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Mushroom Mania

Posted on April 15, 2009 (April 20, 2009) by michael
in food, Illinois / regional, new books

Our gorgeous new guide to wild mushrooms in Illinois is finally here, just in time for high mushroom season. Champaign Taste features it in today’s post, and one of the […]

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Down the Youtube

Posted on April 15, 2009 by michael
in all things digital, publishing

There has been a lot of hand wringing lately about the financial future of print publishing.  Slate looks at the current economic outlook of the leaders of Web 2.0. […]

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“Cafe Society” reviewed in AllAboutJazz

Posted on April 15, 2009 (April 15, 2009) by michael
in music, reviews

AllAboutJazz.com praises Cafe Society. “This wonderful, uplifting book tells the story of Barney Josephson and Cafe Society, the jazz cabaret Josephson set up in Greenwich Village, New York City in 1938. […]

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Enough already

Posted on April 14, 2009 (April 15, 2009) by michael
in miscellaneous

I’m sorry, I am sick of this non-story.  I even had to endure it on This Week. Update April 15: … and again last night on The Daily Show. […]

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Amazon’s sales glitch

Posted on April 14, 2009 by michael
in publishing

Amazon has fixed its problem (not) ranking gay and lesbian themed books. […]

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I’m “working” right now

Posted on April 13, 2009 by michael
in miscellaneous

Some fun with quotation marks (via Very Short List). […]

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Oni Buchanan reading in Champaign

Posted on April 13, 2009 (April 14, 2009) by michael
in author events, poetry

Oni Buchanan reads from Spring. […]

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The bookless library?

Posted on April 9, 2009 by michael
in all things digital, publishing

The April 3, 2009, edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education features a piece on tensions involved in the uncertain digital future. […]

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T. R. M. Howard by David Beito

Posted on April 9, 2009 (April 10, 2009) by michael
in author commentary, black studies

In the first review of Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power, Damon W. Root writes in Reason magazine: No single individual brought down the South’s […]

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The hidden revolution in scholarly publishing

Posted on April 8, 2009 by michael
in all things digital, publishing

Scott McLemee’s column in Inside Higher Ed explores the topic of digital publishing. The growing importance of digital publishing will not mean a sacrifice of one mode of attention for the […]

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“Cafe Society” reviewed in The Wall Street Journal

Posted on April 6, 2009 (April 6, 2009) by michael
in music, reviews

Today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal features a wonderful review of Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People. Cafe Society is a valuable document in the long, […]

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Professor Kinderman and the Great White Way

Posted on April 4, 2009 (April 6, 2009) by michael
in miscellaneous, music

How pleasant to settle down on a Friday night with a fresh New Yorker and almost immediately find mention not only of your home institution, but of an author and […]

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Tagged 33 Variations, Beethoven, Kinderman
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