Laney Salisbury’s soon-to-be released book Provenance: How A Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art was picked by Oprah Magazine as one of the “twenty five books you’ve got to read,” and was featured in a segment by Gayle King on Good Morning America.
William Hitchcock, whose book The Bitter Road To Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe was announced as a finalist for the 93rd annual Pulitzer Prize in the General Nonfiction category of Letter and Drama Prizes, was quoted in an article in The New York Times entitled “Great Caesar’s Ghost! Are Traditional History Courses Vanishing.”
Matthew B. Crawford’s book Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work was excerpted in The New York Times Magazine in an article entitled “The Case for Working with Your Hands.”
Bruce Tulgan’s book, Not Everyone Gets a Trophy, was reviewed in The Boston Globe.com, and he was quoted in the Wall Street Journal.com in an article entitled “Gen Y Gets Working,” and in a second article entitled “With Jobs Scarce, Age Becomes an Issue” at Wall Street Journal.com.
Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness is on The New York Times extended paperback nonfiction bestseller list. It was recently featured in TBR: Inside the List, and The New Republic. Read the NUDGE blog.
Kim Phillips-Fein’s book, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan, was cited in E.J Dionne Jr.’s new column in The Washington Post. Her article on conservative attacks on the New Deal appeared in the Huffington Post and excerpts from her book ran on The Daily Kos.
Andres Resendez’s A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca, is on The Denver Post paperback bestseller list.
Beverly Gage’sThe Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror, was reviewed in The New York Times and Newsweek. It was cited in a follow-up article in Newsweek, and Gage was interviewed about the book on Slate.com.
Karen Greenberg discussed her new book, The Least Worst Place: The First Hundred Days of Guantanamo, on the Daily Show. It was also reviewed in The Washington Post .
Dalton Conley’s new book, Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got From the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, Blackberry Moms, and Economic Anxiety is featured in The Wall Street Journal,Time, The New York Times, Forbes, Salon.com, Newsweek, Business Week, and The Boston Globe.
Lucy Knisley’s French Milk has been featured in Boing Boing, USA Today, Salon.com., The Comics Reporter, and People magazine.
Vali Nasr was cited in an article in The New Yorker entitled “Can Iran Change?” and aappeared on the Charlie Rose show to discuss Iran thirty years after the revolution.
Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science, has won a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT. He recently appeared on The Colbert Report.
Nate Silver’s Oscar predictions were discussed on Countdown, and written up in New York Magazine.
Kathleen Horan’s Relationship Obits: The Final Resting Place for Love Gone Wrong was featured in The Independent.
Alan Kazdin and Carlo Rotella’s latest article, “No, You Shut Up: What to do When Your Kid Provokes you into an Inhuman Rage,” appeared in Slate.
Dr. Robert Martensen, author of A Life Worth Living: A Doctor’s Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era, is interviewed in The New York Times.
Debbie Applegate was interviewed in the January issue of The Writer Magazine about her Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Henry Ward Beecher (”A ‘Crossover’ Success”). A Q&A with her agent, Susan Rabiner, appears in the same article.
Alison Bechdel’s Essential Dykes to Watch Out For has been named one of the ten best books of 2008 by The London Times.The book is also featured in The New York Times and New York Magazine.
Jeff Mac’s Manslations is featured on CNN.com and in The Sydney Morning Herald.
Seth Kantner’s Shopping for Porcupine was named one of Amazon.com’s top ten outdoors and nature books for 2008.
Marya Hornbacher’s Madness: A Bipolar Life appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. It is a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award.
Chad Ward’s book, An Edge in the Kitchen, was named one of the best books of 2008 by Slate.com and one of the best food-related books of 2008 by the Chicago Tribune.
Stephanie Coontz’s op ed Till Children Do Us Part was the most e-mailed article in The New York Times.
Nicole J. Georges’ Calling Dr. Laura is showcased in the latest Publishers Weekly Comics Week and Bitch magazine wonders if the J in her name stands for “just lovely.”
Tom Chaffin appears on YouTube, talking about his book: The H.L Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy.
