Today’s LA Times includes a sparkling review of Joe McElhaney’s Albert Maysles, a new volume in our Contemporary Film Directors series. “McElhaney’s biography runs like a classic Maysles brother film, sticking to the facts, […]
Alone in the Woods by Joe McFarland
It’s all over for the majority of wild mushroom hunters in Illinois. That’s because the only wild mushroom most people trust and recognize—the morel—has now faded from the forests of […]
What’s the matter with Illinois? asks Oronte Churm
Blogger Oronte Churm asks a prescient question, with thanks to Thomas Frank for the original premise. Somebody once suggested that Illinois is the most representative of the United States, not […]
Inside Higher Ed surveys UPs on digital publishing
Inside Higher Ed‘s Scott McLemee made the rounds at BEA to investigate academic publishing’s e-books strategy. His report appears in today’s edition. Shifting to digital is not the quick, smooth, cost-free move […]
UIP wins Lifetime Achievement Award
The University of Illinois Press was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the recent International Country Music Conference in Nashville for our series Music in American Life. Pats on the […]
Meet us in Chicago for Printers Row Lit Fest
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. […]
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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 […]