Category Archives: interviews

March 29, 2013

Q&A with Rob White, author of Contemporary Film Directors book Todd Haynes

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The Contemporary Film Directors series presents engagingly written commentaries on the work of living directors from around the world. Todd Haynes author Rob White was Commissioning Editor of Books at the British Film Institute, 1995–2005, and Editor of Film Quarterly, … Continue reading →

March 11, 2013

Nikkei Baseball on Only a Game

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Bill Littlefield, the host of NPR’s Only a Game interviewed Samuel Regalado, the author of Nikkei Baseball: Japanese American Players from Immigration and Internment to the Major Leagues. The interview ran on the March 9, 2013, broadcast of Only a … Continue reading →

March 5, 2013

Q & A with Advertising at War author Inger Stole

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Inger L. Stole is an associate professor of communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  She answered our questions about her book Advertising at War: Business, Consumers, and Government in the 1940s. Q: What is the Wheeler-Lea Amendment that was … Continue reading →

February 22, 2013

Picturing Illinois authors featured on Chicago Tonight

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Picturing Illinois authors John Jakle and Keith Sculle appeared on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight” program on February 21st. “Chicago Tonight” also posted a gallery of some of the postcard art featured in Picturing Illinois.

January 31, 2013

Stephen Wade on Baltimore NPR affiliate WYPR

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Aaron Henkin from WYPR radio in Baltimore conducted an engaging in-depth interview with Stephen Wade, author of the book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recording and the American Experience, on Henkin’s January 25 Signal program. My favorite part … Continue reading →

January 28, 2013

College gambling on NPR’s Only a Game

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The January 26, 2013, edition of NPR’s syndicated program Only a Game featured an interview with Albert Figone, author of the University of Illinois Press book Cheating the Spread: Gamblers, Point Shavers, and Game Fixers in College Football and Basketball. … Continue reading →

January 4, 2013

Robert Lombardo discusses organized Crime in Chicago on PBS

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Robert Lombardo discusses his new book Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight.

December 3, 2012

Banjo Newsletter features Stephen Wade

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Stephen Wade, author of the new book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience, is the subject of a cover story in the December 2012 issue of Banjo Newsletter.  The interview was conducted by Greg Adams. Greg … Continue reading →

November 21, 2012

Music Tomes interview with Fred Bartenstein

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Fred Bartenstein, editor of the recent Josh Graves memoir Bluegrass Bluesman, is featured in a recent Music Tomes interview. MT: What are you currently working on? FB: I wrote a number of the biographies of Bluegrass Hall of Fame members for the … Continue reading →

October 3, 2012

An introduction from the editor

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Last week we released Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir, by Josh Graves, and edited by Fred Bartenstein, a new book in our series Music in American Life. The book was a long time to press–the interviews took place in 1994, and … Continue reading →