Voting in free and fair elections is an important part of maintaining our democracy. Voters will make a choice in November 2008 to determine our next president. The current presidential […]
Peter Cole guest column in the Seattle-PI
Peter Cole, author of the recent University of Illinois Press book Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia, contributed a guest column to today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “On Thursday, […]
The Wisconsin State Journal catches up with Bill Malone
The Wisconsin State Journal catches up with local resident Bill Malone on his lifetime achievement award from the Society for American Music and new book with Hazel Dickens, Working Girl Blues: […]
Joe Evans and Christopher Brooks in Baltimore
Today’s Washington Post blurbs tomorrow’s Baltimore celebration of the release of Follow Your Heart: Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues. Authors Joe Evans and Christopher […]
Utne Reader reviews “A Stranger Among Us”
The May-June 2008 issue of Utne Reader includes an enthusiastic review of Stacy Bierlein’s edited collection of short stories, A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection. “This anthology […]
Just Landed: “Terror in Minnie Vautrin’s Nanjing,” “Father and Son,” and “Everything Was Better in America”
Three new books recently landed on my desk: –Terror in Minnie Vautrin’s Nanjing: Diaries and Correspondence, 1937-38 edited and with an Introduction by Suping Lu (May 19, 2008) –Father and […]
Samuel Regalado on PBS’s “American Experience”
Samuel Regalado, author of Viva Baseball!: Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger, was interviewed on PBS’s new American Experience segment, Roberto Clemente. The Third Edition of Viva Baseball! will be published […]
Poetry Foundation features Colleen McElroy
Colleen McElroy’s new poetry collection Sleeping with the Moon is featured at PoetryFoundation.org. “She will happily give the MFAs a headache with her unfashionably clear statements and heartbroken admissions and the bold […]
Sacred Harp on the Road by Kiri Miller
I wrote the following message to a national Sacred Harp listserv in December of 2006, during a two-year postdoctoral appointment at the University of Alberta. This research fellowship allowed me to […]
“English in Print” exhibition to open at the Grolier Club in New York
English in Print: From Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton, the companion exhibit to the new book by Valerie Hotchkiss and Fred C. Robinson, will open at The Grolier Club in […]
The TLS reviews Queneau’s “Letters, Numbers, Forms”
The April 4, 2008, issue of the The Times Literary Supplement features a review of Raymond Queneau’s Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays, 1928-70. The book’s translator receives high praise. “Jordan Stump has […]
More on digital delivery of academic scholarship
The New York Times reported today that three academic publishers are suing Georgia State University over GSU’s free distribution of copyrighted material in “coursepacks.” And, today’s Inside Higher Ed has a piece on professors […]