Archive for May, 2009
A Boring Bench?
Law’s Allure author Gordon Silverstein writes in The New Republic that “it’s good for liberals that Sonia Sotomayor is not the standard-bearer that they have been waiting for.”
See ya at the show!
See you at Book Expo America! I’ll be there for the rest of the week, and out early next week.
Remember, we’re at Booth 4146. No Free Book Friday this week; next week is Free Book Thursday.
That Time of Year Again
It’s that time of year again. This week, thousands of industry professionals will descend upon the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center for Book Expo America 2009.
Beckett in Bookforum
“Beckett’s letters reveal an author warm, playful, and unfailingly polite”
The Letters of Samuel Beckett got a stellar review in the current issue of Bookforum. Read it here >>
The Climate-Industrial Complex
The tight relationship between the groups echoes the relationship among weapons makers, researchers and the U.S. military during the Cold War. President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned about the might of the “military-industrial complex,” cautioning that “the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” He worried that “there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties.”
