Vincent Michael, author of The Architecture of Barry Byrne, recently appeared on WTTW-TV’s Chicago Tonight program to discuss the apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright who brought the Prairie School of Architecture […]
Category: author commentary
Q&A with Creolization of American Culture author Christopher J. Smith
Christopher J. Smith is an associate professor and chair of musicology/ethnomusicology and the director of the Vernacular Music Center at the Texas Tech University School of Music. A working musician, […]
Q&A with Citizens in the Present co-editor Maria de los Angeles Torres
Maria de los Angeles Torres is professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the co-editor of Citizens in the Present: Youth Civic […]
Happy birthday to Dario Argento
Horror movie director, writer and producer Dario Argento was born on September 7, 1940. The master of “giallo” is the subject of L. Andrew Cooper’s Dario Argento from the Contemporary Film […]
Q&A with Gary Westfahl, author of Modern Masters of Science Fiction series book William Gibson
Gary Westfahl is an adjunct professor teaching in the Writing Program at the University of La Verne. His many publications on science fiction include the three-volume Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science […]
Citizens in the Present editor reflects on civil rights legacy
As the work of civil rights leaders was celebrated during the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, many—including President Obama—reflected on the differences between youth activists today and those in […]
Q&A with The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers editor Brian Dolinar
Brian Dolinar is a scholar of African American literature and culture from the Depression era. He is the editor of The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers. We asked him […]
Reconsidering the Chicago School of architecture
Thomas Leslie, author of Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934, recently spoke with WGLT-FM public radio about what architecture says not only about a city’s history, but about interpreting an urban identity. “Chicago skyscrapers […]
Q&A with Charles Ives in the Mirror author David C. Paul
David C. Paul is an assistant professor of musicology and theory at the University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an […]
Q&A with James Doering author of The Great Orchestrator
James M. Doering is a professor of music at Randolph-Macon College and author of The Great Orchestrator: Arthur Judson and American Arts Management. We asked him a few questions about […]
Richard Linklater author David T. Johnson on filmmaker’s latest
At this point I can only add to the effusive praise that has greeted the release of Richard Linklater’s latest film, Before Midnight, with my own. So let me just […]
Chicago architecture from the Great Fire to the Great Depression
Thomas Leslie discusses Chicago Skyscrapers on PBS affiliate WTTW’s Chicago Tonight. […]