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 […]
Juvenile Instructor’s “The Future of Mormon Publishing”
The Juvenile Instructor, observing that the University of Illinois Press has been at the forefront of Mormon Studies publishing but has recently lost an acquisitions editor in that discipline to […]
Memorial reading for poet Len Roberts
University of Illinois Press author Len Roberts passed away on May 25, 2007, prior to the publication of his latest book of poetry, The Disappearing Trick. Yesterday’s edition of Morning […]
Just Landed: David Nicholls’s “John Cage,” Leslie L. Lewis’s “Telling Narratives,” and Susan Gelfand Malka’s “Daring to Care”
Three new books just landed on my desk: –John Cage by David Nicholls is the second volume in our recently inaugurated American Composers series. –Telling Narratives: Secrets in African American […]
“Live Fast, Love Hard” launch party at Ernest Tubb’s Midnite Jamboree
We have a blowout launch party planned to celebrate the publication of Diane Diekman’s new book Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story. Nashville’s Ernest Tubb Record Shops have […]
Aptheker in The Nation
The November 5, 2007, issue of The Nation magazine includes an article about Bettina Aptheker and the alleged abuse that she suffered at the hands of her father, Marxist historian […]
“Slumming in New York” in Connecticut
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 […]