Corrina Wycoff’s 2007 collection of short stories, O Street (OV Books, distributed by the University of Illinois Press), is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian Debut Fiction category. […]
Happy Birthday Marian McPartland
Nat Hentoff celebrates Marian McPartland’s 90th birthday in today’s Wall Street Journal, and recounts anecdotes from her University of Illinois Press book Marian McPartland’s Jazz World: All in Good Time. […]
Where there's a WILL, there's …
On Monday evening, eight representatives from the Press volunteered for the central Illinois public broadcasting station‘s Festival 2008 fund drive. During the Spring drive, WILL has raised over $140,000 and […]
Scott Mutter (1944-2008)
Smile Politely reports on the recent death of University of Illinois Press author Scott Mutter. “An esteemed photographer and photomontage artist, he left a strong mark on the medium of […]
Stephane Dunn in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Stephane Dunn, author of the forthcoming University of Illinois Press book “Baad Bitches” and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films, contributed a commentary about the book’s title to the March […]
Free for the Taking by Breanne
A thoroughfare for most and a coffee station for many, the press breakroom is also the place to find unexpected treasures. Alongside stacks of The New York Times and other general […]
Poetry reviews Illinois poetry
The March 2008 issue of Poetry includes a rave review (scroll to the bottom) of Sandra McPherson’s Expectation Days. “This book is a knockout. Sandra McPherson is fully aware of […]
Just Landed: An array of new books
Eight new books recently landed on my desk! –Veil and Burn Poems by Laurie Clements Lambeth (March 31, 2008) –Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916-39 by Gabriela F. Arredondo […]
Feminist Review reviews “Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign”
The Feminist Review blog recently reviewed Katherine Adams and Michael Keene’s new book Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign. “Unlike other, better-known figures of the women’s suffrage movement in this country […]
Who sealed this book? A mystery.
To keep track of web activity on current University of Illinois Press titles, I set up Google Alerts to notify me as books are mentioned online. I received an alert yesterday […]
Folk is the new folk by Michael Scully
When I first began attending the annual Folk Alliance conference in 1993 I was struck by the palpable sense of closeness among the few hundred attendees. Self-conscious about my […]
Getting to know Champaign-Urbana, Part 2
The building that we call home here at the Press is on the far west end of the University of Illinois campus. Inside Higher Ed illuminates why I’ll be avoiding the middle of […]