On February 12th, Cheryl L. Keyes won an NAACP Image Award in the category of “Outstanding World Music Album” for her debut CD, Let Me Take You There (Keycan Records […]
The Huffington Post remembers Bess Lomax Hawes’s hit
Peter Dreier and Jim Vrabel, writing for The Huffington Post, celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Kingston Trio recording “MTA.” The group deserves credit for helping to launch the folk […]
Is it an audiobook?
Yahoo! reports that there could be legal concerns over a feature on the new Kindle. One small, experimental feature in the device is already causing a minor uproar. Specifically: The Kindle 2’s […]
It’s Lincoln’s birthday
Has Lincoln always been cool? A new museum in Springfield, Illinois. Obama’s hand on the 16th president’s bible. Shelves full of new biographies. It’s hard for me to tell because I’ve […]
It IS unusual
Earlier in the week I received an envelope from our European distributor that contained some recent press clippings. The best clipping (of the year!) is from WORD, a UK music magazine with a […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education on Lincoln
Peter Monaghan’s Lincoln “Field Report” in The Chronicle Review includes multiple references to University of Illinois Press titles, plus a quote from Rodney O. Davis, co-editor of The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: […]
Changes coming to Book Expo
Publishers Weekly reports that changes are coming to BEA. Future shows through 2012 will be in New York and held Tuesday-Thursday, instead of Thursday-Sunday. There is still no agreed upon general public […]
Education funding and the stimulus bill
Inside Higher Ed reports this morning on the Obama administration’s hopes to increase education funding in the current stimulus package. [Education Secretary Arne] Duncan noted that the Senate had included “only […]
Even more experts needed
I really thought that my last post on this endlessly interesting subject would be the final one. But, the hits just keep on coming: -Yelling and cursing at work -Developments in […]
William Ayers Contested
Even if Illinois State Senator Larry Bomke has his way, University of Illinois at Chicago professor William Ayers has a nice two-book deal with Teachers College Press in hand. […]
A Hollywood reader on a Hollywood writer
Diana Birchall, author of the book Onoto Watanna: The Story of Winnifred Eaton, blogs at Vulpes Libris about her grandmother. For eight years she churned out screenplays, and a few made […]
Kevin Stein reviewed in the Chicago Sun-Times
Kevin Stein’s new book of poems, Sufficiency of the Actual, received some fine recognition in the January 11, 2009, issue of the Chicago Sun-Times: A skilled reader, Stein is at […]