Maybe you’ve heard about the troubles that local Champaign-Urbana band Elsinore recently encountered with the cover artwork for their new album, Yes Yes Yes. The artwork is a painting by […]
Month: May 2010
Oxford American’s Hard Luck Blues
The “southern magazine of fine writing,” Oxford American, has a published a feature on Rich Remsberg’s new book Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression. Published in conjunction with the […]
Revisiting the History of Southern Radicalism by James J. Lorence
A persistent myth concerning southern workers was the assertion that even in the hardest of times, they were impervious to the force of radicalism that affected urban labor in the […]
SMU Press’ operations put on hold
Inside Higher Ed reported on May 7, 2010, that Southern Methodist University has suspended the operations of its Press. A statement for the senators from the faculty advisory committee for […]
Thomas Saler book signing at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
We just confirmed a book signing for Thomas Saler, author of Serving Genius: Carlo Maria Giulini, at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Saler will appear at the CSO retail kiosk on May […]
May I offer you a piece of honey candy?
Every year at Book Expo we give away a tchotchke at our booth that is somehow related to a current or upcoming book. I am amazed at how many appointment bound people […]
Viva baseball, just not in Arizona
Two years ago this month we published the Third Edition of Samuel O. Regalado’s book Viva Baseball! Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger, which chronicles the struggles of Latin American […]