Shelf Awareness reports on the cancellation of a controversial speaker at Anderson’s in Naperville, Illinois, and friend-of-the-Press Cary Nelson addresses that general topic in Inside Higher Ed. […]
“Staley” authors on the road
Steven Ashby and C. J. Hawking, authors of the new book Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement, are on the road and writing a tour diary for […]
April’s Foolishness
Oh, dear. Here are a couple of nice examples of the silliness of springtime. Shelf Awareness brings us up to date on this year’s BEA. And our local online city […]
Golfweek reviews “Golf in America”
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 […]
Upheaval at New Mexico
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 […]
More Record Makers & Breakers 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 […]
NPR remembers Archie Green
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 […]
New folklore series for first books extends deadline for proposals
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 […]
How will the Kindle change MY family’s reading habits?
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. […]
Pirates!
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 […]
Reason reviews “Black Maverick”
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 […]
Negative style points
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.” […]