Anthology Film Archives in New York is hosting a Jerry Lewis film retrospective to celebrate the publication of Chris Fujiwara’s book Jerry Lewis. Read about it on NBC New York and […]
“Laboring to Learn” wins Cyril O. Houle Award
Lorna Rivera’s recent book, Laboring to Learn: Women’s Literacy and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era, has received the Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education. It is […]
Jamming in the archives
In today’s Dream Job category, we have the University Library at California Santa Cruz seeking to fill the Grateful Dead Archivist position. So: perfect opportunity to sport your Jerry tie, […]
The New Yorker online lauds “Jerry Lewis”
On November 6, 2009, The New Yorker online posted a mini-review of Jerry Lewis, Chris Fujiwara’s new book in our Contemporary Film Directors series. Chris Fujiwara’s study of Jerry Lewis’s films, […]
New adventures in book tours
Dear Author, Have you contemplated asking your father to organize your book tour? Thank you for your consideration. Best, Michael […]
Maura Stanton poem on The Writer’s Almanac
The November 5, 2009, edition of Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac will feature Maura Stanton’s poem “Psalm for a Lost Summer” from her recent book Immortal Sofa. […]
Fun with jargon
Make your own academic sentence. Look what I came up with in just a few clicks: The reification of post-capitalist hegemony may be parsed as the historicization of the gendered […]
Utah State University Press’s Open Access
Inside Higher Ed reports today that Utah State University Press will pursue a new publishing model: This week comes news that the press will survive — in part by embracing a […]
Maggie Hinchey on the Cover by Lara Vapnek
Searching for illustrations for my book, Breadwinners, recapped the challenges—and rewards—of writing about working women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Documentation of women who worked as servants, […]
That’s right, Hedgehog Mushroom Salad
Joe McFarland, co-author of Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States, shot Chef Lasse Sorensen in the kitchen of Tom’s Place in DeSoto, Illinois, during the recent mushroom dinner, holding the Oyster […]
Crews through Copyright
Last Thursday, Kathleen Kornell (UIP copyright czar) and I attended a copyright primer given by Columbia University’s Kenneth Crews and hosted by the University of Illinois Graduate College and University […]
“Finding Cholita” to receive award from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Billie Jean Isbell’s book, Finding Cholita, will receive the honorable mention award for this year’s Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. The committee was very […]