Diane Diekman, author of Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story, posted a quick paragraph about the November 10 book launch and Country Deputies reunion concert in Nashville. “We […]
Erika Falk’s ears are burning
Anna Mulrine, posting on US News & World Report‘s “Washington Whispers” blog, divulges the existence of Erika Falk’s forthcoming University of Illinois Press book Women for President: Media Bias in […]
Just Landed: Andrew O’Toole’s “Sweet William” and Lisa M. Anderson’s “Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama”
Two new books landed on my desk in the past week: Andrew O’Toole’s Sweet William: The Life of Billy Conn is an “affectionate yet evenhanded biography of the fighter known […]
“Don West: Let Us Now Praise a Dangerous Poet, Part 2″ by Jeff Biggers
Jeff Biggers is the author of In the Sierra Madre (University of Illinois Press, 2007) and The United States of Appalachia (Shoemaker and Hoard, 2007). The University of Illinois Press […]
The New York Times Book Review reviews Willy’s “The Third Sex”
Lawrence Schehr’s first English translation of Willy’s classic European queer culture text The Third Sex was reviewed in the November 11, 2007, issue of The New York Times Book Review. […]
The Washington Post reviews Jane Bernstein’s “Rachel in the World”
The November 11, 2007, issue of the Washington Post contains a review of Jane Bernstein’s Rachel in the World: A Memoir. “The book makes it clear that we, as a […]
Queneau reviewed in The Nation
Raymond Queneau’s Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays, 1928-70 was reviewed in the November 19, 2007 issue of The Nation. Mark Polizzotti writes, “Throw any label at him you want—writer’s writer, literary […]
Roni Stoneman on the cover of Bluegrass Music Profiles
The Bluegrass Blog reports that Roni Stoneman is the cover story for the Nov/Dec issue of Bluegrass Music Profiles. The University of Illinois Press recently published Pressing On: The Roni […]
“Don West: Let Us Now Praise a Dangerous Poet, Part 1” by Jeff Biggers
Jeff Biggers is the author of In the Sierra Madre (University of Illinois Press, 2007) and The United States of Appalachia (Shoemaker and Hoard, 2007). The University of Illinois Press […]
BiblioBuffet recommends Music in American Life
Writing in BiblioBuffet, Henry Carrigan, editor-in-chief for the Northwestern University Press, eulogizes the recently deceased country music star Porter Wagoner and recommends our Music in American Life series: “The University […]
“Sign this one to Tom T. Hall!”
I spent the weekend in Nashville attending the Americana Music Association conference during which the Press hosted a launch reception for Craig Havighurst’s new book Air Castle of the South: […]
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn visits the University of Illinois
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, author of the new book New Indians, Old Wars, will speak at the University of Illinois on November 6, 2007, at a lecture sponsored by the Native American […]