CFP: Book Reviews (10/13/05)
CFP: Book Reviews (10/13/05)
The editors of Sobriquet Magazine are
looking for reviewers of contemporary literature and criticism. We will
consider all reviews of novels, plays, poetry, criticism, and belles
lettres released since the start of 2004, but are especially interested
in the list following this message. Although we sometimes provide review
copies, we normally ask that potential freelance reviewers either own,
purchase, or borrow a copy of the book they wish to review.
Review essays can vary in length from 500 to 4000 words.
Though we prefer to receive reviews from active scholars and writers, we encourage a less formal writing style for reviews that we do for essays. The reviews should be coherent, well-written pieces, but are intended for an audience that extends beyond the academy. As such, we ask reviewers to avoid excessively convoluted language. Basically, have fun with the review, be creative and don't worry about sounding erudite.
Questions and comments to: editor_at_sobriquetmagazine_dot_com.
Books we would like to see reviewed:
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature: Essays 1962-2002 by John Bayley ed. Leo Carey
J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event by Derek Attridge
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
The Mirror of the Gods: Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art by Malcolm Bull
Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics and Law by Gianni Vattimo trans. William McCuaig
Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907 by Nadja Durbach
Somerset Maugham: A Life by Jeffrey Meyers
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
Rip It Up and Start Again: Post-Punk 1978-84 by Simon Reynolds
The Sea by John Banville
The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination by Gautam Chakravarty
The Trial: A History from Socrates to O.J. Simpson by Sadakat Kadri
The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy 1939-42 by Christopher Browning
What Good Are the Arts? by John Carey
Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme by Martin Jay
Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis by Michael Williams
American Prometheus, the Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin
Review essays can vary in length from 500 to 4000 words.
Though we prefer to receive reviews from active scholars and writers, we encourage a less formal writing style for reviews that we do for essays. The reviews should be coherent, well-written pieces, but are intended for an audience that extends beyond the academy. As such, we ask reviewers to avoid excessively convoluted language. Basically, have fun with the review, be creative and don't worry about sounding erudite.
Questions and comments to: editor_at_sobriquetmagazine_dot_com.
Books we would like to see reviewed:
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature: Essays 1962-2002 by John Bayley ed. Leo Carey
J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event by Derek Attridge
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
The Mirror of the Gods: Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art by Malcolm Bull
Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics and Law by Gianni Vattimo trans. William McCuaig
Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907 by Nadja Durbach
Somerset Maugham: A Life by Jeffrey Meyers
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
Rip It Up and Start Again: Post-Punk 1978-84 by Simon Reynolds
The Sea by John Banville
The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination by Gautam Chakravarty
The Trial: A History from Socrates to O.J. Simpson by Sadakat Kadri
The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy 1939-42 by Christopher Browning
What Good Are the Arts? by John Carey
Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme by Martin Jay
Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis by Michael Williams
American Prometheus, the Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin
The editors of Sobriquet Magazine are looking for reviewers of
contemporary literature and criticism. We will consider all reviews of novels, plays, poetry, criticism, and belles lettres released since the start of 2004, but are especially interested in the list following this message. Unfortunately, our funding makes it impossible for Sobriquet to provide review copies at present, so we ask that reviewers either own, purchase, or borrow a copy of the book they wish to review.
Review essays can vary in length from 500 to 4000 words. Sobriquet Magazine was established in 1995 as a print publication, but will be moving entirely online in September. We welcome reviews in time for the web launch, but our deadline is rolling and we will consider reviews year-round.
Though we prefer to receive reviews from active scholars and writers, we encourage a less formal writing style for reviews that we do for essays. The reviews should be coherent, well-written pieces, but are intended for an audience that extends beyond the academy. As such, we ask reviewers to avoid excessively convoluted language. Basically, have fun with the review, be creative and don't worry about sounding erudite.
Questions and comments to: editor_at_sobriquetmagazine_dot_com.
Books we would like to see reviewed:
Madame Bovary's Ovaries : A Darwinian Look at Literature
by David P. Barash, Nanelle R. Barash;
Delacorte Press
Scenes From A Receding Past (Irish Literature Series)
by Aidan Higgins
Dalkey Archive Press
City of the Beasts
by Isabel Allende
Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Susan Blackmore
Ending Life: Ethics And The Way We Die
by M. Pabst Battin
Mind: A Brief Introduction (Fundamentals of Philosophy)
by John Searle, John R. Searle
Science, Religion, And The Human Experience
by James D. Proctor (Editor)
Deeper Than Reason: Emotion And Its Role In Literature, Music, And Art
by Jenefer Robinson
Bradbury Speaks : Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars
by Ray Bradbury
Off Ramp : Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere
by Hank Stuever
Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times
by Kevin Smokler
Curious Attractions : Essays on Fiction Writing
by Debra Spark
Mr. Personality : Profiles and Talk Pieces from The New Yorker
by Mark Singer
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2, part 1, 1927-1930
by Walter Benjamin, Michael W. Jennings (Series Editor), Howard Eiland (Series Editor), Gary Smith (Series Editor)
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2, part 2, 1931-1934
by Walter Benjamin, Michael W. Jennings (Series Editor), Gary Smith (Series Editor), Howard Eiland (Series Editor)
Impertinences: Selected Writings Of Elia Peattie, A Journalist In The Gilded Age (Paperback)
by Elia Peattie, Susanne George Bloomfield (Editor)
I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays By Native American Writers (American Indian Lives Series)
by Brian Swann (Editor), Arnold Krupat (Editor)
Twilight Of The Long-Ball Gods: Dispatches From The Disappearing Heart Of Baseball
by John Schulian
Tennis Shorts: Great Wrinting on Tennis and Life
by Adam Sexton (Editor)
Gather At The River: Notes From The Post-millennial South (Southern Literary Studies)
by Louis D., Jr. Rubin (Foreword), Hal Crowther
Midnight's Gate: Essays
by Bei Dao, Matthew Fryslie, Beidao, Christopher Mattison (Editor)
New York Stories: The Best Of The City Section Of The New York Times
by Constance Rosenblum (Editor)
Closing Arguments : Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society
by Clarence Darrow, S. T. Joshi (Editor)
Victorian Women Poets (Essays and Studies)
by Alison Chapman (Editor)
Revolutionary Letters
by Dianne Di Prima
Literature and Tolerance: View from Prague
by Vaclav Havel, et al
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Haunted
by Chuck Palahniuk
Conversations With Don DeLillo (Literary Conversations Series)
by Don Delillo, THOMAS DEPIETRO
Diary of Andres Fava
by Julio Cortazar, Anne McLean (Translator)
A Dream in Polar Fog
by Yuri Rytkheu, Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature
by Dorothy Allison
Knight's Move: By Viktor Shklovsky ; Translation By Richard Sheldon
by Viktor Borisovich Shklovskii, Richard Sheldon, Viktor Shklovsky
Windy Arbours: Collected Criticism
by Aidan Higgins
Readers Of The Quilt: Essays On Being Black, Female, and Literate
by Joanne Kilgour Dowdy
The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays
by Caroline Knapp
Hoagland on Nature : Essays
by Edward Hoagland
Fiction, Essays & Poetry
by Frank J. Webb, Werner Sollors (Introduction)
Oui 2: Scientific Archangelism, Writings 1933-1978
by Salvador Dali
Berlin: The City and the Court
by Jules Laforgue, William Jay Smith
Horoscope
by Henry Miller, et al
Nobel Laureates In Search Of Identity And Integrity: Voices Of Different Cultures
by Anders Hallengren (Editor)
The Human Story : Our History, from the Stone Age to Today
by James C. Davis
The Measure of God : Our Century-Long Struggle to Reconcile Science & Religion
by Larry Witham
Clean and Decent: The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and the Water-Closet
by Lawrence Wright
Hairstyles of the Damned (Punk Planet Books)
by Joe Meno
Ramones: The Complete Twisted History
by Dick Porter
What the Butler Saw: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Servant Problem
by E. S. Turner
The Fall Of Rome: And The End Of Civilization
by Bryan Ward-Perkins
Damned: An Illustrated History of the Devil
by Robert Muchembled
From the Velvets to the Voidoids : The Birth of American Punk Rock
by Clinton Heylin
Fucked Up & Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement
by Bryan Ray Turcotte, Christopher T. Miller
Passion Is A Fashion: The Real Story of The Clash
by Pat Gilbert
The Clash : Return of the Last Gang in Town - 2nd Edition
by Marcus Gray, The Clash
Elsewhere, the author warns "[y]ou may think your blog is a harmless outlet. You may use the faulty logic of the blogger, 'Oh, no one will see it anyway.' Don't count on it. Even if you take your blog offline while job applications are active, Google and other search engines store cached data of their prior contents. So that cranky rant might still turn up."
He concludes the essay with "[w]e've seen the hapless job seekers who destroy the good thing they've got going on paper by being so irritating in person that we can't wait to put them back on a plane. Our blogger applicants came off reasonably well at the initial interview, but once we hung up the phone and called up their blogs, we got to know 'the real them' -- better than we wanted, enough to conclude we didn't want to know more."
Not surprisingly, a large number of blog postings addressing Tribble's essay appeared around the web in the days following the essay's appearance on the Chronicle's website. While many bloggers criticized Tribble's essay as hypocritical, close-minded, bigoted, or unrealistic, others reluctantly agreed that blogging, for academics, can be a very risky practice.
Sobriquet Magazine, a non-profit online publication, seeks intelligent, scholarly consideration of the impact blogging has had on the academic job market, the potential benefits and risks of academic blogging, and speculation on the future role academic blogs may have both in and out of the classroom.
Essays must follow the MLA style sheet.
All essays accepted for publication remain the property of the author.
Questions, queries, and submissions may be sent to: editor_at_sobriquetmagazine_dot_com
