The January 2009 issue of Library Journal includes a starred review of John Broven’s forthcoming book Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneers (April 2009). […]
Month: January 2009
Follow the links home
A January 8 post on Bookslut points to VQR‘s top 10 poetry books of 2008, which led me to a comment below that refers to this ZYZZYVASPEAKS post, which mentions our own […]
Origami Poetry
It’s great when I learn something about one of our recent books from a blog via a Google alert. From littlegyroscopes: Class: The origami pictures were pretty Poet: They are poems […]
The Recession and Golf by George B. Kirsch
What impact has the current recession had on golf at country clubs and at public daily fee and municipal courses? What lessons might we learn from the experience of golfers […]
The Nation reviews “Charles Ives Reconsidered”
The January 5, 2009, issue of The Nation features David Schiff’s lengthy review of Gayle Sherwood Magee’s new book Charles Ives Reconsidered. “Magee’s book is a model of contemporary musicology, sympathetically sober in […]
We’re cutting back on our Four Seasons lunches
Today’s Shelf Awareness newsletter points to a New York Times piece on the new austerity in book publishing. “Venerable houses including HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Penguin Group, Random House and Simon […]