John Broven’s critically acclaimed book Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneers will be published in paperback on Monday, February 22, 2010. A sample of […]
Congrats to UIP book designer Kelly Gray
The Association of American University Presses has recognized University of Illinois Press book designer Kelly Gray for her work designing Michael Harper’s recent book Use Trouble, which was one of four […]
Scott Christianson to be filmed by Book-TV
C-Span’s Book-TV plans to film Scott Christianson’s March 2, 2010, presentation on Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War at the Sanctuary for […]
Chicago Manual of Style online forum
Inside Higher Ed reports that the University of Chicago Press has launched an online forum for discussion about (or is it “of”?) The Chicago Manual of Style (and other matters). “People pressed […]
Latest chatter
A roundup of recent publishing news: The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the growth of open access scholarly journals and publisher efforts to stop book piracy, The Electronic Frontier Foundation […]
Back to the Future
On February 15, 2010, The Scholarly Kitchen blog reported on the newly released UC Berkeley Scholarly Communication Report. 728 pages! The reoccurring theme in the report is that academia is a […]
Robert Lombardo to appear on WGN-TV
Robert Lombardo, author of the new book The Black Hand: Terror by Letter in Chicago, will be interviewed on WGN-TV’s Midday News in the 11:00 a.m. hour, on Monday, February […]
Oscar Wilde in San Francisco
The February 7, 2010, edition of the San Francisco Chronicle ran some excerpts from the new book Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews. The following was originally published in the SF Chronicle […]
Graduation day
The Crown Prince of Soul celebrates a new graduating class. […]
LHFGAs
Mammoth had a piece last week about the intersection between book design and architecture in the form of the Large Higgs Field Galactic Archive. Less a library than a holographic […]
Hunting oyster mushrooms
Carbondale’s PBS affiliate WSIU featured Joe McFarland, co-author of the recent book Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States: A Field-to-Kitchen Guide, in a segment on hunting oyster mushrooms […]
Just bloomed
The Press’ Journals department shows off its collective green thumb in advance of the coming snow storm. […]