Golfweek magazine finds George Kirsch’s new book Golf in America a welcome and timely appraisal of the sport. You’ll pardon my fleeting interest in yet another instructional tract, or coffee-table book […]
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More Record Makers & Breakers reviews
The March 31, 2009, edition of the New York Daily News includes a review of John Broven’s new book Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll […]
Reason reviews “Black Maverick”
The April 2009 issue of Reason magazine contains a favorable review of the new book Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power. [A] captivating […]
Shelf Awareness reviews “Cafe Society”
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 […]
The TLS on the joy of soy
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 […]
Broven has his MOJO workin’
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 […]
Inside Higher Ed explores Manichaeism
Today’s edition of Inside Higher Ed features a Scott McLemee piece on the new English translation of Michel Tardieu’s Manichaeism. “Manicheaism regards the world as a battlefield occupied by the […]
It IS unusual
Earlier in the week I received an envelope from our European distributor that contained some recent press clippings. The best clipping (of the year!) is from WORD, a UK music magazine with a […]
Kevin Stein reviewed in the Chicago Sun-Times
Kevin Stein’s new book of poems, Sufficiency of the Actual, received some fine recognition in the January 11, 2009, issue of the Chicago Sun-Times: A skilled reader, Stein is at […]
Kirkus reviews “Cafe Society”
The February 1, 2009, issue of Kirkus Reviews includes a rave for the forthcoming book Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People (University of Illinois Press, April 2009). “An […]
Poet Laureate Kevin Stein featured in the Chicago Tribune
Kevin Stein, poet laureate of Illinois and author of the new book of poems Sufficiency of the Actual, was featured in the January 24, 2009, edition of the Chicago […]
The hunter gets captured by the game?
I’ll be looking for my official Book Reviewer Union Card in the mail soon. […]