Thanks to Tony over at the Penn State Press blog for bringing this video, apparently from a Dorling Kindersley sales conference, to my attention. Perfect food for thought late on a Friday afternoon […]
Local Self-Publishing
If you stand in the UIP parking lot and face northwest, the first thing you are likely to see, there beyond the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad tracks, is the latest […]
“Beauty Shop Politics” in The Chronicle
The April 11, 2010, edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education includes a review of Tiffany Gill’s new book Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry. […]
Borders Blues
Steve Cushing, author of Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews, and Lincoln T. Beauchamp, Jr., author BluesSpeak: The Best of the Original Chicago Blues Annual, will appear together for a […]
Remembering Staley
Thomas Frank, author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? and other books, discusses Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor in today’s Tilting the Yard column (subscription required) in […]
UIP at OAH
Cherry blossoms! It’s springtime in Washington, D.C. From April 7-10 the Press attended the Organization of American Historians’ 2010 annual meeting at the Hilton Washington in D.C. (more than one acquaintance reminded […]
Biggers on Maddow by Angela
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy University of Illinois Press author Jeff Biggers (In the Sierra Madre) appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show last […]
Mushrooms in the Sun-Times
Just in time for morel season, the April 11, 2010, edition of the Chicago Sun-Times featured a Dale Bowman Outdoors piece on the University of Illinois Press book Edible Wild […]
“Sojourner Truth’s America” wins the Darlene Clark Hine Award
Margaret Washington’s book, Sojourner Truth’s America, was selected as winner of the inaugural 2010 OAH Darlene Clark Hine Award for the best book in African American women’s and gender history. […]
Bookslut on “The Genius and the Goddess”
Elizabeth Bachner’s column in the March issue of Bookslut discusses Jeffrey Meyers’s new book The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe. “I went through a phase where I read […]
Google is also doing my taxes
Simon Mackie at the New York Times shares his top ten Google tricks, which include currency conversion, area-code lookup, and calculation (which makes me worry about how many first-graders are […]
“George Gershwin” reviewed in the TLS
The March 26, 2010, issue of the Times Literary Supplement includes a laudatory review of Walter Rimler’s recent book George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait. “Compact in length and voluminous in […]