Congratulations, John Hallwas. The Society Of Midland Authors has named Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers winner of its 2009 prize in the Biography category. […]
Lecherous Professor in the news
Monday’s edition of The Guardian features Billie Wright Dziech and Linda Weiner’s book The Lecherous Professor: Sexual Harassment on Campus as the central player in a current Oxford controversy. […]
Prep
Every catalog season before my media trips I try to read as many of the trade titles, cover-to-cover, as possible. Though not a traditional trade title, Bob Ostertag’s forthcoming book Creative […]
A few more animals escape the barn
Today’s The New York Times has a fresh story on book piracy. Until recently, publishers believed books were relatively safe from piracy because it was so labor-intensive to scan each page to convert […]
~Australas. J. Bone Jt. Med.
The story of academic research giant Elsevier producing a fake research journal (the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine) to promote drugs for the Merck corporation has been making […]
Columbia closes warehouse
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 […]