Question (Mom): Who can you be texting over 1,000 times a day? Answer (Daughter): IDN, MBF Jill? (I don’t know, my best friend Jill?) Most of us have seen this […]
In the end, collegiality
Over at Inside Higher Education, Teresa Mangum addresses the importance of playing well together–perhaps even sharing your snack–during trying times. Remember what a privilege and a joy it is to […]
Book 1.0 Release Notes
Video game webcomic Penny Arcade announces a new book format: they call it “Book”, and it features “an intuitive, touch-based interface.” “Book” also performs extremely well in drop tests and […]
Beauvoir’s daily routine
Daily Routines tells us about the typical schedule for Simone de Beauvoir. For more on Beauvoir, see The Beauvoir Series and other books from UIP. INTERVIEWER Do your writer friends have the same […]
A random walk down university press row
-UNC Press Blog is following American Idol‘s final 13. -Duke University Press Blog observes Barbie’s 50th birthday. -Neither blog mentions either of these numbers: 79-71. -Penn State University Press Blog compares the Kindle to […]
Google Alert (in 36 Languages)
This New York Times article explains pretty clearly the lengths to which Google is going to alert the world’s authors of the terms of its book settlement. So far, more […]
What about those hotels?
Hey, The Samuel Gompers Papers received a mention in a Washington Times story on the AFL-CIO conference in Miami. […]
The TLS on the joy of soy
The World of Soy, edited by Christine M. Du Bois, Chee-Beng Tan, and Sidney Mintz, is the subject of a long and favorable review in the new issue of The Times Literary […]
Broven has his MOJO workin’
Good reviews continue to flow in for John Broven’s book Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneers. Following the enthusiastic notices from Publishers Weekly and […]
“Stolen Bases” author in The New York Times
Jennifer Ring, author of the new book Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball, is quoted in the March 1, 2009, issue of The New York Times in an […]
All it took was a phone call
For almost three years now I’ve been confused by the method of communication used by a popular online-only review publication. To request a review copy, or alert me to a published […]
Farewell, Susie
After 30 years of service to the University of Illinois, Assistant Sales Manager Susie Dueringer is retiring from the Press. Susie has helped keep the Press functioning in many different ways, […]