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 […]
Pay for books? Seriously?
One of the things I love about living in Champaign-Urbana is the prominence of books in our culture. In addition to the U of I libraries, we have three public […]
Tutors for athletes
Inside Higher Ed points its readers to a Chicago Tribune story on the money spent at University of Illinois, and other schools, for athletic tutors. […]
Bookforum on “The Legacy of Edward W. Said”
The December/January 2009 issue of Bookforum pairs William V. Spanos’s forthcoming University of Illinois Press book The Legacy of Edward W. Said (January 2009) with The Soul of Barbed Wire: An Intoduction to […]
Publishers Weekly reviews “Record Makers and Breakers”
The November 17, 2008, issue of Publishers Weekly includes an enthusiastic review of John Broven’s forthcoming book Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneers (February […]
The professor of Foxy Brown
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Mark Doty wins National Book Award
Last night Mark Doty won the National Book Award for his Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems. Doty has a long history with the University of Illinois Press. In […]
DigiPubliLibrariNation
In the November 21 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jennifer Howard discusses the emerging role of the scholarly communications specialist on campus. More institutions are creating or beefing up […]
Just another autumn day at our nation’s Capitol
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Cheryl Ganz interviewed on Book Guys
On Tuesday, November 18, Cheryl Ganz (The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair) was interviewed for a future segment on the syndicated Book Guys radio program. […]