Gotta set up the booth. […]
The middle
First morning. […]
The end
Posing after the contract workers did all of the heavy lifting. […]
Obama the new John Mercer Langston?
The June 7, 2008, edition of the Washington Post included a piece titled The ‘Obama Before Obama,’ which highlights the life of 19th-century black leader John Mercer Langston and interviews […]
What do you use as a bookmark?
This morning Shelf Awareness alerted its readers to a piece on the AbeBooks website about items that have been found in used books, long-forgotten by the original owner. $40,000, anyone? […]
Popmatters reviews “Follow Your Heart”
Joe Evans and Christopher Brooks’s Follow Your Heart received an 8 out of 10 from Popmatters. “The life of Joe Evans is intriguingly scattershot and full of cameos from celebrities […]
The Times Literary Supplement reviews two new Dreiser volumes
The May 30, 2008, issue of The Times Literary Supplement includes a joint review of Theodore Dreiser’s A Picture and a Criticism of Life: New Letters, Volume 1 edited by Donald Pizer, […]
Results not Typical by Brian
Hello. I’m a first time BEA — BookExpo America — attendee. I need to get a couple of things out of the way. First, I am not a publisher, bookseller, […]
Hazel Dickens to appear on “Jubilee”
A Hazel Dickens performance filmed in Owensboro, Kentucky, during the summer of 2007 for Jubilee will air on KET June 18, 2008. Hazel’s new book book with Bill Malone, Working Girl Blues: […]
Welcome to the weekend
Five hour flight delay on Wednesday. All materials arrived safely by Thursday. Setup. Lunch. Setup a little more. Los Angeles print publicity panel. Use freakish height to hang lights for a fellow university […]
“Making Space on the Western Frontier” wins a Mormon History award
Mormon-Chronicles reports that W. Paul Reeve’s Making Space on the Western Frontier: Mormons, Minors, and Southern Paiutes won a Best First Book award from the Mormon History Association. […]
UIP author’s play opens off-Broadway
Lisa Thompson, author of the forthcoming UIP book, Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class, celebrates the opening of her play, Single Black Female, off-Broadway […]