The December 26, 2009, edition of The Wall Street Journal included an enthusiastic review of Stephen Calt’s new book Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary. An impeccably scholarly, irresistibly […]
The Richard Hughes California book tour
Richard Hughes, author of the recent book Christian America and the Kingdom of God, will be in California in mid-January to speak about the myth of Christian America. Visit him in these […]
University of Illinois Press: Best of 2009
Willis Regier, Director Favorite Book: THE 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS, translated by Malcolm C. Lyons and Ursula Lyons. Penguin 2008, three volumes. I had always wanted to read the NIGHTS straight […]
A fly in the urinal
I was listening to NPR on Saturday morning and heard reporter Robert Krulwich introduce the University of Illinois’ May Berenbaum, author of our forthcoming Fall 2010 book Honey, I’m Homemade: […]
Wash his mouth out with soap
Bob Ostertag, author of the new book Creative Life, blogs at Huffington Post about recent student protests at his university in California. Governor Schwarzenegger should wash his mouth out with soap. Seriously. […]
Box Books
I recently came across an item from the University of Padova in Italy: a collection of 56 wooden books about trees. Rather than pages, each book contains physical evidence of […]
James T. Farrell pentalogy featured in the Chicago Tribune
The December 16, 2009, edition of the Chicago Tribune includes a feature story on James T. Farrell’s fiction and the recent reissue of the O’Neill pentalogy; A World I Never […]
Impressions of a Son by F. Geoffrey Samora
I was asked by the editors to respond to the essays written in the book, Moving Beyond Borders: Julian Samora and the Establishment of Latino Studies. Julian’s former students recall […]
UIP First Annual Cookie Swap
I attended my first cookie exchange at a friend’s house just a few years ago. It was a modest affair–half a dozen of us getting together for snacks and drinks, […]
The Oxford Times features Shipton
Alyn Shipton, author of the new book I Feel a Song Coming On: The Life of Jimmy McHugh, was featured in the December 11, 2009, edition of The Oxford Times. […]
Tiger Woods and the evolution of Golf in America
George Kirsch, author of the recent University of Illinois Press book Golf in America, comments on Tiger Woods and the history of golf in the Wall Street Journal‘s Speakeasy blog. […]
May I take your pledge?
On Monday, several gracious UIP employees volunteered to answer phones for WILL-TV‘s Winter Pledge Drive. As we answered phones and filled out pledge forms (on camera!), we listened to […]