The December/January 2010 issue of Bookforum features an essay by Laura Frost, author of Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism, on 9/11 and the novel. It’s behind a free registration wall, but may be found here: Afterwords.

On the Material World blog, Daniel Miller reviews Making Virtual Worlds: Linden Lab and Second Life by Thomas M. Malaby: Coming of Age in Digital Anthropology.

The blog Tyranny of the Prefrontal Cortex features a review of Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many by Erik Hornung. The reviewer also commends The Search for God in Ancient Egypt by Jan Assmann. Read the review here.

The “Letters from Abroad” blog on Tor.com features Keith McGowan’s long, entertaining interview with Kelly A. Joyce, author of Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency. A great read!

Letters from Abroad: Interview with Professor Kelly Joyce (Part 1)
Letters from Abroad: Interview with Professor Kelly Joyce (Part 2)

Inside Higher Ed features Scott Jaschik’s interview with James P. Sterba, author of Affirmative Action for the Future. Read the interview here.

The Medieval News blog features an interview with Valerie L. Garver, author of Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World. Read the interview here.

The October 30, 2009, edition of the Los Angeles Times featured Mindy Farabee’s interview with Candacy Taylor, author of Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress:

The Real Flos and Alices of the World

Barrett Lawson, author of A Bird-Finding Guide to Costa Rica, has produced a YouTube video as an introduction to his book! Watch it here.

In the November 2, 2009, issue of America, Terry Golway reviews On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York by James T. Fisher. Here’s an excerpt: “Fisher probably knows more about the waterfront than any living person who has not—as I assume he hasn’t, although one never knows—stood in line at a shape-up. Fisher has poured all that knowledge into a glorious book that ought to change how movie critics view Schulberg’s cinematic creation and how cultural historians interpret working-class culture in New York and New Jersey during the middle years of the 20th century.” Read the whole review here:
Shaping Up the Docks

America’s website also features a video starring Fisher: Waterfront Priests

The official blog of the Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages announced Merlin: Knowledge and Power through the Ages, by Stephen Knight: New Book on Merlin