It works for Comic Con, why not Book Expo?
Today’s Shelf Awareness for Readers newsletter includes a small news item on New York’s Comic Con: New York Comic Con, the East Coast’s largest comic, graphic novel and manga festival, […]
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Garden & Gun reviews Spirits of Just Men
The October/November 2011 issue of Garden & Gun magazine includes Clyde Edgerton’s review of Charles Thompson’s new book Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine […]
NPR affiliate WFIU runs Becoming Ray Bradbury segment
Bloomington, Indiana’s NPR affiliate WFIU recently aired a piece on Jonathan Eller’s new book Becoming Ray Bradbury. […]
Crowe on the Banjo in the Lexington Herald-Leader
On October 2, J.D. Crowe’s hometown newspaper, the Lexington Herald-Leader, featured a review of Marty Godbey’s new book Crowe on the Banjo: The Music Life of J.D. Crowe. “Early chapters […]
Putting out a fire
In today’s Shelf Awareness for Readers newsletter, editor John Mutter opens with a piece on Amazon’s new Fire tablet. Many in the book business worry about power becoming concentrated in […]
Q&A with Gerald Danzer, author of Illinois: A History in Pictures
On May 16, 2011, we published Gerald Danzer’s book Illinois: A History in Pictures, which gathers drawings, engravings, photographs, maps, and other illustrations to illuminate the growth and changes in […]
Rachel and Rory and Shirley and Cyril
On September 5, 2011, we published Mike Leigh, the 28th volume in our Contemporary Film Directors series. Author Sean O’Sullivan conducted multiple interviews with Mike Leigh and distilled them into […]
Chicanas of 18th Street
Leonard G. Ramirez’s new book, Chicanas of 18th Street: Narratives of a Movement from Latino Chicago, with contributions by Yenelli Flores, María Gamboa, Isaura González, Victoria Pérez, Magda Ramírez-Castañeda, and Cristina […]
The rarest printing?
The Guardian observes the collector’s market for advance reading copies. Book collectors are a funny lot. Unlike readers, who are concerned with what’s inside the book, the true delight of any […]
Morels by the peonies
It’s always mushroom season here at the University of Illinois Press. Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States: A Field to Kitchen Guide by Joe McFarland and Gregory M. Mueller continues […]
The Hayloft Gang arrives
In August 2008 we published a collection edited by Chad Berry titled The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance. The book, a look at the nation’s most popular country […]
E-Textbooks at Indiana
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus section published a column today on Indiana University’s experiment with E-Textbooks. Here’s how it works: Students in a select group of courses are required to […]