Today many of us are saying goodbye to our Marketing Department Intern, Brittany Pyle. Over the past year she’s made herself a valuable member of our team, and cheerfully completed any […]
Category: miscellaneous
Goodbye, Pat
October 10, 2005, was my first day on the job here at the University of Illinois Press. The person who hired me, then Marketing Director Pat Hoefling, had decided to move back to […]
Who does Spike Lee think he is?
Daina Berry, author of “Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe”: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia, and Mark Schultz, author of The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond […]
“The last song played was provided for free by the record company, which I also met for lunch…”
In October of 2009 I linked to a Galley Cat story about a new FTC rule that required book bloggers to disclose that reviewed books were provided for free by a publisher. In […]
The Battle for Guadalcanal
Sometimes a backlist title gains new relevance. HBO’s new mega miniseries The Pacific, produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, focuses on the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II, including […]
Congrats to Alison
Alison D. Goebel, a student assistant in Acquisitions at the University of Illinois Press, was one of eight graduate students on the Urbana-Champaign campus to be awarded a fellowship by the […]
Studying the Dead
I never liked the Grateful Dead. In high school I wrote a piece for the school newspaper on my Deadhead friend’s experience at a “punk rock” concert (I took him […]
Just bloomed
The Press’ Journals department shows off its collective green thumb in advance of the coming snow storm. […]
Daily Show prep
Ethan Watters at The Rumpus on 10 Things You Should Know Before going on The Daily Show. 3. You will only see the set 30 seconds before you walk on. […]
Pandora rox
To all of my listen-to-music-in-the-background-at-work colleagues, I recommend Pandora Radio. Yesterday I typed in “River Man” by Nick Drake and received a steady stream of minor key, folky, singer-songwriterly stuff with string […]
Sending David Beckham a copy of Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois
Among the many stories generated by the Tiger Woods debacle is this one from the Chronicle’s Tweed column. A book in the floorboard of the famously wrecked Escalade appears in a […]
Captain Kirk and the Split Infinitive
Salon reviews The Lexicographer’s Dilemma by Rutgers English professor Jack Lynch. Which brings us back to those split infinitives, the most famous of which is spoken by William Shatner in […]