So I saw this book publisher’s manifesto as a cool word cloud at The Digitalist and decided to make a wordle from our mission statement. Here it is in full […]
OAR bloggers
Who knew that the University’s Office of Admissions and Records had a blogging crew? Jaime’s blog includes a picture of John Philip Sousa’s birth home and some words about a […]
Promotional trailers for university press books?
The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Nina Ayoub queried 25 university press publicists about the use of video trailers to promote books. The results (subscription required) are here. Note: I was included in the survey but […]
Spring on the roof
Oni Buchanan, a poet whose new collection Spring will be published by the University of Illinois Press this autumn, will be reading from the rooftops in New York City on August 5. […]
AAUP report, Montreal
Scott McLemee, writing in Inside Higher Ed, has a wrap up of last week’s Association of American University Presses annual meeting in Montreal. “Over the past few years, a certain boilerplate rhetoric […]
New marketing idea via Penn State Univ. Press and NASCAR?
Penn State University Press has a fun, informative blog. Here’s their idea for Expanding the Marketing Base. Wait, was that PSU Press’s way of getting ME to tell YOU about their […]
Bodies not found, “Alchemy of Bones” not mentioned
The June 29 edition of the The Washington Post included a feature story on murder cases where no body is found and referenced Robert Loerzel’s Alchemy of Bones: Chicago’s Luetgert Murder Case of 1897 without actually naming […]
Palmer’s “James P. Cannon” wins the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize
Bryan D. Palmer’s book, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928, has recently been awarded the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize given by the Canadian Historical […]
The Chicago Tribune losing book coverage?
PW Daily reports that the Chicago Tribune may further reduce its pages dedicated to book coverage. This brought to mind a Slate story from early 2007 on newspaper profits. […]
The Jewish Press reviews “Unwanted Beauty”
Writing for The Jewish Press, Menachem Wecker reviews Brett Ashley Kaplan’s Unwanted Beauty: Aesthetic Pleasure in Holocaust Representation in conjunction with Joyce Ellen Weinstein’s art exhibition opening at the Florida Holocaust Museum. […]
243 friends by the 4th of July
Awesome. In just two days my Goodreads friend count has tripled. At this pace I’ll have 243 friends by the 4th of July. We’re still working out who will be the […]
Bees: the original social networkers?
Let accidents happen and be more like bees, according to The Digitalist: [H]uman teams are inherently weak but . . . nature’s teams (bumble bees, termites etc) display characteristics that […]