In celebration of the University of Illinois Press’s 90th anniversary, VideoWorks at the University of Illinois produced a 5:00 minute video that traces the history and accomplishments of our Press. Updated August 5, 2008: The […]
Roni Stoneman, co-author of the recent memoir Pressing On: The Roni Stoneman Story, performed with Mona Jo Griffin at the Andy Griffith Playhouse. Someone in the audience filmed the event and uploaded footage to Youtube. […]
Tony’s a bit vulgar at the Penn State University Press blog. […]
Jessa Crispin, editor of Bookslut.com, includes Susan K. Freeman’s Sex Goes to School: Girls and Sex Education before the 1960s in her latest piece for The Smart Set. “It’s hard […]
Mike Chasar posted an interesting piece (originally published in the Iowa City Press-Citizen) on his Poetry and Popular Culture blog regarding Barack Obama’s relationship with poet Frank Marshall Davis. “Of the potential […]
John Hallwas, author of the new book Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers, starts his book tour on August 2nd at New Copperfield’s Book Service in his hometown of […]
PW Daily’s Book Maven blog points the way to the recent essay in the New York Times Book Review on book tours and speakers bureaus. “In recent years, a growing number of […]
Incoming sophomores at my oldest son’s high school are given Kite Runner as a summer reading assignment (he is currently reading There Are No Children Here for his freshman assignment). Word circulating on the […]
A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past two weeks: –China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema edited by Poshek Fu (August 11, 2008) –“Baad […]
Of course I want the Cubs to win the World Series. This year, 2008, would be great—exactly one hundred years after their last World Championship. But secretly, in my heart-of-hearts, […]
The July 24 Fairfax edition of the Washington Post features a preview of Roni Stoneman’s upcoming weekend concert, background on this legendary performer, and a nod to her recent University of […]
PW Daily reported this morning that the Los Angeles Times is losing its standalone book section. “Nancy Sullivan, executive director of corporate communications at the paper, confirmed that the book […]