This weekend we’ll be selling books and featuring a dozen or so of our authors at the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest–billed as the Midwest’s Largest […]
Survivor: UI Admissions
The Chicago Tribune reports that getting into the state’s flagship university can be made easier depending upon whom one knows. Patronage has become such an entrenched part of the admissions […]
While you are away…
…the “Let It Snow” mug sits. And the staff wonders why it never gets washed. […]
Set up
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Set up, pt. 2
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Don’t byup
There’s a street sign at 43rd St. and 8th Ave. that says “Don’t Honk.” Five blocks north I didn’t hear any honking at 7:00 a.m., but I did hear occasional siren […]
Style points, the prequel
A while back I whined about a Harper’s piece in which the writer described people attending a publishing trade show in devastating detail. Our forthcoming book Oscar Wilde in America: The […]
Penny wise
I’m about halfway through Jon Hartley Fox’s forthcoming book on the King record label titled King of the Queen City. In one of the chapters on King’s country artists there’s […]
The Sun-Times recommends Mushrooms
The Chicago Sun-Times suggests that you attend the launch party for Joe McFarland and Gregory Mueller’s new book Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States at the Chicago Botanic […]
Birds at 3,000 feet
Those of you traveling to New York next week for BEA may want to wait until after the expo to read William Langewieche’s new Vanity Fair column on bird strikes near La […]
In These Times features “Staley”
In These Times just launched a web only feature on Steven Ashby and C. J. Hawking’s new book Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement. On December 22, […]
PW and jazz and what?
The May 11, 2009, issue of Publishers Weekly includes a “Soapbox” piece by a music professor who wrote a book on jazz music that he self-published. The story’s handle is, “Although […]