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Interns Blog: The Job Search

I remember when, a bushy-tailed 25-year-old, I came to New York and began a job search. Well, back up a bit, I had been searching for a job in NY for 3 months prior to my move, with no success. Waiting...

17 Jun 2009

The Same-Sex Future

David Cole, writing for the New York Review of Books, looks at several books on the same-sex marriage debate. Among them is Cambridge author Evan Gerstmann’s Same Sex Marriage and the Constitution....

16 Jun 2009

Mr. Sedaris, will you sign my Kindle?

“Mr. Sedaris, will you sign my Kindle?” E-readers may not spell the end of book signings just yet. On the NY Times, an article about ebook signings. What did David Sedaris write? “This...

16 Jun 2009

Janet Afary on a Divided Iran

With calls for inquiry over Iran’s election results, The New York Review of Books looks at 3 books that examine divisions in Iran, among them, Janet Afary’s Sexual Politics in Modern Iran. ~...

15 Jun 2009

Rorotoko: Peter Conn’s ‘American 1930s’

Brainy wonderblog rorotoko.com offered The American 1930s author Peter Conn their front page today, and he happily obliged with his piece Against the Simplification of History. ~ ~ ~ My chief purpose is...

12 Jun 2009

Carol Swain on Extremism

In an article in today’s Washington Times, The New White Nationalism in America author Carol Swain comments on Wednesday’s attack on the Holocaust Memorial Museum and on the April Department...

Carol Swain | 11 Jun 2009

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