Last Thursday, Kathleen Kornell (UIP copyright czar) and I attended a copyright primer given by Columbia University’s Kenneth Crews and hosted by the University of Illinois Graduate College and University […]
“Finding Cholita” to receive award from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Billie Jean Isbell’s book, Finding Cholita, will receive the honorable mention award for this year’s Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. The committee was very […]
Barrelhouse Word: black cat bone
black cat bone I believe my good gal have found my black cat bone I can leave Sunday mornin’ Monday mornin’ I’m tippin’ ’round home. —Blind Lemon Jefferson, “Broke And […]
Restricted words
Memo to anyone contributing comments to our blog posts To assure passage through our powerful filters, please do not use the following words (incomplete list): acai, tramadol, soma, ephedrine, Xanax, ambien, […]
The University of Illinois Press signs agreement with JSTOR
October 27, 2009 — Champaign, IL and New York, NY —The University of Illinois Press, the not-for-profit publishing division of the University of Illinois, and JSTOR, the preservation archive and […]
MPublishing Cometh
The University of Michigan Library announces MPublishing, the new uber-publishing initiative that includes the University of Michigan Press alongside other campus units devoted to scholarly communication. The focus of MPublishing will be […]
Gary Cialdella on WGN-TV
Gary Cialdella discusses his new book The Calumet Region: An American Place on WGN-TV’s Midday News. […]
On the Banks of the Queen City by Jon Hartley Fox
As a first-time author, the whole meeting-the-readers idea is still pretty new to me. I’ve spent virtually all of my writing life working in a vacuum, very rarely having any […]
Gary Cialdella on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight
On October 20, 2009, photographer Gary Cialdella was interviewed on WTTW-TV’s Chicago Tonight about his new book The Calumet Region: An American Place. […]
George Gershwin in The Jerusalem Post
Last week, The Jerusalem Post newspaper featured a review of Walter Rimler’s George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait. “Rimler shines in weaving together anecdotes, correspondence and a wealth of interviews with […]
Lending e-books
The New York Times reports how libraries are lending e-books: Most digital books in libraries are treated like printed ones: only one borrower can check out an e-book at a time, […]
Coming to New York by Alyn Shipton
Coming to New York to launch I Feel a Song Coming On, my new biography of songwriter Jimmy McHugh, was certainly quite a contrast to the way any of my […]