Good to finally see our ex-governor one-upped in the news cycle by another state’s current governor. […]
Category: miscellaneous
Style points, full circle
I heard this week that a well-known monthly periodical is planning to run a short excerpt from our forthcoming book Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews. Previous posts may provide clues […]
A tale of two mailings
Last week I shipped a handful of The Only True God review copies to bloggers. One of the sites, Antiquitopia, has posted a piece about receiving the book. Last night I received […]
UIP author’s rock opera opens in Chicago
This week’s Chicago Reader features a story on University of Illinois Press author Henry Perritt’s new rock opera You Took My Flag Away. You Took Away My Flag is a vanity project, […]
While you are away…
…the “Let It Snow” mug sits. And the staff wonders why it never gets washed. […]
Roni, 71
Happy birthday Roni Stoneman. […]
Moneyball, the movie?
I loved Michael Lewis’s Moneyball. In the book, Lewis profiled Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane who used player statistics to find undervalued players which he could acquire on a small budget (what, […]
Enough already
I’m sorry, I am sick of this non-story. I even had to endure it on This Week. Update April 15: … and again last night on The Daily Show. […]
I’m “working” right now
Some fun with quotation marks (via Very Short List). […]
Professor Kinderman and the Great White Way
How pleasant to settle down on a Friday night with a fresh New Yorker and almost immediately find mention not only of your home institution, but of an author and […]
Protesting controversial speakers
Shelf Awareness reports on the cancellation of a controversial speaker at Anderson’s in Naperville, Illinois, and friend-of-the-Press Cary Nelson addresses that general topic in Inside Higher Ed. […]
April’s Foolishness
Oh, dear. Here are a couple of nice examples of the silliness of springtime. Shelf Awareness brings us up to date on this year’s BEA. And our local online city […]