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September 23, 2008

Word Obsessions by Heather

miscellaneous

One thing I always admire in a person is playfulness with the English language. It’s no surprise, coming from a recovering English major who works in the publishing business, I suppose, […]

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September 22, 2008

Fashion Notes

Getting to know Champaign-Urbana

Having worked for two Big Ten schools and lived in four university towns, I still chuckle at how the school colors can get the fashion juices flowing. Admittedly, the Illini […]

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September 19, 2008 (September 23, 2008)

Publishers Weekly reviews “Spring”

poetry reviews

Oni Buchanan’s new book of poems, Spring, receives praise in the September 15, 2008, issue of Publishers Weekly. “In this adventurous mix of taut lyrics, dramatic monologues and free-ranging typographical experiments, Buchanan, who is […]

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September 19, 2008 (September 23, 2008)

Notester

publishing

Inside Higher Ed reports this morning on a new online notesharing service that has attracted venture capital and generated some copyright concerns. […]

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September 19, 2008 (September 19, 2008)

A few views from the UIC reception, September 17, 2008

Illinois / regional press events publishing

Kris & Kendra descend the stairs.                  UIC staff distribute anniversary bags.                 Attendees listen to […]

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September 18, 2008

Ours was a mad, little, spicey world

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On the drive to Chicago yesterday afternoon for the Press’s 90th anniversary reception at UIC‘s Hull-House Museum (photos coming soon), most of the conversation was loosely work related. The drive home last night was more […]

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September 17, 2008 (September 23, 2008)

Advance Unrecouped: $5.5 million

publishing

Bookslut points the way to a New York magazine article on the book business gloomily titled “The End.” […]

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September 16, 2008

Just Landed: “The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair,” “African or American?” & “America’s Religions”

black studies Chicago new books

A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past few weeks: –America’s Religions: From Their Origins to the Twenty-first Century Third Edition by Peter W. Williams (September 29, 2008) […]

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September 16, 2008 (September 16, 2008)

In Our Own Backyard

Illinois / regional miscellaneous

The New York Times covers an experiment in family ties taking place in Rantoul, our neighbor to the north. Rantoul has suffered some hard times since the closing of Chanute […]

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September 15, 2008 (September 15, 2008)

David Foster Wallace

Getting to know Champaign-Urbana miscellaneous

To continue the blog’s thread on books we’ve started but never finished: I was sitting in our family room this past weekend eyeballing the varying spines on our bookshelves. Infinite Jest […]

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September 12, 2008

of or pertaining to exegesis

miscellaneous

This morning, John Updike’s new piece in The New Yorker had me surfing over to dictionary.com to look up “exegetical,” as in “… Barbara Burkhardt’s stately, exegetical William Maxwell: A Literary […]

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September 10, 2008

Jane Bernstein on Sarah Palin

author commentary Rachel in the World

Jane Bernstein, author of Rachel in the World: A Memoir, posted Sarah Palin: No Friend to Children and Adults with Disabilities on the Beacon Broadside blog. “Sarah Palin loves Trig. She is […]

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