The International Alliance for Women in Music recently recognized Susan Thomas, author of Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havana’s Lyric Stage, with the Pauline Alderman Award for Outstanding Scholarship […]
I’ve been monitoring tweets with the phrase “university press” and saw one pop up that said: Daughter had great interview for design job with University Press (name redacted). Keeping my […]
Stephane Dunn, author of “Baad Bitches” and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films, remembers Michael at NewBlackMan. I moved beyond posters on the walls and accepted that he was a star […]
With state and university budget concerns I’ve been looking for efficient ways to lower the publicity budget. Cutting review copies of backlist titles sent overseas to near zero was an easy place to start. Earlier […]
The new issue of Fungi magazine enthusiastically recommends Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States: A Field-to-Kitchen Guide. Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States should be required […]
Bookslut points to a story on a Chicago area school that was pressured by parents to remove a book from the school’s reading list. We had a bit of that […]
Good to finally see our ex-governor one-upped in the news cycle by another state’s current governor. […]
I heard this week that a well-known monthly periodical is planning to run a short excerpt from our forthcoming book Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews. Previous posts may provide clues […]
Here is yesterday’s report on the AAUP annual meeting from the Chronicle of Higher Education. One indication that university-press publishing has life in it yet: Many more presses have moved […]
I knew that my budget was absent an important line item all of these years. Inside Higher Ed shows me what I’ve been missing. (Hmm, this story reminds me of another recent […]
Betsy Hearne, co-editor of A Narrative Compass: Stories That Guide Women’s Lives, was interviewed by Alison Cuddy on Chicago Public Radio’s 848 morning program. […]
Inside Higher Ed covers the recent AAUP meeting in Philadelphia. If the evolution from print to online poses one set of challenges, the sagging budgets of colleges pose another. University […]