Richard Hughes, author of the new book Christian America and the Kingdom of God, was recently interviewed on Los Angeles’ NPR affiliate KPCC. “Fundamentalist and religious leaders like to promote […]
Cialdella’s photos of the day
Gary Cialdella’s recent book The Calumet Region: An American Place was highlighted in Photo District News’ January 18, 2010, Photo of the Day feature. […]
Pandora rox
To all of my listen-to-music-in-the-background-at-work colleagues, I recommend Pandora Radio. Yesterday I typed in “River Man” by Nick Drake and received a steady stream of minor key, folky, singer-songwriterly stuff with string […]
Copyright and Orphaned Works
Cory Doctorow over at Boing Boing notes that 98% of all work currently protected by copyright are “orphaned”—protected from indiscriminate use but with no author or estate to uphold the […]
Huffington Post reviews “Christian America and the Kingdom of God”
Today’s Huffington Post includes Randall Balmer’s review of Richard Hughes’s new book Christian America and the Kingdom of God. Nothing demonstrates the internal diversity of evangelicalism in America better than an important new […]
Textbook rental gains momentum
Inside Higher Ed reports today on the expansion of major college bookstores in the textbook rental market. Barnes and Noble, which operates 636 campus bookstores, announced yesterday that in light of […]
Thinking of Jane by Barbara Bair
I recently visited Seattle, where my twenty-something niece is a grad student, teacher, and research scientist specializing in water and climate change. I’m exceedingly proud of her, and of her […]
Black Trumpet Dip
Joe McFarland, co-author of the recent book Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States, shares his recipe for Black Trumpet Dip on the Illinois Mushrooms site. How easy is it you […]
Man of Constant Education by Charles Joyner
Some years ago, Ralph Stanley made a fascinating comment on the life on a prominent touring musician. He told me that he was usually able to book Saturday performances close enough […]
Janet Flammang on NPR affiliate WILL
Janet Flammang, author of the new book The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society, will be the featured guest on WILL-AM’s Afternoon Magazine at 1:06 PM (CST) on […]
Randall Bezanson op-ed in Washington Post book blog
Short Stack, The Washington Post‘s book blog, features an opinion piece by Randall Bezanson, author of the new book Art and Freedom of Speech. “If a National Endowment for the […]
To the Editor of the Sunday Book Review:
George Kirsch, author of Golf in America, wrote a letter to the New York Times Book Review to correct the record on Woodrow Wilson’s golf routine: Actually, after the first few […]