Well, Hoopeston, Illinois, isn’t officially in the immediate Champaign-Urbana “neighborhood,” but we’re all East Central Illinoisans here. This week the New York Underground Film Festival is premiering the documentary Hoopeston, “a tale of […]
SUNY Press’s new E-Book initiative
Inside Higher Ed reports today that SUNY Press is testing a new way to sell text books. “Under the program, which was announced Tuesday, the press will simultaneously make available, for […]
“Lost” on tour
Following Oprah’s reading of David Wagoner’s poem Lost, the poet updated us on the varied apperances of this popular verse. “The poem has had a very strange history in addition to David Whyte‘s […]
Joe Evans’s hometown daily profiles “Follow Your Heart”
The Richmond Times-Dispatch profiles Joe Evans’s new autobiography Follow Your Heart: Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues in advance of the book’s launch sponsored by the Richmond Jazz […]
Erika Falk and the International Museum of Women
The International Museum of Women interviewed Erika Falk, author of Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns. “My research indicates that women are described physically four times as often […]
Barbara Christian celebration at Cody’s Books
Friends of Barbara Christian will be celebrating her life and work by reading from the new book New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000 at Cody’s Books in Berkeley on May 4, 2008. Participants will […]
We did it!!!!!!
(Read in your best Stephen Colbert voice). We did it nation! 4,000 profile views!! Woo hooooooooooo!!! […]
University of Illinois Press at OAH by Kendra
The Organization of American Historians held its Annual Meeting in NYC this year, in midtown Manhattan at the Hilton New York. It was a good and busy meeting for us, with […]
Getting to know Champaign-Urbana, Part 5
Champaign’s Assembly Hall is a most endangered historic place, reports the Chicago Tribune. I drive past this building every day on my way home from work and have enjoyed many […]
Joe Evans profiled in Richmond’s “Style Weekly”
Joe Evans, author with Christopher Brooks of the new autobiography Follow Your Heart: Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues, is profiled by Richmond’s Style Weekly. […]
Getting to Know Champaign-Urbana, Part 4
Oronte Churm writes about the elementary education system in Champaign-Urbana at Inside Higher Ed. “Everyone (but me) seems to know the names of the best primary school in town (private tuition is $1,000 […]
Out of the blue
Yesterday we received word of two positive events: The New York Post requested Karen McNally’s When Frankie Went to Hollywood: Frank Sinatra and American Male Identity for an April review date and […]