Illinois Press Blog

April 22, 2009 (April 22, 2009)

Moneyball, the movie?

I loved Michael Lewis’s Moneyball. In the book, Lewis profiled Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane who used player statistics to find undervalued players which he could acquire on a small budget (what, […]

April 21, 2009

Brian D. McLaren on Christian America

Brian D. McLaren endorses Richard Hughes’s forthcoming book Christian America and the Kingdom of God in a Washington Post On Faith forum. […]

April 20, 2009

Richard Hughes on Christian America

In September we will publish Christian America and the Kingdom of God by Richard T. Hughes, distinguished professor of religion at Messiah College. Howard Zinn calls the book “an eloquent critique […]

April 17, 2009 (April 20, 2009)

A random walk down university press row

-A contributor to the Penn State University Press Blog relates a personal story about the fallout of selling a lesbian themed book to a nine year old. -UNC Press Blog […]

April 16, 2009 (April 16, 2009)

Publicists vs. reviewers?

Thanks to my colleague Lisa S. for pointing me to the “What book publicists need to know about reviewers” piece on The Book Publicity Blog. So far so good. However, it […]

April 15, 2009 (April 20, 2009)

Mushroom Mania

Our gorgeous new guide to wild mushrooms in Illinois is finally here, just in time for high mushroom season. Champaign Taste features it in today’s post, and one of the […]

April 15, 2009

Down the Youtube

There has been a lot of hand wringing lately about the financial future of print publishing. Slate looks at the current economic outlook of the leaders of Web 2.0. […]

April 15, 2009 (April 15, 2009)

“Cafe Society” reviewed in AllAboutJazz

AllAboutJazz.com praises Cafe Society. “This wonderful, uplifting book tells the story of Barney Josephson and Cafe Society, the jazz cabaret Josephson set up in Greenwich Village, New York City in 1938. […]

April 14, 2009 (April 15, 2009)