Skip to content

Illinois Press Blog

Archives

Categories

Search…

April 1, 2009

Golfweek reviews “Golf in America”

reviews sports history

Golfweek magazine finds George Kirsch’s new book Golf in America a welcome and timely appraisal of the sport. You’ll pardon my fleeting interest in yet another instructional tract, or coffee-table book […]

Read More

April 1, 2009

Upheaval at New Mexico

publishing

Yesterday a colleague forwarded me a University of New Mexico Press press release that was making the rounds.  It was quite the bombshell.  The Chronicle of Higher Education site has […]

Read More

March 31, 2009

More Record Makers & Breakers reviews

music reviews

The March 31, 2009, edition of the New York Daily News includes a review of John Broven’s new book Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll […]

Read More

March 30, 2009

NPR remembers Archie Green

folklore

NPR’s Morning Edition program on March 25, 2009, included a segment on the recently deceased University of Illinois Press author Archie Green. Green moved comfortably through the halls of Congress and […]

Read More

March 27, 2009 (March 27, 2009)

New folklore series for first books extends deadline for proposals

Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World

  As we’ve announced previously, we are one of three university presses sharing a Mellon Foundation grant to fund a new series called Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World. Our […]

Read More

March 27, 2009

How will the Kindle change MY family’s reading habits?

publishing

Jacob Weisberg wrote a column in Slate this week titled “Book End: How the Kindle will change the world.” I continue to think about how my family would incorporate a Kindle.  […]

Read More

March 26, 2009

Pirates!

all things digital publishing

E-book pirates, that is.  NPR’s All Things Considered reports on e-book piracy and publishers’ efforts to use digital rights management (or “DRM” if you’re hip) to protect their titles against […]

Read More

March 24, 2009

Reason reviews “Black Maverick”

black studies reviews

The April 2009 issue of Reason magazine contains a favorable review of the new book Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power. [A] captivating […]

Read More

March 23, 2009 (March 24, 2009)

Negative style points

Getting to know Champaign-Urbana

This past weekend Champaign Centennial High School won the class 3A state boys basketball championship over Oswego.  Centennial’s semi-final opponent helped pave the way with a “fashion don’t.” […]

Read More

March 23, 2009 (March 23, 2009)

University of Michigan Press going digital

publishing

Inside Higher Ed reports today that the University of Michigan Press is changing to a digital monograph model. Within two years, press officials expect well over 50 of the 60-plus monographs […]

Read More

March 20, 2009

Mr. Blackmore’s legendary basement (on college radio)

miscellaneous music

Our distinguished American music list ranges from Aaron Copland to Bill Monroe, Marian Anderson to Marian McPartland, with Elvis, Louis Prima, Hazel Dickens, and John Cage rounding out the ranks. Our […]

Read More

March 20, 2009

Museums Look to the Common Man by Victoria Grieve

author commentary

As a historian, I’m not supposed to believe that history repeats itself, but sometimes it’s tempting. As anyone who reads the newspaper knows, comparisons of the current “economic crisis” and […]

Read More

  • «
  • 1
  • …
  • 235
  • 236
  • 237
  • 238
  • 239
  • …
  • 277
  • »
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: UI Press Custom by understrap.com.(Version: 1.0.0)