Three new books recently landed on my desk: –Terror in Minnie Vautrin’s Nanjing: Diaries and Correspondence, 1937-38 edited and with an Introduction by Suping Lu (May 19, 2008) –Father and […]
Samuel Regalado, author of Viva Baseball!: Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger, was interviewed on PBS’s new American Experience segment, Roberto Clemente. The Third Edition of Viva Baseball! will be published […]
Colleen McElroy’s new poetry collection Sleeping with the Moon is featured at PoetryFoundation.org. “She will happily give the MFAs a headache with her unfashionably clear statements and heartbroken admissions and the bold […]
I wrote the following message to a national Sacred Harp listserv in December of 2006, during a two-year postdoctoral appointment at the University of Alberta. This research fellowship allowed me to […]
English in Print: From Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton, the companion exhibit to the new book by Valerie Hotchkiss and Fred C. Robinson, will open at The Grolier Club in […]
The April 4, 2008, issue of the The Times Literary Supplement features a review of Raymond Queneau’s Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays, 1928-70. The book’s translator receives high praise. “Jordan Stump has […]
The New York Times reported today that three academic publishers are suing Georgia State University over GSU’s free distribution of copyrighted material in “coursepacks.” And, today’s Inside Higher Ed has a piece on professors […]
Sometimes, to maintain credibility, you need to point out the not-so-good reviews. The publicist sheepishly suggests, all publicity is good publicity. […]
Lorna Goodison appears in Book Sense’s April picks list for her new book From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island (Amistad/Harper Collins). The University of Illinois […]
NPR affiliate WJFF Radio Catskill will air a segment featuring an interview with Hazel Dickens at 12:00 noon eastern time on Tuesday, April 15, 2008. Listen live, or via the station […]
If this blog stops publishing this summer, yesterday’s Los Angeles Times might have the explanation. “Europe’s enormous $8-billion particle accelerator, to be activated as early as this summer, is generating both excitement […]
Erika Falk, author of Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns, will be featured this weekend on C-Span’s Book TV. The segment was filmed at Dr. Falk’s recent lecture at the […]