AltWeeklies Wire
Extinction On Demand?new
Will print-on-demand technology save publishing or deliver its final death blow?
Baltimore City Paper |
Rachel Monroe |
09-20-2010 |
Books
Tags: POD
David Foster Wallace: 1962-2008new
Several of my artistic heroes have died in recent years, but they were older or no longer productive, and when I learned that David Foster Wallace had committed suicide I was far more shocked and upset.
Baltimore City Paper |
Tim Kreider |
09-30-2008 |
Books
Tags: David Foster Wallace
Rock Critic Byron Coley on the No More Bush Tournew
As George W. Bush's departure looms, Coley has concocted a sequel to "More Hair Less Bush" with another cavalcade of artists who "honk the horn of freedom with both hands." Said honkers include guitar wizard Jack Rose, noise magician Karl Bauer (aka Axolotl), and avant-folk duo MV/EE, along with poets such as Valerie Webber and Charles Plymell.
Baltimore City Paper |
Marc Masters |
08-12-2008 |
Books
Loyola College Students and Teachers Forge a Publishing Partnershipnew
In the basement of Loyola College's Dorothy Day Hall, a quiet revolution is gaining momentum.
Baltimore City Paper |
Darcelle Bleau |
01-15-2008 |
Books
Top Ten: The Year in Booksnew
The best argument for the future survival of the book is that writers might want to see a physical manifestation of their work. Call it ego, call it reductive reasoning, call it misplaced Marxist ideals about seeing an actual product produced by their labors, but books-as-objects are just nice to have around. If that makes us Luddites, so be it.
Baltimore City Paper |
Staff |
12-18-2007 |
Books
Reading Between the Ancient Linesnew
William Noel oversees a collection of thousands of books, including some 850 medieval manuscripts and 1,500 of the earliest printed books, but one in particular has been monopolizing his time since its arrival in 1999 -- a one-of-a-kind copy of the work of Archimedes.
Baltimore City Paper |
Chris Landers |
11-27-2007 |
Books
A History of the Nation's First Order of Black Nunsnew
The Oblate Sisters have published a beautiful pictorial history of their order that serves not only as a handsome souvenir for a religious organization that is approaching its 200th year but also a treasury of rare and fascinating images of African-American history in Baltimore.
Baltimore City Paper |
Robbie Whelan |
11-20-2007 |
Books
Solar Publishing Brings Environmental Issues to Children's Booksnew
"We want to introduce holistic living in subtle and fun ways to children who typically don't get exposure to different aspects of holistic living, such as vegetarianism, yoga, just being out in nature,"says Robyn Ringgold.
Baltimore City Paper |
Petula Caesar |
11-13-2007 |
Books
The Publisher 23new
Curiosity and more than a little obsession drove Doug Mowbray to start putting out books with his imprint twentythreebooks.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brooke Hall |
04-17-2007 |
Books
The Good Partsnew
I found my place in the world by writing erotica.
Baltimore City Paper |
Petula Caesar |
10-03-2006 |
Books
Leading the Waynew
An independent black publisher cracks the national best-seller list for the first time with The Covenant With Black America.
Baltimore City Paper |
Makkada B. Selah |
04-07-2006 |
Books
Juvenile Justicenew
Administrators and other adults should read what teens read before judging what is and isn't acceptable.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Corbin |
02-24-2006 |
Books
Cash Woesnew
A new spate of books shows how the love of money infects our lives.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joab Jackson |
09-19-2005 |
Books
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