2025 National Book Festival Authors Announced
In prior years, even us bookish folk probably didn’t think too much about the Library of Congress. We got our little classification info on our publisher pages, but that was about it. This year, the institution has garnered more headlines. So I wonder if it will affect attendance of the National Book Festival, positively or…
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OC Punk Music Book Fun But Flawed
My review of Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County To The World by Nate Jackson and Daniel Kohn was posted over at PopMatters.com today. Fun book and educational. It’s challenged by some clunky execution but I did add several new albums to my collection as a result of reading the…
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‘Unforgiving Places’ Provides a New Way to Think About Gun Violence
Rightly or wrongly, gun laws in America ain’t gonna change. Whether legislating different would be effective is a question that this country will not answer. So, Jens Ludwig provides a new way of thinking about violence involving firearms. In Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence, the Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago’s…
continue readingFisketjon Working with New Imprint
Legendary editor Gary Fisketjon was always one of my heroes. He worked, famously, with Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford, Beverly Lowry, and many more. Courtesy of Publishers Weekly, I just learned that he is working with an imprint called Panamerica. The imprint falls under a broadsheet called County Highway that was founded by David Samuels and…
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McGinnis Jr. Announces Memoir
Novelist Joe McGinnis Jr. recently shared on his social media channels the news of a memoir, to be published in October this year. Damaged People: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons is said to examine his life growing up with his father who is perhaps most well-known for writing Fatal Vision. The younger McGinnis wrote…
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