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 […]
University of Illinois Press author Len Roberts passed away on May 25, 2007, prior to the publication of his latest book of poetry, The Disappearing Trick. Yesterday’s edition of Morning […]
Three new books just landed on my desk: –John Cage by David Nicholls is the second volume in our recently inaugurated American Composers series. –Telling Narratives: Secrets in African American […]
We have a blowout launch party planned to celebrate the publication of Diane Diekman’s new book Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story. Nashville’s Ernest Tubb Record Shops have […]
The November 5, 2007, issue of The Nation magazine includes an article about Bettina Aptheker and the alleged abuse that she suffered at the hands of her father, Marxist historian […]
The New Britain Herald in Connecticut interviewed University of Illinois Press author Robert Dowling about his new book Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem, which explores […]
The October 17 issue of the Wall Street Journal praised Craig Havighurst’s new book Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City writing, “Havighurst has done […]
Stephen Cramer is the author of Shiva’s Drum, a National Poetry Series winner. He teaches in the creative writing program at Johnson State College in Johnson, Vermont. His new book, […]
Bucky Halker is a songwriter, performer, labor historian, Senior Program Officer of the Illinois Humanities Council, and a Producer of the Folksongs of Illinois CD series that the University of […]
Andrew F. Smith is a freelance writer who teaches culinary history and professional food writing at the New School in Manhattan. He is the author of many books, including The […]
A copy of Tom Goyens’s new book Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914 just landed on my desk. The official publication date is November […]
Most copy editors don’t plan to be copy editors. We plan to teach math, philosophy, art history, or maybe the third grade; report the daily news; or perhaps travel the […]