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, […]
Professor Kinderman and the Great White Way
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. […]