“Working Girl Blues” wins certificate of merit
Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens by Hazel Dickens and Bill Malone, has been named winner of a Certificate of Merit for the 2009 Association for […]
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The $11,000 review copy
Book bloggers, beware of reviewing the books that I send you for free. Via Galley Cat: Today the Federal Trade Commission revised their “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials,” urging […]
“Barns of Illinois” launch party
Periodic downpours couldn’t keep away the 100+ people who celebrated the publication of Larry and Alaina Kanfer’s Barns of Illinois at the Larry Kanfer Gallery on October 1st. Larry Kanfer discusses Barns […]
Report from IBMA
The Bluegrass Blog has a report from the International Bluegrass Music Association meeting that includes a quote from our own Laurie Matheson. Vendors’ impressions of hall traffic varied. Bob Fehr […]
Times Higher Education reviews “Atom Egoyan”
Times Higher Education recently reviewed Emma Wilson’s new book on Canadian-bred filmmaker Atom Egoyan. This persuasive book brings Egoyan’s films vibrantly alive, while at the same time offering compelling, […]
The Art, Life, and Times of Rembrandt
In the Summer 2008, the University of Illinois Press published a special issue of the Journal of Aesthetic Education featuring discussions of an arts education curriculum project using the work […]
The Art of Yes: On Will Powers
My friend and former colleague Will Powers died suddenly in August. He was the design and production manager par excellence at the Minnesota Historical Society Press. We’ve seen copious tributes […]
“A Map of the Night” wins award
David Wagoner’s book, A Map of the Night, has been named winner of the 2009 Washington State Book Award in Poetry. Sponsored by the Washington Center for the Book at […]
Textbook Texas
Richard Hughes, author of the new book Christian America and the Kingdom of God, was quoted yesterday in a San Antonio Express-News column on the debate in Texas over how Christianity’s […]
Barrelhouse Word: in one’s whiskey
in one’s whiskey When I’m in my whiskey, I don’t care what I say ‘Cause me and my whiskey, we going to have our way. —Barbecue Bob, “Me And My […]
I have a few Billys
What does your bookcase say about you? I have a few Billys but they hold CDs. Many of my books are stored in the garage waiting for that custom built shelf that […]
Livingston vs. Berube
At Bully Bloggers, Ira Livingston, co-editor of the recent University of Illinois Press book Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader, takes on Michael Berube’s recent Chronicle of Higher Education essay […]