Inside Higher Ed reports this morning on a new online notesharing service that has attracted venture capital and generated some copyright concerns. […]
A few views from the UIC reception, September 17, 2008
Kris & Kendra descend the stairs. UIC staff distribute anniversary bags. Attendees listen to […]
Ours was a mad, little, spicey world
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 […]
Advance Unrecouped: $5.5 million
Bookslut points the way to a New York magazine article on the book business gloomily titled “The End.” […]
Just Landed: “The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair,” “African or American?” & “America’s Religions”
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) […]
In Our Own Backyard
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 […]
David Foster Wallace
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 […]
of or pertaining to exegesis
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 […]
Jane Bernstein on Sarah Palin
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 […]
Today! AAUP Book Show reception
The University of Illinois Press is hosting the (traveling) 2008 Book Show of the Association of American University Presses, September 8-19, M-F 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Forty-five winning books and thirty […]
Twirling by Her Teeth by Janet Davis
Researching the life of Tiny Kline has been filled with unexpected pleasures and surprises. Although never nationally famous, Kline’s daring and graceful performances of speed and flight touched thousands (perhaps […]
PBS affiliate explores a Lincoln-Douglas debate
WTVP, the PBS affiliate in the Bloomington-Peoria corridor of central Illinois, will air an hour long program titled Lincoln and Douglas at Galesburg—The Great Debate at 8:10 p.m., Thursday, September […]