Finished copies of Aniko Bodroghkozy’s book Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement just arrived from the printer and will be officially published on March 12, 2012. Equal Time […]
Pete Daniel in PBS program Slavery by Another Name
Pete Daniel, author of the University of Illinois Press book The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969, explains in the documentary Slavery by Another Name why the 13th […]
The Christian Science Monitor examines Woody’s influence at 100
The Christian Science Monitor appraises Woody Guthrie’s place in American culture. “Guthrie derived his songs from the downtrodden lives of those he encountered on road journeys during the nation’s roughest […]
UIP’s Judy McCulloh wins ARSC award
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections has honored former University of Illinois Press Executive Editor Judy McCulloh with the 2011 Award for Distinguished Service to Historical Recordings. From the ARSC site: After […]
NWSA/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize
June 1, 2012, is the next application deadline for the NWSA/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize. From the NWSA press release: The National Women’s Studies Association and the University […]
Q&A with Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance author Yvonne Daniel
In December 2011 the University of Illinois Press published Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance: Igniting Citizenship by Yvonne Daniel, professor emerita of dance and Afro-American studies at Smith College. Here Professor […]
Vote for Becoming Ray Bradbury
Locus, the Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field, has released its list of nominees for the 42nd annual Locus Awards. Jonathan Eller’s critically acclaimed Becoming Ray Bradbury has […]
Q&A with Scripting Hitchcock authors Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick
Following Scripting Hitchcock‘s nomination for an Edgar Award, authors Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick discuss their interest in Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie, and reveal their favorite Hitchcock films. Q: Scripting Hitchcock focuses on […]
BEA may open the gates
I was pleased to read in Shelf Awareness this morning that Book Expo America is considering adding a public component to the show in 2013. The general public’s access to the trade […]
Q&A with Illinois in the War of 1812 author Gillum Ferguson
On February 27, 2012, we will publish Gillum Ferguson’s book Illinois in the War of 1812. Throughout this bicentennial year Ferguson will travel to museums, libraries, bookstores, and historical societies across the […]
Scripting Hitchcock nominated for an Edgar
We are excited to announce that the recently published University of Illinois Press book Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie by Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick has been nominated […]
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 […]