When I was a kid, I spent countless hours seeking out familiar places and unspeakable acts in the soldiers of local history standing at attention on my grandmother’s bookshelf: Gallatin […]
Free textbooks!
College students received much of the blame (or credit depending on your worldview) for starting the file-sharing tide that has fundamentally changed the music business. They’re back! The Boston Globe reports, “Faced with […]
“Fun in the fridge” by Denise
Today’s Chicago Tribune features a very funny article, “Who Moved My Cheese,” with a related link, “Top 10 fridge complaints.” Since I qualify as a “vigilante,” I thought I’d take a […]
University press book controversy
Inside Higher Ed has a piece this morning on SUNY Press taking over publication rights for Black Elk Speaks from University of Nebraska Press. “For most university presses, a book […]
Gift card
Last week I finally used a local independent bookstore birthday gift card that I had received in May. Last year I was excited to use a similar gift card on a Steve […]
Beverly Lindsay interview
Hear Dr. Alvin Jones interview Beverly Lindsay about her new edited book Ralph Johnson Bunch: Public Intellectual and Nobel Peace Laureate. […]
Digital “Tear” Sheets by Denise
My first digital tear-sheet arrived today, attached to the email below. (I’ve removed identifying information to protect the sender. No subject line appeared.) Tear-sheets are pages of advertising torn out […]
Just Landed: Summer books
A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past two weeks: –William Grant Still by Catherine Parsons Smith (July 21, 2008) –About Bach edited by Gregory G. Butler, […]
Background music, my top 25
Some time ago, Entertainment Weekly featured a column by author Stephen King about his 25 favorite songs. After he made his list, King checked his iTunes playlist counter and found that what he […]
Chicago Tribune on translation publishing
Following up a Translating the World panel that he moderated at this year’s Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair, Patrick Reardon profiles translation publishing at Illinois presses. “Translators are unofficial ambassadors, negotiating […]
Word Cloud
So I saw this book publisher’s manifesto as a cool word cloud at The Digitalist and decided to make a wordle from our mission statement. Here it is in full […]
OAR bloggers
Who knew that the University’s Office of Admissions and Records had a blogging crew? Jaime’s blog includes a picture of John Philip Sousa’s birth home and some words about a […]