The New Britain Herald in Connecticut interviewed University of Illinois Press author Robert Dowling about his new book Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem, which explores […]
Wall Street Journal reviews “Air Castle of the South”
The October 17 issue of the Wall Street Journal praised Craig Havighurst’s new book Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City writing, “Havighurst has done […]
New Groove by Stephen Cramer
Stephen Cramer is the author of Shiva’s Drum, a National Poetry Series winner. He teaches in the creative writing program at Johnson State College in Johnson, Vermont. His new book, […]
Burl Ives: “Solidarity Forever” by Bucky Halker
Bucky Halker is a songwriter, performer, labor historian, Senior Program Officer of the Illinois Humanities Council, and a Producer of the Folksongs of Illinois CD series that the University of […]
Following a Hunch about Tomatoes by Andrew F. Smith
Andrew F. Smith is a freelance writer who teaches culinary history and professional food writing at the New School in Manhattan. He is the author of many books, including The […]
Just Landed: Tom Goyens’s “Beer and Revolution”
A copy of Tom Goyens’s new book Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914 just landed on my desk. The official publication date is November […]
Confessions of a Retired Copy Editor, Part 1 by Mary Giles
Most copy editors don’t plan to be copy editors. We plan to teach math, philosophy, art history, or maybe the third grade; report the daily news; or perhaps travel the […]
The Chicago Marathon Water Controversy by Andrew Suozzo
Andrew Suozzo is a professor of Modern Languages at DePaul University and the author of The Chicago Marathon (University of Illinois Press, 2006). Suozzo is currently teaching a course on […]
Launch party for Frances E. Willard book
The Frances Willard Historical Association is sponsoring a launch party for the new book Let Something Good Be Said: Speeches And Writings Of Frances E. Willard at 7:30 P.M. on […]
Roni Stoneman sighting at IBMA
“…and Roni Stoneman who was drawing folks to the University of Illinois book booth on Wednesday afternoon like ants to sugar…” […]
Just Landed: Randi Storch’s “Red Chicago”
A copy of Randi Storch’s new book Red Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots, 1928-35 just landed on my desk. The official publication date is November 12, 2007, but it […]
Jane Bernstein in The New York Times Magazine
The October 7, 2007, issue of The New York Times Magazine featured a “Lives” essay by Jane Bernstein that was adapted from her new book Rachel in the World. V […]