Berkeley, California-based Publishers Group West was a book sales and distribution company that represented over 100 independent publishers. While it serviced some larger publisher imprints of Random House and Simon & Schuster, PGW was the marketing and distribution salvation for small quality presses like McSweeney’s, Soft Skull Press, and my own publisher Foxrock Books. On ...
Looking for a good place for you next vacation? Look no farther, I’ve got just the place for you. The beautiful mountains of North Carolina. The Great Smokey Mountains are part of the Appalachian system, on the N.C.-Tenn. border; highest range E of the Mississippi and one of the oldest uplands on earth. The mountains ...
In the words of Richard Feynman, “you can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird,” and that the only way to change this is to “look at the bird and see what it’s doing — that’s what ...
The Civil War has often been viewed and portrayed as a glorious and noble war. It is a war that divided the nation into two separate regions, North and South. It divided families between moral beliefs, those in favor of slavery and those who were opposed to the institution. Charles Frazier’s novel, “Cold Mountain” ...
