The Jerusalem Post recently reviewed the new paperback edition of Irving Cutler’s The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb. Chicago is a city with cold winters and hot summers. […]
Month: July 2009
Sarah, see the whole court
What’s been overlooked in the coverage of Sarah Palin’s recent announcement to resign the Alaskan governorship is her very poor basketball analogy. Let me go back to a comfortable analogy […]
The Netflix of college textbooks
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on Chegg. Textbooks are mailed to students for a 125-day period, with the option to purchase the book. Comparing the amount spent on rentals […]
Cutting out the middleman
The Writers’ Union of Canada’s chairwoman of the contracts committee suggests in The Globe & Mail that authors bypass publishers and embrace the e-book. Truly, a revolution in publishing has […]
Cafe Society on WBGO Journal
An interview with Terry Trilling-Josephson about her new book Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People will air on WBGO Journal Friday, July 3, at 7:30 PM (eastern […]
Health Care, Then and Now by Winton U. Solberg
Good health care is essential, and Americans watch closely as President Obama and Congress struggle to determine how to deliver basic medical service to all Americans. It helps to put the […]
Win Illinois stuff over at Oronte Churm
Inside Higher Ed blogger and local UI personality Oronte Churm has launched perhaps the first ever “Southern Illinois Rocks” online contest in celebration of the publication of his novel, A […]
Biggers’s top 10 list for Obama
Jeff Biggers, author of In the Sierra Madre (and The United States of Appalachia), contributes a Top 10 list to the Huffington Post on President Obama and mountaintop coal removal. “Here’s the […]