Last week I shipped a handful of The Only True God review copies to bloggers. One of the sites, Antiquitopia, has posted a piece about receiving the book. Last night I received […]
Sports Illustrated speaks with George Kirsch
George Kirsch, author of the new book Golf in America, was interviewed by Sports Illustrated for its article on golf during the depression. By the time the U.S. entered World War […]
Printers Row redux
A week ago today we headed north for the Printers Row Lit Fest in Chicago. 2009 turned out to be our most successful show to date, with twelve authors on […]
Harper’s Magazine online interviews David Beito
David Beito, co author of the new book Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power, was interviewed by Scott Horton for Harper’s online. Q. “You […]
Book-TV at Printers Row
C-Span’s Book-TV filmed a handful of University of Illinois Press authors live at the Printers Row Lit Fest on June 6. Watch Karen Graves, C. Todd White, Margaret Washington, and David […]
On the future of scholarly publishing
Eleven editors and directors, including UIP’s own Joan Catapano, share their perspectives on academic publishing with the Chronicle of Higher Education. […]
The Hegel-Heidegger-Heisenberg circuit
Peter J. Dougherty, director of Princeton University Press, celebrates the original publication and continued printing of the University of Illinois Press’s The Mathematical Theory of Communication in his Chronicle of Higher Education piece […]
Monotheism by James F. McGrath
“Monotheism” sounds like such a simple idea. What could possibly be simpler than having only one of something? But if there is anything that is not straightforward in the study […]
We don’t like your manuscript submission so we’re going to make fun of you
Very Short List recommends a website today that features audio samples of rejected music demos sent to a record label. I doubt that any of the aspiring artists gave the […]
David Beito in National Review Online
David Beito, co-author of the new book Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power, was interviewed by John J. Miller for National Review Online. JOHN […]
Cheryl Ganz on WGN-TV
Cheryl Ganz, author of The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, was interviewed today on WGN-TV’s Midday News program. […]
UIP author’s rock opera opens in Chicago
This week’s Chicago Reader features a story on University of Illinois Press author Henry Perritt’s new rock opera You Took My Flag Away. You Took Away My Flag is a vanity project, […]