Robert Lombardo, author of the new book The Black Hand: Terror by Letter in Chicago, will be interviewed on WGN-TV’s Midday News in the 11:00 a.m. hour, on Monday, February […]
Oscar Wilde in San Francisco
The February 7, 2010, edition of the San Francisco Chronicle ran some excerpts from the new book Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews. The following was originally published in the SF Chronicle […]
Graduation day
The Crown Prince of Soul celebrates a new graduating class. […]
LHFGAs
Mammoth had a piece last week about the intersection between book design and architecture in the form of the Large Higgs Field Galactic Archive. Less a library than a holographic […]
Hunting oyster mushrooms
Carbondale’s PBS affiliate WSIU featured Joe McFarland, co-author of the recent book Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States: A Field-to-Kitchen Guide, in a segment on hunting oyster mushrooms […]
Just bloomed
The Press’ Journals department shows off its collective green thumb in advance of the coming snow storm. […]
TLS on Bertram’s Nietzsche
The January 22, 2010, edition of the Times Literary Supplement includes a review of Robert E. Norton’s new English translation of Ernst Bertram’s classic Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology. Ernst Bertram’s seminal work […]
Daily Show prep
Ethan Watters at The Rumpus on 10 Things You Should Know Before going on The Daily Show. 3. You will only see the set 30 seconds before you walk on. […]
Patrick Roberts Chicago media blitz
Watch Patrick Roberts, co-author of the new book Give ‘Em Soul, Richard! Race, Radio, and Rhythm and Blues in Chicago, on WGN-TV’s Midday News. Listen to Patrick Roberts on […]
Book Piracy
The Millions website has an interesting piece about book piracy plus an interview with someone who makes ebook files illegally and shares them across BitTorrent. According to the piece, book […]
Stefan Bradley on C-Span’s Book-TV
Stefan Bradley, author of the recent book Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s, is scheduled to appear on C-Span’s Book-TV on Saturday, January 30, at 2:00 […]
The Crown Prince of Soul celebrated
On February 1, Columbia College’s Center for Black Music Research will host a private event to celebrate the publication of Give ‘Em Soul, Richard! Race, Radio, and Rhythm and Blues in […]