Stephane Dunn, author of the forthcoming University of Illinois Press book “Baad Bitches” and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films, contributed a commentary to NewsOne.com about Morehouse College’s white valedictorian […]
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World’s Columbian Exposition excavation
The Chicago Tribune reported yesterday that a class at the University of Chicago is digging for urban archeolgical treasures on land that once housed the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. “The […]
Printers Row Book Fair press release
Four publishing-related units located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Illinois Alumni Association, will collaborate on an exhibit at the 2008 Chicago Tribune Printers Row […]
Kathryn Anthony interviewed on NPR about “potty parity”
Kathryn Anthony, author of the new University of Illinois Press paperback Designing for Diversity: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Architectural Profession, was interviewed this morning on NPR about toilets […]
Fair use of press clippings
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) recently sent subscribers of its clipping service a link to an article that appeared in PR Week on the photocopying and distribution of […]
The Wisconsin State Journal catches up with Bill Malone
The Wisconsin State Journal catches up with local resident Bill Malone on his lifetime achievement award from the Society for American Music and new book with Hazel Dickens, Working Girl Blues: […]
Samuel Regalado on PBS’s “American Experience”
Samuel Regalado, author of Viva Baseball!: Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger, was interviewed on PBS’s new American Experience segment, Roberto Clemente. The Third Edition of Viva Baseball! will be published […]
The TLS reviews Queneau’s “Letters, Numbers, Forms”
The April 4, 2008, issue of the The Times Literary Supplement features a review of Raymond Queneau’s Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays, 1928-70. The book’s translator receives high praise. “Jordan Stump has […]
More on digital delivery of academic scholarship
The New York Times reported today that three academic publishers are suing Georgia State University over GSU’s free distribution of copyrighted material in “coursepacks.” And, today’s Inside Higher Ed has a piece on professors […]
Getting to know Champaign-Urbana, Part 6
Well, Hoopeston, Illinois, isn’t officially in the immediate Champaign-Urbana “neighborhood,” but we’re all East Central Illinoisans here. This week the New York Underground Film Festival is premiering the documentary Hoopeston, “a tale of […]
SUNY Press’s new E-Book initiative
Inside Higher Ed reports today that SUNY Press is testing a new way to sell text books. “Under the program, which was announced Tuesday, the press will simultaneously make available, for […]
Jobs vs. reading in the New York Times
Timothy Egan takes on Steve Jobs’s dim view of the state of reading in The New York Times. Please note: I once caught my teenage son listening to his iTouch AND reading […]