How pleasant to settle down on a Friday night with a fresh New Yorker and almost immediately find mention not only of your home institution, but of an author and […]
Google Books Settlement to be challenged
Google’s inclusion of millions of orphan works in their big scanning project–and their plan to profit from these still-copyrighted, unclaimed works–was a hot topic at the settlement symposium sponsored by […]
The Nation’s review of “Only a Miner”
The Nation online posts a 35+ year old review of Archie Green’s Only a Miner. […]
Diana Nyad reviews “Stolen Bases”
On Diana Nyad’s Score radio segment yesterday she reviewed Jennifer Ring’s new book Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball. “Jennifer Ring, has crafted a great read, replete with […]
The North Korea Satellite and Global Financial Restructuring by James Schwoch
You have to hand it to the North Koreans. In a action-packed news cycle where Obama fired the CEO of General Motors, the G20 London Summit convened, NATO celebrated its […]
Protesting controversial speakers
Shelf Awareness reports on the cancellation of a controversial speaker at Anderson’s in Naperville, Illinois, and friend-of-the-Press Cary Nelson addresses that general topic in Inside Higher Ed. […]
“Staley” authors on the road
Steven Ashby and C. J. Hawking, authors of the new book Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement, are on the road and writing a tour diary for […]
April’s Foolishness
Oh, dear. Here are a couple of nice examples of the silliness of springtime. Shelf Awareness brings us up to date on this year’s BEA. And our local online city […]
Golfweek reviews “Golf in America”
Golfweek magazine finds George Kirsch’s new book Golf in America a welcome and timely appraisal of the sport. You’ll pardon my fleeting interest in yet another instructional tract, or coffee-table book […]
Upheaval at New Mexico
Yesterday a colleague forwarded me a University of New Mexico Press press release that was making the rounds. It was quite the bombshell. The Chronicle of Higher Education site has […]
More Record Makers & Breakers reviews
The March 31, 2009, edition of the New York Daily News includes a review of John Broven’s new book Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll […]
NPR remembers Archie Green
NPR’s Morning Edition program on March 25, 2009, included a segment on the recently deceased University of Illinois Press author Archie Green. Green moved comfortably through the halls of Congress and […]