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The Chicago Manual of Style—the undisputed authority for style, usage, and grammar, with more than 1.5 million copies sold, is hot off the press in its gloriously updated and expanded 17th Edition, and we're ready to celebrate Chicago Style. Get "dragged through the garden" of intellectual endeavor and cultural engagement that has come to define the University of Chicago Press as an equally distinct and true Chicago institution for hungry minds around the world. Find commentaries and interviews with Press Editors, classic and lesser known favorites from the Press' 125 year history, and more to relish this October on our blog and in store. Plus, markup your calendars for the Co-op's November 30 event for the 17th Edition. Bonne lecture!
Margaret Hivnor-Labarbera, Editor
What was the last book you discovered at the Seminary Co-op or 57th Street Books?
On my last trip to the Seminary Co-op Bookstore I found the Penguin Classic of Bruce Chatwin's brilliant (though mendacious) In Patagonia as well as Wendy Doniger's The Ring of Truth: And Other Myths...
I started my publishing career as a bookseller. I sold textbooks at a campus-oriented used store adjacent to Northwestern University when I was an undergrad, then did a stint at a branch of the small London chain Books, Etc., before settling in for a couple of years at the late, lamented literary and scholarly bookstore Great Expectations, in Evanston.
Through all that time, I had no idea how much work—and care, attention, and, quite honestly, love—went into actually making the books we sold. I knew sales reps, of course, and some authors, and I respected the work of each. But until I walked in the door at the University of Chicago Press in 1999, I had almost no understanding of what happens with a book before it hits bookstore shelves.
The University of Chicago Press is more than 125 years old. A key component of the University since the founding, it has...
Julia Mickenberg, author of American Girls in Red Russia (University of Chicago Press), shares her five favorites about the Soviet Union.
Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Visions and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution, by Richard Stites
Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism, by Christina Kiaer
Small Comrades: Revolutionizing Childhood in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932, by Lisa Kirschenbaum
Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin, by Jochen Hellbeck
My Life in Stalinist Russia: An American Woman Looks Back, by Mary Leder
Alice Kaplan, author of Dreaming in French, and Editorial Director Alan G. Thomas discussed ...
Tim Mennel, Executive Editor
Subjects: American history; Chicago and other regional publishing
Series: American beginnings: 1500-1900; ...
Kyle Adam Wagner, Assistant Editor
Subjects: Religious studies
Series: Buddhism and Modernity; Religion and Postmodernism; Class 200: New Studies in Religion
Tell us about a book you discovered at a formative age that helped...
Mary Laur, Senior Editor
Subjects: Writing guides; regional reference; general reference; geography; cartography
Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing; ...
Subjects: Medieval studies; poetry in translation
Series: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, Phoenix Poets
If I’m honest, I’d...
Karen Darling, Executive Editor
Subjects: Science studies (history, philosophy, and social studies of science, medicine, and technology
Series: science.culture, Synthesis
Karen Darling...
Chuck Myers, Senior Editor
Subjects: Political science; law and society
Series: Chicao Series in Law and...