Chad Berry’s new edited collection, The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance, was profiled by Robert Loerzel in the August 7-13, 2008, issue of Time Out Chicago. […]
“Rachel in the World” endorsed by B&N Notable Reader
Sandra Tsing Loh includes Jane Bernstein’s Rachel in the World in her Notable Reader roundup for Barnes & Noble Review. “One of the most extraordinary, awful, funny, candid, heart-rending, brave books about […]
Kim Ruehl on her interview with Bess Lomax Hawes
Kim Ruehl, editor of About.com’s Folk Music, blogs ecstatic about her interview with Bess Lomax Hawes. “Holy crap, what a remarkable historical source. That may have been the interview highlight […]
Burnstein on Seattle’s new bag law
Daniel Burnstein, author of the University of Illinois Press book Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City, wrote a guest column for the Seattle […]
Free UIP books
We’re giving away free copies of Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers and Circus Queen and Tinker Bell: The Memoir of Tiny Kline as part of LibraryThing’s early reviewer […]
Old Age Isn’t for Sissies
The following is Lisa S.’s way of saying Happy Friday to all. Working in the journals department, I correspond with a wide range of people from all over the world. […]
Could Iron Man Handle Copyright?
Here’s Heather on creative communication strategies: We journals production editors have noticed how hard it can be to get important information, resources, and instructions to the busy editors and contributors […]
Green Publishing to the Max
In the August 15 Chronicle of Higher Education, we discover that Routledge was really into recycling. Now they’re really into dancing, rhetorically speaking. Imagine cracking open a new book and finding […]
Authors and Book Covers, or You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Today Breanne opens the Pandora’s box known as Book Cover Design. Before a manuscript enters the copyediting queue, I’ll ask authors for their cover art suggestions. While some authors prefer […]
The Virtual Columbian Exposition
Today’s post is from Breanne: The Urban Simulation Team in the School of Arts and Architecture at UCLA employs real-time visual simulation technology to recreate scenes from The World’s Columbian […]
National Book Festival invites Michael Harper
Frost Medal recipient Michael Harper has been invited by the National Endowment for the Arts to participate in the National Book Festival in Washington D.C., on September 27, 2008. His […]
Wanted: Graveyard Support Vampire
Where would we be without IT? I’ll admit to remembering a time Before IT, when youngsters armed with English degrees (ahem) were allowed to scamper in on Saturdays to run […]