View of Lake Michigan, 9:16 a.m. […]
Month: December 2008
Cheryl Ganz at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum
Cheryl Ganz will sign copies of her new book The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair: A Century of Progress at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington, DC, on Friday, December 12 […]
“Life along the Illinois River” in the news
Two central Illinois newspapers recently profiled David Zalaznik’s new book Life along the Illinois River. The Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette story is currently behind a fee-based archive wall, but the Springfield State Journal-Register piece is available […]
101%
This morning a Chicago television station conducted a text poll on whether or not Gov. Blagojevich should resign. 87% voted yes, 14% voted no. Only in Chicago politics … […]
Sue and mushrooms
A fortuitous day to be in Chicago. The weather is crappy, but I love hearing my cab drivers talk about our governor. Looking forward to tomorrow’s papers. I visited The Field Museum to speak […]
Recent online reviews
A variety of University of Illinois Press books have received online attention in recent weeks: -Jean Paulhan’s On Poetry and Politics, edited and translated by Jennifer Bajorek and Éric Trudel, […]
“Information needs to be shared, not billed”
The December 1, 2008, issue of Publishers Weekly includes an interesting Soapbox column on the exchange of information between booksellers and publishers/distributors. “So the current situation is something like this: essential […]
Pay for books? Seriously?
One of the things I love about living in Champaign-Urbana is the prominence of books in our culture. In addition to the U of I libraries, we have three public […]
Tutors for athletes
Inside Higher Ed points its readers to a Chicago Tribune story on the money spent at University of Illinois, and other schools, for athletic tutors. […]