A load of new books landed on my desk in the past few weeks: –African Women Playwrights edited and with an Introduction by Kathy A. Perkins (Dec. 8, 2008) –Moving Subjects: […]
Corey D. B. Walker interview
An interview with Corey D. B. Walker, assistant professor in the department of Africana Studies at Brown University and author of the new book A Noble Fight: African American Freemasonry […]
Survivor Scholarly Publishing
The Chronicle highlights the growing number of campus support staff who advise faculty on best practices in getting from manuscript to book. Surely some will miss out on the adventure of the old days: “We’ll drop you […]
Top designs of 2008
A December 3rd Bookslut post links to The Book Design Review‘s favorite covers of 2008. […]
LA City Beat interviews Roni Stoneman
LA City Beat interviewed Roni Stoneman for a December 15 show preview. “Roni Stoneman has a head cold and she loves what it could do for her: ‘I should go record […]
Chicago Public Radio
View of Lake Michigan, 9:16 a.m. […]
Cheryl Ganz at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum
Cheryl Ganz will sign copies of her new book The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair: A Century of Progress at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington, DC, on Friday, December 12 […]
“Life along the Illinois River” in the news
Two central Illinois newspapers recently profiled David Zalaznik’s new book Life along the Illinois River. The Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette story is currently behind a fee-based archive wall, but the Springfield State Journal-Register piece is available […]
101%
This morning a Chicago television station conducted a text poll on whether or not Gov. Blagojevich should resign. 87% voted yes, 14% voted no. Only in Chicago politics … […]
Sue and mushrooms
A fortuitous day to be in Chicago. The weather is crappy, but I love hearing my cab drivers talk about our governor. Looking forward to tomorrow’s papers. I visited The Field Museum to speak […]
Recent online reviews
A variety of University of Illinois Press books have received online attention in recent weeks: -Jean Paulhan’s On Poetry and Politics, edited and translated by Jennifer Bajorek and Éric Trudel, […]
“Information needs to be shared, not billed”
The December 1, 2008, issue of Publishers Weekly includes an interesting Soapbox column on the exchange of information between booksellers and publishers/distributors. “So the current situation is something like this: essential […]