
Yet another positive review of Erin Hogan’s Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West appeared in last Saturday’s Chicago Tribune. Spiral Jetta is part travel essay and part art critique, but it’s the former that Tribune reviewer Ann Fabian focuses on. With her own daughter getting ready to head to Marfa, Texas, “to seek her fortune as an intern at the late Donald Judd’s minimalist art mecca,” Fabian found the autobiographical side of Hogan’s book most useful: Marfa was one of the sites that lured Erin Hogan out of Chicago and off on her auto pilgrimage to the big art of the West. It seems to draw folks (like Hogan and my daughter) worn down by city life. I had to read the book.… We learn about Hogan. She has been working in Chicago too long. She needs to get out of town. She needs to learn to be alone. She heads west in her trusty Volkswagen Jetta, crosses the plains and lands in Utah. She spends the next week looking for art there and in Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.… She talks to men in a bar, loses her wallet under a . . .
UCP to begin offering books online
Yesterday the Chicago Distribution Center, a division of the University of Chicago Press and one of the nation’s largest distributors of scholarly and professional books, issued a press release announcing an agreement with online content packager Tizra to begin selling subscriptions to online books. The University of Chicago Press itself will be one of the first of the CDC’s clients to begin offering books online through the new service beginning later this summer. From the press release: “We’re delighted to be in the first group of CDC publishers piloting the CDC/Tizra online service,” said Garrett Kiely, Director of the University of Chicago Press. “University of Chicago Press publications appeal to wide audiences: from general readers to educators and scholars. Our readers need to find us from wherever they are, with immediate access to the content they want. Tizra helps us meet that need.” To find out more read the press release, or see this article appearing in today’s Publishers Weekly. . . .
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