(Image above is a Twitter template available to University units.) As part of my continuing education as a publicist for the Press, I attended a session on campus yesterday titled […]
For fans of “How It’s Made”
LASNews, the newsletter of the University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, linked to this This Old Hall, a five-minute video detailing the restoration work currently in progress […]
“Beauty Shop Politics” wins ABWH award
Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry by Tiffany Gill was awarded the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award for best publication from the Association of Black […]
The editorial/advertising divide
Yesterday I spent part of my workday sending unsolicited e-mail messages to individual book editors at daily newspapers. My goals were to: 1) alert them to the publication of a forthcoming book, […]
The Chicago Sun-Times answers the question “what’s that pig outdoors?”
The August 29, 2010, edition of the Chicago Sun-Times profiled the University of Illinois Press reissue of What’s That Pig Outdoors? A Memoir of Deafness by Henry Kisor. “Henry’s Norman Rockwell upbringing […]
Champaign Public Library to institute new fee for some out-of-town users
Our local newspaper, The News-Gazette, reports today that the Champaign Public Library plans to charge patrons from two adjoining towns—Savoy (part of the Tolono Library district) and Mahomet—$200 per year to check […]
Taylor Bell on WGN-TV
Taylor Bell, author of the new book Dusty, Deek, and Mr. Do-Right: High School Football in Illinois, was interviewed August 27, 2010, on WGN-TV’s Midday News. […]
Benching Jim Crow on NPR’s Only a Game
On Saturday, August 28, University of Illinois Press author Charles Martin will be interviewed about his new book Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in […]
Ooga chaka ooga ooga
Woo hoo! University of Illinois Press Database Administrator Leslie DeLucia was featured yesterday on NPR’s All Things Considered during its Summer Jobs feature. KFC, featuring Blue Swede! […]
CNN to interview Hands on the Freedom Plow contributor
“I looked down at the speedometer. It hovered at 115. My 1957 Packard hunkered down and propelled the three of us down Mississippi Interstate 55. As I glanced to the […]
Meet the Shepherds
On Wednesday, July 28, 2010, Gordon and Gary Shepherd spoke with Milt Rosenberg on WGN radio about their new book Talking with the Children of God: Prophecy and Transformation in a Radical […]
Holly Swyers on WGN
Holly Swyers, author of the new book Wrigley Regulars: Finding Community in the Bleachers, is scheduled to appear on WGN radio and television in the next few weeks. Tonight, August […]