Box Books
I recently came across an item from the University of Padova in Italy: a collection of 56 wooden books about trees. Rather than pages, each book contains physical evidence of […]
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James T. Farrell pentalogy featured in the Chicago Tribune
The December 16, 2009, edition of the Chicago Tribune includes a feature story on James T. Farrell’s fiction and the recent reissue of the O’Neill pentalogy; A World I Never […]
Impressions of a Son by F. Geoffrey Samora
I was asked by the editors to respond to the essays written in the book, Moving Beyond Borders: Julian Samora and the Establishment of Latino Studies. Julian’s former students recall […]
The Oxford Times features Shipton
Alyn Shipton, author of the new book I Feel a Song Coming On: The Life of Jimmy McHugh, was featured in the December 11, 2009, edition of The Oxford Times. […]
Tiger Woods and the evolution of Golf in America
George Kirsch, author of the recent University of Illinois Press book Golf in America, comments on Tiger Woods and the history of golf in the Wall Street Journal‘s Speakeasy blog. […]
May I take your pledge?
On Monday, several gracious UIP employees volunteered to answer phones for WILL-TV‘s Winter Pledge Drive. As we answered phones and filled out pledge forms (on camera!), we listened to […]
Celebration of Richard Stamz
I had a good meeting yesterday at the Center for Black Music Research about a launch event for the forthcoming book Give ‘Em Soul, Richard! Race, Radio, and Rhythm and […]
Dinner for Mr. Ringo
Four years ago at this time I had just started at the Press and was planning my first publicity trip to Chicago. My predecessor had provided a list of her […]
Sending David Beckham a copy of Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois
Among the many stories generated by the Tiger Woods debacle is this one from the Chronicle’s Tweed column. A book in the floorboard of the famously wrecked Escalade appears in a […]
Sing It Pretty
Bess Lomax Hawes, folklorist, singer, and defender of the folk arts, died last week in Portland, Oregon. We are honored to have published Hawes’s 2008 memoir, Sing It Pretty, as part […]
Fujiwara’s “Excellent!!!” monograph and how movie blurbs work
When high profile reviews of UIP books are published, I am responsible for pulling key quotes from the reviews and entering them in our database for future dissemination. This duty was […]
The New York Times on Breadwinners
The November 29, 2009, edition of The New York Times includes a review of Lara Vapnek’s new book Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920. Ms. Vapnek, who teaches history at […]