“Either university presses will embrace new technology and offer scholarly content in new forms to researchers and under new business models, or they will follow the music industry and spend […]
All in the family
Tom O’Neill, brother of the Press’s Kathy O’Neill, was interviewed on January 27, 2009, on NPR’s All Things Considered, and contributed an article titled “Escape from North Korea” to the […]
Kirkus reviews “Cafe Society”
The February 1, 2009, issue of Kirkus Reviews includes a rave for the forthcoming book Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People (University of Illinois Press, April 2009). “An […]
More experts needed
The daily e-mails seeking experts for future news stories keep coming. My current favorites: -Bars in NYC with Ms. Pac-Man game –pet hypnotist –Reality Stars Who Love Baseball –business blogging disasters? […]
Watching Obama from the Arabian Peninsula by James Schwoch
I’m sitting in Doha, Qatar, on January 27, 2009, at about 4pm Arabian Standard Time—here this year on a faculty appointment at the new Northwestern University-Qatar campus in Education City. […]
Poet Laureate Kevin Stein featured in the Chicago Tribune
Kevin Stein, poet laureate of Illinois and author of the new book of poems Sufficiency of the Actual, was featured in the January 24, 2009, edition of the Chicago […]
The New York Times mentions “King of the Queen City”
Sunday’s New York Times profiled Cincinnati’s King Records, an early recording home to James Brown. In the piece, writer RJ Smith mentioned our forthcoming book King of the Queen City: The […]
Is President Obama Reading a UI Press book?
On inauguration day, Aretha Franklin gave President Barack Obama a collection of her dad’s sermons, along with a biography of her late father. Is it possible that she gifted Obama […]
Antenor Firmin predicted America’s first Black president in 1885! by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
Anténor Firmin (1850-1911) was a Haitian scholar whose De l’égalité des Races Humaines (Anthropologie Positive) in 1885 (Paris) was a response to European racialist and racist thought in the […]
Layoffs at Oxford University Press
Publishers Weekly reports that Oxford University Press is cutting 60 positions in its U.S. offices. OUP spokesperson Christian Purdy said besides shedding jobs, the press was not planning any dramatic […]
The hunter gets captured by the game?
I’ll be looking for my official Book Reviewer Union Card in the mail soon. […]
Flora Jan by Fleur Yano
Unbound Spirit: Letters of Flora Belle Jan chronicles the life of a Chinese American flapper/journalist. Her letters to a German immigrant friend from Russia describe her youth in California, her college […]