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  1. Excited about the new book on Hill & Range Songs. Why are there so few books on the business of music publishing? http://tinyurl.com/yef356g
  2. RT @nprfreshair "What's your favorite Carpenters song?" Calling Occupants (thank you, Klaatu), Yesterday Once More, and This Masquerade.
  3. It's my observation that the Seattle Times does the best job among big city dailies of consistently recognizing local authors' latest books.
  4. Village Voice on the Jerry Lewis film retrospective. http://tinyurl.com/y9dbdbq Chris Fujiwara's "Jerry Lewis." http://tinyurl.com/yk7rqcr
  5. Advances of THE GENIUS & THE GODDESS: ARTHUR MILLER AND MARILYN MONROE arrived today. Need to ship for March pub. http://tinyurl.com/yatd86h
  6. RT @WalRim George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait (biographer interview) has been posted at http://bit.ly/UacUd
  7. The New Yorker online and the Jerry Lewis interview. http://tinyurl.com/y8bt4al
  8. Not a jazz guy but Ole Coltrane has been my work soundtrack this week.
  9. Larry & Alaina Kanfer will be @ Midway Village/Rockford & B&N/Joliet this weekend discussing Barns of Illinois. http://tinyurl.com/yang239
  10. Shipping advances of ILLINOIS POLITICS: A CITIZENS GUIDE (Feb. 2010). Typically, regional only, but former Gov. may have expanded market.
  11. RT @BRCmagazine "Did Edith Maxwell Murder Her Father in 1935?" http://ow.ly/zhg1
  12. Looking forward to G. Keillor reading Maura Stanton's poem "Psalm for a Lost Summer" Nov. 5 on Writer's Almanac: http://tinyurl.com/ygses9k
  13. Yahoo headline: "Forklift swerves into shelf and sets off booze avalanche." Hard for university press publicist to compete with that.
  14. Finished Hornby's JULIET, NAKED. Who is your Tucker Crowe? Mine is KEVIN TIHISTA. http://tinyurl.com/yj8ylyh
  15. Working on the ARC list for our STANLEY ELKIN biography due out in 2010.
  16. RT @JSTOR "We're proud to announce that the University of Illinois Press has joined the Current Scholarship Program!" http://bit.ly/3BoQtT
  17. Presses with Tennessee authors or topics, Humanities Tennessee has launched a new website to promote books. http://www.chapter16.org/
  18. Gary Cialdella discusses The Calumet Region on WGN-TV (http://tinyurl.com/yf6xdje) and WTTW-TV (http://tinyurl.com/ykgkuzr).
  19. If someone e-mails me to request a book, & I reply, I shouldn't have to reply again if my message doesn't penetrate their spaminator, right?
  20. RT @RonHogan "Kings of the Wild Frontier? Prince Charming? These are classics." Loved Kings AND Friend or Foe. But, "decadence" began early.