Brian Carroll: 11 books

Writing and Editing for Digital Media teaches students how to write effectively for digital spaces—whether writing for an app, crafting a story for a website, blogging, or using social media to expand the conversation. The lessons and exercises in each chapter help students build a solid understanding...

So far, Paul Keating is the only Australian Prime Minister to provide star material for a musical comedy. Who can imagine any of the others doing that? Even before he became Prime Minister, Keating had made a name for himself as someone who could dominate Parliament with his rapid and cutting ripostes....

In 1980, Alan Cancelino had gathered together a metric ton of darkroom photo recovery silver when the price went to fifty bucks an ounce. That's right. A metric ton. He sold it, quit the photo business, and put a blues band together. Then he launched a legendary music and cocaine bender that had thousands...

For Centuries, Prophets have been declaring ours to be a Golden Age of Transcendence. Either that or the end of days. So naturally, there's good money to be made off folks who are either completely terrified or trying their best to get the hang of enlightenment. After all, in a world that's ripping...

Writing for Digital Media teaches students how to write effectively for online audiences—whether they are crafting a story for the website of a daily newspaper or a personal blog. The lessons and exercises in each chapter help students build a solid understanding of the ways that the Internet has...

Governor-General Sir John Kerrs dismissal of the elected Whitlam Government in 1975, more or less at the behest of the Liberal-Country Party Coalition led by Malcolm Fraser, was among the most momentous events in Australian political history. Born into a privileged life Whitlam joined the Australian...

*Finalist for the 2007 Seymour Medal of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).* *Winner of the 2007 Robert Peterson Book Award of the Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball* When to Stop the Cheering? documents the close and often conflicted relationship...

This book brings into dramatic relief the dilemma, or devil's bargain, that faced the black press in first building up black baseball, then crusading for the sport's integration and, as a result of that largely successful campaign, ultimately encouraging and even ensuring the demise of those same...

The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genre—including stories from award-winning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Seanan McGuire, and Paul Tremblay. Everyone loves a good ghost story, especially Ellen...

From Ellen Datlow, award-winning and genre-shaping editor of more than fifty anthologies, and twenty of horror’s established masters and rising stars, comes an all-original look into the beautiful, terrible, tragic, and terrifying. Wander through visions of the most terrible of angels, the...

They're coming for you. In 1968, a young and ambitious film maker created an iconic cinematic masterpiece and changed the industry forever. 50 years later, a group of hardy writers converged in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to celebrate the 50th anniversary of George Romero's classic, Night of the...