After publishing not one, but two Anthologies of Graphic Fiction, noted cartoonist and illustrator, Ivan Brunetti, is back with Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice, an instructional how-to for cartooning as an art of self-expression. In this book, he presents fifteen distinct lessons on the art of cartooning, guiding his readers through
@Joe DiMaggio2011 Check out today’s fun crossword on Joe’s Facebook Page. @David_Rogers has a free webinar next Thursday, February 24 to discuss the lessons from his book The Network Is Your Customer: Five Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age. Hollywood Sign: The famous icon is ever a tweetable mention.
The official publication of Carla L. Peterson’s Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City is Tuesday, February 22, but already she is lending her voice to the story of free blacks in the age of slavery and Reconstruction in New York. Today, Peterson will
Dr. Richard Frank— I know what you are thinking. “There is an error in the title of this blog post! Chemotherapy destroys the immune system! How could it boost the immune system? What is this guy thinking?” Well, let’s take a look at things from another angle. As an oncologist for
Last Thursday during their annual conference, College Art Association (CAA) announced the recipients of their 2011 Awards for Distinction. Among the honorees were three titles published by Yale University Press: The Charles Rufus Morey Book Award went to Molly Emma Aitken for The Intelligence of Tradition in Rajput Court Painting,
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Michelle Stein George Gershwin’s music is a near inimitable part of American culture. Though he lived a short life, dying at the age of thirty-eight, the work he composed during his life offered a long-lasting heritage and contribution to American musicals and concert pieces. In 1935, Gershwin’s American folk opera
Remember this? After a hiatus, the Yale Press Podcast series is back—at least, for a limited time. Your interest will determine its future, so please let us know what you think by commenting at www.facebook.com/yalepress; rating us on iTunes; or e-mail us at yale.press@gmail.com. All of our interviews are free
Ivan Lett Fashion has been one of the most notoriously difficult industries for blacks to penetrate. In March 1966, Donyale Luna was the first black model to appear on the cover of Vogue—the British edition. It would be almost a decade later before Beverly Johnson appeared as the first black
As previously announced, Clare Cavanagh is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism for Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West. In the lead-up to the March 10 announcement of the winners, the NBCC blog “Critical Mass” has a board member discussing each