Marc Zimmerman attended the Latin American Studies Association‘s annual meeting in Toronto earlier this month. He is pictured here at the Scholarly Book Services booth where he signed copies of Bringing Aztlán […]
Category: author events
May Berenbaum confirmed for Market at the Square
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 Urbana’s Market at the […]
Hands on the Freedom Plow now available
This week we received finished copies of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. The editors are participating on panels at the ASALH meeting this weekend in […]
Holly Swyers on WGN
Holly Swyers, author of the new book Wrigley Regulars: Finding Community in the Bleachers, is scheduled to appear on WGN radio and television in the next few weeks. Tonight, August […]
“Hands on the Freedom Plow” events
Editors of the forthcoming book Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC have started arranging events to coincide with the October 2010 publication date. The first date on the current schedule […]
“Media Matters” and Copyright Issues
Yesterday’s Inside Higher Ed update contained links to several posts that mentioned the Librarian of Congress’s release of 3-year exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on Monday. As a […]
Radius clause for Santa Claus?
I have been working lately on arranging book events for our forthcoming anthology Christmas in Illinois. Editor Jim Ballowe will travel across the state during October, November, and December to promote […]
Winkel, Inge, and Nowlan
Rick Winkel, David Inge (WILL radio), and Jim Nowlan following the Illini Union Bookstore panel on the Nowlan & Winkel book (with Samuel Gove) Illinois Politics: A Citizen’s Guide. (Photo […]
Abe Lincoln virtual book signing
On Saturday, July 10, 2010, the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago will host University of Illinois Press author Mark Lause for a virtual book signing. Beginning at noon, Dr. Lause […]
The Edge of Change on Book-TV
The Poynter Institute recently hosted an event celebrating the publication of The Edge of Change: Women in the Twenty-First-Century Press, edited by June O. Nicholson, Pamela J. Creedon, Wanda S. […]
Small author readings, in context
In today’s Shelf Awareness touring author Michael Perry hits upon key reasons for scheduling author events: The reading is primarily a peg upon which to hang radio interviews, newspaper pieces, face-to-face interaction […]
“Illinois Politics” authors at IUB literary fest
James Nowlan and Richard Winkel, co-authors of the new book Illinois Politics: A Citizens Guide, will participate in the Illini Union Bookstore’s summer literary fest in Champaign. On Tuesday, July […]