Our books make great holiday gifts, and Dusty Rhodes at the University of Illinois News Bureau agrees. She’s included John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle’s Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art […]
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Beethoven’s Creativity
Was Beethoven the creator of masterpieces defined by a strict text or musical blueprint? New research into his creativity shows that Beethoven explored a range of artistic options, and as […]
Join Illinois at the American Folklore Society’s Annual Meeting
Visit us at the exhibit tables of the Amercan Folklore Society’s annual meeting in New Orleans, LA beginning today. We will feature discounts of 30% on paperbacks and 40% on […]
An introduction from the editor, part 2
Here is the second part of the “Introduction from the editor,” by Fred Bartenstein. Read Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir by Josh Graves, available now. “It was clear to me that […]
Celebrate Josh Graves’s 85th birthday at IBMA
On September 27, 2012, Josh Graves’s 85th birthday, the University of Illinois will publish Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir, edited by Fred Bartenstein. We will celebrate the occasion at the International […]
Bill Malone, SoLost, and Country Music
Today SoLost, the video magazine of Oxford American, released a lovely interview and profile called Bill C. Malone: Scholarly Hero of Country Music. Malone also published two books in our […]
Welcome, “New” Michael and Stephanie
We would like to welcome Michael Roux as new Marketing Manager, and Stephanie Turza as soon-to-be new Journals Production Editor. Michael officially began his position yesterday after nearly seven years […]
Hello, goodbye
The University of Illinois recently transitioned to a computer-based phone system, which made our desktop telephones obsolete. The collection cart made the rounds this morning. […]
UIP Authors Speaking at Printers Row Lit Fest
Visit our booth (UPDATE: we have been moved to TENT B on Dearborn) at Printers Row Lit Fest this weekend, and enjoy presentations by these University of Illinois Press authors: […]
Things I didn’t know, pt. 1
From the forthcoming University of Illinois Press book The Story Within Us: Women Prisoners Reflect on Reading (September 2012) edited by Megan Sweeney: “While allowing Ku Klux Klan publications such […]
NYT on the Death of the Bookstore
This morning’s New York Times has sort of a scattered article on the prospects of a post-bookstore environment for readers and publishers. Just as indie book stores were decimated by […]
Peer Review No Longer in the Dark
In today’s Inside Higher Ed, Scott Jaschik reported on sessions taking place at the Modern Language Association’s annual meeting discussing the role of traditional blind peer review in scholarly publications […]