On February 28, New York City’s upper east side Barnes & Noble (150 East 86th Street) will host a Writers on Writers program to discuss American novelist Stanley Elkin. The two panelists […]
Blogging by Middle-aged Cat Lovers and More!
For readers 17 or younger (if we have any): RT @slate: RT @nytimes: kidz diss blogs 4 #fb and #twitter http://slate.me/g0nTzG For those between the ages of 34 and 73: So apparently […]
Tools of Change
Check out our Twitter feed from the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference. Samples: I’m loving Ron Charles’ positivity in the digital literary reviewing sesh. Totally Hip Video Book Reviewer indeed. […]
Judy Richardson featured on Inside E Street
Judy Richardson, co-editor of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, was interviewed on the AARP program Inside E Street. The show airs nationwide on public […]
Page, Carton, Panel, Mat
Last week, Lisa Bayer passed along a link to a Chronicle of Higher Education article by Tushar Rae about the issue of citation standards for e-books: since e-text reflows […]
The TLS reviews Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess
The February 4, 2011, issue of the Times Literary Supplement features Colin Renfrew’s stellar review of Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess: A Near Eastern Koine by Nanno Marinatos. “A well-written and […]
Viagra a Feminist Technology? by Joe Datko
During the fall 2010 semester, students in my graduate course on Gender, Science, Technology, and Medicine read Feminist Technology. One of their assignments was to generate a blog entry of […]
New Acquisitions Editor Daniel Nasset
The University of Illinois Press is pleased to introduce new acquisitions editor Daniel Nasset to the publishing community. Daniel has been an assistant acquisitions editor at Illinois since September 2009 […]
To Be Open-Access or Not to Be. That Is the Question (at least for today).
Today’s Inside Higher Ed features an interesting article about a new study that has raised doubts about the so-called “citation advantage” for scholars publishing in open-access journals as opposed to […]
Kirkus reviews Spirits of Just Men
The February 15, 2011, issue of Kirkus Reviews features an early endorsement of Charles D. Thompson’s forthcoming book Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital […]
Graphics Matter: The Potential for Public Instructions as Feminist Technologies by Linda Layne
One of the things we learned in Feminist Technology is that the gender politics (sexism and feminism) of technologies are not only inscribed into products through their dimensions, weight, features, and […]
Health Care, Hughes, and the The Huffington Post
Richard Hughes, author of the book Christian America and the Kingdom of God, keeps up the blogging momentum with a new column at The Huffington Post. “… the continued flap over […]