On Thursday, August 12, Press staff and other guests said their fond farewells to CFO Lisa Emerson, who is off to new adventures after retiring at an impossibly early age. […]
“Stephanie” by Holly Swyers
I interviewed Stephanie from Leftfield for Wrigley Regulars on July 10, 2005. We met for brunch at a place called Chicago Joe’s on Irving Park Road, and we talked for […]
Double Rainbow* Connections
Working at a press that publishes both books and journals is great because it’s a world populated with many different subjects, authors, blog posts, etc. But in the journals department, […]
William Ayers Set to Retire from UIC; In Other News, Glenn Beck’s Head Explodes
Late last week, several media news outlets, including the Chicago Tribune and NPR, reported on the impending retirement of University of Illinois at Chicago professor William Ayers. Most of the […]
The Black Elk-SUNY saga continues
Inside Higher Ed follows up the story from two years ago on SUNY Press’ acquisition of a University of Nebraska Press bestseller. Black Elk Speaks is the autobiography of a […]
Advance copies of “Troubled Ground”
Bound advance proofs just arrived for Claude A. Clegg’s forthcoming book Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South. Reviews editors will begin receiving their advances […]
Researching high school football in Illinois by Taylor Bell
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, […]