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This week in publishing
What you may have missed this week at MQUP The Year of the Dragon First Nations Get Broad Promises on Indian Act, Development Congo Solo: Misadventures Two Degrees North David Alexander: The Shape of Place Mike Babcock: Leave No Doubt... [read more]
Praise for That's Got 'Em
That's Got 'Em!: The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman by Mark Berresford was the given the 2011 ARSC award for Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz. Wilbur C. Sweatman (1882–1961) is one of the most important, yet unheralded, ... [read more]
Stig Sæterbakken (1966-2012)
As noted on the Dalkey Archive website, Norwegian author Stig Sæterbakken took his own life this past Tuesday. [read more]
BOOK FACT FRIDAY
FACT: “On the night of July 7, 1937, skirmishes between Chinese and Japanese troops near Beijing’s Marco Polo Bridge broke out, marking the beginning of World War II in China. The fighting quickly spread, and by month end Japanese force ... [read more]
Paul Seabright, “On Lying, Risk-Taking and the Implosion of the Euro”
  We are delighted to announce that Professor Paul Seabright will deliver the second annual Princeton University Press in Europe lecture during the London Book Fair. This year’s lecture, which marks our annual celebration of the Princet ... [read more]
David Scheffer on BBC R3 Nightwaves
David Scheffer, the first US ambassador for war crimes, has recently published All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals with Princeton University Press. In the book, he discusses bringing some of the most no ... [read more]
Do You Need More Reasons to Read Raymond Roussel?
One of the precursors to the Oulipo, and cult-author extraordinaire, Raymond Roussel is one of those authors that everyone of a certain aesthetic leaning likes to rave about. He is the admiration of many a literary fan-boy, and if there ... [read more]
A Thousand Morons: The Movie Version
It’s not very often that an Open Letter book is turned into a movie (in fact, aside from Duras’s The Sailor from Gibraltar and Ilf & Petrov’s The Golden Calf [which was actually made into three different movies] I don’t think any of our ... [read more]
Press Author Jill Dolan Wins Prestigious George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism
Congratulations to Jill Dolan, author of The Feminist Spectator as Critic (1991), Presence and Desire (1994), and Utopia in Performance (2005) and editor of A Menopausal Gentleman (2011), for winning the prestigious 2011 George Jean Nat ... [read more]
Egypt’s Revolution a Year Later
Nearly a year has passed since the huge crowds in Cairo's Tahrir Square rallied to overthrow former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Yet, the Egyptian public remains loathe to articulate a coherent vision for Egypt, and "that is the ch ... [read more]
Putting scholarly editions online
"The text that scholars read matters everything to them because all their interpretations are based on what's in the text. And so if the text is defective, the interpretations are going to be affected." [read more]
Reflections on Vanishing Life in the Forests of Southeast Asia
Rattan is the common name for a diverse group of climbing palms found throughout Old World tropical forests. For centuries people have used them for binding, basketry, house construction, food, and numerous other non-market purposes; mo ... [read more]
The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan
Although much has been written on Okinawan emigration abroad, The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan: Crossing the Borders Within, by Steve Rabson, is the first book in English to consider the topic in Japan. It is based on a wide variety of se ... [read more]
Second Volume of Remembering Traditional Hanzi Now Available
Remembering Traditional Hanzi 2, by James W. Heisig and Timothy W. Richardson, is the second of two volumes designed to help students learn the meaning and writing of the 3,000 most frequently used traditional Chinese characters. (A par ... [read more]
Yoga, the Western Painting of Japan, 1912-1955
Maximum Embodiment: Yoga, the Western Painting of Japan, 1912–1955, by Bert Winther-Tamaki, presents a compelling thesis articulating the historical character of Yoga, literally the “Western painting” of Japan. The term designates what ... [read more]
Forests and State Authority in Contemporary Laos
Forests, as physical entities, have received considerable scholarly attention in political studies of Asia and beyond. Much less notice has been paid to the significance of forests as symbols that enable commentary on identity, aspirati ... [read more]
Big Little Brother iPad App Free Tuesday January 31
Big Little Brother was ranked one of the  Best Kids’ Book Apps of 2011 by Kirkus Reviews. But don’t take our word for it: for a limited time, you can download it to your iPad for free and judge for yourself! The Big Little Brother ... [read more]
Excerpt: War! What is it Good For?, by Kimberley L. Phillips
In this excerpt from "War! What is it Good For?" by Kimberly L. Phillips, the author discusses the antiwar activism of Langston Hughes and Nina Simone. [read more]
Mordecai Lee on the Reorganization of Federal Government
On January 21, 2012 the Milwaukee, Wisconsin Journal Centennial picked up the Texas A&M University Press author Mordecai Lee’s Op-Ed on President Obama’s recent plan for reorganizing the federal government. [read more]
Award Winning Titles
Congratulations to our recent award-winning authors! Paul K. Eiss has won the Mexican History Book Prize from the Conference on Latin American History for his book In the Name of El Pueblo: Place, Community, and the Politics of History ... [read more]
The Chronicle Revisits a "Rogue Scholar"
Richard W. Bailey's 2003 book, Rogue Scholar: The Sinister Life and Celebrated Death of Edward H. Rulloff, has inspired a post on the Chronicle of Higher Education's Lingua Franca blog. "Edward H. Rulloff was so well-known in his time t ... [read more]
What Schools are Really Blocking When They Block Social Media
Today's post is from S. Craig Watkins, author of The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future. Watkins is a researcher with the MacArthur Foundation’s ini ... [read more]
The Titanic Centennial and James P. Delgado's "Misadventures of a Civil War Submarine"
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the infamous RMS Titanic sinking. On April 15, 1912 over 1,500 people, passengers and crew members, died tragically as the Titanic plunged to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean after colliding with ... [read more]
Carl Jung and A Dangerous Method
In November of 2011 the movie A Dangerous Method starring Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender was released. The screenplay was adapted by Academy Award-winning writer Christopher Hampton from his 2002 stage play The Talking Cure, whi ... [read more]
Congo Solo: Misadventures Two Degrees North
The following is excerpted from the article Heart of Sharpness: Travel writer's long-lost work given new life by Kingston author by Hollie Pratt-Campbell. Seventy-eight years later, a long-lost travel narrative detailing American author ... [read more]
Turner Classic Movies reviews Henry Mancini
The Turner Classic Movies site has published a sparkling review of John Caps’s forthcoming book Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music. “Caps traces Mancini’s collaborations with important directors and shows how he homed in on specific ... [read more]
Ron Paul has two problems
By Corey Robin Ron Paul has two problems. One is his and the larger conservative movement of which he is a part. The other is ours—by which I mean a left that is committed to both economic democracy and anti-imperialism. [read more]
Interview with T.C. Steele Author
Rachel Berenson Perry is the former fines arts curator at the Indiana State Museum. In addition to organizaing art exhibitions at the ISM, she is the author of numerous articles for such publications as the American Art Review, Traces o ... [read more]
Pinzón becomes first European to land in Brazil
On January 26, 1500, Spanish sailor Vincente Yáñez Pinzón spotted land. He named the cape the Cabo de Santa María de la Consolación. The site was near modern-day Recife, Brazil, making Pinzón the first European to explore Brazil. [read more]
Can delirium be prevented?
By Anayo Akunne Delirium is a common but serious condition that affects many older people admitted to hospital. It is characterised by disturbed consciousness and changes in cognitive function or perception that develop over a short p ... [read more]
Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory around the Web
While researching his latest book, Hawai‘i’s Mauna Loa Observatory: Fifty Years of Monitoring the Atmosphere, Forrest Mims spent hours searching for a small, unmarked beach near Hilo Bay. It was here in December 1840 that the U.S. Explo ... [read more]
Knowing Tennessee Williams
In the News: Amina Gautier and her new book, At-Risk
In December, Amina Gautier, the second African American to have received the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Award in the award's 30-year history, visited several Philadelphia-area high schools, including Overbrook High Scho ... [read more]
Bachmann Is Back: A Guest Blog Post by Kirsten Marie Delegard
On Sunday, the anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision, U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann made her first public appearance since pulling out of the presidential race on January 4. At a protest against abortion at the Minnesota State ... [read more]
First Nations Get Broad Promises on Indian Act, Development
The following is excerpted from the CBC News article First Nations Get Broad Promises on Indian Act, Development by Laura Payton. The chiefs and the federal government disagreed Tuesday over what should be done with the Indian Act, the ... [read more]
Super Bowl Potluck
Planning or participating in a Super Bowl potluck? Wondering what to make or take? Look no further! Rae Katherine Eighmey, one of the authors of Potluck Paradise, has created dishes specifically for the Super Bowl teams two years in a ... [read more]
From the Protestant Reformation to the Failure of Modernity
Brad S. Gregory’s new book, The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society, is very much in the tradition of and in conversation with Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age. Both are large, sweeping books that change ... [read more]
Latest Review: "Mister Blue" by Jacques Poulin
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by contributing reviewer Larissa Kyzer on Jacques Poulin’s Mister Blue, which just came out from Archipelago Books in Sheila Fischman’s translation. [read more]
Endangered Language & Poetry in Mexico
David Shook—who has reviewed for Three Percent. in the past—is starting a new project to produce a short documentary film and a five-chapbook set of indigenous Mexican poetry. Rather than explain this in my own words, I asked him to wri ... [read more]
UNC Press Director Kate Torrey to Retire
Kate Torrey, the first woman to serve as director of University of North Carolina Press, to retire after 20 years at the helm. [read more]
A New Nation of Goods--Now in Paperback
A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early America David Jaffee 424 pages | 7 x 10 | 10 color, 107 b/w illus. Paper 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2200-5 | $27.50 | £18.00 A volume in the Early American... [read more]
Monthly Gleanings: January 2012
In the post on the C-word, I made two mistakes, for both of which I am sorry, though neither was due to chance. In Middle High German, the word klotze “vagina” existed, and I was going to write that, given such a noun, the verb klotzen ... [read more]
Idi Amin takes power in Uganda
On January 25, 1971, General Idi Amin took advantage of the absence of President Milton Obote to stage a coup and seize power in Uganda. Amin’s turbulent rule lasted only eight years, but in that time he earned him the nickname the “But ... [read more]
Capitalists against the Super Rich
“Are the champions of the capitalist system now turning against the super-rich? And if they are, what will they now do about it? How can change be achieved without undermining the logic of capitalism?” Raghuram Rajan, author of Fault Li ... [read more]
The hunt for the missing link
In these videos, John Reader, author of Missing Links: In Search of Human Origins talks about the treasure hunt that is the search for the missing link. [read more]
Author Tips: How to Prepare for a TV Interview
You get a call from your  publicist with the exciting news that you’ve been invited to talk about your book on a TV show.  If this is your first interview, you’re thrilled and also probably a little nervous. Here are … Continue reading → [read more]
Biography of T.C. Steele Available
At the age of fourteen, a young man in Waveland, Indiana, had taken over the family farm after the death of his father. Now responsible for taking care of his widowed motehr and supporting his four brothers, he took up the reins on the ... [read more]
New York Times Opinionator on Stephen Ramsay’s “Reading Machines”
In a January 23, 2012, New York Times Opinionator column on digital humanities, Stanley Fish explores Stephen Ramsay’s new book Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism. “At times [Ramsay] argues that however alien algorithmic ... [read more]
It’s tea time again! A quick Tea Party refresher
The Tea Party is once again making news in the election cycle, this time with stories of American slavery denial, a party-wide affinity for Newt Gingrich, and the launch of the party’s pet vessel, the S.S. Beaver in Gloucester Harbor. I ... [read more]
Book Trailer for In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman
Colonizer or Colonized--Now Available
Colonizer or Colonized: The Hidden Stories of Early Modern French Culture Sara E. Melzer 344 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4363-5 | $75.00 | £49.00 This innovative analysis of sixteen- and seventeenth-century Fra ... [read more]
Lord's Rights and Peasants Stories--Now Available
Lords' Rights and Peasant Stories: Writing and the Formation of Tradition in the Later Middle Ages Simon Teuscher. Translated by Philip Grace 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4368-0 | $69.95 | £45.50... [read more]
Can the Triquis Go Home?
Today's post is from David Bacon, a former union organizer and a fellow at the Oakland Institute. Bacon is the author of Illegal People and the forthcoming The Right to Not Migrate. This post originally appeared at New American Media. [read more]
Feather-Capped and Back-Patted
We’ve begun this year with a number of nice honors for books we published in the last. Seems that 2011 was a particularly nice year for HUP biographies. One of them, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Noveli ... [read more]
Yeah, We’ve Got a Book on That — solar flares edition
Think solar flares are going to wreak havoc now? Wait till you read what happened in the 19th century: [read more]
International Climate Policy: The Durban Platform Opens a Window
In late November and early December of last year, some 195 national delegations met in Durban, South Africa, for the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP-17) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the late ... [read more]
Dictionary droids write definitions untouched by human hands
There’s a new breed of dictionary, untouched by human hands. The New York Times reports that teams of programmers have developed software that automates the making of dictionaries, eliminating the need for human lexicographers, who may ... [read more]
Short Takes
The Charlotte Observer and Raleigh News and Observer call George Derek Musgrove’s RUMOR, REPRESSION, AND RACIAL POLITICS “an enlightening, scholarly, yet accessible book.” [read more]
The Year of the Dragon
Happy Chinese New Year! To mark the occasion, we're featuring some of our Chinese themed titles. In the Eye of the China Storm: A Life Between East and West By Paul T.K. Lin Paul T.K. Lin was a Chinese Canadian... [read more]
Sandra Gutierrez: Chile-Chocolate Brownies
Sandra Gutierrez shares her recipe for chile-chocolate brownies from The New Southern-Latino Table [read more]
Lunar (Chinese) New Year, Chicago Style!
As we ring in the Lunar Year of the Dragon (along with Warren Buffett, who played "I've Been Working on the Railroad" on his banjo (!?) to the Chinese people in honor of), President Obama reminds us that "we are... [read more]
George Lipsitz: Why Johnny Otis's death hits so hard.
BY GEORGE LIPSITZ Professor of black studies and sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara [read more]
Monday Media Roundup: Hanne Blank on Heterosexuality, Sam Skolnik on Gambling, Anita Hill on Women in Law
What do you know about the surprisingly short history of heterosexuality? Hanne Blank talks with Salon about her soon-to-be-published book, Straight. [read more]
Heart of Buddha
A century ago, Tanxu used his temples to establish physical links between Buddhism and Chinese nationalism. At the same time, though, he was guided by the belief that the physical world was illusory. The title of his memoir, “Recollecti ... [read more]
Duderstadt Weighs In as New York Times Debate Over College Sports Continues
Sunday's New York Times featured an article titled "How Big-Time Sports Ate College Life," which examines long-simmering issues of commercialization in college sports--a topic the paper recently reignited with two controversial opinion ... [read more]
This Week’s Book Giveaway (on Google+!)
Are you following PUP on Google+ yet? If not, today’s the day to add us to your circle—we’re giving away a copy of Magical Mathematics by Persi Diaconis & Ron Graham, along with a Magical Mathematics deck of cards to practice your magic ... [read more]
Monday Eye Candy: Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art
Happy Chinese New Year! To celebrate the year of the dragon, today's eye candy comes from Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art by Gao Minglu, which contains 150 color illustrations and 173 black-and-white ... [read more]
American Literature article wins Cohen Prize
Congratulations to Cody Marrs for winning the 2011 Hennig Cohen Prize for best essay in Melville Studies from the Melville Studies Association. Marrs’ article, “A Wayward Art: Battle-Pieces and Melville's Poetic Turn,” appeared in the M ... [read more]
So, what kind of music do you like?
It's the question teenagers have been asking each other for decades to size up each others' style, philosophy, and possibly even politics. There's no doubt about it, music communities matter. But how much credit should we give to musica ... [read more]
One Voyage, Two Thousand Stories
Downton Abbey opens with the telegram announcing that the Earl of Grantham’s heir, James Crawley, and his son Patrick, have perished in the sinking of the Titanic. Since Lady Mary was supposed to marry Patrick, the succession plans go a ... [read more]
Elizabeth Blackwell becomes first woman to receive a medical degree
On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell strode to the front of the Presbyterian church in Geneva, New York, to receive her diploma from Benjamin Hale, president of Geneva Medical College. The ceremony made Blackwell—who graduated first ... [read more]
Webcast: The Enemy of Engagement, HR.com
HR.com will be hosting a webcast with Mark Royal and Tom Agnew with the Hay Group and authors of The Enemy of Engagement: Put an End to Workplace Frustration–and Get the Most from Your Employees, to help participants uncover the … Conti ... [read more]
How to communicate like a Neandertal…
By Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge Neandertal communication must have been different from modern language. Neandertals were not a stage of evolution that preceded modern humans. They were a distinct population that had a separat ... [read more]
Exploring the God Concept in the Prayers of Martin Luther King, Jr.
O thou Eternal God, out of whose absolute power and in- finite intelligence the whole universe has come into being. We humbly confess that we have not loved thee with our hearts, souls and minds, and we have not loved our neigh- bors as ... [read more]
Webcast: Leadership Presence
Our American Management Association New Media Team will be doing a webcast with Kristi Hedges, author of The Power of Presence: Unlock Your Potential to Influence and Engage Others, next month. She will be discussing how to build person ... [read more]
Front Table: Paperbacks (Week of January 22nd, 2012)
Venice Ackroyd, Peter ¤ Anchor Books ¤ Publication Date: October 2011 ¤ Paperback ( 403 pages ) ¤ Category: History: European [read more]
Front Table (Week of January 22nd, 2012)
American Egyptologist Abt, Jeffrey ¤ University of Chicago Press ¤ Publication Date: December 2011 ¤ Hardcover ( 536 pages ) ¤ Category: Ancient Near East [read more]
Kathleen Graber’s “The Eternal City: Poems” wins the Library of Virginia 2011 Literary Award for Poetry
“Kathleen Graber, assistant professor of English in the creative writing department at Virginia Commonwealth University, won the 2011 Literary Award for Poetry for The Eternal City. Graber’s book suggests the miraculous in ordinary huma ... [read more]
Matthew Kirschenbaum's Literary History of Word Processing
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland and Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, is working on a new book entitled Track Changes: ... [read more]
Gone Too Far? Reproductive Politics in the Time of Obama
Roe v. Wade was decided on January 22, 1973, making it thirty-nine years old this weekend. In today's post, Carole Joffe looks at how the abortion debate remains one of the hot-button political issues in America today. Joffe is a profes ... [read more]
What happens when churches support anti-gay ballot measures?
BY AMY STONE Assistant professor of sociology at Trinity University in San Antonio and author of the forthcoming book Gay Rights at the Ballot Box [read more]
Story of a Tuskegee Airman
The new George Lucas produced film RED TAILS reminds American audiences of the heroics of the African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program. In historian J. Todd Moye’s book FREEDOM FLYERS: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II ... [read more]
BOOK FACT FRIDAY
FACT: “As part of his strenuous life, Theodore Roosevelt wrote a four-volume history of the American West, three biographies, and twenty-nine other volumes, plus some 150,000 letters. Winston Churchill would author forty books. A biogra ... [read more]
This week in publishing
What you may have missed this week at MQUP Excerpt from A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury The Digital Apocalypse Historian brings Thomas D’Arcy McGee to life What else? A newfangled online bookstore Some of my worst friends are books Has... [read more]
Praise for Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance
In December 2011 we published Steven Tracy’s edited volume Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance, which covers a vast collection of subjects, including many important writers such as Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Lorraine Han ... [read more]
Outstanding Academic Titles
Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture by Jeffrey A. Brown has been named an Outstanding Academic Title list by CHOICE. [read more]
“The Novel and the Sea” wins the 2012 Barbara and George Perkins Prize
Congratulations to Margaret Cohen, whose book The Novel and the Sea has won the 2012 Barbara and George Perkins Prize from The International Society for the Study of Narrative. The prize is awarded to the book making the most significan ... [read more]
Newt Gingrich, Chameleon Politician
Veteran Gingrich-watchers wouldn’t have predicted the latest Newt incarnation, either, but they probably weren’t too surprised. Over the course of his long political career – he first ran for Congress almost four decades ago – Gingrich ... [read more]
I Believe! The Origin of “Strange” Mormon Beliefs
Many discussions of the Mormon tradition emphasize the utter absurdity of their beliefs. The average reader is left wondering how on earth Mormons could be so incredulous. In context, though, these caricatured beliefs make a certain kin ... [read more]
The invented languages of Clockwork Apples and Oranges
By Michael Adams Belinda Webb’s futuristic, dystopian novel, A Clockwork Apple (2008), follows Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange (1962) closely in many details... [read more]
A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury
The following is an excerpt from A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky by Galya Diment. By the time Koteliansky arrived in England, there were around 250,000 Jews in the country, constituting 0.6 percent ... [read more]
Margot Canaday’s “The Straight State” wins the 2012 Order of the Coif Biennial Book Award
Margot Canaday's brilliant book The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America has won the 2012 Order of the Coif Biennial Book Award. [read more]
Book excerpt: Whiting Up, by Marvin McAllister
In this excerpt from Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels & Stage Europeans in African American Performance, McAllister describes some 19th-century black fashionistas in New York and Charleston. [read more]
iBooks and Textbooks
Apple released a new version of iBooks today and, as Dan Nosowitz at Popular Science notes, it’s designed to replace the textbook with the iPad: “The new version of iBooks frees the app from its prior restrictions–now it can boast … Con ... [read more]
Size acceptance at every size
by Tom Sullivan, Marketing Assistant at NYU Press In recent years, the size acceptance movement has blossomed from a tiny academic circle into a burgeoning force set to demolish standards of beauty and stigma towards the fat body. Howev ... [read more]
The First Two-Way Transatlantic Wireless Message
This Day in World History As you look for wireless hot-spots to connect to the Internet, thank Guglielmo Marconi. The Italian inventor championed wireless communication at the turn of the twentieth century—and demonstrated it on Januar ... [read more]
Tibullus’ Elegies: an excerpt
Tibullus was one of a group of poets known as the Latin elegists, whose number included Ovid and Propertius. Living in the age of Augustus, his poems reflect Augustan ideals, but they are above all notable for their emphasis on the pers ... [read more]
In LGBT Debates, Discomfort Is Part of the Point
Today's post is from Jay Michaelson, author of God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality. Michaelson is a writer, scholar, and activist whose work addresses the intersections of religion, sexuality, spirituality, and law.  [read more]
Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
Three University of Illinois Press books were selected for inclusion in Choice magazine’s annual Outstanding Academic Title list, which will appear in the January 2012 issue of Choice. Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color L ... [read more]
"Reality is alright, it's just messy and weird": An interview with Ian Bogost on videogames, social awareness, and the future of gaming
"Will innocents be caught in the cross-fire? Oh, yes. But when your secret weapon is a random act of kindness, it’s only cruel to be kind to other players...." Cruel 2 B Kind is an experimental game by Ian Bogost and Jane McGonigal. Her ... [read more]