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 […]
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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 […]
Larry & Alaina Kanfer on WGN-TV
Larry & Alaina Kanfer discuss Barns of Illinois on WGN-TV. […]
Chicago photography
This week will be busy for Gary Cialdella and Larry & Alaina Kanfer, authors of our two new photography books. Gary Cialdella will appear on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight program this […]