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The Seminary Co-op: the bookstore of my heart. It's been a few years since I last visited Chicago. I'm in town for a wedding, an...

So... it turns out that someone in New York (a poet, in fact) received twenty-two of my precious missing books in the mail, all jumbled up ...

Books that I appear to have lost in the move: The Arcades Project Jen Fleissner's Women, Compulsion, Modernity Ugly Feelings The Win...

Things on the internet are not made by magic; they're created by human labor. Who pays for that labor, and to what ends? Often, private ...

Q. Is Eve Sedgwick the best? A. Yes.

A little linkspam for today, courtesy of Twitter. 1. Here's a hilarious video by Ron Charles on "Booklette," a new online t...

I only have one volume* on me out here, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's Nest -- ironically, since I'm away from mine. This is bogus. *One v...

It seems that if I get a book for free, I feel that I must read it, even if, generally speaking, it is low on the list of priorities. I got ...

I've heard recommendations, here and there, that professors assign more academic monographs to help sustain the academic publishing mark...

I subscribe to Debbie Reese 's RSS feed because she puts books on my radar that usually wouldn't otherwise get there. Her blog on th...

I've finally come up with a title for this blog. Citation, appropriation, and pastiche are the postmodern techniques par excellence, and...

A propaganda video for something I can get behind: I certainly was amazed at the packaging involved in a recent Amazon order: Yes, that'...

In case you were wondering whether the new UCB library catalogue, OskiCat,* could interface with Socrates (Stanford's catalogue) the way...

Cathy Davidson on new tools to save scholarly publishing in a digital era . This is smart. "Open access" doesn't matter if the...

Black Oak Books closed its store on May 31. (They say that they are still taking orders online!) Alas and woe: it had the best used math s...

Kathleen Woodward, Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions . Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2009. Statistical Panic challeng...

Ages ago I heard a talk by Christo Sims at a new media symposium. His talk was on the Digital Youth Project , a three-year project funded b...

There are two interesting articles on academic publishing in the current Chronicle , the first a roundtable with several UP editors on ...

Skg sent me this link to a very interesting article by Johanna Drucker. Drucker points out that even though humanities research depends on ...