SHARP News, the society's quarterly newsletter, features stimulating essays, book reviews, calls for papers, conference announcements, a listing of new publications, notes and queries, and reports on book studies throughout the world. From issue to issue, SHARP News addresses matters that concern all book historians everywhwere. There is no other publication in the world quite like it, and as a result it enjoys a global readership.
Here are a few sample issues of SHARP News, which you can download in PDF format.
SHARP is always looking for a few good contributors! If you would like to contribute to a notice or essay to SHARP News, please contact Sydney Shep, the editor-in-chief, who may be reached at the following address (please replace the word "AT" in this and other addresses with the "@" sign in your email):
Dr. Sydney Shep
Wai-te-ata Press
Victoria University of Wellington
P.O. Box 600
Wellington
NEW ZEALAND
Phone: +64-4-463-5784
Fax: +64-4-463-5446
email: editor AT sharpweb.org
Suggestions about books to review as well as offers to review should be sent to one of SHARP News's three book review editors:
Fritz Levy, Europe Review Editor
History Dept., Box 353560
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
or by email to reviews_europe AT sharpweb.org
or
Gail Shivel, North America Review Editor
5783 S.W. 40th Street
PMB 221
Miami, Florida 33155
USA
or by email to reviews_usa AT sharpweb.org
or
Simone Murray, Asia/Pacific Review Editor
reviews_ap AT sharpweb.org
Notices about exhibitions or offers to review exhibitions pertaining to book history may be sent to Lisa Pon at reviews_exhibs AT sharpweb.org or by mail to
Lisa Pon
Assistant Professor of Art History
SMU Meadows School of the Arts
PO Box 750356
Dallas, TX 75275
SHARP News also features news of recent publications; information about these should be sent to Robert N. Matuozzi at matuozzi AT wsu.edu