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. […]
I’m “working” right now
Some fun with quotation marks (via Very Short List). […]
Oni Buchanan reading in Champaign
Oni Buchanan reads from Spring. […]
The bookless library?
The April 3, 2009, edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education features a piece on tensions involved in the uncertain digital future. […]
T. R. M. Howard by David Beito
In the first review of Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power, Damon W. Root writes in Reason magazine: No single individual brought down the South’s […]
The hidden revolution in scholarly publishing
Scott McLemee’s column in Inside Higher Ed explores the topic of digital publishing. The growing importance of digital publishing will not mean a sacrifice of one mode of attention for the […]
“Cafe Society” reviewed in The Wall Street Journal
Today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal features a wonderful review of Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People. Cafe Society is a valuable document in the long, […]