A recent story on MSNBC referenced Janet Flammang’s The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society and Michael Pollan’s review of the book in NYRB. “Working women are too busy to […]
Month: June 2010
Steve Cushing on Chicago Public Radio
Chicago Public Radio’s 848 recently interviewed Steve Cushing about his long-running radio program and the new book Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews. “Thirty years ago this month, on these […]
Academic presses vs. academic libraries
The June 14, 2010, issue of Publishers Weekly includes a long piece on the university press suit of Georgia State University. The case, known as Cambridge University Press, et al. […]
UIP author Peter Brunette dies
Sad news. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Peter Brunette, author of the recent University of Illinois Press book Michael Haneke, died today in Italy. He was on assignment covering the Taormina […]
James Nowlan on C-Span
James Nowlan, co-author of the new book Illinois Politics: A Citizen’s Guide, was interviewed live on C-Span’s Book-TV at the Printers Row Lit Fest. […]
E-profit
Inside Higher Ed reports today on the use of e-textbooks at for-profit universities. E-textbooks might be the most-talked about and least-used learning tools in traditional higher education. Campus libraries and […]
Revisiting the Tailor’s Wife by Danke Li
On my last trip back to China in late December 2009, I managed to squeeze in three days to try to visit some of the women whom I interviewed for […]
Chicago Blues in the News
The June 6, 2010, issue of The Chicago Tribune previewed this coming weekend’s blues panel at the Printers Row Lit Fest. The June 12, 12:00 panel is located at Jazz Showcase, 806 S. Plymouth Court, […]
TLS reviews “Golf in America”
The May 21 issue of the Times Literary Supplement includes David Goldblatt’s favorable review of George Kirsch’s recent book Golf in America. “Kirsch delivers excellent pen portraits of the great, good […]
UIP at Printers Row
For the fifth consecutive year, the University of Illinois Press will have a large presence at the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest. Festival goers can visit the University of […]