Available in paperback and electronic formats, with new forewords, from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Read moreWilliam H. Whyte classics arrive as e-books
May 8th, 2013
Available in paperback and electronic formats, with new forewords, from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Read moreRead a sample; buy the book. Overview and endorsements Choice magazine has awarded its prize for outstanding academic title in 2012 to American Urban Form: A Representative History, by MIT urban history professor Sam Bass Warner (author of Streetcar Suburbs, etc.) and recent MIT planning grad Andrew Whittemore, with line drawings by Whittemore.
Read moreFrom Kunstmann Verlag catalog page for the fall 2013: Other licenses in the wake of Killing Them Softly, the 2012 movie starring Brad Pitt, include the large-scale Vintage Books reissue of Cogan’s Trade along with ten other novels by George V. Higgins (Google Play; Amazon.com; iTunes; B&N; IndieBound; etc.). Orion (UK) reissued Cogan and six other Higgins titles, in electronic and/or paperback format(s). Foreign language licenses so far include: Chinese (simplified: Shanghai Translation;…
Read moreWordandFilm.com puts it concisely and well: George V. Higgins’s 1974 crime novel Cogan’s Trade breezed through theaters last fall in the form of Killing Them Softly, a cerebral bloodbath starring Brad Pitt as an assassin hired to round up a trio of wannabe gangsters. This week’s Blu-ray and DVD release gives Higgins fans another chance to savor Higgins’s…
Read moreLaunch party for The Hub’s Metropolis (MIT Press) at Newtonville Books on Sunday, April 21, at 2pm. (Details here.) Author James O’Connell was on hand. MIT Press, 2013
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