Classical-Drone recommends John Cage, David Nicholls’s new title in our American Composers series. “Barely 100 pages in length, Nicholls provides a high-level overview, and in the process he is able […]
“Forms of Constraint” author quoted in New York Times story on San Quentin
Norman Johnston, author of the University of Illinois Press book Forms of Constraint: A History of Prison Architecture, is quoted in a recent New York Times story on the facility in […]
I Love Guitar Hero
I love Guitar Hero. I’ve never played the game, but my seven-year-old played it on his cousin’s wii over the holidays. When I came home from work one day last week […]
Just Landed: “Mobilizing Minerva,” “Memories and Migrations,” and “Prosdocimo de’ Beldomandi’s ‘Plana musica & Musica speculativa'”
Three new books landed on my desk this week: –Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War by Kimberley Jensen (Publication date: February 18, 2008) –Memories and Migrations: Mapping Boricua […]
Inside Higher Ed features “Women for President”
Scott McLemee, writing in Inside Higher Ed about Erika Falk’s new book Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns, opines, “It seems like a book that Clinton’s staff would […]
Feminist Review reviews “Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama”
The Feminist Review blog just launched a review of Lisa M. Anderson’s new book Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama. “Anderson’s slender book is a great start—a lucid and powerful argument about the […]
The Stranger on Faron
Kim Hayden, writing for The Stranger‘s music blog, expresses her affection for the music of swoonworthy Faron Young and compliments Diane Diekman’s new biography, Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young […]
Recipe hunter alert!
The January 13th South Florida Sun-Sentinel featured a recipe for herb-roasted acorn squash from Gary Allen, author of the recent book The Herbalist in the Kitchen. (Insert “M”s here.) […]
Just Landed: Theodore Dreiser’s “The Genius”
A copy of Theodore Dreiser’s The Genius, edited by Clare Virginia Eby and finally available for the first time in its original version, just landed on my desk. The official […]
To cross the picket line?
I love this post from Duke University Press’s publicist. It’s a window into the world of publishing, university press publishing, and MY JOB! Nice work. Note: I know you’re wondering, but […]
Mrs. Clinton’s tears
As the presidential campaign heats up, the Houston Chronicle seeks comment from Women for President author Erika Falk on Mrs. Clinton’s tears. “Women’s emotions are always reported more frequently than those of […]
Getting to know Champaign-Urbana, Part 1
Here is the local blog that I visit when I want to know what’s up with the gas station on the corner or what will spin my head. […]