Today’s post is from Breanne: The Urban Simulation Team in the School of Arts and Architecture at UCLA employs real-time visual simulation technology to recreate scenes from The World’s Columbian […]
National Book Festival invites Michael Harper
Frost Medal recipient Michael Harper has been invited by the National Endowment for the Arts to participate in the National Book Festival in Washington D.C., on September 27, 2008. His […]
Wanted: Graveyard Support Vampire
Where would we be without IT? I’ll admit to remembering a time Before IT, when youngsters armed with English degrees (ahem) were allowed to scamper in on Saturdays to run […]
Who is up for a UIP radio station?
PW Daily reports this morning that some trade publishers are setting up their own “radio stations” at BlogTalkRadio.com. “HarperCollins and the Hachette Book Group are the latest publishers to set […]
John Hallwas on Chicago Public Radio
On August 6, 2008, Chicago Public Radio’s 848 aired an interview with John Hallwas about his book Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers. “Ed and Lon Maxwell were two […]
Farewell, Rebecca
Friday, August 1, was Managing Editor Rebecca Crist’s last day at the University of Illinois Press. Best wishes. I’ll miss talking with you about local music shows as we pass in the […]
The straight and flat road
Sir Paul was just passing through Springfield, Illinois, over the weekend? […]
Just Landed: New books on soy, cinema studies, and women journalists
A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past week: –Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South by Michelle R. Scott (August 25, […]
UIP 90th anniversary video
In celebration of the University of Illinois Press’s 90th anniversary, VideoWorks at the University of Illinois produced a 5:00 minute video that traces the history and accomplishments of our Press. Updated August 5, 2008: The […]
Pickin’ the banjer
Roni Stoneman, co-author of the recent memoir Pressing On: The Roni Stoneman Story, performed with Mona Jo Griffin at the Andy Griffith Playhouse. Someone in the audience filmed the event and uploaded footage to Youtube. […]
Raised eyebrows
Tony’s a bit vulgar at the Penn State University Press blog. […]
“Sex Goes to School” at The Smart Set
Jessa Crispin, editor of Bookslut.com, includes Susan K. Freeman’s Sex Goes to School: Girls and Sex Education before the 1960s in her latest piece for The Smart Set. “It’s hard […]