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June 24, 2009

Appalachia, Argentina, same diff

miscellaneous

Good to finally see our ex-governor one-upped in the news cycle by another state’s current governor. […]

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June 23, 2009 (June 23, 2009)

Style points, full circle

miscellaneous

I heard this week that a well-known monthly periodical is planning to run a short excerpt from our forthcoming book Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews.  Previous posts may provide clues […]

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June 16, 2009

A tale of two mailings

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Last week I shipped a handful of The Only True God review copies to bloggers.  One of the sites, Antiquitopia, has posted a piece about receiving the book. Last night I received […]

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June 5, 2009

UIP author’s rock opera opens in Chicago

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This week’s Chicago Reader features a story on University of Illinois Press author Henry Perritt’s new rock opera You Took My Flag Away. You Took Away My Flag is a vanity project, […]

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May 29, 2009

While you are away…

miscellaneous Uncategorized

…the “Let It Snow” mug sits. And the staff wonders why it never gets washed. […]

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May 5, 2009

Roni, 71

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Happy birthday Roni Stoneman. […]

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April 22, 2009 (April 22, 2009)

Moneyball, the movie?

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I loved Michael Lewis’s Moneyball. In the book, Lewis profiled Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane who used player statistics to find undervalued players which he could acquire on a small budget (what, […]

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April 14, 2009 (April 15, 2009)

Enough already

miscellaneous

I’m sorry, I am sick of this non-story.  I even had to endure it on This Week. Update April 15: … and again last night on The Daily Show. […]

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April 13, 2009

I’m “working” right now

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Some fun with quotation marks (via Very Short List). […]

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April 4, 2009 (April 6, 2009)

Professor Kinderman and the Great White Way

miscellaneous music

How pleasant to settle down on a Friday night with a fresh New Yorker and almost immediately find mention not only of your home institution, but of an author and […]

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April 2, 2009

Protesting controversial speakers

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Shelf Awareness reports on the cancellation of a controversial speaker at Anderson’s in Naperville, Illinois, and friend-of-the-Press Cary Nelson addresses that general topic in Inside Higher Ed. […]

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April 1, 2009 (April 1, 2009)

April’s Foolishness

BookExpo Getting to know Champaign-Urbana miscellaneous

Oh, dear. Here are a couple of nice examples of the silliness of springtime. Shelf Awareness brings us up to date on this year’s BEA. And our local online city […]

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