Mary Pattillo, author of
Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City was interviewed yesterday on WNYC's
Brian Lehrer Show to discuss the gentrification of urban African American communities.
CRITICAL MASS:
Q: It’s tough to describe this story in a sentence. The jacket calls it a story of “murder, love and headhunters.” Did the publisher write that, or did you?
A: That actually came from me. I thought that I wouldn't be allowed to write the jacket copy, but my editor actually wanted me to.
THE CHICAGO BLOG: Derek S. Hyra, author of
The New Urban Renewal: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville, was interviewed today on the BBC Radio 4 program
Thinking Allowed.
THE CHICAGO BLOG: "Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?" asked Jack Kerouac. Erin Hogan was going on a solitary tour of the monumental land art of the American West.
HA: Demons At Dusk, a nonfiction book about the Myall Creek Massacre (1838) featured on the First Tuesday Book Club this week. The day before there was an op-ed piece by Graeme Cordiner in The Sydney Morning Herald, 'Let's bury our hearts at Myall Creek'.
VULPES LIBRIS: There are so many myths and half-truths surrounding the name of Alexandra Kollontai that, rather than write a plain old biographical sketch, I’m going to give you a quiz instead.
CAUSTIC COVER CRITIC: Have you been missing the end-of-the-world posts? Well, here's one for you. It's a rather good book by an author I can't find out anything much more about. The book itself is
Few Were Left, a cheery story about a homeless depressive who is about to commit suicide by throwing himself under a New York subway train when total nuclear war erupts.
CAUSTIC COVER CRITIC: Tomer Hanuka is an Israeli-born, London-based illustrator and comics artist whose work has started turning up on the covers of some classic books. Most recently, he did the covers for Vintage's two John O'Hara reprints...
THE CHICAGO BLOG: Jim Boyd, the former deputy editorial page editor at the
Star Tribune in Minneapolis has written
an interesting piece on W. Lance Bennett, Regina G. Lawrence, and Steven Livingston's
When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina for the Spring 2008 issue of the
Nieman Report.
A DIFFERENT STRIPE: Lawrence Hill writes in today's Guardian book blog about why the title of his Commonwealth Prize–winning historical novel, The Book of Negroes , was changed by its American publisher to Someone Knows My Name.
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