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April Reading List

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On May 1, 2025
Here’s my list of books read in April. Last month list is here and you can follow other months back from there. This goes out to my book patron, known as PS, who sends me books that make up a good portion of the fiction...

February Reading List

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On March 1, 2025

This month's reading list and open thread about books. Here's last month's list. SCHOLARLY READING: Kathryn Olivarius, Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom (Harvard University Press, 2022)..

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Preordering Organizing America

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On February 27, 2025
Well, after a very long time--7 years!!--I finally have the next book completed, edited, and ready to go out. Organizing America: Stories of Americans Who Fought for Justice was very much not written with Trump winning again in mind--the manuscript was completed months before that...

January Reading List

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On February 1, 2025

Detail showing the allegorical figure representing Independence (center) flanked by Miguel Hidalgo (left) and general Agustín Iturbide (right). Anonymous, Allegory of Independence, 1834 (Museo Histórico Curato de Dolores, Guanajato, INAH) When.

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The Stupidity of AI Mongers

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On December 11, 2024
What reader is asking for this? The ongoing strength of print books and the possible uses of AI were among the topics discussed by HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray on December 10 at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference. While sales of digital formats have...
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To the University Press

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On November 14, 2022
I appreciated Margaret Renkl's ode to the university press. That's not so much because of the academic writing that gets published at university presses, which is so key to all of us trying to survive in the academic world. No, it's because of all the...
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