On November 7, 2011, we will officially publish Jesus Ramirez-Valles’s new book Compañeros: Latino Activists in the Face of AIDS, which details how eighty gay, bisexual, and transgender (GBT) Latino […]
Iran-Contra, Crack Cocaine, and the Transformation of Hip-Hop by Miles White
In August of 1985, the United States government under the administration of President Ronald Reagan secretly and illegally began selling weapons to Iran, which was engaged in what would be […]
Octave Chanute biographer speaks with Smile Politely
The former Chanute Air Force Base is just fifteen miles down the road in Rantoul, Illinois, so the Chanute name has strong name recognition in this area. Our local online entertainment magazine Smile […]
Hands on the Freedom Plow wins a Letitia Woods Brown Book Award
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in the SNCC was selected as one of this year’s winners of the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award, sponsored by the Association […]
Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology wins the Ungar German Translation Award
Robert E. Norton’s translation of Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology by Ernst Bertram is the winner of the Ungar German Translation Award presented by the American Translators Association. The ATA’s […]
It works for Comic Con, why not Book Expo?
Today’s Shelf Awareness for Readers newsletter includes a small news item on New York’s Comic Con: New York Comic Con, the East Coast’s largest comic, graphic novel and manga festival, […]
Garden & Gun reviews Spirits of Just Men
The October/November 2011 issue of Garden & Gun magazine includes Clyde Edgerton’s review of Charles Thompson’s new book Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine […]
NPR affiliate WFIU runs Becoming Ray Bradbury segment
Bloomington, Indiana’s NPR affiliate WFIU recently aired a piece on Jonathan Eller’s new book Becoming Ray Bradbury. […]
Crowe on the Banjo in the Lexington Herald-Leader
On October 2, J.D. Crowe’s hometown newspaper, the Lexington Herald-Leader, featured a review of Marty Godbey’s new book Crowe on the Banjo: The Music Life of J.D. Crowe. “Early chapters […]
Putting out a fire
In today’s Shelf Awareness for Readers newsletter, editor John Mutter opens with a piece on Amazon’s new Fire tablet. Many in the book business worry about power becoming concentrated in […]
Q&A with Gerald Danzer, author of Illinois: A History in Pictures
On May 16, 2011, we published Gerald Danzer’s book Illinois: A History in Pictures, which gathers drawings, engravings, photographs, maps, and other illustrations to illuminate the growth and changes in […]
Rachel and Rory and Shirley and Cyril
On September 5, 2011, we published Mike Leigh, the 28th volume in our Contemporary Film Directors series. Author Sean O’Sullivan conducted multiple interviews with Mike Leigh and distilled them into […]