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Turning the Page: Book Culture in the Digital Age―Essays, Reflections, Interventions
American Book Review is not just a book review―it is also the heart and soul of writerly writing and small press publishing. In 2006, the publication was relocated to Victoria, Texas, where cultural critic and philosopher Jeffrey R. Di Leo became editor and publisher. Turning the Page collects Di Leo’s contributions to American Book Review from his more recent “Page 2” entries on “social reading” and book bannings in Arizona to his early engagements with the work of Raymond Federman and Harold Jaffe. The common themes are book and publishing culture, and how they intersect with current problems in the humanities, including the rise of neoliberalism.
“There is no dimension of contemporary book culture that Jeffrey Di Leo doesn’t examine beautifully in Turning the Page . These essays are essential reading for everyone who cares about the state of literature today.”―Charles Johnson, author, Middle Passage
“For the past decade, Jeffrey Di Leo, the editor of American Book Review , has been a witty, genial, super-well-informed, and incisive guide to what’s been happening on the literary scene as well as the public world beyond it.”―Marjorie Perloff, Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities Emerita, Stanford University
“Literary culture is going through convulsions not seen since the emergence of the printing press, which is exactly why Jeffrey Di Leo’s Turning the Page is such necessary reading.”―Steve Tomasula, author, A New-Media Novel
“There is no dimension of contemporary book culture that Jeffrey Di Leo doesn’t examine beautifully in Turning the Page . These essays are essential reading for everyone who cares about the state of literature today.”―Charles Johnson, author, Middle Passage
“For the past decade, Jeffrey Di Leo, the editor of American Book Review , has been a witty, genial, super-well-informed, and incisive guide to what’s been happening on the literary scene as well as the public world beyond it.”―Marjorie Perloff, Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities Emerita, Stanford University
“Literary culture is going through convulsions not seen since the emergence of the printing press, which is exactly why Jeffrey Di Leo’s Turning the Page is such necessary reading.”―Steve Tomasula, author, A New-Media Novel
176 pages, Paperback
First published May 15, 2014
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About the author
Jeffrey R. Di Leo
52 books3 followersJeffrey R. Di Leo is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston–Victoria. He is editor and founder of the critical theory journal symplokē, editor and publisher of the American Book Review, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange.
Di Leo is a past member of the Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly (Teaching as Profession), and is the former president of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts.
He received a BA in Philosophy and Economics from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and an MA in Philosophy, an MA in Comparative Literature, and a dual PhD in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from Indiana University, Bloomington. He has taught at Georgia Tech and the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Di Leo was born and raised in Vineland, New Jersey. He lives in Victoria, Texas with his wife, Nina, and their two sons.
Di Leo is a past member of the Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly (Teaching as Profession), and is the former president of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts.
He received a BA in Philosophy and Economics from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and an MA in Philosophy, an MA in Comparative Literature, and a dual PhD in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from Indiana University, Bloomington. He has taught at Georgia Tech and the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Di Leo was born and raised in Vineland, New Jersey. He lives in Victoria, Texas with his wife, Nina, and their two sons.
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July 10, 2015
Jeffrey R. Di Leo, professor at the University of Houston-Victoria and editor of the journals symploke and the American Book Review, has collected 54 of his most salient reviews and articles in Turning the Page: Book Culture in the Digital Age—Essays, Reflections, Interventions (Texas Review Press, 2014).
Ranging from discussions of neoliberal corporate publishing practices (and their impact on smaller presses) to incisive ruminations on the role of literature in society and best practices in both criticism and creative writing, the pieces in Turning the Page (even the many reviews reprinted from ABR) showcase the eloquence, humanity and expertise of one of most fascinating minds in Texas. A must-read for writers, editors and critics.
Ranging from discussions of neoliberal corporate publishing practices (and their impact on smaller presses) to incisive ruminations on the role of literature in society and best practices in both criticism and creative writing, the pieces in Turning the Page (even the many reviews reprinted from ABR) showcase the eloquence, humanity and expertise of one of most fascinating minds in Texas. A must-read for writers, editors and critics.
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