Survey Says! Tornadoes in academic publishing
Call them twisters, call them cyclones, call them (incorrectly) willy willys—tornadoes are as much a part of spring as blossoms on the trees and ants in the kitchen. Roughly 75% of […]
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People love lists
To pay further homage to the angry gods who make the cumulonimbus their home, we delve into some memorable portrayals of twisters in American pop culture. 1. Tornado episode of WKRP […]
Book cover bracket winner
Weeks in the making, the UIP Book Cover Tournament comes to an end today. It was an interesting final, with Cinderella story Ring Shout, Wheel About taking on powerhouse favorite Chicago Architecture. Do […]
Happy Birthday, Francis Ford Coppola
In observance of The Great One’s birthday, an excerpt from Francis Ford Coppola, by Jeff Menne, a recent book in UIP’s Contemporary Film Director’s Series. Here Menne describes how Coppola’s early film The Rain […]
Stephen Wade on Muddy Waters
Some years back, University of Illinois Press author and roots music scholar Stephen Wade shared the origins of Muddy Waters’ classic song “I Can’t Be Satisfied” (amen, brother) in this National […]
M-A-N
One hundred or 102 years ago today, Muddy Waters entered our universe. He went on to become a man. M-A-N. A hoochie coochie man. A natural born lovers man. A […]
The Final Four of book covers
Intense action defined our Elite Eight match-ups as architecture and shrooms triumphed over music and beer. Chicago River Bridges and Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871–1934 will now vie to represent Windy City landmarks in […]
The Elite Eight of book covers
Eight. It’s a magic number. In fact, physicists consider it the second magic number. Racing fans love it. Billiards fans obsess over it. Eight is the only Fibonacci number (except […]
The Sweet Sixteen of book covers
As a unit at a Very Large University, we here at UIP pay avid attention to the NCAA basketball tournaments, even though the Fighting Illini have of late fallen into a […]
Meet the UI Press: Ask the Bolshevik
Dear Bolshevik, With spring nearly here, I am suddenly facing the prospect that I will, in fact, graduate from college and have to find a job. I have spent the […]
Happy birthday, Jerry Lewis
A few months ago, a friend and I discussed one of those pop culture questions that go just right with a pint of beer. Which living celebrity has been famous for […]
Hill and brimstone
Some would say Hillary Clinton makes news. But in the national mind it sometimes seems that Hillary Clinton is news, its very personification, an irresistible-to-media hybrid of politico, symbol, and celebrity sentenced […]