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April 13, 2009

Interview with Ted Striphas at Conversational Reading

Conversational Reading has posted a fascinating interview with Ted Striphas, author of The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumption to Control. In the interview Striphas discusses several interesting issues from the book including, the book as an...

March 31, 2009

Mr. Bezos Goes to Lexington — A Post from the Late Age of Print

On his blog The Late Age of Print, Ted Striphas, author of The Late Age of Print: Everyday Culture from Consumerism to Control, discusses Jeff Bezos’s recent decision to spend a week working at an Amazon warehouse in Lexington, Kentucky....

September 29, 2008

Interview with Daniel Herwitz, author of The Star as Icon

The following is an interview with Daniel Herwitz, author of The Star as Icon: Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption: Q: There’s a Lady Diana book industry out there that keeps the discount catalogues of England and America in...

September 23, 2008

The History News Network and the Wall Street Journal on Men to Boys

Gary Cross’s essay on the History News Network site offers a very good crystallization of the main arguments he puts forth in Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity. In the piece Cross points to how contemporary men in...

September 16, 2008

Men to Boys in the Washington Post

It seems as if Gary Cross is not the only one who has been thinking about how men are failing to grow up. A recent article in the Washington Post discusses Men to Boys: The Making of Immaturity and three...

September 5, 2008

Interview with Gary Cross, Author of "Men to Boys"

The following is an interview with Gary Cross, author of the just-published Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity: Question: Why did you write a book about men becoming “boys” at this time? Gary Cross: I am an historian...

July 9, 2008

Pests and Presidents: On the Air with Alan Schroeder and James McWilliams

You can read excerpts from James McWilliams’s American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT and Alan Schroeder’s Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV but you can also listen to them thanks to NPR. In...

March 19, 2008

Interview with Jonathan Freedman, author of Klezmer America

Question: So, why did you write this book? Jonathan Freedman: The question any author dreads—and hopes for! I’ve been teaching and writing a lot about the Jews in America and was wondering why so much of the critical writing of...

March 5, 2008

The Power of the Consumer

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the tax rebate President Bush just signed into law. As a single taxpaying citizen I’m entitled to receive up to $600 for my rebate check. The rebates are intended to stimulate the U.S....

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Category: Cultural Studies