I’m about halfway through Jon Hartley Fox’s forthcoming book on the King record label titled King of the Queen City. In one of the chapters on King’s country artists there’s […]
Category: forthcoming books
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Every catalog season before my media trips I try to read as many of the trade titles, cover-to-cover, as possible. Though not a traditional trade title, Bob Ostertag’s forthcoming book Creative […]
Illinois at the Oscars
The 81st annual Academy Awards ceremony included two prominent film figures who happen to be the subjects of forthcoming books in our Contemporary Film Directors series. Jerry Lewis received the Jean Hersholt […]
The Virtual Columbian Exposition
Today’s post is from Breanne: The Urban Simulation Team in the School of Arts and Architecture at UCLA employs real-time visual simulation technology to recreate scenes from The World’s Columbian […]
Books for Understanding Voting & Elections
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has updated its list of Books for Understanding Voting & Elections. We have some current titles listed including Erika Falk’s just published Women for […]
Tiny Kline’s Terrifying Trip over Times Square
Twice a year I visit major media outlets in New York to present books from our newest catalog. A Spring 2008 catalog title receiving great interest is a memoir written by […]