March 7, 2014

Images from Recovering Place by Mark C. Taylor

We conclude our week-long focus on Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill, by Mark C. Taylor by featuring some of the book’s stunning photographs along with excerpts from the book. Divided into short chapters focusing on a specific theme or...

March 6, 2014

Designing Mark C. Taylor's "Recovering Place"

The following post is by Lisa Hamm, a senior designer at Columbia University Press, who worked with Mark C. Taylor on his new book Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill: I received an e-mail from Mark Taylor asking if we...

March 6, 2014

William Gass

Now that we are distributing Dalkey Archive Press, we are familiarizing ourselves or reviving our admiration for a variety of the authors on their list. One of these writers is William Gass, whose Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife is now available...

March 5, 2014

Wendy Lochner on Mark C. Taylor

The following post is by Wendy Lochner, who is Mark Taylor’s editor at Columbia University Press: I first worked with Mark Taylor on his book Field Notes from Elsewhere, his memoir describing his journey back from near-death over the course...

March 5, 2014

India's Etiquette Police — A Post by Peter Heehs

“Should a historian or biographer writing about a religion or religious figure follow the protocol of the temple or of the university?”—Peter Heehs The following post is by Peter Heehs, author of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo: In the beginning...

March 4, 2014

Mark Taylor on Recovering Place

“Paradoxically, the more pervasive and invasive Google Earth, GPS and customized apps become, the less we know where we are. And when we don’t know where we are, we don’t know who we are.”—Mark Taylor The following post is by...

March 4, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Derrida/Searle, Survivors of Slavery, Hitchcock, the Homoerotics of Orientalism, and More New Books!

The following books are now available: Derrida/Searle: Deconstruction and Ordinary Language Raoul Moati Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives Laura T. Murphy Must We Kill the Thing We Love?: Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock William Rothman The...

March 3, 2014

From Stallone to the Foundations of the Earth — Author Events in March!

We have a great lineup of March author events this month beginning today with Chris Holmund, editor of The Ultimate Stallone Reader: Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur , discussing everything Sly at Smith College. Stallone and the Seven Sisters!...

February 28, 2014

On the Geneaology of Cosmology/Unscientific Postscribble

This week our featured book is Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse by Mary-Jane Rubenstein. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our...

February 27, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: Zulfikar Ghose on Machado de Assis

“The modern short story as created by Chekhov, Kafka, Henry James, Conrad and Joyce is a marvel of world literature. Add Machado de Assis to that list and you will find yourself in a world of sheer magic.” — Zulfikar...

February 27, 2014

Ending the Endless: Thomas Aquinas

This week our featured book is Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse by Mary-Jane Rubenstein. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our...

February 26, 2014

Interview with Caren Irr, author of Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century

In a wide-ranging interview with Critical Margins, Caren Irr discussed her new book Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century. In the book, Irr argues that one of the dominant trends in twenty-first century American fiction are...