The original edition of The End of Autumn came about when an editor at Doubleday saw a piece I had written for the New York Times about the suicide of […]
Richard Hughes vs. Newt Gingrich
In a Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed column, Richard Hughes, author of Christian America and the Kingdom of God, takes on Newt Gingrich’s claims that the United States is a Christian nation. […]
Amazon and the future of publishing
Fast Company has a long article on Amazon, distribution, and the future of publishing. Jeff Bezos is trying to do to book publishers what Steve Jobs of Apple did to […]
Science reviews “The World of Soy”
The July 10, 2009, edition of Science Magazine features a review of The World of Soy. Du Bois, Tan, and Mintz have done an excellent job combining a series of […]
Revisiting some older stories
Two news stories, previously reported (repeated) here, caught my attention this morning: 1. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that LSU Press will not close as feared. 2. Shelf Awareness has news […]
Richard Hughes in Church & State
Richard Hughes, author of the new book Christian America and the Kingdom of God, was interviewed for the cover story of Church & State‘s July/August issue. When these ‘Christian America’ guys […]
Avital Ronell’s eight seances by Diane Davis
Avital Ronell has just completed a series of eight “séances” or sessions for the Centre Pompidou in Paris, where she engaged such artists and thinkers as Werner Herzog, Frédéric Boyer, […]
The Jews of Chicago in the Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post recently reviewed the new paperback edition of Irving Cutler’s The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb. Chicago is a city with cold winters and hot summers. […]
Sarah, see the whole court
What’s been overlooked in the coverage of Sarah Palin’s recent announcement to resign the Alaskan governorship is her very poor basketball analogy. Let me go back to a comfortable analogy […]
The Netflix of college textbooks
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on Chegg. Textbooks are mailed to students for a 125-day period, with the option to purchase the book. Comparing the amount spent on rentals […]
Cutting out the middleman
The Writers’ Union of Canada’s chairwoman of the contracts committee suggests in The Globe & Mail that authors bypass publishers and embrace the e-book. Truly, a revolution in publishing has […]
Cafe Society on WBGO Journal
An interview with Terry Trilling-Josephson about her new book Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People will air on WBGO Journal Friday, July 3, at 7:30 PM (eastern […]