Monthly Archive: May, 2009

May 8, 2009

Columbia University Press to move fulfillment to Perseus and accelerate digital delivery

Columbia University Press announced a plan to close its warehouse facility in Irvington, NY in the summer of 2009 and outsource its fulfillment operations to Perseus Distribution, a division of Perseus Book Group. This restructuring is part of an overall...

May 8, 2009

Antonio Giustozzi on the Neo-Taliban

Monthly Review recently posted an interview with Antonio Giustozzi, author of Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan. In the interview, Giustozzi details some of the ways in which the Neo-Taliban differs from the Taliban regime, which was...

May 8, 2009

The Columbia Journalism Review interviews Jameel Jaffer

The Columbia Journalism Review (no affiliation with the press), recently interviewed Jameel Jaffer, co-author of Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond. In the interview Jaffer explains the difficult and often circuitous routes the...

May 7, 2009

Interview with Mitchell Orenstein, editor of Pensions, Social Security, and the Privatization of Risk

The following is an interview with Mitchell A. Orenstein, editor of Pensions, Social Security, and the Privatization of Risk. Q: Is Social Security going to be there when I retire? Mitchell Orenstein: Surprisingly, the answer is yes. After years of...

May 7, 2009

Hubert Harrison as book reviewer

Scott McLemee’s piece on the Columbia Journalism Review Web site explores Hubert Harrison’s role as a book reviewer and critic. Harrison is of course the subject of Jeffrey Perry’s new biography, Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918, which...

May 6, 2009

Reading film in China

Earlier this week on Book Bench, the New Yorker‘s blog on books, Evan Osnos recommended some books that might serve as an introduction to filmmaking in China. We were pleased to see that he mentioned Michael Berry’s Speaking in Images:...

May 5, 2009

Siddharth Kara on KPFA Radio

For more on Siddharth Kara’s Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, you can also listen to a recent interview with KPFA radio in Berkeley, California: APEX Espress – Sex Trafficking – April 30, 2009 at 7:00pmClick to listen...

May 5, 2009

Siddharth Kara on the Take Part Blog

Siddharth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, has begun writing for the new social activism Web site and blog Take Part. In an ongoing series of blogs, Kara will provide detailed information on why the...

May 5, 2009

Hard-Boiled Sentimentality Receives a Macavity Award Nomination

Congratulations to Leonard Cassuto, author of Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories, for receiving a Macavity award nomination in the category of Best Nonfiction/Critical book. The Macavity awards are selected by Mystery Readers International. Hard-Boiled Sentimentality was...

May 1, 2009

Mark Taylor in the New York Times and His Forthcoming Book

Mark C. Taylor’s recent New York Times Op-ed, End the University as We Know It continues to be one of the most popular stories on the NYT Web site and has been widely discussed on the Internet. (The University of...

May 1, 2009

Buy Indie Day!

May 1st has been declared Buy Indie Day. The idea: buy one book—paperback, hardcover, audiobook, whatever you want (it doesn’t even have to be a Columbia University Press title)—at an independent bookstore near you. There are tons of great independent...

May 1, 2009

David Bordwell on Apichatpong Weerasethakul

The noted film scholar and critic David Bordwell recently featured the book Apichatpong Weerasethakul, edited by James Quandt on his Web site (scroll down a bit for the review of the book.) Apichatpong Weerasethakul is first English language study of...