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 […]
Bell in the Daily Herald
The July 14, 2010, edition of Chicago’s Daily Herald includes Marty Maciaszek’s feature on Taylor Bell’s new book Dusty, Deek, and Mr. Do-Right: High School Football in Illinois. “… the first person Bell […]
Winkel, Inge, and Nowlan
Rick Winkel, David Inge (WILL radio), and Jim Nowlan following the Illini Union Bookstore panel on the Nowlan & Winkel book (with Samuel Gove) Illinois Politics: A Citizen’s Guide. (Photo […]
Reading Other People’s Mail by Kathleen Pfeiffer
Now that my book is published, I shall confess to you the tawdry and selfish origins by which I came to write it. Yes, it contains all the sheen and distinction […]
CNN’s Belief Blog features Richard Hughes
Richard Hughes, author of the recent book Christian America and the Kingdom of God, addresses the nation’s cultural divide at CNN.com. “83% of the American people claim to be Christians. If those […]
Goodbye, Pat
October 10, 2005, was my first day on the job here at the University of Illinois Press. The person who hired me, then Marketing Director Pat Hoefling, had decided to move back to […]
Abe Lincoln virtual book signing
On Saturday, July 10, 2010, the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago will host University of Illinois Press author Mark Lause for a virtual book signing. Beginning at noon, Dr. Lause […]