Author Interview: Austin Troy discusses ‘The Very Hungry City’
Earlier this month we took a look at January’s Book of the Month, The Very Hungry City by Austin Troy, which explores how cities around the world consume energy and discusses why energy efficiency will determine which cities thrive economically in the future. We sat down to ask Troy some questions on the particular need for the ideas proposed in his … Read more
Author Article by Neil Faulkner: Food, profit and the Olympics
Neil Faulkner is the author of A Visitor’s Guide to the Ancient Olympics, to be published soon by Yale University Press. In this regular blog, he comments on the London 2012 Olympics in the light of the wisdom (or lack of it) of the ancients. Article by Neil Faulkner The ancient Greeks were afflicted with a … Read more
Shelf Obsessed: New Yale book takes a look at the bookshelves of famous authors
Unpacking My Library: Writers and their Books by Leah Price was published in November 2011 to immediate acclaim from critics, publishing insiders and literary blogs. It gives a personal never-before-seen look at the bookshelves of a pantheon of renowned authors, including Philip Pullman, Junot Diaz, Rebecca Goldstein and many more. Today we take a look … Read more
Author Article: Joshua Chuang on Robert Adams’ Bibliography of Photography
Joshua Chuang, Assistant Curator of Photographs at the Yale University Art Gallery and co-organizer of the The Place We Live, the travelling retrospective exhibition of the work of Robert Adams, writes on the gallery’s publication history with this most influential of landscape photographers and Adams’ deep engagement with not only the American West, but the world of books. Article … Read more
The Evolution of the Book Trade: Extract from ‘The Book in the Renaissance’ by Andrew Pettegree
The Book in the Renaissance by Andrew Pettegree is a groundbreaking study of the fascinating, yet largely unknown world of books in the first great age of print, 1450–1600. In this exclusive extract, the author introduces us to post-Gutenberg Europe, an age when the printed book presented a myriad of opportunities — as well as challenges — to … Read more
