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 […]
NEW YORK, NEW YORKED!
Sometimes, to maintain credibility, you need to point out the not-so-good reviews. The publicist sheepishly suggests, all publicity is good publicity. […]
Book Sense recommends Lorna Goodison
Lorna Goodison appears in Book Sense’s April picks list for her new book From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island (Amistad/Harper Collins). The University of Illinois […]
Hazel Dickens radio interview
NPR affiliate WJFF Radio Catskill will air a segment featuring an interview with Hazel Dickens at 12:00 noon eastern time on Tuesday, April 15, 2008. Listen live, or via the station […]
Fun science news
If this blog stops publishing this summer, yesterday’s Los Angeles Times might have the explanation. “Europe’s enormous $8-billion particle accelerator, to be activated as early as this summer, is generating both excitement […]
Erika Falk on C-Span’s Book TV
Erika Falk, author of Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns, will be featured this weekend on C-Span’s Book TV. The segment was filmed at Dr. Falk’s recent lecture at the […]