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 […]
Just Landed: “Radical Sisters,” “California Polyphony,” “Follow Your Heart,” and “The Never-Ending Revival”
Four new books recently landed on my desk: Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C. by Anne M. Valk (March 31, 2008) California Polyphony: Ethnic Voices, Musical […]
Air America’s Thom Hartmann program to interview Erika Falk
Erika Falk, author of Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns, will appear on Thom Hartmann’s Air America radio program today at 12:30 p.m. EST. […]
What’s on your shelf?
Scott McLemee has an entertaining piece on the sociology of “bookshelf etiquette” in today’s Inside Higher Ed. “My experience (which can’t be unique) is that some books end up accumulating […]
“Alice Paul” co-author Katherine Adams to appear on NPR affiliate WILL
Katherine Adams, co-author of the new book Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign, will be interviewed today from 1:06-1:50 PM CST on WILL radio’s Afternoon Magazine. […]
Erika Falk featured on KARK-TV Little Rock, filmed by C-SPAN’s Book-TV
KARK 4 News in Little Rock, Arkansas, covered Erika Falk’s recent event at the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock. Watch the news piece here. For an expanded view […]
Oscar Simple, Raising the Coens, The Big Awardski, or how I tried to come up with a clever blog post title
Congratulations to Joel and Ethan Coen, whose No Country for Old Men won four Oscars at last evening’s 80th Academy Awards. The brothers won Oscars for best director, best […]
In These Times features women for president
In These Times is featuring a new piece by Erika Falk, which was adapted from her book Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns. “Despite striking advances over the last century in women’s […]
Depression
Back in my ’80s record store clerk days I worked with someone who used to engineer recording sessions in the attic of his rented apartment. One of the bands that he recorded […]
More on the digital future
Laura Cerruti, Director of Digital Content Development at the University of California Press, shares her notes from two recent publishing conferences on the UC Press blog. “Publishers should not try to compete with […]