Literature

Malcolm’s Two Lives makes NBCC’s Good Reads List

Two Lives by Janet Malcolm made the National Book Critics Circle’s Good Reads Long List for Nonfiction. The list is comprised of “the nonfiction titles which received multiple votes” from the NBCC. It was announced this morning on the NBCC blog here, where you can find the entire list, along

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February is…

National African American History Month! Yale Press has a wide range of books covering this topic for you to check out. Here’s just a sample: Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist, edited by Susan Earle In paintings, murals, and book illustrations, Aaron Douglas (1899–1979) produced the most powerful visual legacy of

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Joudah wins 2007 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition

Fady Joudah’s Earth in the Attic is winner of the 2007 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition and judge Louise Glück’s fifth selection for the series. Judge Glück describes the poet in her Foreword as “that strange animal, the lyric poet in whom circumstance and profession. . . have compelled

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Cook’s Alfred Kazin a complex, fascinating subject

Richard M. Cook’s Alfred Kazin: A Biography, about one of the most important literary critics of the 20th century, has in turn become the subject of articles by literary critics from The New York Sun, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, and The New York Times Book Review. In his

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The New Republic salutes Kitaj and Calder books as “remarkable”

Writing for The New Republic, Jed Perl lists “half a dozen remarkable books about the visual arts published during the year.” Two of his six favorites were published by Yale University Press this past year: Second Diasporist Manifesto: A New Kind of Long Poem in 615 Free Verses by R.

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Scott Shane shows bloggers the truth about entrepreneurship

“Do you understand the reality of entrepreneurship or do you believe the myths?” That question has piqued the interest of many news aggregates and bloggers, who took this quiz to find out where they stand. The quiz was designed by author Scott A. Shane, whose new book, The Illusions of

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Choice annual list includes 26 Yale Press books

A publication of the Association of College & Research Libraries, Choice, recently announced its list of the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2007. This list, released on January 1, “reflects the best titles reviewed by Choice in 2007 and brings with it the extraordinary recognition of the academic library community.” Yale

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Digital Content Management: Yale University Press Selects Ingram’s CoreSource To Manage, Sell, And Market Its Digital Content

Yale University Press has selected Ingram Digital Group to assist in the development and deployment of Yale University Press’s digital publishing strategy to make the Press’s titles more widely available. Under the agreement, Yale University Press will use CoreSource – Ingram’s suite of asset management and search-and-discover services – to

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Fred Shapiro names year’s top 10 quotes

As 2008 approaches, Fred R. Shapiro, the editor of The Yale Book of Quotations, looked back on all of the quotes, soundbytes, and catchphrases that made an impact in 2007. Now, Shapiro has prepared a top ten list of the most memorable quotes, Reuters reports. Shapiro’s number one for 2007

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Janet Malcolm at a Chelsea reading

BandofThebes.com has put up this excellent picture of Yale Press author Janet Malcolm at a reading for her book Two Lives in Chelsea on Wednesday night. Stephen Bottum, the blogger behind BandofThebes.com, likes Two Lives for the “many fascinating revelations in the slim book, which manages to say something new

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