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Bookish Links and Delightful Miscellany

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In case anyone is looking for a Christmas present idea for me, here you go (posted by A Novel Idea Bookstore): I've been good, I promise. 🙂 New App for Literary Journals LitRagger gathers the best small press literature has to offer into one convenient space for people who love great fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Our titles consistently publish work featured in the Best American and Pushcart Prize anthologies.  The collection includes Prairie Schooner. (via Galleycat) A young couple made a printing press from Ikea drawers Charles and Jenny used it to print the covers of their wedding programs. They … Continue reading Bookish Links and Delightful Miscellany

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Happy Hanukkah from the Press!

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To celebrate the Festival of Lights, we've created our own rendition of “I Have a Little Dreidel.” Listen to the piano accompaniment here and sing along!  I have a little story That is published by the Press With edits, proofs, revisions It is sure to be the best   Oh gifting, gifting, gifting Books from JPS You will want to give to those You like the very best   Waskow, Schwartz, and Adler Are authors not to miss Their books will surely please For your days of gifts   Oh gifting, gifting, gifting Books from JPS You will want to … Continue reading Happy Hanukkah from the Press!

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Review roundup

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The New York Times said Jason C. Anthony was a “…fine, visceral writer and a witty observer” in a review of his book Hoosh. Roger Welsch’s Embracing Fry Bread was in the Grand Island Independent. Suzanne Roberts won the National Outdoor Book Award Literature Category and was featured on KOLO-TV. Bluegrass Baseball by Katya Cengel was on the East Bay Express best of 2012 list.  Light on the Prairie by Nancy Plain was reviewed on TusconCitizen.com. On the Dark Side of the Moon by Mike Medberry was on the Idaho Statesman blog.  Continue reading Review roundup

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Krissed Off: The Searchability fetish

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In 2006 a colleague at a leading university press told me “searchability is a fad.” His comment has been on my mind ever since. Much of the discussion about electronic publishing, at least in scholarly circles, cycles back to searchability – the idea that our books will be more useful if readers can immediately home in on key words or phrases, either within a book or across many books. I spend a good part of my day with a search engine, so it’s not like I’m opposed to searching and searchability altogether. I’m not against electronic publishing either, although I’ve long … Continue reading Krissed Off: The Searchability fetish

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Bookish Links and Delightful Miscellany

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I don't know about you, but I love reading through all of the end of the year "best of" lists.  First up, Publishers Weekly "Even without hurricanes, assembling the Best Books issue is tough. To decide on our top 10, we went back to our tavern annex this year, editor after editor making their case for what should and shouldn't make it. In 2011 we all rallied around a popular novel; this time we threw that love at Chris Ware, who designed and hand-lettered our cover (featuring the first alteration of the PW logo in the company's history) based on … Continue reading Bookish Links and Delightful Miscellany

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From the desk of Nicole Tonkovich

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TonkovichNicole Tonkovich is the author of newly released, The Allotment Plot: Alice C. Fletcher, E. Jane Gay, and Nez Perce Survivance. Tonkovich recently began a blog where she will transcribe field diaries kept by Alice Fletcher during
her allotment work. Click here for the first entry. Below she discusses how she discovered her book's topic. 

I became aware of E. Jane Gay and Alice C. Fletcher while
watching Ken Burns’s PBS series The West.
I was immediately intrigued–both by the clarity and beauty of Gay’s
photographs and by the fact that these two women were well into their middle
age when they went West, where Fletcher supervised the allotment of lands to
the Nez Perce Indians from 1889 to 1892.

As I delved into the story I was initially attracted to Gay’s
work. In addition to her photographs, she documented the pair’s adventures in a
series of witty and sometimes-acerbic columns published in reform periodicals
of the era. What she was telling the readers of these newspapers differed in
detail and in intent from the reports her friend Fletcher was sending to the
Indian Bureau. Somewhat reluctantly, I began to read Fletcher’s records, as
well. She was in many ways Gay’s opposite: where Gay was acerbic and witty,
Fletcher was earnest and hectoring. Gay had a lively sense of irony; Fletcher
lacked that sense entirely. Yet together they were part of the conception and
administration of a major federal program that impacted not only the Nez Perces
but nearly every Indian tribe in the nation, decimating their lands and
endeavoring to erase tribal identities altogether.

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