Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy University of Illinois Press author Jeff Biggers (In the Sierra Madre) appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show last […]
Mushrooms in the Sun-Times
Just in time for morel season, the April 11, 2010, edition of the Chicago Sun-Times featured a Dale Bowman Outdoors piece on the University of Illinois Press book Edible Wild […]
“Sojourner Truth’s America” wins the Darlene Clark Hine Award
Margaret Washington’s book, Sojourner Truth’s America, was selected as winner of the inaugural 2010 OAH Darlene Clark Hine Award for the best book in African American women’s and gender history. […]
Bookslut on “The Genius and the Goddess”
Elizabeth Bachner’s column in the March issue of Bookslut discusses Jeffrey Meyers’s new book The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe. “I went through a phase where I read […]
Google is also doing my taxes
Simon Mackie at the New York Times shares his top ten Google tricks, which include currency conversion, area-code lookup, and calculation (which makes me worry about how many first-graders are […]
“George Gershwin” reviewed in the TLS
The March 26, 2010, issue of the Times Literary Supplement includes a laudatory review of Walter Rimler’s recent book George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait. “Compact in length and voluminous in […]
“Staley” wins award
Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement by Steven K. Ashby and C.J. Hawking, has tied for Best Book related to the field of Labor Studies published in […]
Steven Ashby and C.J. Hawking in DC
On Tuesday April 6, 2010, Steven K. Ashby and C. J. Hawking will discuss their recent book Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement at Busboys & Poets (5th […]
Spring 2010 APQ
The April issue of American Philosophical Quarterly ships this week, and as usual the contents list is top shelf: Clare Batty: “Scents and Sensibilia” Andrew Cullison: “Two Solutions to the […]
“The last song played was provided for free by the record company, which I also met for lunch…”
In October of 2009 I linked to a Galley Cat story about a new FTC rule that required book bloggers to disclose that reviewed books were provided for free by a publisher. In […]
Light from the Prince of Darkness by David C. Dougherty
Of the many interviews that constituted the most exciting research for Shouting Down the Silence: A Biography of Stanley Elkin, none came close to a conversation with Robert Novak (1931-2009) […]
“African or American?” wins award
African or American?: Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861 by Leslie M. Alexander, has been awarded the Cheikh Anta Diop Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the […]