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Thanks, Brown!

Dear Brown University Bookstore: How did you know that I love taffy? Thanks for the treats; they’ll keep our spirits high! Read More ?

11 Jun 2009

The Buzz of BEA

Two weeks ago, a fellow CUP rep wrote a blog post about pre-BEA So after a week of reflection, it’s now my turn to report on the events that transpired at the Javits Center. This was my first ever BEA...

10 Jun 2009

Congrats to George Whitman!

George Whitman, the 95-year-old American owner of the iconic Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris has just received one of France’s highest honors: Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters....

9 Jun 2009

Beckett, Yeats, and the occult

Thanks to Canadian Rep Pam Robinson for pointing us to a very cool piece on a Globe and Mail blog: Samuel Beckett, Yeats, and the occult: A digression. Blogger Linda Leith points out that in Beckett’s...

9 Jun 2009

Nicholas Kristof on IQ

Nicholas Kristof’s latest Op-Ed reinforces one of Cambridge author James Flynn’s central theses: that IQ gaps along racial lines can be attributed to nurture, not genetics. The Flynn Effect...

8 Jun 2009

Book Expo Memories

After weeks of planning, BEA was a hit! Thanks to all for stopping by and meeting us. Sometimes, the wait for the doors to open seems like an eternity. I don’t think sales reps are used to being...

5 Jun 2009

Americans love a government out of sight

Writing for the History News Network, Cambridge author Brian Balogh has a history lesson for conservatives and liberals both: Americans have always demanded a more energetic government, even during times...

Brian Balogh | 4 Jun 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.” ~...

Gordon Silverstein | 28 May 2009

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. Read More ?

27 May 2009

That Time of Year Again

Mary Beth Barilla – Northeast Sales Rep When someone tells me that this year’s Book Expo America will be the first he or she has ever attended, I’m a little envious. Walking into the exhibit...

27 May 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 >> Read More ?

26 May 2009

The Climate-Industrial Complex

Global Crises, Global Solutions author Bjørn Lomborg writes in the Wall Street Journal about the relationships between the climate policy-drivers, and those who stand to benefit from it. Some businesses...

Bjørn Lomborg | 26 May 2009