The May 1, 2013, edition of Inside Higher Ed featured an Intellectual Affairs column on Matthew Jockers’s new book Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History. From IHE: Jockers uses his […]
Friday Night Fighter: a Look Back to the Golden Age of TV Boxing
Troy Rondinone’s new book Friday Night Fighter tells the story of Gaspar “Indio” Ortega, who was a hero for many Latin Americans as one of the first Mexicans to appear […]
Q&A with Fighting from a Distance author Jose Fuentecilla
During February of 1986, a grassroots revolution overthrew the dictatorship of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos. Jose V. Fuentecilla was involved in the anti-Marcos movement in the United States. Fuentecilla answered […]
George Jones and WSM
Rest in Peace, country legend George Jones. As Craig Havighurst writes in the introduction of his book Air Castle of the South, Jones was one of the members of Nashville […]
Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass book trailer
In May 2013 we will publish Murphy Henry’s new book Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass, which documents the musical lives of more than seventy women including Sally Ann […]
Coming Attractions: Fred Ho documentary
This week musician and activist Fred Ho will be celebrated at events featuring both signings of the new University of Illinois Press book Yellow Power Yellow Soul and also some […]
SynergiCity at the Chicago Architecture Foundation
If you’re looking for something to do in Chicago this month, the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) has an exhibit called SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City which roughly coincides with our publication of […]
Open Access Research Bill Advances to Illinois Senate
From Urbana-Champaign’s local newspaper, The News-Gazette: Legislation that would set up task forces at each of Illinois’ nine public universities to establish policies for open access to research articles published […]
David Levering Lewis on MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail
Fifty years ago today Martin Luther King Jr. completed his open letter from Birmingham Jail. David Levering Lewis, writes in his book King: A Biography (recently released in a new […]
Annette Insdorf helps honor Philip Kaufman at San Francisco Film Festival
Filmmaker Philip Kaufman will be honored with the Founder’s Directing Award by the San Francisco Film Society. Annette Insdorf will lead a Q&A with director Philip Kaufman at the San Francisco International Film Festival […]
Excerpt from Charles Ives in the Mirror
Charles Ives in the Mirror just arrived from the printer, and it is bright! I think it conveys the mood of the book well. Here’s an excerpt so you can […]
Book trailer for Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934
Thomas Leslie’s forthcoming book Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934, highlights architectural progress in the skyscraper’s birthplace from the Great Fire to the Great Depression. During this time, such iconic landmarks as the Chicago Tribune Tower, the […]