A look at rare Guthrie photos
A month following Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday, I am catching up on a gallery of rare photos featured on NPR’s website. University of Illinois Press author Rich Remsberg (Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs […]
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Radio Utopia wins Tankard Book Award
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) has awarded Matthew C. Ehrlich’s Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest the annual Tankard Book Award, which honors […]
Janine MacLachlan discusses Farmers’ Markets of the Heartland
Grub Street Chicago, the Windy City edition of New York Magazine’s food and restaurant blog, recently posted a Q&A with Farmers’ Markets of the Heartland author Janine MacLachlan. So what […]
New in paperback: Hands on the Freedom Plow
On August 27, 2012, we will publish a paperback edition of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, edited by Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, […]
Pay for Play in Bloomberg
Last month the Penn State football program was hit with NCAA sanctions over the Jerry Sandusky abuse scandal. Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter supports the punishment in a Bloomberg View piece and references […]
Concert celebrates Nicholas Temperley’s 80th birthday
Nicholas Temperley, author of two University of Illinois Press books, will be honored by the North American British Music Studies Association with a July 28 concert at the University of Illinois’ […]
UIP author Dana Greene to speak at the National Portrait Gallery
The Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery will host the exhibition Poetic Likeness: Modern American Poets, which opens in October 2012. A portrait of poet Denise Levertov (1923-1997) will be included in the exhibit. In […]
Happy (early) Birthday, Richard Linklater
In honor of Richard Linklater’s birthday next week (July 30), here is an excerpt from an interview with the director that was published in David T. Johnson’s new book Richard Linklater. David Johnson: You’ve […]
San Francisco area accordion events
Marion Jacobson, author of the new University of Illinois Press book Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America, will travel to Northern California in mid-August for a series of music and […]
Woody at 100 wrap-up
This past Saturday, July 14, marked 100 years since the birth of Woody Guthrie. Will Kaufman, author of the University of Illinois Press book Woody Guthrie, American Radical, was interviewed and […]
The New Yorker on Philip Kaufman
The New Yorker‘s online Culture Desk column previews tonight’s screening of a director’s cut of Philip Kaufman’s The Wanderers and namechecks University of Illinois Press author Annette Insdorf. “Welcoming East Coast members of Wanderers Nation […]
Inside Higher Ed Q&A with John Timberman Newcomb
John Timberman Newcomb, author of the recent University of Illinois Press book How Did Poetry Survive? The Making of Modern American Verse, is featured in today’s edition of Inside Higher […]