I recently visited Seattle, where my twenty-something niece is a grad student, teacher, and research scientist specializing in water and climate change. I’m exceedingly proud of her, and of her […]
Black Trumpet Dip
Joe McFarland, co-author of the recent book Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States, shares his recipe for Black Trumpet Dip on the Illinois Mushrooms site. How easy is it you […]
Man of Constant Education by Charles Joyner
Some years ago, Ralph Stanley made a fascinating comment on the life on a prominent touring musician. He told me that he was usually able to book Saturday performances close enough […]
Janet Flammang on NPR affiliate WILL
Janet Flammang, author of the new book The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society, will be the featured guest on WILL-AM’s Afternoon Magazine at 1:06 PM (CST) on […]
Randall Bezanson op-ed in Washington Post book blog
Short Stack, The Washington Post‘s book blog, features an opinion piece by Randall Bezanson, author of the new book Art and Freedom of Speech. “If a National Endowment for the […]
To the Editor of the Sunday Book Review:
George Kirsch, author of Golf in America, wrote a letter to the New York Times Book Review to correct the record on Woodrow Wilson’s golf routine: Actually, after the first few […]
The Wall Street Journal reviews “Barrelhouse Words”
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 […]