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Donato Ndongo will read from his novel Shadows of your Black Memory and discuss African literature in Spanish at the Instituto Cevantes of Chicago, 31 W. Ohio St., on April 24, 2008.

Donato Ndongo (born 1950 in Neifang, Equatorial Guinea) is a novelist, essayist, journalist, and part of a movement of young Afro-descended authors who have contributed their African experience and traditions to Hispanic culture. Currently, Ndongo is a visiting scholar at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

The event takes place Thursday, April 24, at 6:30 PM. A reception will follow.

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Dan Gordon was interviewed today about Your Brain on Cubs on NPR's "Science Friday" hosted by Ira Flatow. In anticipation of Opening Day on Monday, Gordon appeared with several other guests on an hour-long baseball-themed segment of the show to discuss the science and psychology of baseball, fan loyalty, and other intriguing topics.

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Your Brain on Cubs: Inside the Heads of Players and Fans continues to receive great coverage with a newly published article on the Cubs's official MLB.com website. Writer Jon Greenberg discusses both the March 10th launch party and the book itself, noting

The avuncular [Aryeh] Routtenberg, a neurobiology/psychology professor at Northwestern and self-avowed former Cubs fan (He declared any serious interest kaput after a particularly painful LaTroy Hawkins appearance in 2004), was one of the panelists earlier this month at a book release party at the Cubby Bear for "Your Brain on Cubs: Inside the Heads of Players and Fans," a look into the minds of sports fans and athletes by doctors, psychologists and medical experts who sometimes moonlight as baseball fans.

Routtenberg was a hit among the 80 or so in attendance at the Wrigleyville bar for the panel discussion on the book sponsored by the Illinois Science Council. At one point he livened up a fairly boring discussion by theorizing that a "toxic chemical" resides in the blades of grass at Wrigley Field and releases "negative karma" at crucial moments, like, say, in Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series.

But half-baked theories like that aren't in the popular science book, which has seven chapters, written by 11 contributors, that link science and sports, from the mental reasoning behind superstitions to the neuroscience of hitting.

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Your Brain on Cubs editor Dan Gordon and essay contributor Dr. Steven Small were recently interviewed about the book on several Chicago television and radio programs.

The book and its editors were featured on WBBM-TV CBS 2, WGN-TV, WMAQ-TV NBC 5, and WGN Radio 720's "Sports Talk." The March 10th launch event at the Cubby Bear Lounge was also featured in Time Out Chicago.

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Opening Day is just around the corner and heralding this harbinger of springtime is the newest publication from Dana Press, Your Brain on Cubs. The book's launch event will be held on Monday, March 10th at 6:30 p.m. at the Cubby Bear Lounge, 1059 W. Addison. The event will have a discussion panel moderated by Chicago Tribune science and medicine reporter Jeremy Manier and featuring Your Brain on Cubs editor Dan Gordon, book contributor Dr. Steven Small, and special guest Dr. Areyeh Routtenberg.

In anticipation of the event, Chicago Tribune sport columnist Fred Mitchell featured the book in his column today:

The depths of loyalty for a franchise that has not won a World Series in 100 years boggle the mind. Especially your minds. Is it the allure of rooting for the perennial underdog? Is it the pursuit of a delayed gratification that the law of averages dictates will come to pass one day?

These are questions that need to be asked and answered for the future sanity of Cubs Nation. And now even neuroscientists are weighing in on this sports and society phenomenon that some view as sadistic.

Book editor Dan Gordon will also be interviewed by Dave Kaplan tonight on WGN Radio's "Sports Central."

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Christopher Maurer, chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Boston University, and Manuel Ángel Vázquez Medel, professor of literature at the University of Seville, will hold a Round Table discussion entitled
"Lorca's Search for 'Art as a Whole'" at Instituto Cervantes on March 17th, 2008 at 6:30pm. They will discuss the Federico García Lorca that might have been and Lorca's ambition to create a new aesthetic language integrating the arts.

Both Maurer and Medel are well known Lorca scholars. Maurer has translated Swan Isle's Sebastian's Arrows: Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca, amongst other Lorca works.

Instituto Cervantes is located at 31 W. Ohio Street in Chicago, Illinois.

03/17/2008

6:30pm
Instituto Cervantes
31 W. Ohio St.
Chicago, IL 60610

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Gwendolyn Wright will be discussing her newly published book USA: Modern Architectures in History on Tuesday, February 26th at Book Culture, 536 W. 112th Street, New York City. Reinhold Martin from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation will introduce Professor Wright and join her in the discussion.

More information on the event can be found here and here.

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Writers from New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg will be speaking on Thursday, January 31st at 6:30 p.m. at The Cooper Union's Wollman Auditorium, 51 Astor Place, 8th Street between Third and Fourth avenues.

Marshall Berman, Margaret Morton, Joseph Anastasio, and Kevin Walsh will engagingly discuss the state of New York City yesterday and today. Their presentations will feature images and colorful anecdotes, and will be followed by a question and answer period.

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New York Calling editors Marshall Berman and Brian Berger spoke on December 7th at Book Culture bookstore in New York's Morningside Heights neighborhood, near Columbia University. The store recently posted a Q&A with the two authors on Book Culture's website. A excerpt from the feature:

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Michael Ugarte, translator of Shadows of your Black Memory by Donato Ndongo, was recently interviewed by Syndicate Mizzou about his research on Spanish colonialism in Africa, the literature of exile, and democracy after colonization.

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On December 7th at 7:00 p.m., New York Calling editors Marshall Berman and Brian Berger will be reading at Book Culture bookstore, 536 West 112th Street, New York. In anticipation of the event, New York Calling co-editor Brian Berger was interviewed by the prominent online city magazine Gothamist about the book. An excerpt from the interview:

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Reid Wilson of Real Clear Politics recently interviewed Charles Mahtesian, an editor of the Almanac of American Politics, 2008. Mahtesian previews the 2008 political races and offers insight into the state of American politics.

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Raúl Barrientos will be reading in Spanish from his bilingual work Corriendo bajo la lluvia / Running Back Through the Rain at the Cervantes Institute of Chicago, 31 W. Ohio St., Chicago, Illinois 60610 on November 29th, 2007. Professor Ben Heller, who translated Barrientos' work with Christopher Maurer, will read in English.

Barrientos, a Chilean living in the United States since the tragic events of 1973, is one of the most recognized contemporary Latin American poets. This literary event is part of the Chile Hoy! festival of Chilean culture, presented by the Consulate General of Chile and the Cervantes Institute.

The event takes place Thursday, November 29th, at 6:30pm. A reception will follow.

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The lively New York Calling discussion panel last night at the City University of New York, sponsored by the Gotham Center for New York City History, was featured on the New York Times's City Room blog. Reporter Sewell Chan recounted the panelists' provocative arguments for the state of New York City yesterday and today:

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Gwendolyn Wright's keynote lecture at the "Women and Modernism" colloquium at the Museum of Modern Art was featured in the October 31st New York Times column by architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff. Using the colloquium and Wright's comments as a launching point, Oursoussoff considers the reasons why females continue to be underpresented in the architecture profession:

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Charles Mahtesian, editor of National Journal's Almanac of American Politics, recently wrote an article for the Washington Post on presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's chances of winning the 2008 election.

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Staten Island has the lowest profile of the five New York boroughs, but from The Godfather to The Wu Tang Clan, it has cemented its place in New York character and history. New York Calling essayists will talk about the fascinating culture of the Island on Saturday, November 3 at 8:00 p.m. at the Everything Goes Book Cafe, 208 Bay Street, in the Tompkinsville neighborhood on Staten Island.

Staten Island native essayist Steve Maluk, Village Voice food critic Robert Sietsema, and photographer and New York Calling co-editor Brian Berger will lead a lively evening of words, photos, and discussion that's sure to interest everyone. The event has garnered local attention, including on Dan Icolari's Walking Is Transportation blog.

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Donato Ndongo and Michael Ugarte will be appearing at the Gaines-Oldham Black Culture Center, 813 Virginia Avenue, Columbia, Missouri on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus to celebrate the release of Ndongo's third novel El metro.

The event takes place on Wednesday, November 14th, from 3:00pm to 5:00pm (CST).

Spanish Literature and Culture Professor Benita Sampedro of Hofstra University will also give a guest lecture.

A reception will follow.

Swan Isle will be publishing Ndongo's Shadows of Your Black Memory this fall.

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New York Calling essayists Luc Sante, Tim McLoughlin, and Brian Berger will be reading from their pieces on Wednesday, October 24th at 7:00 p.m. at Spoonbill & Sugartown, 218 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, NY. An audience Q&A and book signing will follow the sure to be lively reading, which has already been previewed on several local Brooklyn blogs.

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Gwendolyn Wright will be speaking on Thursday, October 25th at 6:30 p.m. at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She will be giving the keynote address at the Women in Modernism—Making Places in Architecture colloquium, which is sponsored by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation.

Wright's address will be followed by a discussion panel featuring leading architectural scholars and practitioners Toshiko Mori, Sarah Herda, Karen Stein, and moderator Barry Bergdoll. Wright is author of the forthcoming USA: Modern Architectures in History.

"At last, the book I have been waiting for: the story of modern American architecture deeply contextualized in the history of the last century and a half. Wright is that rare scholar who understands how intricately the built environment is laced into larger historical trends. This is a wonderful book for all who care about architecture and the long history of modern work, housing, and public life in the United States."
—Lizabeth Cohen, professor of history, Harvard University, and author of A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

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Partha Mitter will give a lecture on Sunday, October 21 at 2:00 p.m. at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. His talk will be drawn from his newly published book The Triumph of Modernism: India's Artists and the Avant-garde 1922–47. A book signing will follow the lecture.

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Michael Barone will be interviewed this Friday, October 19th at 1:00pm (EST) on National Journal's new radio show on XM Channel 130, the POTUS '08 station, a new 24 hour satellite radio station dedicated to the 2008 presidential election.

Linda Douglass, a contributing editor to National Journal, will talk with Barone about the 2008 race: Which states are likely to decide the outcome of the presidential election? Has the makeup of the political parties changed? Are voters as polarized as they have been in past elections?

The show will also be streaming live on National Journal's web site.

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New York Calling essayists Tom Robbins, Margaret Morton, and Brian Berger will be reading this Friday, October 19th at 7:00pm at Bluestocking Books, 172 Allen Street in New York City.

Time Out New York recently praised the book saying, "With Rudy running for President and Hilly Kristal dead, the timing couldn't be better for New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg. This fascinating, enlightening and sometimes irritating collection of essays pokes through the rubble of the past three decades and asks: What is the Apple without its worms—without its grifters, goombahs, B-boys, bohos and bums?"

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Professor Partha Mitter will be giving a talk entitled "Early Indian Photography and the Complex Legacy of the Mughal Era" this Thursday, October 18th at 6:00p.m. in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Art at Harvard University. Admission is free.

Mitter is the author of the newly published The Triumph of Modernism: India's Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1922-47.

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Danny Postel recently wrote an opinion piece in the Guardian imploring readers to consider more nuanced views of Iran's President Ahmadinejad's visit to Columbia University and the U.N than have been discussed in the American media.

Rather than support vitriolic nationalism, Postel, following Foucault and Sartre, suggests that Americans should remember "our real Iranian friends"; that is, the various non-governmental leaders who have been struggling for democracy and rights.

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Antonio Gonçalves Filho recently reviewed Enemies of Promise: Publishing, Perishing, and the Eclipse of Scholarship and interviewed author Lindsay Waters in Estadão, a Brazilian newspaper:

Lindsay Waters, executive editor for the Humanities at Harvard University Press, has issued a challenge to academics and publishers: to publish less, with more relevance. . . . Waters criticizes the "publish-or-perish" mentality that has produced an avalanche of books of little or no importance.

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Michael Liedtke, reporting in the Chicago Tribune, recently wrote an article entitled "Search Startup Ready to Challenge Google." The article concerns the work of Ronald Kaplan who is the Palo Alto Research Center's (PARC's) "top natural-language specialist," a researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), and the chief technology and scientific officer at Powerset, a company developing a natural-language search engine.

Whereas Google, Yahoo!, and others search by key word, the technologies being developed by PARC and Powerset are meant to allow for natural-language searches. For instance, suppose you wanted to know who distributes the Center for the Study of Language and Information's Intelligent Linguistic Architectures: Variations on Themes by Ronald M. Kaplan. Rather than entering a key word search similar to, "CSLI distributor books Kaplan" to find out who distributes the Center for the Study of Language and Information's books, one would hopefully be able to enter, "Who distributes CSLI's books?" or, "Who distributes CSLI's Intelligent Linguistic Architectures?"

The Tribune article notes that natural-language search engines have struggled in the past. Ask Jeeves, for instance, began as a natural-language engine, but quickly shifted to keywords (and changed its name to Ask.com). Others also point out that Powerset will have to be able to deal with synonyms and the multifarious ways in which questions can be phrased.

In case you would like to know more about Ronald Kaplan's research, the University of Chicago Press distributes a few relevant titles from the Center for the Study of Language and Information.

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Formal Issues in Lexical-Functional Grammar, part of CSLI's series of "Lecture Notes"

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Gelf Magazine recently interviewed Grant Farred, author of Prickly Paradigm's Phantom Calls: Race and the Globalization of the NBA.

Farred discusses the demise of ESPN's "athletic intelligence" and the importance of intelligent sports talk. As Gelf Magazine explains the interview, "Farred . . . speaks with Gelf about how ESPN has devolved over the last seven years, why some of its content is 'just crap,' and how the landscape of sports media has shifted."

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Prickly Paradigm is presenting an author event with four of its authors this Thursday, August 16th, 7:00pm, at the Book Cellar on Lincoln Square, 4736-38 N. Lincoln Avenue in Chicago.

Danny Postel will present Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran.

Labor lawyer and American Prospect columnist Tom Geoghegan will discuss his book The Law in Shambles.

Journalist Rick Perlstein will discuss his pamphlet The Stock Ticker and the Superjumbo: How the Democrats Can Once Again Become America's Dominant Political Party.

Anthropologist Matti Bunzl will be discussing his hot-off-the-presses volume Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Hatreds Old and New in Europe.

Prickly Paradigm Press conceives of its mission as follows:

The old-time pamphlet is back, with some of the most challenging intellectual work being done today. Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC is devoted to giving serious authors free rein to say what's right and what's wrong about their disciplines and about the world, including what's never been said before. The result is intellectuals unbound, writing unconstrained and creative texts about meaningful matters.

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On July 25th, 2007, the New York Sun printed an excerpt of Luc Sante's essay "Commerce" from the forthcoming Reaktion title New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg, edited by Marshall Berman and Brian Berger.

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John Corbett, co-editor of the WhiteWalls Sun Ra titles The Wisdom of Sun Ra, Pathways to Unknown Worlds, and the forthcoming Traveling the Spaceways, recently wrote an article on Sun Ra for Design Observer. Corbett provides an eloquent introduction to Sun Ra and his Arkestra, mapping the Chicago spaces inhabited by Ra and his collaborators as they developed the El Saturn label and launched the Arkestra.

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Paul Werner, author of Museum, Inc., will be interviewed this coming Sunday, July 8th, at 10:00am (AEST - Australia Eastern Standard Time) on Artworks, a radio show from ABC Radio National in Australia.

Audio of the show will be available from the Artworks site

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Those of us in the States tend to think that to be cool is quintessentially American. But, youth in other countries understandably think that they, too, exhibit qualities associated with being cool.

Dick Pountain, author of Cool Rules, recently wrote an article discussing the apparent link between the rise in violence in the UK and the rise of the "Cool (with a capital C)" ethic.

Pountain distinguishes between "cool" as a mere term of approval and "Cool," which he describes as:

. . . a complete ethic that encompasses those other senses [of the word], an extreme form of individualism that can be summarized as a conviction that society's mores apply to everyone except yourself, and possibly your mates.

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Bran Nicol, author of Stalking, recently wrote an article entitled "Mad About You: Modern day stalking, and old fashion passion" for American Sexuality Magazine, a publication of the National Sexuality Resource Center.

Nicol argues that "Stalking . . . is one of the signature crimes of our age," and that it is mostly a recent phenomenon. "The term itself, referring to systematic harassment, only enters the language in the 1960s and 1970s. . . ."

However, Nicol goes on to point out, ". . . [W]hile stalking is in one sense 'new,' a symptomatic crime of the late-twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries, it reveals that we are still in the grip of some very 'old' and unshakable attitudes about men and women and sexual desire."

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Danny Postel will discuss his book Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran on Thursday, May 31st from 1pm to 2pm in London, England. The event is located at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA), 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ.

Postel will be joined by two panelists:

Ziba Mir-Hosseini, senior research associate, London Middle Eastern Institute, SOAS,
Mary Kaldo, director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE.

The event will be chaired by Benjamin Ramm, editor of the Liberal.

Please email lectures@rsa.org.uk or visit www.theRSA.org/events for reservations.

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Liverpool University Press author David Supino will be giving the second annual Bernard Breslauer Lecture at the Grolier Club in New York City on Wednesday, May 23rd at 6pm. The event is open to the public and co-sponsored by the American Trust for the British Library. Supino will be discussing his bibliographical work on Henry James. Supino is author of Henry James: A Bibliographical Catalogue of a Collection of Editions to 1921.

All RSVPs and reservations are to be made through Maev Brennan at the Grolier Club, tel. 212-838-6690, ext. 7, or e-mail: mbrennan@grolierclub.org.

The Grolier Club is located at 47 East 60th Street, New York City (between Park and Madison Avenues).

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