A Hazel Dickens performance filmed in Owensboro, Kentucky, during the summer of 2007 for Jubilee will air on KET June 18, 2008. Hazel’s new book book with Bill Malone, Working Girl Blues: […]
Welcome to the weekend
Five hour flight delay on Wednesday. All materials arrived safely by Thursday. Setup. Lunch. Setup a little more. Los Angeles print publicity panel. Use freakish height to hang lights for a fellow university […]
“Making Space on the Western Frontier” wins a Mormon History award
Mormon-Chronicles reports that W. Paul Reeve’s Making Space on the Western Frontier: Mormons, Minors, and Southern Paiutes won a Best First Book award from the Mormon History Association. […]
UIP author’s play opens off-Broadway
Lisa Thompson, author of the forthcoming UIP book, Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class, celebrates the opening of her play, Single Black Female, off-Broadway […]
E-book distribution, plus comments
On The New York Times online Technology page, David Pogue relays his experience releasing books in electronic form. Many reader comments follow. “Twice in my career, ‘blind’ people e-mailed me, requesting […]
White valedictorian at Morehouse College
Stephane Dunn, author of the forthcoming University of Illinois Press book “Baad Bitches” and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films, contributed a commentary to NewsOne.com about Morehouse College’s white valedictorian […]
Jack Forbes at the UC Davis Bookstore
Jack Forbes, author of The American Discovery of Europe, spoke recently to a crowd of fifty patrons at the UC Davis Bookstore. Tradebooks buyer Paul Takushi captured the event. […]
Microsoft to shut down Live Search Books
PW Daily reports that Microsoft is ending its Live Search Books program. “Microsoft will be providing publishers with digital copies of their scanned books, and is working with Ingram Digital, […]
The fine print
Inside Higher Ed reported this morning that a web-based company has stopped selling the content of faculty papers that had been sold online without the authors’ knowing consent. “It might have been […]
“A Stranger Among Us” literary events, and another good review
OV Books has a week of literary events lined up in Chicago to celebrate the publication of Stacy Bierlein’s new anthology A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision […]
UIP author comments on China’s response to earthquake
Poshek Fu, editor of the forthcoming University of Illinois Press book China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema, spent A Minute With the News Bureau discussing the government of […]
World’s Columbian Exposition excavation
The Chicago Tribune reported yesterday that a class at the University of Chicago is digging for urban archeolgical treasures on land that once housed the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. “The […]