I had a good meeting yesterday at the Center for Black Music Research about a launch event for the forthcoming book Give ‘Em Soul, Richard! Race, Radio, and Rhythm and […]
Experience our “French Roots”
The Champaign Public Library is hosting an event this evening that looks like fun: “Ethnic Illinois: French Traditions in Music and Food:” Dennis Stroughmatt, an authority on French Creole music, […]
Dinner for Mr. Ringo
Four years ago at this time I had just started at the Press and was planning my first publicity trip to Chicago. My predecessor had provided a list of her […]
Sending David Beckham a copy of Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois
Among the many stories generated by the Tiger Woods debacle is this one from the Chronicle’s Tweed column. A book in the floorboard of the famously wrecked Escalade appears in a […]
Sing It Pretty
Bess Lomax Hawes, folklorist, singer, and defender of the folk arts, died last week in Portland, Oregon. We are honored to have published Hawes’s 2008 memoir, Sing It Pretty, as part […]
Fujiwara’s “Excellent!!!” monograph and how movie blurbs work
When high profile reviews of UIP books are published, I am responsible for pulling key quotes from the reviews and entering them in our database for future dissemination. This duty was […]
The New York Times on Breadwinners
The November 29, 2009, edition of The New York Times includes a review of Lara Vapnek’s new book Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920. Ms. Vapnek, who teaches history at […]
The New Yorker on University Press logos
The Book Bench column in The New Yorker online has a short feature, with graphics, on university press logos. The University of Illinois Press logo is above. […]
Heavy shelves
Scott McLemee, writing in today’s Inside Higher Ed, ruminates on personal and institutional book collections. A few months ago, I was happy to be able to acquire an obscure volume of […]
The Oprah question
Many, many authors have suggested that I send a review copy of his/her book to Oprah. I am 0-for-50 (or so) at this point. And though my batting average will […]
Star of stage & screen
If I had read the following media heat item from Shelf Awareness this morning before my meetings instead of tonight after my meetings, I would have known what to expect when I […]
Kindle boycott!
Inside Higher Ed reports today that our university is boycotting institutional use of the Kindle. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is joining Syracuse University and the University of Wisconsin […]