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 […]
Huffington Post innovative university press
The University of Illinois Press was recognized by Huffington Post in the feature The 17 Most Innovative University Presses And the Books You Will Want From Them. Anis Shivani: For whatever shortsighted […]
T. Rex touchdown
In December we are publishing Ronald A. Smith’s new book Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform, which traces attempts at college athletics reform from 1855 through the […]
Rice University’s press to close
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported today that Rice University’s press, which became all-digital four years ago, will close in September. The move ends a high-profile experiment in digital university-press publishing. […]