butter and egg man Why don’t you take me pretty mama, make something out of poor me? I’m just a butter and egg man, just as soft as I can […]
“Sojourner Truth’s America” wins award
Margaret Washington’s new book, Sojourner Truth’s America, was one of two 2009 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award winners. Awarded annually by the Association of Black Women Historians, the competition […]
Divas on Screen author on screen
Mia Mask, author of the new book Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film, was interviewed on New York’s CBS affiliate WCBS-TV . […]
I feel events coming on
On October 5, 2009 we will publish I Feel a Song Coming On, the first biography of great American songwriter Jimmy McHugh. That week, Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle (NYC) and Michael […]
Barrelhouse Word: makin’ whoopee
On November 2, 2009, we will publish Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary by Stephen Calt, which has been in the works since the late 1960s. Periodically, between now and […]
New model$ in publishing
Inside Higher Ed reports today that “five leading universities announced a new ‘Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity’ in which they have pledged to develop systems to pay open access […]
University Press Book, Jacket, & Journal Show
The University of Illinois Press is hosting the 2009 Book, Jacket, & Journal Show of the Association of American University Presses between Monday, September 21, and Friday, October 2. 50 books and 35 […]
Philadelphia Public Libraries to close
The Free Library of Philadelphia has posted a notice on its site announcing the permanent closing of the central library and all branch libraries on October 2. “We deeply regret […]
More, Lists, more lists!!
Following my first stab at remembering 50 Bands I’ve Seen, I obsessed for 24 hours to come up with the bands that I had forgotten. I have finally compiled the […]
A kinder, gentler Onion
Given the torrent of negative media attention enjoyed of late by the state of Illinois and its flagship university , it’s no surprise that the Onion wanted to get in […]
Barns of Illinois book launch
The University of Illinois Press and the Larry Kanfer Gallery invite you to celebrate the publication of Barns of Illinois. Photographs by Larry Kanfer Text by Alaina Kanfer Book launch […]
View from the UK
The Guardian explains the Google digital library settlement. […]