May 20, 2011

Interview with William Egginton, author of In Defense of Religious Moderation

The following is an interview with William Egginton, author of t In Defense of Religious Moderation, and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University. Question: What are everyday fundamentalisms? William Egginton: Physicists Stephen Hawking and...

May 19, 2011

Brent Stockwell on The Quest for the Cure

Brent Stockwell discusses his new book The Quest for the Cure: The Science and Stories Behind the Next Generation of Medicines. The book explores the history of drug development, the challenges facing scientists and promising research approaches, including some in...

May 18, 2011

Interview with Stephen Schryer, author of "Fantasies of the New Class"

The following is an interview with Stephen Schryer, author of Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post–World War II American Fiction. Q. What drew you to the topic of professionalism in post–World War II American fiction? Stephen...

May 17, 2011

New Book Tuesday — In Defense of Religious Moderation

New books now available: In Defense of Religious Moderation William Egginton Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru Translated and edited by Martha Ann Selby Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War Sarmila Bose Religion,...

May 16, 2011

Howard Marks Discusses The Most Important Thing on DealBook

Howard Marks was recently interviewed on the New York Times‘s blog DealBook to discuss his new book The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor. Marks describes how the book built upon the letter he has been writing...

May 13, 2011

Kenneth Goldsmtih on Uncreative Writing at Pennsylvania Avenue

At the risk of being uncreative ourselves, we are offering a second post on Kenneth Goldsmith and Billy Collins’s events at the White House. (Hey, how often do you have an author read at the White House? Let alone two?)...

May 12, 2011

Interview with Whitney Strub, author of Perversion for Profit

The following is an interview with Whitney Strub, author of Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right Question: Why “Perversion for Profit”? Won’t people think the book is about the economics of the...

May 11, 2011

Despite Sarah Palin's Protestations Kenneth Goldsmith to Read at White House

Just a reminder that Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, will be reading tonight at 7:00 pm at the White House for a special event celebrating American poetry. The event will be streamed live...

May 9, 2011

The Burial of Osama Bin Laden — an Op-Ed by Leor Halevi

Barack Obama and the U.S. government made it clear that Osama bin Laden was buried in strict accordance with Muslim law. But how accurate is this statement? In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, Leor Halevi, author of...

May 9, 2011

Howard Marks on CNBC

Howard Marks, author of The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor, was recently interviewed on CNBC. Among other issues, Marks discussed the impossibility of intelligently investing in commodities; how best to value a company; and the prospects...

May 6, 2011

Mr. Goldsmith Goes to Washington

We were very excited to hear that Kenneth Goldsmith, author of the forthcoming Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age has been invited to read at the White House on Thursday, May 11 beginning at 7:00 pm! The event,...

May 5, 2011

Korean Fiction

Chad Post has a great post on the Three Percent blog about what sounded like a very lively panel on Korean fiction during the Pen World Voices Festival held last week. Entitled, “Word from Asia: Contemporary Writing from Korea,” the...