Organizing material for a book on a subject, like high school basketball in Illinois, that has been done before is difficult enough. Obviously, you are anxious to research new historical […]
“Hands on the Freedom Plow” events
Editors of the forthcoming book Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC have started arranging events to coincide with the October 2010 publication date. The first date on the current schedule […]
“Media Matters” and Copyright Issues
Yesterday’s Inside Higher Ed update contained links to several posts that mentioned the Librarian of Congress’s release of 3-year exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on Monday. As a […]
Goodbye, Brittany!
Today many of us are saying goodbye to our Marketing Department Intern, Brittany Pyle. Over the past year she’s made herself a valuable member of our team, and cheerfully completed any […]
“A New Language, A New World” wins American Book Award
A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945 by Nancy C. Carnevale was selected as a winner of an American Book Award for 2010. The book examines […]
The challenge of translating Philippe Sollers by Armine Kotin Mortimer
In a nutshell, the challenge of translating Sollers consists of finding a balance between rendering his idiosyncratic prose style without flattening it, on the one hand, and writing intelligible English, […]
Talking with Milt Rosenberg about the Children of God
On Wednesday, July 28, from 10:00pm until midnight, co-authors Gordon and Gary Shepherd will appear on Milt Rosenberg’s WGN radio program Extension 720 to discuss their new book Talking with the […]
Amalia Pallares on WGN-TV’s Midday News
Amalia Pallares, co-editor of the new book ¡Marcha! Latino Chicago and the Immigrant Rights Movement, was interviewed July 22, 2010, on WGN-TV’s Midday News. […]
Radius clause for Santa Claus?
I have been working lately on arranging book events for our forthcoming anthology Christmas in Illinois. Editor Jim Ballowe will travel across the state during October, November, and December to promote […]
E-galleys available via NetGalley
We’re pleased to announce that six forthcoming titles from our Fall 2010 catalog are available in e-galley form from NetGalley. Reviewers, librarians, bookstores, and educators can get an early look […]
Don’t wait until next year
For the past three years my oldest son and I have played hooky in July or August to attend a weekday Cubs game at Wrigley Field. We typically park north of […]
Will Kaufman’s hard travellin’
We’re finalizing our Spring 2011 catalog list and one of the titles that most excites me is Will Kaufman’s Woody Guthrie, American Radical. The book analyzes Guthrie’s political radicalism which has […]