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Blair Davis appeared on AMC'S James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction on April 30. He was  immediately preceded by Steven Spielberg while talking about War of the Worlds in the episode and discussed War of the Worlds and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Former New Jersey Governor and Rutgers University Press author James J. Florio was interviewed on April 22, 2018 on PIX11's "News Closeup with Marvin Scott" about his new book Standing on Principle: Lessons Learned in Public Life.

Former New Jersey Governor--and now Rutgers University Press author--appeared on NJTV's "On the Record with Michael Aron" on April 21, 2018 to discuss Standing on Principle: Lessons Learned in Public Life. Jim Florio has often been called a governor of consequence. In his new memoir, Standing on Principle, Florio shares for the first time details about his upbringing and personal life. He also...

The May 2018 issue of Town & Country article, "An Unofficial History of Rich Women and Their Diets," features Diet and the Disease of Civilization by Adrienne Rose Bitar. "'Actress Jean Harlow promoted a diet of lamb chops, steak, Jell-O, and tomatoes to lose six pounds in four days,' writes culture and food historian Adrienne Rose Bitar in her new book, Diet and the Disease of Civilizatio...

The Wall Street Journal reviews Stanley Kubrick by Nathan Abrams in the April 14-15, 2018 weekend edition. "In Nathan Abrams’s Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual, [an] exploration of the contradictions of Kubrick’s relation to Jewish identity, the film is seen through the lens of Biblical allusion and Kabbalistic interpretation.”

Tablet reviews Stanley Kubrick by Nathan Abrams on April 3, 2018, calling it "a pathbreaking new book." About the book: Stanley Kubrick reexamines the director’s work in context of his ethnic and cultural origins. Focusing on several of Kubrick’s key themes—including masculinity, ethical responsibility, and the nature of evil—it demonstrates how his films were in conversation with contemporary...

Historians on Hamilton by Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter is given a starred review in the April 1 issue of Library Journal. Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America’s Past. Rutgers Univ. Mar. 2018. 396p. ed. by Renee C. Romano & Claire Bond Potter. illus. notes. index. ISBN 9780813590301. $75; pap. ISBN 9780813590295. $24.95; ebk. ISBN 9780813590318. TH...

Former New Jersey Governor James J. Florio appears on WNYC's "Brian Lehrer" to discuss his book Standing on Principle on March 20, 2018 As a new governor's term in office gets underway, Jim Florio, former governor (1990-1994) and congressman (D-1) of New Jersey, and the author of the forthcoming memoir Standing on Principle: Lessons Learned in Public Life (Rutgers University Press, 2018), r...

Going Viral by Dahlia Schweitzer is featured on NBC.com in “Trump's border wall and ‘The Walking Dead’ have this in common: America's fear of the global apocalypse” on March 13, 2018. About the book: In Going Viral, Dahlia Schweitzer probes outbreak narratives in film, television, and a variety of other media, putting them in conversation with rhetoric from government authorities and news orga...

The New York Times interviews Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti author Mark Schuller on February 23, 2018 in a piece titled "Haiti Suspends Oxfam Great Britain After Sex Scandal." Mark Schuller, an associate professor of anthropology at Northern Illinois University and author of “Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti” said the aid workers who flooded Haiti after the earthquake, looking to put a “no...

The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) reviews Black and White Cinema by Winston Wheeler Dixon on February 23, 2018. "Hard as it is to believe that it has taken until now, more than half a century after monochrome film was unofficially superseded by colour, for a book-length study to be written on black-and-white cinema as a genre unto itself, it substantiates one of the many points made by Wheel...

The Guardian interviews Susan Brownmiller, feminist and author of My City Highrise Garden. About the book: Gardening on rooftops, balconies, and terraces is a popular trend. After thirty-five years of experience, Susan Brownmiller writes with honesty and humor about her oasis twenty floors above a Manhattan street. She reports the catastrophes: losing daytime access during building-wide renov...