Philip Zimbardo and collaborators launch Heroic Imagination website

Philip Zimbardo and his collaborators at the Heroic Imagination Project (HIP) have launched a new website.

"The Heroic Imagination Project (HIP) inspires ordinary people to trigger extraordinary social change. HIP is based on the insight that all people have the capacity to act heroically, and that it's possible to prepare anyone to be a hero when called upon."

Bob Staake on Illustration Island Podcast

Episode 22 of the Escape From Illustration Island Podcast features an audio interview with Bob Staake.  Together we discuss his years of experience creating artwork for everything from the New Yorker to Mad Magazine.  We also talk about the challenges involved in making a dramatic shift in style and the concept of submitting your work to Illustration annuals.

Forking Fantastic! in Rachel Ray Magazine

Rachel Ray Magazine pulls a tip from Forking Fantastic! in "9 Ways to Eat Better and Save Money"

Phil Zimbardo discusses heroism on Newsweek.com

Phil Zimbardo, founder of The Heroic Imagination Project, discusses the capacity for heroic action in ordinary people on Newsweek.com.

TREASURES OF THE EARTH recommended in Scientific American

Saleem Ali's Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future has been selected as a recommended read in the January 2010 issue of Scientific American.

THE GARDNER HEIST a pick from The New Yorker Books Department

Jeffery Toobin of The New Yorker mentions Ulrich Boser's The Gardner Heist in "What We Read This Year."

Yes, that's what I heard, too.

Timothy Taylor's BLUE LIGHT PROJECT sold to Soft Skull

Timothy Taylor’s BLUE LIGHT PROJECT, a literary thriller that uses a four-day hostage siege in the not-too-distant future, during which a city unravels and three disparate lives intersect, to explore if art still has the power to transcend, even in the sinister face of our interconnected world, to Denise Oswald at Soft Skull.

Authors of FORKING FANTASTIC! on Brian Lehrer

Authors of FORKING FANTASTIC!, Zora O’Neill and Tamara Reynolds appear on the “Brian Lehrer Show” every Thursday in December, 10AM

"Season's Eatings: Holiday Traditions" 12/17

“Season’s Eatings: The Gift of Food” 12/10

“Season’s Eating’s: Entertaining on a Budget” 12/3

“Dinner Party On!” 11/26

Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin’s TINDERBOX sold to Soft Skull

Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin’s TINDERBOX, a multidisciplinary investigation of HIV/AIDS, from its pathology—using new genetic findings to link its spread to missionary trade routes in 19th-century Africa—to an understanding of the cultural and scientific realities at odds with misguided political responses to the crisis, to Laura Stickney at Penguin Press.

CHE'S AFTERLIFE first on Michiko Kakutani’s Top 10 Books of 2009

Michael Casey’s Che’s Afterlife is the first of Michiko Kakutani’s Top 10 Books of 2009 in the New York Times Holiday Gift Guide.