Looking for that perfect gift for your UIUC graduate? Larry Kanfer will sign copies of his new photography book Illini Loyalty: The University of Illinois during graduation weekend. Visit him at […]
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Illini Loyalty Book Launch
The University of Illinois Press and the Larry Kanfer Gallery invite you to celebrate the publication of Illini Loyalty: The University of Illinois. Photographs by Larry Kanfer Text by Alaina […]
Will Kaufman’s Woody Guthrie U.S. tour
Finished copies of Will Kaufman’s book Woody Guthrie, American Radical arrived from the printer last week. The official publication date is April 11, 2011, but the book is starting to […]
Sam Lipsyte and David Dougherty discuss Stanley Elkin
On February 28, New York City’s upper east side Barnes & Noble (150 East 86th Street) will host a Writers on Writers program to discuss American novelist Stanley Elkin. The two panelists […]
Robert Stone & the Campbell Brothers celebrate Arhoolie
On Sunday February 6, 2011, Robert Stone, author of Sacred Steel: Inside an African American Steel Guitar Tradition, will join members of the Campbell Brothers for a panel discussion of […]
Music & the Wesleys event
On Sunday, January 30, Faith United Methodist Church in Champaign, Illinois, will host an event for the new book Music and the Wesleys, which was co-edited by Nicholas Temperley and […]
Christmas in Champaign, Illinois
Calling all prospective East Central Illinois Black Friday survivors. This coming Sunday, November 28, the Champaign Public Library will host an event for the new anthology Christmas in Illinois. At 2:00 p.m., […]
Launch event for Gone to the Country
On Saturday, November 20, The Jalopy Theatre in Brooklyn will host a launch event for Ray Allen’s new book Gone to the Country: The New Lost City Ramblers and the […]
AARP The Magazine reviews Hands on the Freedom Plow
The online version of AARP The Magazine just published a review of Hands on the Freedom Plow. “With the exception of Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, and Fannie Lou Hamer, […]
May Berenbaum at the Pollinatarium
May Berenbaum, editor of the new book Honey, I’m Homemade: Sweet Treats from the Beehive across the Centuries and around the World, will sign books at the University of Illinois Pollinatarium […]
Saturday at the Square
May Berenbaum and guest at the Honey, I’m Homemade book signing at Urbana’s Market at the Square, Saturday, October 30. Her next stop will be the University of Illinois Pollinatarium on Sunday, […]
WILL radio features May Berenbaum
NPR affiliate WILL AM 580 in Urbana, Illinois, interviewed May Berenbaum on October 25. She discussed her new cookbook Honey, I’m Homemade: Sweet Treats from the Beehive across the Centuries and […]