This year is the 150th anniversary of the Lincoln-Douglas debates and 2009 is the bicentennial year of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. We’re readying a Lincoln cover for our Spring 2009 catalog […]
Will Davis, meet Chase Daniel
I won’t be checking e-mail or watching TV or playing backyard soccer on Saturday evening. I’m making the trip to St. Louis for one of Rivals.com’s five games to watch in […]
Just Landed: New September books and the most detailed account of the Lincoln-Douglas debates
A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past two weeks: –Laboring to Learn: Women’s Literacy and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era by Lorna Rivera (September 15, […]
Dowling on The Faith Middleton Show
Robert Dowling, author of the recent University of Illinois Press book Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem, was interviewed on the August 21, 2008, edition of Connecticut Public […]
Slowride
What ’70s rockers and Guitar Hero 3 contributors will be rockin’ the Urbana Sweet Corn Festival this weekend? If you come out, look for the tallest guy in the crowd […]
Diversify and conquer
Bookseller.com reported this morning on Penguin’s new business venture: “Penguin is launching a dating website aimed at book readers in conjunction with online dating giant Match.com. The service goes live […]
University of Illinois Press story in “Inside Illinois”
The August 21, 2008, edition of Inside Illinois reports on the Press’s 90th anniversary. […]
Time Out Chicago profiles “The Hayloft Gang”
Chad Berry’s new edited collection, The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance, was profiled by Robert Loerzel in the August 7-13, 2008, issue of Time Out Chicago. […]
“Rachel in the World” endorsed by B&N Notable Reader
Sandra Tsing Loh includes Jane Bernstein’s Rachel in the World in her Notable Reader roundup for Barnes & Noble Review. “One of the most extraordinary, awful, funny, candid, heart-rending, brave books about […]
Kim Ruehl on her interview with Bess Lomax Hawes
Kim Ruehl, editor of About.com’s Folk Music, blogs ecstatic about her interview with Bess Lomax Hawes. “Holy crap, what a remarkable historical source. That may have been the interview highlight […]
Burnstein on Seattle’s new bag law
Daniel Burnstein, author of the University of Illinois Press book Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City, wrote a guest column for the Seattle […]
Free UIP books
We’re giving away free copies of Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers and Circus Queen and Tinker Bell: The Memoir of Tiny Kline as part of LibraryThing’s early reviewer […]