University of Illinois Press author Stephen Wade contributed this piece for the University Press Week blog tour. The tour continues today at University of Nebraska Press. A complete blog tour schedule […]
Category: author commentary
Author Megan Sweeney discusses what women read in prison (and why)
Megan Sweeney is an associate professor of English Language & Literature and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She answered our questions about her new book The […]
UIP author on Mormons & Politics in Vanity Fair
D. Michael Quinn, author of the University of Illinois Press book Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example, penned a Vanity Fair web exclusive feature titled When Mormons Go to Washington. […]
Q&A with Quaker Brotherhood author Allan W. Austin
The abolitionist work of Quakers during the antebellum era has been well documented, and their contemporary anti-war and anti-racism work is familiar to activists around the world. Allan W. Austin, a […]
The Haymarket Conspiracy author interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition
Timothy Messer-Kruse, author of the new University of Illinois Press book The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks, was interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition about his struggle to change the Wikipedia […]
The Beauvoir Series Q&A
On August 6, 2012, we published Political Writings, the fifth volume in The Beauvoir Series. Co-editor Margaret Simons answered our questions about the new book. Q: The previous books in […]
An Emphasis on Conspiracy, Less on the Trial
Last week Timothy Messer-Kruse, author of The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks, published a post on his own blog in response to a negative review in Dissent. While tacitly acknowledging […]
Musical Journeys in Sumatra Q&A
Margaret Kartomi, a professor of music at Monash University in Australia, answered our questions about her new book Musical Journeys in Sumatra. Q: Where is Sumatra located? Kartomi: Sumatra, the 6th largest […]
Southern Gospel Music
On May 21, 2012, we published Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music. Author Douglas Harrison, an associate professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University, answered our […]
More than milk and spinach
The Classical sports website has posted an excerpt from the recent University of Illinois Press book A People’s History of Baseball plus a Q&A with author Mitchell Nathanson. The Classical: In […]
Religion Dispatches investigates southern gospel music
Douglas Harrison, author of the recent University of Illinois Press book, Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music, is the subject of a new Religion Dispatches Q&A. […]
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 […]