SHARP News

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This is the Autumn 2006 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Set in Adobe Garamond with Wingdings. Editor: Sydney Shep; Review Editors: Fritz Levy, Gail Shivel, Lisa Pon, Tina Ray Murray; Bibliographer: Robert N. Matuozzi. CONTENTS: SHARP HAGUE 2006; SHARP AWARDS 2006; SHARP MINNEAPOLIS 2007; A SHARP FIRST!; MACHIAVELLIAN CONGRATS; CONFERENCE REVIEWS; FORTHCOMING EVENTS; BOOK REVIEWS; IN SHORT; BOOK REVIEWS UPDATE; EXHIBITION REVIEWS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; RED UPDATE; JEBS RELAUNCH; BIBLIOGRAPHY; OLD BOOKS, NEW USES; THE EXPANDING BOOKSHELF. This issue includes the following contributions: A First-Timer's Perspective (SHARP HAGUE 2006), by Judith Jennings (p. 1); From Our President, by Bob Patten (pp. 1-2); To the Membership of SHARP, by Leslie Howsam, Mary Lu MacDonald, David Stam, Elizabeth Webby, Alexis Weedon (p. 2); Award for Distinguished Achievement [ADA] (SHARP AWARDS 2006), by Leslie Howsam with a message from John North (p. 3); DeLong Prize 2006 (SHARP AWARDS 2006) (pp. 3-4); SHARP Student Prize (SHARP AWARDS 2006), by Ezra Greenspan, Jonathan Rose (p. 4); Open the Book, Open the Mind, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 11-15 July 2007 (SHARP MINNEAPOLIS 2007) (p. 4); A SHARP FIRST!, by Alistair McCleery (p. 4); MACHIAVELLIAN CONGRATS, by Jonathan Rose (p. 4); Publishing Classics since 1800 (CONFERENCE REVIEWS), by Sandy Malcolm (pp. 5-6); "Book Roads" in East Asia (CONFERENCE REVIEWS), by Peter Kornicki (p. 7); Magazines and Modernity in Australasia, Australian Studies Centre, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia, 8-9 December 2006 (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 7); BOOK REVIEWS, by Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch, Ellis Tinios, W.A. Kelly, S.J. Connolly, Victoria Gardner, Robert N. Matuozzi, Kai-wing Chow, David Finkelstein, Joad Raymond, Gillian Wright (pp. 8-15); IN SHORT, by Gail Shivel (pp. 15-16); Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 4 September-27 November 2005 (EXHIBITION REVIEWS), by Lisa Pon (pp. 16-17); Work of Many Hands: The Art of Islamic Bookmaking, Art Institute of Chicago, Parts I and II: 1 May-28 August 2006 (EXHIBITION REVIEWS), by Kay Shelton (p. 17); Sacred Leaves: The Book between Manuscript & Print, Tampa Library, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 22-23 February 2007 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 18); The Oral, the Written, and Other Verbal Media: Interfaces and Audiences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, 19-21 June 2008 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 18).