Umami, Watchdogs, Blacklists, The Hockey Stick and More April Author Events

Dean Starkman, The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative JournalismA variety of Columbia University Press will be traveling from coast to coast to talk about their books in April. Among them are Dean Starkman, who will be talking about his new book The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism.

We have a couple of great events in New York City lined up for our food books: Kara Newman will be discussing her book The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets at Housing Works while Ole Mouritsen will join a panel about his book Umami: Unlocking the Secrets of the Fifth Taste at the Food Book Fair .

Mary Helen Washington will be in Detroit to speak about The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s and Michael Mann continues touring the country to discuss climate change and his book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines.

And these are just the tip of the iceberg; here is a full list of author events for April.

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