Category Archives: author commentary

May 20, 2013

Q&A with Friday Night Fighter author Troy Rondinone

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Gaspar “Indio” Ortega appeared on prime-time network television more than almost any other boxer in history. Rising from poverty in his native Tijuana, Mexico, Ortega used his skills in the ring and a sense of showmanship to take the boxing world by … Continue reading →

May 11, 2013

Q&A with Murphy Hicks Henry, author of Pretty Good for a Girl

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Murphy Hicks Henry is a professional banjo player and writer who founded the Women in Bluegrass newsletter and has written regularly for Bluegrass Unlimited and Banjo Newsletter. She answered our questions about her book Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in … Continue reading →

April 29, 2013

Q&A with Fighting from a Distance author Jose Fuentecilla

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During February of 1986, a grassroots revolution overthrew the dictatorship of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos.  Jose V. Fuentecilla was involved in the anti-Marcos movement in the United States.  Fuentecilla answered our questions about his new book Fighting from a Distance: … Continue reading →

April 24, 2013

Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass book trailer

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In May 2013 we will publish Murphy Henry’s new book Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass, which documents the musical lives of more than seventy women including Sally Ann Forrester, Alison Krauss, Rhonda Vincent, the Dixie Chicks, Bessie Lee … Continue reading →

April 8, 2013

The “Nikkei” path breaker with the St. Louis Cardinals

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As the St. Louis Cardinals play their 2013 home opener today, Japanese or Japanese American players are no unusual site in Major League ballparks.  But that wasn’t always the case. Samuel Regalado notes that the first Major Leaguer of Japanese American … Continue reading →

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 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 27, 2013

Q & A with author L. Andrew Cooper on horror film director Dario Argento

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L. Andrew Cooper is an assistant professor of film and digital media at the University of Louisville and the author of the new book in the University of Illinois Press Contemporary Film Directors Series, Dario Argento. Q: How does Dario … Continue reading →

February 21, 2013

Q & A with One Woman in a Hundred author Mary Sue Welsh

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Mary Sue Welsh is a former executive director of the Bach Festival of Philadelphia, where she worked with its chair Edna Phillips.  She answered our questions about her new University of Illinois Press book One Woman in a Hundred: Edna Phillips … Continue reading →

February 20, 2013

Q&A with Lisa Phillips, author of A Renegade Union

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Lisa Phillips is an assistant professor of history at Indiana State University.  She answered our questions about her new book A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism. Q: What is the “renegade union” of the book’s title? Phillips: Local then … Continue reading →