by David Yamane | Sep 27, 2023 | book publishing, Books, Gun Culture, Light Over Heat, scholarship
This week on “Light Over Heat,” I talk about the TWO books I am writing on American gun culture, tentatively titled: GUN CURIOUS and GUN CULTURE 2.0. In particular, I talk about what distinguishes them in terms of the substance and audience. The explainer on the two...
by David Yamane | Jun 15, 2023 | Books, conservatism, democracy, gun politics, gun rights, gun stores, Guns, Jennifer Carlson
I was asked to review Jennifer Carlson’s new book, Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2023) for the International Sociological Association’s journal, International Sociology Reviews. I am...
by David Yamane | Jun 13, 2023 | Books, Bruen decision, Heller decision, Law, Robert Spitzer
As I have noted previously, I write periodic reviews for CHOICE, a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries that provides reviews of scholarly books for people working in higher education, especially librarians. I was recently asked to...
by David Yamane | Feb 6, 2023 | Books, democrats, Gun Culture, gun politics, Guns, liberals, Mark Joslyn, Rick Wilson
I don’t post much about guns and electoral/party politics on my blogs because I find them frustrating and impediments to understanding gun culture. But I was visiting one of my best friends recently and talking about paths forward for my gun culture book. One...
by David Yamane | Jan 31, 2023 | Books, Gun Culture, My Experience
Among the reasons for my recent hiatus from online activity in connection with my research on guns is frustration at my literary agent’s inability to find a publisher for my book, Gun Curious: Inside America’s Evolving Culture of Firearms. This is not due...
by David Yamane | Nov 1, 2022 | Books, Gun Culture, National Rifle Association, Noah Schwartz
As my agent continues to try to find a publisher for my book on American gun culture, I feel bombarded by other people’s books on the topic. Actually, most books published on guns in America today do not compete with mine because they approach guns from the...
