Erika Falk’s ears are burning
Anna Mulrine, posting on US News & World Report‘s “Washington Whispers” blog, divulges the existence of Erika Falk’s forthcoming University of Illinois Press book Women for President: Media Bias in […]
Anna Mulrine, posting on US News & World Report‘s “Washington Whispers” blog, divulges the existence of Erika Falk’s forthcoming University of Illinois Press book Women for President: Media Bias in […]
Two new books landed on my desk in the past week: Andrew O’Toole’s Sweet William: The Life of Billy Conn is an “affectionate yet evenhanded biography of the fighter known […]
Jeff Biggers is the author of In the Sierra Madre (University of Illinois Press, 2007) and The United States of Appalachia (Shoemaker and Hoard, 2007). The University of Illinois Press […]
Lawrence Schehr’s first English translation of Willy’s classic European queer culture text The Third Sex was reviewed in the November 11, 2007, issue of The New York Times Book Review. […]
The November 11, 2007, issue of the Washington Post contains a review of Jane Bernstein’s Rachel in the World: A Memoir. “The book makes it clear that we, as a […]
Raymond Queneau’s Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays, 1928-70 was reviewed in the November 19, 2007 issue of The Nation. Mark Polizzotti writes, “Throw any label at him you want—writer’s writer, literary […]
The Bluegrass Blog reports that Roni Stoneman is the cover story for the Nov/Dec issue of Bluegrass Music Profiles. The University of Illinois Press recently published Pressing On: The Roni […]
Jeff Biggers is the author of In the Sierra Madre (University of Illinois Press, 2007) and The United States of Appalachia (Shoemaker and Hoard, 2007). The University of Illinois Press […]
Writing in BiblioBuffet, Henry Carrigan, editor-in-chief for the Northwestern University Press, eulogizes the recently deceased country music star Porter Wagoner and recommends our Music in American Life series: “The University […]
I spent the weekend in Nashville attending the Americana Music Association conference during which the Press hosted a launch reception for Craig Havighurst’s new book Air Castle of the South: […]
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, author of the new book New Indians, Old Wars, will speak at the University of Illinois on November 6, 2007, at a lecture sponsored by the Native American […]
The Juvenile Instructor, observing that the University of Illinois Press has been at the forefront of Mormon Studies publishing but has recently lost an acquisitions editor in that discipline to […]