Have a spare buck in your pocket? Allow me to recommend Matthew Pearl’s dramatization of “The Shocking Campus Shooting in Virginia You Never Heard Of”. This long short story/short novella (you can argue which it is among yourselves) is set …
As someone who has made a decent secondary income for the last twelve years writing technical books, a recent post in the SD Times caught my eye: “Are tech books dead?” it asks. The author comes to the conclusion that …
NOTE! This post was true at the time I wrote it, but I resigned my position at UVa Library in Dec 2011, so this post is outdated. The other day I wrote up a “it’s June 1st, sounds like a …