Inside Higher Ed reports that the University of Chicago Press has launched an online forum for discussion about (or is it “of”?) The Chicago Manual of Style (and other matters). “People pressed […]
Latest chatter
A roundup of recent publishing news: The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the growth of open access scholarly journals and publisher efforts to stop book piracy, The Electronic Frontier Foundation […]
Back to the Future
On February 15, 2010, The Scholarly Kitchen blog reported on the newly released UC Berkeley Scholarly Communication Report. 728 pages! The reoccurring theme in the report is that academia is a […]
Robert Lombardo to appear on WGN-TV
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 […]