Scott McLemee has an entertaining piece on the sociology of “bookshelf etiquette” in today’s Inside Higher Ed. “My experience (which can’t be unique) is that some books end up accumulating […]
“Alice Paul” co-author Katherine Adams to appear on NPR affiliate WILL
Katherine Adams, co-author of the new book Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign, will be interviewed today from 1:06-1:50 PM CST on WILL radio’s Afternoon Magazine. […]
Erika Falk featured on KARK-TV Little Rock, filmed by C-SPAN’s Book-TV
KARK 4 News in Little Rock, Arkansas, covered Erika Falk’s recent event at the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock. Watch the news piece here. For an expanded view […]
Oscar Simple, Raising the Coens, The Big Awardski, or how I tried to come up with a clever blog post title
Congratulations to Joel and Ethan Coen, whose No Country for Old Men won four Oscars at last evening’s 80th Academy Awards. The brothers won Oscars for best director, best […]
In These Times features women for president
In These Times is featuring a new piece by Erika Falk, which was adapted from her book Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns. “Despite striking advances over the last century in women’s […]
Depression
Back in my ’80s record store clerk days I worked with someone who used to engineer recording sessions in the attic of his rented apartment. One of the bands that he recorded […]
More on the digital future
Laura Cerruti, Director of Digital Content Development at the University of California Press, shares her notes from two recent publishing conferences on the UC Press blog. “Publishers should not try to compete with […]
Caught in a net
Mark Lloyd, author of the recent University of Illinois Press book Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America, co-authored an article on net neutrality that was just posted at CommonDreams.org. […]
Jobs vs. reading in the New York Times
Timothy Egan takes on Steve Jobs’s dim view of the state of reading in The New York Times. Please note: I once caught my teenage son listening to his iTouch AND reading […]
Just Landed: “Dark Victorians”
Vanessa D. Dickerson’s new book Dark Victorians, which explores connections between black Americans and white Victorian Britons, just landed on my desk. The publication date is March 24, 2008, […]
The Nashville Scene reviews “Air Castle of the South”
One of Craig Havighurst’s hometown weeklies, the Nashville Scene, reviews his new book Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City. “Air Castle of the South pulls […]
Golf and the water supply
The February 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine includes a piece titled Drying of the West, about water resource issues in the American West. A caption that accompanies one of […]