Oni Buchanan’s new book of poems, Spring, receives praise in the September 15, 2008, issue of Publishers Weekly. “In this adventurous mix of taut lyrics, dramatic monologues and free-ranging typographical experiments, Buchanan, who is […]
Inside Higher Ed reports this morning on a new online notesharing service that has attracted venture capital and generated some copyright concerns. […]
Kris & Kendra descend the stairs. UIC staff distribute anniversary bags. Attendees listen to […]
On the drive to Chicago yesterday afternoon for the Press’s 90th anniversary reception at UIC‘s Hull-House Museum (photos coming soon), most of the conversation was loosely work related. The drive home last night was more […]
Bookslut points the way to a New York magazine article on the book business gloomily titled “The End.” […]
A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past few weeks: –America’s Religions: From Their Origins to the Twenty-first Century Third Edition by Peter W. Williams (September 29, 2008) […]
The New York Times covers an experiment in family ties taking place in Rantoul, our neighbor to the north. Rantoul has suffered some hard times since the closing of Chanute […]
To continue the blog’s thread on books we’ve started but never finished: I was sitting in our family room this past weekend eyeballing the varying spines on our bookshelves. Infinite Jest […]
This morning, John Updike’s new piece in The New Yorker had me surfing over to dictionary.com to look up “exegetical,” as in “… Barbara Burkhardt’s stately, exegetical William Maxwell: A Literary […]
Jane Bernstein, author of Rachel in the World: A Memoir, posted Sarah Palin: No Friend to Children and Adults with Disabilities on the Beacon Broadside blog. “Sarah Palin loves Trig. She is […]
The University of Illinois Press is hosting the (traveling) 2008 Book Show of the Association of American University Presses, September 8-19, M-F 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Forty-five winning books and thirty […]
Researching the life of Tiny Kline has been filled with unexpected pleasures and surprises. Although never nationally famous, Kline’s daring and graceful performances of speed and flight touched thousands (perhaps […]