The Brutally Honest blog comments on Brian McLaren’s endorsement of Richard Hughes’s forthcoming book Christian America and the Kingdom of God. […]
First Morel by Jennifer Reichlin
I was clearing a brush pile in my yard a few days ago when I spotted–surely that’s a morel? I’d never seen one in person. I ran inside to grab […]
Moneyball, the movie?
I loved Michael Lewis’s Moneyball. In the book, Lewis profiled Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane who used player statistics to find undervalued players which he could acquire on a small budget (what, […]
Brian D. McLaren on Christian America
Brian D. McLaren endorses Richard Hughes’s forthcoming book Christian America and the Kingdom of God in a Washington Post On Faith forum. […]
Richard Hughes on Christian America
In September we will publish Christian America and the Kingdom of God by Richard T. Hughes, distinguished professor of religion at Messiah College. Howard Zinn calls the book “an eloquent critique […]
A random walk down university press row
-A contributor to the Penn State University Press Blog relates a personal story about the fallout of selling a lesbian themed book to a nine year old. -UNC Press Blog […]
Publicists vs. reviewers?
Thanks to my colleague Lisa S. for pointing me to the “What book publicists need to know about reviewers” piece on The Book Publicity Blog. So far so good. However, it […]
Mushroom Mania
Our gorgeous new guide to wild mushrooms in Illinois is finally here, just in time for high mushroom season. Champaign Taste features it in today’s post, and one of the […]
Down the Youtube
There has been a lot of hand wringing lately about the financial future of print publishing. Slate looks at the current economic outlook of the leaders of Web 2.0. […]
“Cafe Society” reviewed in AllAboutJazz
AllAboutJazz.com praises Cafe Society. “This wonderful, uplifting book tells the story of Barney Josephson and Cafe Society, the jazz cabaret Josephson set up in Greenwich Village, New York City in 1938. […]
Enough already
I’m sorry, I am sick of this non-story. I even had to endure it on This Week. Update April 15: … and again last night on The Daily Show. […]
Amazon’s sales glitch
Amazon has fixed its problem (not) ranking gay and lesbian themed books. […]