This is the second post of a multi-part series by Fran Markowitz—author of the new book Sarajevo: A Bosnian Kaleidoscope—on her recent trip to Sarajevo and Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, August 23-31, […]
NPR’s Here and Now features “Blues Before Sunrise”
The September 13, 2010, edition of NPR’s syndicated program Here & Now featured a segment on Steve Cushing’s recent book Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews. Listen to the author interview […]
Radiant Reunions by Fran Markowitz
This is the first post of a multi-part series by Fran Markowitz—author of the new book Sarajevo: A Bosnian Kaleidoscope—on her recent trip to Sarajevo and Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, August […]
UIP to participate in new Project MUSE e-book platform
Project MUSE, a distributor of electronic journal content, will launch Project MUSE Editions in 2011 to sell digital monographs published by academic presses. From the press release: Project MUSE, a leading provider of […]
Help. Zero degrees of separation.
(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 […]