A thoroughfare for most and a coffee station for many, the press breakroom is also the place to find unexpected treasures. Alongside stacks of The New York Times and other general […]
Category: miscellaneous
Who sealed this book? A mystery.
To keep track of web activity on current University of Illinois Press titles, I set up Google Alerts to notify me as books are mentioned online. I received an alert yesterday […]
What’s on your shelf?
Scott McLemee has an entertaining piece on the sociology of “bookshelf etiquette” in today’s Inside Higher Ed. “My experience (which can’t be unique) is that some books end up accumulating […]
Oscar Simple, Raising the Coens, The Big Awardski, or how I tried to come up with a clever blog post title
Congratulations to Joel and Ethan Coen, whose No Country for Old Men won four Oscars at last evening’s 80th Academy Awards. The brothers won Oscars for best director, best […]
Depression
Back in my ’80s record store clerk days I worked with someone who used to engineer recording sessions in the attic of his rented apartment. One of the bands that he recorded […]
More on the digital future
Laura Cerruti, Director of Digital Content Development at the University of California Press, shares her notes from two recent publishing conferences on the UC Press blog. “Publishers should not try to compete with […]
Caught in a net
Mark Lloyd, author of the recent University of Illinois Press book Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America, co-authored an article on net neutrality that was just posted at CommonDreams.org. […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education interview with a new series editor
Mark Smith, editor of the forthcoming University of Illinois Press series Studies in Sensory History, is interviewed by The Chronicle of Higher Education. “Especially exciting is a new Series in Sensory History, which will […]
90th anniversary press release
THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS CELEBRATES 90 YEARS OF PUBLISHING EXCELLENCE The University of Illinois Press reaches a new milestone in 2008, marking ninety years of supporting the mission of […]
Looking for the best translation of an Aesop fable?
University of Illinois Press Director Willis Regier recounts his search for the best translation of an Aesop fable in the February 15th issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. […]
This week in history, Nebraska style
One of these weeks I am going to come up with a This Week in History post that will include links to a bunch of University of Illinois Press books, […]
At last, relief.
“Michael, UPS finally delivered it! Thank you.” […]