Leonard G. Ramirez’s new book, Chicanas of 18th Street: Narratives of a Movement from Latino Chicago, with contributions by Yenelli Flores, María Gamboa, Isaura González, Victoria Pérez, Magda Ramírez-Castañeda, and Cristina […]
The rarest printing?
The Guardian observes the collector’s market for advance reading copies. Book collectors are a funny lot. Unlike readers, who are concerned with what’s inside the book, the true delight of any […]
Morels by the peonies
It’s always mushroom season here at the University of Illinois Press. Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States: A Field to Kitchen Guide by Joe McFarland and Gregory M. Mueller continues […]
The Hayloft Gang arrives
In August 2008 we published a collection edited by Chad Berry titled The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance. The book, a look at the nation’s most popular country […]
E-Textbooks at Indiana
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus section published a column today on Indiana University’s experiment with E-Textbooks. Here’s how it works: Students in a select group of courses are required to […]
Book-TV to air Woody Guthrie, American Radical program
On September 17, 2011, C-Span’s Book-TV will air Will Kaufman’s Woody Guthrie, American Radical program, which was filmed at Barnes & Noble’s New York/Upper West Side location on August 23rd. […]
From the Jewish Heartland in the Chicago Tribune
This week, the Chicago Tribune‘s Food & Dining section included a feature on the recent book From the Jewish Heartland: Two Centuries of Midwest Foodways. Under the headline “Rosh Hashana, heartland-style: Heritage recipes […]
Reasserting the Arts in Education by Jill P. May and Robert E. May
As we listen to Republican presidential candidates parry about education and consider President Obama’s call for funds to rebuild our crumbling schools, keep successful teachers on the job and hire […]
Why is a new university press hardcover $69.50?
This morning’s edition of Inside Higher Ed includes a blog contribution by Joshua Kim that questions the price of a recent hardcover book published by Temple University Press. Randy Martin’s […]
Jonathan Eller on Bradbury in New Scientist
Jonathan Eller, author of the new book Becoming Ray Bradbury, contributed an original piece to New Scientist on how science influenced Bradbury. The early years of the so-called atomic age that followed the first […]
Accidental thief confesses
Our handwriting experts have been dispatched to Chicago… To Whom It May Concern: A note of apology — I accidentally picked up this book at a book fair in Chicago, and […]
Michael Charry at the Cleveland Orchestra
Michael Charry’s biography of conductor George Szell has collected excellent review notices since its publication in late June. “Charry examines Szell’s personal life in greater detail than has been afforded […]