“The Archives” by Jill Hills
Jill Hills is a professor of communications policy at the University of Westminster, Harrow, United Kingdom, and author of the new University of Illinois Press book Telecommunications and Empire. Research for […]
Jill Hills is a professor of communications policy at the University of Westminster, Harrow, United Kingdom, and author of the new University of Illinois Press book Telecommunications and Empire. Research for […]
I love year-end “Best of” lists and inevitably buy a handful of new CDs and books from my list trolling. UNCUT magazine recommended Voice of the Seven Woods so I checked […]
NPR’s The Story with Dick Gordon will air an interview today with University of Illinois Press author Jane Bernstein about her book Rachel in the World: A Memoir. The program originates […]
Thomas Hauser, writing for the boxing site SecondsOut.com, recommends four University of Illinois Press boxing titles for your holiday gift list, including Sweet William, Andrew O’Toole’s new biography of Billy […]
Brian Dirck’s Lincoln the Lawyer was recently awarded the Barondess/Lincoln Award of The Civil War Round Table of New York. The book, which focuses on Lincoln’s legal career prior to his presidency, has been praised […]
The following titles arrived on my desk in late November and early December. The official publication dates are noted at the end of each listing. Telecommunications and Empire – Jill Hills (Dec. […]
Michael Berryhill praises Jane Bernstein’s Rachel in the World: A Memoir in the Houston Chronicle: “I am not entirely sure how someone who is not raising a mentally retarded child will […]
Twice a year I visit major media outlets in New York to present books from our newest catalog. A Spring 2008 catalog title receiving great interest is a memoir written by […]
Writing for CMT.com (Country Music Television), Edward Morris recommends Craig Havighurst’s Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City and Diane Diekman’s Live Fast, Love Hard: The […]
Rigoberto González gives a Poetry Foundation Wednesday Shout Out to Stephen Cramer’s new book of poetry, Tongue & Groove. “Last week I attended a New York City book party in celebration of […]
Woke up at 6 AM to drive across Pennsylvania, a state that has come to seem endlessly long. I arrived an hour early and found the bookstore from my itinerary in a […]
Steve Evans, writing for the Mormon site By Common Consent, interviews University of Illinois Press author Eric Eliason about his new book The J. Golden Kimball Stories. In his introduction to the interview, […]