The February 26, 2011, edition of the Detroit Free Press includes a feature on the new book Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. The women […]
Syracuse University Press pulls book, shocks author
Inside Higher Ed reports this morning that Syracuse University Press has ceased publishing a title released last year because of defamation concerns. The press pulled the book after learning of legal threats […]
Who is in charge of college athletic reform?
Ronald Smith, author of the new book Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform, has contributed an op-ed piece to the History News Network about the influence of […]
Blogging Wisconsin
Steven Ashby, co-author of the recent book Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement, has been using the book’s website to share his on-the-ground account of the current labor protests in […]
Sam Lipsyte and David Dougherty discuss Stanley Elkin
On February 28, New York City’s upper east side Barnes & Noble (150 East 86th Street) will host a Writers on Writers program to discuss American novelist Stanley Elkin. The two panelists […]
Blogging by Middle-aged Cat Lovers and More!
For readers 17 or younger (if we have any): RT @slate: RT @nytimes: kidz diss blogs 4 #fb and #twitter http://slate.me/g0nTzG For those between the ages of 34 and 73: So apparently […]
Tools of Change
Check out our Twitter feed from the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference. Samples: I’m loving Ron Charles’ positivity in the digital literary reviewing sesh. Totally Hip Video Book Reviewer indeed. […]
Judy Richardson featured on Inside E Street
Judy Richardson, co-editor of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, was interviewed on the AARP program Inside E Street. The show airs nationwide on public […]
Page, Carton, Panel, Mat
Last week, Lisa Bayer passed along a link to a Chronicle of Higher Education article by Tushar Rae about the issue of citation standards for e-books: since e-text reflows […]
The TLS reviews Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess
The February 4, 2011, issue of the Times Literary Supplement features Colin Renfrew’s stellar review of Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess: A Near Eastern Koine by Nanno Marinatos. “A well-written and […]
Viagra a Feminist Technology? by Joe Datko
During the fall 2010 semester, students in my graduate course on Gender, Science, Technology, and Medicine read Feminist Technology. One of their assignments was to generate a blog entry of […]
New Acquisitions Editor Daniel Nasset
The University of Illinois Press is pleased to introduce new acquisitions editor Daniel Nasset to the publishing community. Daniel has been an assistant acquisitions editor at Illinois since September 2009 […]