Category Archives: new books

May 20, 2013

Q&A with Friday Night Fighter author Troy Rondinone

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Gaspar “Indio” Ortega appeared on prime-time network television more than almost any other boxer in history. Rising from poverty in his native Tijuana, Mexico, Ortega used his skills in the ring and a sense of showmanship to take the boxing world by … Continue reading →

May 11, 2013

Q&A with Murphy Hicks Henry, author of Pretty Good for a Girl

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Murphy Hicks Henry is a professional banjo player and writer who founded the Women in Bluegrass newsletter and has written regularly for Bluegrass Unlimited and Banjo Newsletter. She answered our questions about her book Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in … Continue reading →

May 1, 2013

Friday Night Fighter: a Look Back to the Golden Age of TV Boxing

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Troy Rondinone’s new book Friday Night Fighter tells the story of Gaspar “Indio” Ortega, who was a hero for many Latin Americans as one of the first Mexicans to appear on national television.  Ortega was a standout in the ring during the Gillette … Continue reading →

April 21, 2013

Coming Attractions: Fred Ho documentary

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This week musician and activist Fred Ho will be celebrated at events featuring both signings of the new University of Illinois Press book Yellow Power Yellow Soul and also some screenings of the new documentary Diary of the Dragon: The … Continue reading →

August 30, 2012

Framing Insanity

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We have a selection of new titles that examine the different ways the U.S. legal system has defined insanity, especially in relation to gender. All of these books look at and try to answer the questions: Who defines the narratives? … Continue reading →

April 15, 2009

Mushroom Mania

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Our gorgeous new guide to wild mushrooms in Illinois is finally here, just in time for high mushroom season. Champaign Taste features it in today’s post, and one of the authorial mushroom hunters will sign books at our lovely local … Continue reading →

February 26, 2009

Starring Ronell by Willis Regier

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The debut of Examined Life gives Avital Ronell a celebrity that will amaze her, please her, and puzzle her, all at once. Choosing Avital as one of the principals in the film could hardly have been a better choice. She shares rare … Continue reading →

December 18, 2008

Just Landed: New books!

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A load of new books landed on my desk in the past few weeks: -African Women Playwrights edited and with an Introduction by Kathy A. Perkins (Dec. 8, 2008) -Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility, and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire … Continue reading →

November 4, 2008

Just Landed: November & December titles

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A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past few weeks: -Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader edited by Julie Malnig (November 17, 2008) -Life along the Illinois River by David Zalaznik  (November … Continue reading →

October 13, 2008

Just Landed: A bevy of new books

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A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past few weeks: -Terrence Malick by Lloyd Michaels (October 20, 2008) -Health Culture in the Heartland, 1880-1980: An Oral History by Lucinda McCray Beier (October 20, 2008) -AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders … Continue reading →