Bone Gap. Edwards. Village (1891) six miles northwest of Albion. Reportedly named for the large number of animal bones found by settlers in the 1830s (Harper, ed., History of Edwards […]
CBGB (Carol Betts, Goodbye)
From guest blogger Mary Giles. Carol Bolton Betts retired on Tuesday. As good copy editors do, she knew what to look for in a manuscript, saw things that most do […]
Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 1, 2008
We just received finished copies of Edward Callary’s new book Place Names of Illinois. The publication date is November 3, 2008, and every weekday leading up to publication I will post […]
Rigoberto on Oni
Writing for Critical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors, Rigoberto González includes Oni Buchanan’s Spring in his roundup of recent poetry books published with an […]
Monday Morning
Sometimes day-to-day drudgery buries the idealism that likely lead to one’s choice to “work with books” (my only stated goal 10+ years ago) and for a university press. A passing, […]
More bumper sticker fallout
Inside Higher Ed reports this morning that the National Communication Association is comdemning the University of Illinois policy of restricting employees’ political speech. And further down the page, in mathlete news, a 13-million-digit […]
Would You Like a Receipt?
The University of Michigan library has installed an Espresso Book Machine, also known as the “ATM of books.” For around $10, patrons can use it to print any out-of-copyright book […]
Celebrating Ninety Years
If I say it was a night to remember, will you forgive me the cliche? Last evening more than 120 guests gathered at the President’s House in Urbana to celebrate ninety years […]
The American Journal of Play by Jeff
I’m really excited about one of our newest journals here at UIP. It’s the American Journal of Play. No, not “play” as in Shakespeare. There are already plenty of journals examining that subject. But […]
My bumper is clean
Inside Higher Ed reports today that University of Illinois employees may “not wear political buttons on campus or feature bumper stickers on cars parked in campus lots unless the messages on those […]
eBooks in a digital Utopia
Mitch Ratcliffe on the ZDNet blog highlights some of the initial problems many see with nascent ebooks. He ties the lack of a standard accepted digital format (with ePub on […]
Even more cowbell!
Very Short List recommends a vital new time-waster. “Eight years ago on SNL, [Christopher] Walken played a producer tasked with pushing ‘more cowbell’ onto Blue Oyster Cult’s already-anthemic ‘(Don’t Fear) […]