Jim Barnes appointed Poet Laureate of Oklahoma
Jim Barnes, author of the recent book of poems Visiting Picasso, was appointed Poet Laureate of Oklahoma by Governor Brad Henry. From the January 15, 2009, press release: The Oklahoma Humanities […]
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Jazz, Race, and Cafe Society in the Wall Street Journal
In today’s Wall Street Journal Nat Hentoff illuminates jazz music’s impact on the civil rights movement and includes a nod to our forthcoming book Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the […]
An e-textbook world?
Inside Higher Ed reports today on Northwest Missouri State University’s move to be an e-book only school. “Northwest Missouri has long bought textbooks on its students’ behalf, renting them in […]
“The dream”
We’ve all had “the dream,” right? We arrive at the classroom to take final exams but haven’t yet studied for the test. At some point during my time in the music business this […]
Starred review for “Record Makers and Breakers” in Library Journal
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). […]
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 […]
University of Illinois Press: Best of 2008
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 […]
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 […]