Today’s issue of Shelf Awareness features a terrific review of Barney Josephson’s Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People. “The reminiscences (and captivating photographs) in Cafe Society testify to […]
Before you fill out your NCAA Men’s Basketball brackets, be sure to consult Inside Higher Ed‘s annual Academic Performance Tournament. We’re in the sweet sixteen, baby! […]
The International Space Station just had a close call with space debris. This is a rare, although foreseeable, event for the ISS, and standard human evacuation preparation procedures were followed—thankfully, no […]
Question (Mom): Who can you be texting over 1,000 times a day? Answer (Daughter): IDN, MBF Jill? (I don’t know, my best friend Jill?) Most of us have seen this […]
Over at Inside Higher Education, Teresa Mangum addresses the importance of playing well together–perhaps even sharing your snack–during trying times. Remember what a privilege and a joy it is to […]
Video game webcomic Penny Arcade announces a new book format: they call it “Book”, and it features “an intuitive, touch-based interface.” “Book” also performs extremely well in drop tests and […]
Daily Routines tells us about the typical schedule for Simone de Beauvoir. For more on Beauvoir, see The Beauvoir Series and other books from UIP. INTERVIEWER Do your writer friends have the same […]
-UNC Press Blog is following American Idol‘s final 13. -Duke University Press Blog observes Barbie’s 50th birthday. -Neither blog mentions either of these numbers: 79-71. -Penn State University Press Blog compares the Kindle to […]
This New York Times article explains pretty clearly the lengths to which Google is going to alert the world’s authors of the terms of its book settlement. So far, more […]
Hey, The Samuel Gompers Papers received a mention in a Washington Times story on the AFL-CIO conference in Miami. […]
The World of Soy, edited by Christine M. Du Bois, Chee-Beng Tan, and Sidney Mintz, is the subject of a long and favorable review in the new issue of The Times Literary […]
Good reviews continue to flow in for John Broven’s book Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneers. Following the enthusiastic notices from Publishers Weekly and […]