Willis Regier, Director Favorite Book: Julian Barnes – Nothing to Be Frightened Of Barnes’s book looks at old questions about how to live with death and dying. He has short narratives […]
Month: December 2008
What is the value of a library?
Paula Kaufman, Dean of the University of Illinois Libraries, measures the ROI of the University of Illinois libraries based on grants received by the University written with references to university […]
SF Chronicle reviews Beauvoir’s “Wartime Diary”
Today’s San Francisco Chronicle includes Benjamin Ivry’s review of the new English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Wartime Diary. “In 1991, Such a Sweet Occupation by Gilbert Joseph pointed out […]
Will History Repeat Itself? by Randi Storch
Most mainstream newspapers and journalists are comfortable drawing connections between today’s financial crisis and the one we call the Great Depression. They also like to comment on the similarities between […]
David Zalaznik at Pages for All Ages
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Strange Haven’s Popularity by Sigmund Tobias
I am pleased that there is enough interest in Strange Haven: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Shanghai to publish a paperback version. Frankly, I’m also a little surprised by the […]
Layoffs at SUNY Press
Inside Higher Ed refers readers to a story in The Albany Times Union on layoffs at SUNY Press. “The cuts, made earlier this month, represented nearly 15 percent of what […]
Just Landed: New books!
A load of new books landed on my desk in the past few weeks: –African Women Playwrights edited and with an Introduction by Kathy A. Perkins (Dec. 8, 2008) –Moving Subjects: […]
Corey D. B. Walker interview
An interview with Corey D. B. Walker, assistant professor in the department of Africana Studies at Brown University and author of the new book A Noble Fight: African American Freemasonry […]
Survivor Scholarly Publishing
The Chronicle highlights the growing number of campus support staff who advise faculty on best practices in getting from manuscript to book. Surely some will miss out on the adventure of the old days: “We’ll drop you […]
Top designs of 2008
A December 3rd Bookslut post links to The Book Design Review‘s favorite covers of 2008. […]
LA City Beat interviews Roni Stoneman
LA City Beat interviewed Roni Stoneman for a December 15 show preview. “Roni Stoneman has a head cold and she loves what it could do for her: ‘I should go record […]