Stefan Bradley, author of the new book Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s, was interviewed in today’s edition of Inside Higher Ed. Q: In summing […]
“Dime Novel Desperadoes” on WGN-TV
John Hallwas, author of the book Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers, was interviewed on August 11, 2009, on WGN-TV’s Midday News program. […]
Prologue to a what?
My “University of Illinois Press” Google alert has been especially active lately prompted by numerous concerned blog entries about Mark Lloyd, author of the 2006 book Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in […]
The New York Times reviews “Cafe Society”
The Metropolitan section of the August 16, 2009, issue of The New York Times includes a review of Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People. Mr. Josephson’s voice […]
NPR features “College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era”
Kurt Edward Kemper, author of the new book College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era, was interviewed by Bill Littlefield on the August 15 edition of NPR’s […]
The Power of Google
The Wired Campus reports on Google’s announcement that it will allow authors and publishers to use Google Books as a distribution channel for books that they license through Creative Commons. […]
The Power of Twitter
Michael Clarke at The Scholarly Kitchen explains the differences between Twitter and other social networks, analyzing the advantages of Twitter for sharing your message (the aim of scholarly communicators everywhere). […]
“Black Maverick” in The Wall Street Journal
The August 7, 2009, edition of the The Wall Street Journal includes a feature review of Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power. Howard drove […]
Mushroom authors on WGN-TV
Joe McFarland and Gregory Mueller, authors of the new book Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois & Surrounding States, were interviewed August 4, 2009, on WGN-TV’s Midday News program. […]
Oriard new in The League
Michael Oriard, author of the recent reissue The End of Autumn: Reflections on My Life in Football, contributed his first piece this week to The Washington Post‘s “The League” column. A major […]
PW & LJ going away?
E-Reads reported yesterday that Reed Business Information is looking to sell Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. What if there isn’t a buyer? […]
Some things learned in writing “Paradoxes of Prosperity” by Dwight L. Teeter, Jr. & Paula T. Kaufman
When working with Professor Lorman (Larry) Ratner on another University of Illinois Press book (Fanatics and Fire-Eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War, 2003), he frequently said that there […]