I have just finished the book about Crass called “The Story of Crass” by George Berger. I saw Crass twice in the 80s. The first ..
This weekend I read and really enjoyed Nanna Bonde Thylstrup’s The Politics of Mass Digitization (2018). The book considered ..
I’ve been writing and reading intermittently over the last month trying to get a basic draft of my introduction done on an unrealistic ..
One of the best parts of book production is that it’s a pretty intensive operation. Once a book going into typesetting, it tends to occupy ..
Over the weekend, I read Amara Thorton’s Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People (UCL 2018). The book documents the efforts ..
Like most publishers, I really like books. It’s not just the content of books, but also their physical form, the indeterminacy of the medium ..
On the way to and from the European Association of Archaeologists annual meeting in Barcelona, I read two J.G. Ballard novels, The Drowned ..
This weekend was largely turned over to work on two upcoming projects from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota. When I first ..
A couple of weeks ago, Kostis Kourelis sent me the first volume of Grass Kings, a comic book by Matt Kindt and Tyler Jenkins. ..
Over the last year, I’ve been whispering about this project a bit. Kyle Conway is editing an updated version of The Williston ..
The essays have been copy edited, sent back to their authors, and some have even been returned to the publisher! Eric Burin’s Protesting ..
I know that Friday is traditionally reserved for my quick hits and varia, but the last couple of summers, I’ve taken a bit of a break ..
This weekend, I read Averil Cameron’s new little book titled Byzantine Christianity (2017). At about 120, modest-sized pages, it’s ..
Over the last week or so, I’ve been pecking away at a review of Shannon Lee Dawdy’s Patina: A Profane Archaeology (2016) for the American ..
A few months ago, I started to try to write a book proposal for a book on the archaeology of contemporary American culture for the University ..
It is pretty exciting to announce the paper publication of the first volume of the new North Dakota Quarterly Supplement Series. This series ..
I haven’t written a Teaching Thursday for a while, and this semester, my teaching has been particularly invigorating (aside from having ..
Book launch days are always the best days, and today’s book (re)launch is particularly sweet. The Digital Press at the University ..
Over the weekend, I squeezed in a couple of hours to finish reading Bruno Latour’s Facing Gaia. As readers of this blog know, I have ..
Last weekend, the night before the Eagles punched their ticket to the Super Bowl, a group of us got together to talk punk rock in the Trump ..
I was initially drawn to Micah Bloom’s Codex project because it combined two elements that have become more or less central to my life: ..
I’m super excited to announce that the digital version of Codex is (a)live now. Go and download it! This project feels like ..
If you’re in the Minot, North Dakota area, you should make a point to come and check out my presentation with Micah Bloom, the author ..
I used to do this more often (and I probably should do it more), but today, I’m going to send you over to the North Dakota Quarterly ..
We’re getting really close to releasing Micah Bloom’s Codex. Really close. Close enough to have two cover drafts ..
I finally got a chance to finish reading Brian James Schill’s This Years Work in the Punk Bookshelf, or, Lusty Scripts (2017). It is a vital ..
This is probably too grandiose a title for this blog post, but after my post last week, I realized that I had some odds and ends that I meant ..
A few weeks ago, Sebastian Heath, one of the more thoughtful and long-standing participants in my corner of digital archaeology, and I got into ..
Like 98% of the Classicists (or at least Hellenists) in the world right now, I’ve just finished reading Johana Hanink’s The Classical ..
10 Things… is a recurring new music feature in which an artist goes H.A.M. on a particular topic. It’s always been easy ..
This week, I’m taking a break from reviewing music, mainly because I’m not that enthused by what I’ve got in the review ..
For this week’s reading in my graduate seminar on the history of higher education, I asked the students to read Gary Hall’s ..
The last few weeks have been busy ones for The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota. We are in the process of negotiating a collaboration ..
Vinyl’s resurgence isn’t waning away anytime soon. Not if Discogs, that online, crowdsourced arena for popular and rare audio ..
This weekend I finished Charles Dorn’s For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America (2017) which I had assigned ..
Book are born from the inside out. First the content, then the design, finally the front matter and index, and finally the cover. Bret Weber ..
Working as both a publisher and an author has given me certain insights into the tricky final stage of the publication process: page proofs. ..
I really enjoyed John Haldon’s latest survey of the 7th century, The Empire that Would Not Die (Harvard 2016). It navigated a very ..
I got page proofs this week for my book with Bret Weber: The Bakken: An Archaeology of an Industrial Landscape which will be out this fall ..
Nick Cave has made a career, a life really, out of unique storytelling and living as libertine an existence as possible. Over the years ..
If you haven’t read Matthew Desmond’s 2016 book, Evicted, you should. It is the best non-fiction book I’ve read for years ..
Over the past week or so, I’ve worked my way through Luca Zavagno’s new book, Cyprus between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages ..
I’ve been thinking a good bit about how books work lately for three reasons. First, sometime this fall, North Dakota State University ..
Traditionally, academic publishers fulfill several key steps in moving a manuscript to publication. Once they receive the manuscript, they ..
Some good news today from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota. David Haeselin’s Haunted by Water: the Future of Memory ..
This spring saw the publication of two new books from the Digital Press at the University of North Dakota. A third will appear this fall ..
I am really excited to share Defending History: The Graduates’ Manifesto with the world. This small book emerged over the course of my graduate ..
Today is the last day of classes for the spring semester and I have to begin thinking about my summer reading list. I have something like ..
As a member of the Kostis Kourelis and Richard Rothaus reading collective, I was told to read Craig Martin’s little book titled Shipping ..
Please do join me in congratulating David Haeselin and his students in the Writing, Editing, and Publishing program at the University of North ..