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Introducing . . . the UIP Fall/Winter 2025 catalog!
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In American Music 42.2, a special issue on Cuban and Puerto Rican music on @projectmuse.bsky.social , Benjamin Lapidus discuss how popular and folkloric Cuban music reflects a dialogue with music history and a Cuban context for issues like race, gender, faith, and more. muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
December 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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So thrilled to be on this list!
And this month, just under the wire, brings @andyoler.bsky.social's edited collection LINGERING INLAND, a set of 73 original short essays riffing on the places of Midwestern literature, with a foreword by @joseolivarez.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
Lingering Inland
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December 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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We had a really wonderful book launch for Lingering Inland last night! Thanks to everyone who came out!
December 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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My book review of Elvira di Fabio’s translation of Life, Brazen and Garish: A Tale of Three Women by Dacia Maraini (Rutgers UP, 2024) was recently published in Italica 102.1. Take a look!

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Life, Brazen and Garish: A Tale of Three Women
Dacia Maraini's body of work highlights women's issues with striking clarity, and Life, Brazen and Garish carries this theme forward in a fresh take on the epistolary novel. Set in contemporary Rome o...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
In @jmormonhist.bsky.social 51.4, Sarah Barringer Gordon writes an In Memoriam essay about the work + life of Jan Shipps, as well as their friendship. This issue also republishes Jan's article, "The Prophet Puzzle..." originally published in 1974
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December 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Anna Podciborska examines "Ameryka," a Polish-language magazine published by the US Information Agency 1959-1992, focusing on its role as one of the key instruments of Cold War cultural diplomacy in the 60s in Polish American Studies 82.2 scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas/arti...
December 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Here’s the recording of yesterday’s radio interview to discuss Lingering Inland on Illinois Public Media!
@andyoler.bsky.social, editor of the new book LINGERING INLAND: A Literary Tour of the Midwest, talks about the book's essays and writers on @ilpublicmedia.bsky.social's @21st.show with @brianmackey.com
How has being from the Midwest influenced some of our best writers?
December 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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I’m happy to share the publication of my latest article in the journal Ethnomusicology @sem-office.bsky.social, titled “Performing Change and Preservation: How Pop Songs Became Ritual Music Among the Pastoral Samburu of Kenya.”

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Volume 69 Issue 3 | Ethnomusicology | Scholarly Publishing Collective
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November 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Have you read Journal of Olympic Studies 6.2 yet? Featuring Dikaia Chatziefstathiou ( @canterburyccuni.bsky.social ), Erin E. Redihan ( @salvereginauni.bsky.social ), and more. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jos/issu...
December 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Check out the five new articles in The Pluralist Vol. 20, No. 3, now available on @projectmuse.bsky.social. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55706
December 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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A new book by author Christopher Sweet represents our shared heritage as Illinois cyclists – a heritage that is deeper and richer than anyone knew!

👉 ‘A History of Bicycling in Illinois’ is available from @illinoispress.bsky.social. Code F25UIP saves 30% 👈

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December 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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excited for this book 👀👀
"I have been delighted to see how many people are excited about literature from their hometown and region."

The Q&A for LINGERING INLAND is live!
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December 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
@andyoler.bsky.social, editor of the new book LINGERING INLAND: A Literary Tour of the Midwest, talks about the book's essays and writers on @ilpublicmedia.bsky.social's @21st.show with @brianmackey.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"I have been delighted to see how many people are excited about literature from their hometown and region."

The Q&A for LINGERING INLAND is live!
www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/?p...

cc: @andyoler.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
American Music SPECIAL ISSUE on @projectmuse.bsky.social ! Vol. 42, Iss. 2 is entitled "Current Perspectives on Cuba and Puerto Rico" and was guest edited by Marysol Quevedo. Contributors include Mark Levine ( @cnucaptains.bsky.social ), Noel Torres-Rivera, and more.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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All of these books - and so many more! - are 40% off through Dec at the @illinoispress.bsky.social website. Use code HOLIDAY40 at checkout www.press.uillinois.edu
December 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 124.4 is available on @projectmuse.bsky.social ! Contributors include Britt Mize ( @tamu.bsky.social ), @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social ( @unibonn.bsky.social ), @dariocapelli.bsky.social , and more. cc: @ndiscenza1.bsky.social
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December 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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"The sort of book best used in a university course, or for academic research into anarchist movements."

Philip Janowski's review of “Johann Most: Life of a Radical” by Tom Goyens (@illinoispress.bsky.social) is out now.
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The Autonomous Anarchist in “Johann Most: Life of a Radical” - Chicago Review of Books
Our review of Tom Goyens' new book, "Johann Most: Life of a Radical."
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December 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Looking for a book for the music lover in your life? We’ve got you covered. With a wide selection of music writing, we’ll have the perfect gift

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December 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
In Process Studies 54.2 Myron Moses Jackson explicates Whitehead's theory of propositions & aesthetic foundations of experience, in the “twilight zone” of subjective valuation between physical purposes & clear consciousness. @ctr4process.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/artic...
December 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Check out the new issue of our journal, the Journal of American Ethnic History ( @illinoispress.bsky.social ):
Journal of American Ethnic History (@iehs.bsky.social) Vol. 45, No. 1, is here, featuring three new articles, plus book reviews by @loriflores.bsky.social, @nellstra.bsky.social, and more. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...
December 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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My book review of Sergio González' book, Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin, was just published in the current issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History:

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Journal of American Ethnic History (@iehs.bsky.social) Vol. 45, No. 1, is here, featuring three new articles, plus book reviews by @loriflores.bsky.social, @nellstra.bsky.social, and more. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...
December 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Silvia Dapía ( @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ) discusses Witold Gombrowicz's short story “A Premeditated Crime" to focus on Gombrowicz's story as a new model of resentment in Vol. 82, Iss. 2 of Polish American Studies. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas/arti...
December 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The best books about why the weird underbelly of American music is more interesting and important than pop music, picked by @millerscave.bsky.social, author of THE HOURS ARE LONG, BUT THE PAY IS LOW
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December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM