart-stopping, competitive play. He also includes interviews with the players themselves, revealing their motivations and desires. Despite beginning with losses in four of their five conference games and losing their All-American center to a devastating injury, NKU rallied to yet another remarkable season. Thirteen Women Strong welcomes readers into the lives of young women whose world is made up of equal parts pressure and accomplishment.

An illustrated introduction to internationally acclaimed glass artist Stephen Rolfe Powell's career, this book charts the evolution of Powell's remarkable body of work. Dazzling photographic close-ups not only detail the luminous murrini patterns that have become Powell's signature but also reveal new ways of appreciating the complex interplay of color and texture in his art. Biographical and analytical essays by Mark Lucas, Laurie Winters, and James Yood explore such topics as the teamwork that is so critical to Powell's unique glassmaking process; his teaching and learning experiences on the road, from the former Soviet Union to Salt Lake City during the Olympics; and the story of the two freak injuries that deeply affected his work and how he thinks about it. Reflections by Kenn Holsten, Marvin Lipofsky, Dante Marioni, Bonnie Marx, John Roush, and Lino Tagliapietra further supplement the book.

The book's stunning photographs encourage the viewer to see Powell's work from different viewpoints, and they highlight the unique interactions between transparent, opaque, and translucent glass and Powell's bold color combinations. Stephen Rolfe Powell: Glassmaker vividly portrays the tension and excitement involved in the artist's nontraditional, collaborative approach to working with molten glass.

Taking the Town: Collegiate and Community Culture in the Bluegrass, 1880-1917 explores culture and intellectual life in Lexington, Kentucky, at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing from local newspapers and from the work of historians and other writers, Kolan Thomas Morelock reveals Lexington to be a city of contradictions: known as a cultural "Athens of the West," it also struggled with the poverty, ignorance, and bigotry characteristic of southern communities after the Civil War. Taking the Town examines the contributions to local culture made by the literary and dramatic clubs prevalent on the city's college campuses. It is a vital account of turn-of-the-century southern intellectual life thriving within an environment of considerable turmoil, violence, and change.

To mark the release of his latest book, Hollywood Under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars, Thomas R. Lindlof introduces viewers to the controversy that surrounded the 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ. In the book, Lindlof chronicles the film’s history, from Scorsese’s first attempts to adapt the 1951 novel of the same name to the screen to the difficulty he had obtaining funding to the flurry of protests and media attention spawned by the picture’s eventual release. In the interview the author discusses the film’s significance and the work he did to write Hollywood Under Siege, including interviewing Martin Scorsese.