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  1. #BEA2012 Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America author signing June 5 at 1PM in booth #3436. ow.ly/b9XaJ 1:15 PM May 25th via HootSuite
  2. Q&A with author of Bean Blossom: The Brown County Jamboree and Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Festivals. ow.ly/b2T6H #bluegrass 7:48 AM May 21st via HootSuite
  3. Fall 2012 catalog is available for browsing. Highlights include 1st volume in Modern Master of Science Fiction series. ow.ly/b2MVV 7:03 AM May 21st via HootSuite
  4. Tribune piece featuring Janine MacLachlan's local farmers market tips picked up by papers in Bangor, Yakima, Orlando. ow.ly/b0B5j 1:33 PM May 18th via HootSuite
  5. Received e-mail from producer asking why I hadn't pitched him a book. Further down, line in signature says NO UNSOLICITED MATERIALS, PLEASE. 8:48 AM May 18th via HootSuite
  6. EDUCATORS: Free e-exam copy of Gospel of the Working Class: Labor's Southern Prophets in New Deal America @NetGalley. ow.ly/aX0zk 8:24 AM May 16th via HootSuite
  7. Stephen Wade's search for Bozie Sturdivant chronicled in book trailer for The Beautiful Music All Around Us. ow.ly/aVAAW 10:31 AM May 15th via HootSuite
  8. Shilpa Davé, author of Indian Accents: Brown Voice & Racial Performance in American TV & Film, on Popchips in NYTimes. ow.ly/aV7m7 6:31 AM May 15th via HootSuite
  9. New Yorker's Goings On About Town plugs Marion Jacobson's Squeeze This #accordion book event. ow.ly/aTqOL 6:50 AM May 14th via HootSuite
  10. Congratulations to our Marketing Director @lisambayer who was named director of the University of Georgia Press. ow.ly/aPNRl 2:34 PM May 10th via HootSuite
  11. Advance reading copy of Josh Graves's BLUEGRASS BLUESMAN: A MEMOIR (Sept. '12) available @NetGalley. ow.ly/aNpWV #bluegrass #blues 6:30 AM May 9th via HootSuite
  12. UIP author Koritha Mitchell's Black Girls RUN profiled in Columbus Dispatch & linked from NYTimes. ow.ly/aMx8d ow.ly/aMxjR 1:49 PM May 8th via HootSuite
  13. Advance reading copy of DENISE LEVERTOV: A POET'S LIFE (Sept. '12) now available @NetGalley. ow.ly/aLSAw #poetry 7:11 AM May 8th via HootSuite
  14. Hello @clarkeml Contact me on Friday: mroux@uillinois.edu. 2:02 PM May 3rd via HootSuite in reply to clarkeml
  15. Stephen Wade: new book, CD & tour dates coming in September. ow.ly/aGEgi #banjo #bluegrass #folk #smithsonian 1:48 PM May 3rd via HootSuite
  16. What will we give away at our BEA booth this year? RT @lisambayer "When the business of publishing involves chocolate Lincoln heads." 11:31 AM May 2nd via HootSuite