About Joe Gallagher

Joe Gallagher is the Digital Marketing Manager for Doubleday Books. He lives in Brooklyn and has his escape route planned should the zombies come.

August 18, 2012

A Free Pass to Revisit Machiavelli’s The Prince

Machiavelli's classic prescription for power is yours for the taking -- and we've got a bonus peek at an upcoming novel as well.

May 9, 2012

The Man Who Froze the World: Mark Kurlansky’s Birdseye

Mark Kurlansky wrote a book-within-a-book when he put together Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man. The author of Salt and Cod could not resist penning a new history of a ubiquitous consumable: ice.

March 11, 2012

Finding Fame from the Bench: Mark Titus’ Don’t Put Me In, Coach

Despite spending four years on the Ohio State Buckeyes, Mark Titus played very little college basketball. However, he manages to make every single one of his forty-eight career minutes into a memorable moment in his new memoir, Don't Put Me In, Coach.

December 11, 2011

Colson Whitehead’s Zone One: Why We Can’t Stop (Talking About) the Zombies

Zone One endeavors to explore the materialistic aspect of humans losing their humanity by highlighting the necessity of the zombie plot. And it certainly succeeds.