Congratulations to Nate Silver and the staff of fivethirtyeight.com for making the most accurate predictions in the 2008 elections.
See Nate on Colbert Report.
Read all about him in
New York Magazine
NY Daily News
Gawker.com
Read all about Alison Bechdel in The New York Times and New York Magazine,
Congratulations to Alison: The London Times has named Essential Dykes to Watch Out For one of the ten best books of 2008.
Watch Alison on The Colbert Report on January 7th.
Read all about how statistical analysis has come to college basketball in the new College Basketball Prospectus, as reported in Play from the New York Times.
Read Beverly Gage’s “Do Rookies Make Good Presidents?” in Time Magazine.
Read Alan Kazdin’s article “Why Can’t Johnny Jump Tall Buildings?: Parents expect way too much from their kids,” in Slate.com
See Tom Chaffin talking about his new book: The H.L Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy on YOU TUBE.
Congratulations to Seth Kantner - Amazon has named Shopping for Porcupine one of its top ten outdoors and nature books for 2008. The book has also been nominated for a PNBA award.
Read Dalton Conley’s “Rich Man’s Burden” in the New York Times.
Congratulations to Kim Phillips-Fein: Invisible Hands has received starred reviews from both Publishers Weekly and Kirkus.
Read Debby Applegate’s op ed “Two Can Make History” (on Obama and Clinton) in The Sunday New York Times May 25.
Congratulations to Marya Hornbacher. Madness: A Bipolar Life appeared on the New York Times bestseller list.
Read about Nudge: Small Changes, Big Consequences by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein on salon.com and in The New York Review of Books as well as Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, John Tierney’s New York Times column, The New Yorker, Business Week, and many other publications.
Watch David Perlmutter, author of Blogwars: The New Political Battleground, on “The Daily Show.”
Congratulations to Chad Ward: An Edge in the Kitchen was named one of the best food-related books of 2008 by the Chicago Tribune.









