Category: Book of the Week

October 4, 2012

Jonathan Mack on Lee Boyd Malvo

We continue our week-long feature on The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: The D.C. Sniper with an interview with Jonathan H. Mack, Psy.D. Mack is a forensic psychologist and in the book he identifies and analyzes the underlying clinical psychological...

October 3, 2012

Interview with Carmeta Albarus, Author of "The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: The D.C. Sniper"

The following is an interview with Carmeta Albarus, author of The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: The D.C. Sniper. Albarus, a social worker, was instructed by the court to uncover any information that might help mitigate the death sentence the...

October 2, 2012

Carmeta Albarus and The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo

The tenth anniversary of the the sniper shootings in Washington, D.C. has brought renewed attention to John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo’s killing spree, which terrified the city. Two people with an especially close relationship to the case are Carmeta...

October 2, 2012

Book Giveaway: The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: D.C. Sniper

“The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo offers the unabashed truth about children who face emotional and psychological scars resulting from feelings of rejection, abandonment, and other trauma by being left home by parents who immigrated overseas.” — Geneive Brown Metzger...

September 28, 2012

Daniel Herwitz on How Barack Obama Has Drawn Upon Abraham Lincoln

“Obama is a figure with the screen presence of a film star (like Diana). Palin is not, she is the quintessential TV actor, from sitcom, talk show, reality TV.”—Daniel Herwitz In the chapter, “Tocqueville on the Bridge to Nowhere,” from...

September 27, 2012

Daniel Herwitz on The Star as Icon: Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption

In addition to Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony, we’ve been lucky enough to be be the publisher for other books by Daniel Herwitz. In addition to Action, Art, History: Engagements with Arthur C. Danto, and The Don Giovanni...

September 26, 2012

Interview with Daniel Herwitz, Part II

“Heritage began as a secular religion and is now a battleground between the forces of recognition, politics and commerce. It is where art, culture, history, politics and markets meet. Little could be more interesting than this.”—Daniel Herwitz Here is the...

September 25, 2012

Daniel Herwitz on What Makes Heritage Worth Talking About

“Through heritage, marketed in political campaigns and filtered through dense layers of American media both Barack Obama and Sarah Palin become celebrity figures gifted with special powers.”—Daniel Herwitz In this first part of a two-part interview, Daniel Herwitz discusses one...

September 21, 2012

Victor Navasky to Discuss The Art of Making Magazines at the Brooklyn Book Festival

This week we’ve been featuring The Art of Making Magazines: On Being an Editor and Other Views from the Industry and this Sunday, you can hear Victor Navasky talk more about the book at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Navasky will...

September 20, 2012

Robert Gottlieb on Editing at Knopf Versus The New Yorker

“When you’re the editor-in-chief of a magazine, as I was of The New Yorker … You are the living god.”—Robert Gottlieb, “Editing Books Versus Editing Magazines” In his essay, “Editing Books Versus Editing Magazines,” from The Art of Making Magazines:...

September 19, 2012

Victor Navasky and Evan Cornog on the Art of Making Magazines

The following is an interview with Victor S. Navasky and Evan Cornog, editors of The Art of Making Magazines: On Being an Editor and Other Views from the Industry. As the subtitles suggests, The Art of Making Magazines features the...

September 18, 2012

Michael Kelly on Writing for Playboy and What It Taught Him about Magazines

“Any magazine is, in the end, what a very small, self-selected group of people—its readers—wants it to be. And the magazine is shaped to that.”—Michael Kelly, “Editing a Thought-Leader Magazine” The following is an excerpt from Michael Kelly’s essay in...