My old friend Janet just wrote me to tell me that her book on African art has finally been published. Sure enough, it’s right there on Amazon.
Art And Architecture In Postcolonial Africa (Amazon sales rank #224,993)
Congratulations, Janet!
I got to wondering how many other people I know have books out there:
- Me! (Well, it’s not my book; but my essay is in it.) Contemporary Irish Cinema (Amazon sales rank #758,754)
- Holly! (Again, not her book but her essay’s in it.) The Best American Essays 2005 (Amazon sales rank #12,046)
And that’s it. I mean, I’ve known professors who have published books that they’ve then made me buy for their class, but I’m not counting those.
On the self-promotion front, there’s Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life, for which I compiled the index; Acting Male: Masculinities in the Films of James Stewart, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood, in which I am thanked in the credits; and, finally, These “Colored” United States, of which I am practically the co-author (but that’s a [bitter] blog post for another time).
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"I got to wondering how many other people I know have books out there:"
HEY! You know two: yours truly (one forthcoming with another in the works this year) and Susan (lots of titles). Don't we count? Certainly these are not best sellers, but you can find some of them at major book stores, both online and "brick and mortar".
Posted by: arrmac | March 28, 2006 2:14 PM