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 […]
Category: author commentary
George Szell biography featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition
On July 7, 2012, NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday featured a segment on Michael Charry’s recent biography of Cleveland Orchestra conductor George Szell. “Michael Charry was the ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’ to celebrated 20th-century […]
Q&A with Ghost of the Ozarks author Brooks Blevins
In 1929 a drifter named Connie Franklin was killed in the Arkansas Ozarks and his teenage fiancé was raped. Five local men were arrested for the crimes. On the eve […]
Q&A with Lucia Ruprecht, co-editor of New German Dance Studies
New German Dance Studies contains sixteen essays which range in subject from eighteenth-century theater dance to popular contemporary dances in global circulation. Co-editor Lucia Ruprecht answered our questions about this […]
Q&A with Julie A. Gallagher, author of Black Women & Politics in New York City
On June 18, 2012, we will publish Black Women & Politics in New York City by Julie A. Gallagher, assistant professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine. Professor Gallagher […]
Q&A with Bean Blossom author Thomas A. Adler
The 46th Annual Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival begins June 9 and runs through June 16. We spoke with Thomas A. Adler, author of the recent book Bean Blossom: The Brown […]
Book trailer for The Beautiful Music All Around Us
Stephen Wade’s forthcoming book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience will be published in September 2012. Visit Stephen’s information page for details on his […]
Q&A with Child Care in Black & White author Jessie B. Ramey
Jessie B. Ramey is an ACLS New Faculty Fellow in Women’s Studies and History at the University of Pittsburgh. Her study, Childcare in Black and White: Working Parents and the […]
Q&A with Richard Linklater author David T. Johnson
David T. Johnson, an associate professor of English at Salisbury University, is the author of Richard Linklater, a new volume in our Contemporary Film Directors series. In this Q&A he discusses […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]