Tag: Stanford Press

’sup? @ SUP

Out this month:  Connected: How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century | Steven Cassedy Connected  focuses on the decades from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth to 

What Is a Classic?

        This week we asked our Facebook and Twitter audiences, What Is a Classic? sampling insights from literarycelebrities along the way.       Longevity of the text, universal relevance of content, potential to catalyze human enrichment, and collective social advancement, were all 

Broadening the #Conversation

Using new technologies to continue age-old dialogues. by KALIE CAETANO “Why did you come here?” The erudite Alan Harvey, Director of Stanford University Press, poses this question during my job interview. To my ears, the question sounds nearly as chiding in his English accent, asked