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The beginning

Posted on June 10, 2008 (June 10, 2008) by michael
in BookExpo

 Gotta set up the booth.           […]

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The middle

Posted on June 10, 2008 (June 10, 2008) by michael
in BookExpo

First morning.           […]

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The end

Posted on June 10, 2008 (June 11, 2008) by michael
in BookExpo

Posing after the contract workers did all of the heavy lifting.           […]

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Obama the new John Mercer Langston?

Posted on June 10, 2008 (June 13, 2008) by michael
in miscellaneous

The June 7, 2008, edition of the Washington Post included a piece titled The ‘Obama Before Obama,’ which highlights the life of 19th-century black leader John Mercer Langston and interviews […]

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What do you use as a bookmark?

Posted on June 9, 2008 by michael
in Uncategorized

This morning Shelf Awareness alerted its readers to a piece on the AbeBooks website about items that have been found in used books, long-forgotten by the original owner. $40,000, anyone? […]

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Popmatters reviews “Follow Your Heart”

Posted on June 6, 2008 (June 13, 2008) by michael
in black studies, music, reviews

Joe Evans and Christopher Brooks’s Follow Your Heart received an 8 out of 10 from Popmatters. “The life of Joe Evans is intriguingly scattershot and full of cameos from celebrities […]

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The Times Literary Supplement reviews two new Dreiser volumes

Posted on June 5, 2008 (June 5, 2008) by michael
in reviews

The May 30, 2008, issue of The Times Literary Supplement includes a joint review of Theodore Dreiser’s A Picture and a Criticism of Life: New Letters, Volume 1 edited by Donald Pizer, […]

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Results not Typical by Brian

Posted on June 4, 2008 (June 10, 2008) by michael
in BookExpo

Hello. I’m a first time BEA — BookExpo America — attendee. I need to get a couple of things out of the way. First, I am not a publisher, bookseller, […]

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Hazel Dickens to appear on “Jubilee”

Posted on June 4, 2008 (June 13, 2008) by michael
in author events, music

A Hazel Dickens performance filmed in Owensboro, Kentucky, during the summer of 2007 for Jubilee will air on KET June 18, 2008. Hazel’s new book book with Bill Malone, Working Girl Blues: […]

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Welcome to the weekend

Posted on May 30, 2008 (June 13, 2008) by michael
in BookExpo

Five hour flight delay on Wednesday. All materials arrived safely by Thursday. Setup. Lunch. Setup a little more. Los Angeles print publicity panel. Use freakish height to hang lights for a fellow university […]

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“Making Space on the Western Frontier” wins a Mormon History award

Posted on May 29, 2008 (June 5, 2008) by michael
in awards, mormon

Mormon-Chronicles reports that W. Paul Reeve’s Making Space on the Western Frontier: Mormons, Minors, and Southern Paiutes won a Best First Book award from the Mormon History Association.     […]

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UIP author’s play opens off-Broadway

Posted on May 28, 2008 (May 29, 2008) by michael
in black studies, women's history

Lisa Thompson, author of the forthcoming UIP book, Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class, celebrates the opening of her play, Single Black Female, off-Broadway […]

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