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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
A December 3rd Bookslut post links to The Book Design Review‘s favorite covers of 2008. […]
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 […]
View of Lake Michigan, 9:16 a.m. […]
Cheryl Ganz will sign copies of her new book The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair: A Century of Progress at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington, DC, on Friday, December 12 […]
Two central Illinois newspapers recently profiled David Zalaznik’s new book Life along the Illinois River. The Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette story is currently behind a fee-based archive wall, but the Springfield State Journal-Register piece is available […]