Shelf Awareness reports that Columbia University Press orders will now be fulfilled by Perseus. […]
LSU Press threatened
Inside Higher Ed reports that LSU Press’s future is in doubt. […]
Summer is Coming by Joe McFarland
You get about a month. That’s as long as morel mushroom season lasts wherever you live in Illinois, starting from the very first morel somebody shouts they’ve found—the first morel […]
E-textbooks
Inside Higher Ed reports on the new Kindle designed for e-textbook use. […]
Mushroom hunting with Joe McFarland
Claudette Roulo went mushroom hunting with Joe McFarland, co-author of Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States. […]
Jennifer Ring at Book Soup
Jennifer Ring, author of the new book Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball, will sign copies at Book Soup in West Hollywood on May 17 at 12:00 noon. […]
Mama PhD ponders her narrative compass
Inside Higher Ed‘s Mama PhD just finished reading Betsy Hearne and Roberta Seelinger Trite’s new book A Narrative Compass: Stories that Guide Women’s Lives and considers her own bedrock stories. My own […]
Cheryl Ganz’s 3 minutes
The Washington Examiner spoke briefly with Cheryl Ganz, author of The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. […]
Dalkey on the move
PW reports that our friends at Dalkey have a new distribution agreement with W.W. Norton. […]
Roni, 71
Happy birthday Roni Stoneman. […]
For a banal Friday afternoon
This morning’s Chronicle of Higher Education Daily Report features “A Tradition of Banality” by Don Troop. (Warning: CHE‘s links are walled after a few days.) The “Banality” refers to the […]
Newspaper advertising
This morning some communication bounced around internally regarding the possibility of an ad in a Chicago paper to be coordinated with an upcoming book fest. Perfect timing then to view this […]