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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

Richard Bronk in a Nutshell

Romantic Economist Richard Bronk is the featured contributor on brainy blog Rorotoko, writing about the limitations of economics, and ways to work through them. Writes Bronk: The 2007-9 financial crisis...

Richard Bronk | 22 May 2009

FBF Today 5-22

Don’t forget: Free Book Friday is today, May 22 12:30, TriBeCa park. CC to Bob Dylan? Oh yes. Read More ?

22 May 2009

Free Book Friday 5-22!

Tribeca Park is the place. Free ARCs abound. 12:30, Friday, May 22. Meet us in the park for a sampling of free Advanced Reader Copies. We’ll have a few different books, among them The Cambridge Companion...

21 May 2009

A New Face in the Neighbourhood

I break my American spelling rule for our lovely Pamela Robinson, Cambridge Canada Rep Quite a few years ago, when I was young, slim, and could easily lift boxes, I worked for the Classics Bookshop chain,...

20 May 2009

Ruth Padel is Oxford Poetry Professor

Great-great granddaughter of Charles Darwin Ruth Padel has been named Professor of Poetry at Oxford. She is the first woman to hold the post in its 301-year history. UPDATE: It seems that she has stepped...

18 May 2009