Illinois Press Book Blog

 
Gary Cialdella discusses his new book The Calumet Region: An American Place on WGN-TV’s Midday News.

On October 20, 2009, photographer Gary Cialdella was interviewed on WTTW-TV’s Chicago Tonight about his new book The Calumet Region: An American Place.

 
Larry & Alaina Kanfer discuss Barns of Illinois on WGN-TV.

Today’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross will feature a segment on the new book King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records.

Interviewees include author Jon Hartley Fox, bassist Bootsy Collins, and Sire/Warner Bros. record executive Seymour Stein who started his career at King.

Jennifer Ring, author of the new book Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball, was interviewed by Baseball Digest.

BBD: Why do you think Ken Burns gave women’s baseball very little coverage in the Baseball documentary series?

JR: For the same reason that most people don’t think that excluding women from baseball is an issue. We tend to just assume that baseball is for boys…because it was intentionally presented, or marketed, as a “maker of men” throughout the twentieth century. As Zane Grey wrote, “All boys love baseball. If they don’t, they’re not boys.” I don’t think Ken Burns was particularly interested in documenting the history of women in baseball…it didn’t occur to him, or he didn’t know the history existed, and didn’t go looking for it. Bottom line: he didn’t put it in the documentary because he didn’t care about women’s baseball.

Listen to Richard Hughes, author of the new book Christian America and the Kingdom of God, interviewed by Marty Moss-Coane on WHYY’s Radio Times.

Mia Mask, author of the new book Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film, was interviewed on New York’s CBS affiliate WCBS-TV .

Lawrence Richards, author of the book Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture, is scheduled to appear on C-Span’s Washington Journal program on Labor Day, Monday, September 7, 9:30-10:00 a.m. (Eastern). His segment will follow Amy Dean, formerly of the AFL-CIO and author of A New New Deal:  How Regional Activism Will Reshape the American Labor Movement.  Mr. Richards will discuss American workers’ aversion to joining unions.

Larry Kanfer discusses his forthcoming book Barns of Illinois on WTTW-TV’s Chicago Tonight program.

Hey Chicagoans!  The August 26 edition of WTTW’s Chicago Tonight will include an interview with Larry Kanfer whose new photography book, Barns of Illinois, will be published in October.  Tune in at 7:00 PM.