The August 29, 2010, edition of the Chicago Sun-Times profiled the University of Illinois Press reissue of What’s That Pig Outdoors? A Memoir of Deafness by Henry Kisor. “Henry’s Norman Rockwell upbringing (in Evanston, where he still l ... [read more]

Natasha Trethewey's BEYOND KATRINA reviewed on NPR's All Things Considered by W. Ralph Eubanks: "What makes Beyond Katrina stand out in the crowded landscape of post-Katrina literature is the raw, personal nature of the story Trethewey ... [read more]

After a successful preview week, the much-anticipated exhibition The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl opens today at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The exhibition features work by 41 artists from around the world, from t ... [read more]

Jill Lepore and WGBH's Callie Crossley talk tea parties, rabble rousing, and the potent symbolism of "revolutionary kitsch." (Jill's segment starts around the 36 minute mark.) [read more]

The following is a guest post from Lia Tjahjana, Paul Dwyer, PMP, and Mohsin Habib, Ph.D. authors of The Program Management Office Advantage. An Escalation Model A part of the program control is project issues escalation, a process wher ... [read more]

Rakesh H. Solomon's new book, Albee in Performance, details Albee's directorial vision and how that vision animates his plays. Having had extraordinary access to Albee as director, Solomon reveals how Albee has shaped his plays in perfo ... [read more]

The Immanent Frame, a blog on secularism, religion, and the public sphere hosted on the Social Science Research Council’s site, recently asked some of its contributors what they had read and liked over the summer. It is a great list and ... [read more]

In recent weeks, we have witnessed a solar tsunami that allowed sky-gazers to glimpse the Northern Lights far to the south. While this was an awe-inspiring sight, it is also a reminder of how easily the Earth can be affected by cosmic e ... [read more]

Last night my wife, as she often does, was reading an old Nancy Drew mystery, The Invisible Intruder (1969), when she started laughing. "Nancy's investigating the theft of a shell collection," she said, "and every single person she meet ... [read more]

It is pretty difficult not to notice the amount of students beginning, or returning to university across North America right now. If you haven't already, no doubt you'll see and hear more when the Frosh activities reach their peak, befo ... [read more]

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship winner (2008), Builder Levy has photographed in New York City’s inner city communities where he was a New York City teacher of at-risk adolescents for 35 years; at civil rights and pe ... [read more]

The Foreign Policy Research Institute will host a discussion with Michael Horowitz, author of The Diffusion of Military Power. Details below. [read more]

Royko in Love: Mike's Letters to Carol, the newest edition to the Press's collection of works by the award winning journalist, offers a rare look into the personal life of one of Chicago's most beloved public icons. Through his writing ... [read more]

One might wonder, "Why a field guide to Seeds of Amazonian Plants?" [read more]

With the release of the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style the publishing world has reached another landmark. Though its predecessor, the fifteenth edition, was released but seven short years ago, technological innovations in p ... [read more]

Princeton University Press publishes an amazing number and variety of book series. Here, Ingrid Gnerlich, Senior Editor in Physical Sciences describes the rationale behind the series Princeton Frontiers in Physics and the types of bo ... [read more]

Berkeley physics professor, Richard Muller, speaks out about the need to revolutionize the way physics is taught to non-science students – by respecting students’ intelligence and passion to learn and by being unafraid to crash through ... [read more]

Darrell West argues that the United States is irrational in the way it handles immigration. Unlike other nations that strategically use immigration to pursue national goals, he says, we focus on concerns about border security, illegal i ... [read more]

Deborah Morse-Kahn, author of The Historic St. Croix Valley: A Guide, recently sat down with us to answer some questions we had about her experience in writing her new book. How did this travel guide book come to be written? I had wri ... [read more]

Michael Zogry, author of Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game: At the Center of Ceremony and Identity guest blogs over at First Peoples, New Directions today about anetso, the precursor to field lacrosse which blends sport, religious ritual, ... [read more]

I’ve only begun to explore the contents, but the new issue of Triple Canopy — subtitled “Unplaced Movements” — looks incredible. And right in the wheelhouse of my obsessions . . . [read more]

Today the UMP blog is kicking off a monthlong series by Star Tribune books editor and author Laurie Hertzel. The series, When I Was ..., will move chronologically through Hertzel's early years and adventures in writing and while on assi ... [read more]

By Anatoly Liberman When did people begin to say: “I will, like, come tomorrow” and why do they say so? It may seem that the filler "like", along with its twin "you know", are of recent date, but this impression is wrong. It is, howe ... [read more]

It is critical for the individual Jewish student who enters college to come intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually prepared for the academic and social experience that awaits. College is a qualitatively different experience than h ... [read more]

Expanded Edition Twilight of the Great Trains Fred W. Frailey "Fred Frailey is by far one of the best writers in the railroad book business." —William D. Middleton, Jr., co-editor of The Encyclopedia of North American Railroads Albee in ... [read more]

As questions and doubts continue to mount around the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, Michael O'Hanlon explains why the United States should and will maintain a major presence in the country for years to come. [read more]

Janet Kaplan will give a poetry performance at the Cornelia Street Cafe tonight at 6pm.  The evening will also include poetry performances featuring Alexandra van de Kamp, Joanne McFarland, and Steve Caratzas. The Fabian Almazan Trio ... [read more]

For much of the last century American universities have held their place as global leaders in higher education, but recently, with the United State's economic dominance increasingly jeopardized by rising world powers such as China, and ... [read more]

You might want to finish your bibimbap before reading this post. The salmonella outbreak that led to the largest egg recall in American history has now led to a disturbing Food and Drug Administration report about conditions on the Iowa ... [read more]

Amie Klempnauer Miller is the author of She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood. Miller works as a development consultant to the public media industry and lives with her partner and daughter in St. Paul ... [read more]

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While its hard to imagine otherwise, Italians have not always embraced the tomato as part of their national cuisine. In a late summer love letter to the tomato the New York Post describes the history of the tomato in Italy as told by Da ... [read more]

The following is a guest post by David Hillson, Ph.D., PMP, FAPM, FIRM of Risk Doctor & Partners, who contributed the essay “Risk Management in Practice” to The AMA Handbook of Project Management, Third Edition, edited by Paul Dinsmore, ... [read more]

The Value of Hawai‘i Contributors on Tourism and Historic Preservation Wednesday, September 2, 7:00 am, AM 940 Tune in to Nā ‘Ōiwi ‘Ōlino on KINE 940 AM to listen to Ramsay Remigius Mahealani Taum and Sara Collins. Rebroadcast at 5 pm, ... [read more]

Fans of National Book Award–winning novelist Shirley Hazzard and her late husband, Francis Steegmuller, a literary critic, translator, and biographer, are in for a treat if they can make it to New York before January 31st: the New York ... [read more]

  Taylor Bell, author of the new book Dusty, Deek, and Mr. Do-Right: High School Football in Illinois, was interviewed August 27, 2010, on WGN-TV’s Midday News. [read more]

We are nearing the end of our gift certificate giveaway and we’d like to welcome all our new fans! We’ve had a great response over the past four weeks and would love for you to invite your friends to join us on Twitter and our... [read more]

A new school year is about to start, and we all know how sleep-deprived students can be. Parents and teachers may sound like broken records, but Dr. Rosalind Cartwright can tell you that good sleeping habits are nothing to roll your eye ... [read more]

Poet Raúl Zurita was a 24-year old student in Valparaiso, Chile on the day of Augusto Pinochet’s coup in 1973, and lived for  17 years under the military dictatorship. In Purgatory, he records the pain and suffering he and the Chilean p ... [read more]

That’s what employee–and prison inmate–Paul Scott says. Scott is one of the many inmates who have worked their way through Mama Dip’s Kitchen through a work-release program as they prepare to re-enter society upon completing prison sent ... [read more]

One of the best things about being a bookseller (and there are many, many great things) is being able to easily keep tabs on publishing trends. You get your eyes on everything. What’s being written about, what’s being read, trends... [read more]

  =player_embedded The destruction of the Metropolitan Building in downtown Minneapolis in the early 1960s has become an icon of the excesses of urban renewal. This film, produced by graduate students at the University of Minnesota in ... [read more]

The Chicago Tribune book blog Printers Row recently posted a round-up of the greatest books about the Chicago jazz scene. Printers Row called out for its jazz-like prose Gerald Majer’s The Velvet Lounge: On Late Chicago Jazz. The book ... [read more]

It might just be me (and it often times is), but I could hardly blink this weekend without seeing yet another article announcing, discussing, or otherwise pointing to a big development in the world of technology/social media. So - since ... [read more]

The University of Michigan Press will be hosting our annual book display at the American Political Science Association Meeting in Washington, D.C. at booth #210. If you're into that sort of thing, you should stop by and check out some o ... [read more]

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Eric Asimov writes about wine for the New York Times – wine trends, wine regions, individual wines, wine culture, etc. Wine blog The Daily Sip posted this Q&A with Asimov yesterday, in which Asimov writes about his wine writing philosop ... [read more]

John Simon is off and running in the New York Times with a review of Czech novelist-in-exile-now-French-citizen and perpetually rumored Nobel Prize nominee Milan Kundera's new "essayistic" book Encounter. The collection of 26 pieces, ra ... [read more]

People think it’s easy being the PressLog. [read more]

This week, as President Barack Obama presides over the start of a new round of direct negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians, Martin Indyk says the external environment is better suited to peacemaking than it has been in the ... [read more]