Q&A with Pacific Citizens editor Greg Robinson
Larry and Guyo Tajiri became leading figures in Nisei political life as the central purveyors of news for and about Japanese Americans during World War II. In the new University of […]
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It’s National Animal Crackers Day!
I just learned it is National Animal Crackers day. According to CNN, “In 1902, the National Biscuit Company, known as Nabisco today, began to market “Barnum’s Animals,” tugging even more […]
Q&A with Making Sense of American Liberalism co-editor Jonathan Bell
On April 23, 2012, the University of Illinois Press will publish Making Sense of American Liberalism, edited by Jonathan Bell and Timothy Stanley. The volume contains ten essays which offer refreshing and intelligent […]
Retractions on the Rise
Carl Zimmer, writing in the The New York Times, notes a sharp increase in the number of journal article retractions in recent years — by one estimate, a tenfold increase […]
Squeeze This! reviewed in the Wall Street Journal
The April 14, 2012 issue of The Wall Street Journal featured a review of Marion Jacobson’s new University of Illinois Press book Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion […]
Octave Chanute presentation at the Library of Congress
Simine Short discusses her recent book Locomotive to Aeromotive: Octave Chanute and the Transportation Revolution at the Library of Congress. […]
Chip Kidd on TED Talks
Chip Kidd, a book designer for Alfred A. Knopf, gives a wonderful talk about the business. (Follow the talk all the way to the end for a graphic comparison between […]
Meta DuEwa Jones on Left of Black
Meta DuEwa Jones, author of the recent book The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word, was a guest in the second half of the April 2, […]
Q&A with The Poco Field author Talmage A. Stanley
Talmage A. Stanley is the director of the Appalachian Center for Community Service and an associate professor and chair of the Department of Public Policy and Community Service at Emory & […]
Mitchell Nathanson on NPR’s Only a Game
Mitchell Nathanson, author of the new book A People’s History of Baseball, was interviewed on the March 31, 2012, edition of National Public Radio’s syndicated program Only a Game, hosted by Bill […]
Q&A with John Sayles author David Shumway
On March 26, 2012 the University of Illinois Press published John Sayles, a new book in the Contemporary Film Directors series. Author David Shumway comments on the filmmaker’s independence and reveals his favorite […]
Book signing at MoMA’s Philip Kaufman film exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art in New York will host a Philip Kaufman film retrospective April 11-16, which will feature five of the director’s films including The Right Stuff and The Unbearable […]