On Wednesday, July 28, from 10:00pm until midnight, co-authors Gordon and Gary Shepherd will appear on Milt Rosenberg’s WGN radio program Extension 720 to discuss their new book Talking with the […]
Category: author commentary
Amalia Pallares on WGN-TV’s Midday News
Amalia Pallares, co-editor of the new book ¡Marcha! Latino Chicago and the Immigrant Rights Movement, was interviewed July 22, 2010, on WGN-TV’s Midday News. […]
Bell in the Daily Herald
The July 14, 2010, edition of Chicago’s Daily Herald includes Marty Maciaszek’s feature on Taylor Bell’s new book Dusty, Deek, and Mr. Do-Right: High School Football in Illinois. “… the first person Bell […]
Reading Other People’s Mail by Kathleen Pfeiffer
Now that my book is published, I shall confess to you the tawdry and selfish origins by which I came to write it. Yes, it contains all the sheen and distinction […]
CNN’s Belief Blog features Richard Hughes
Richard Hughes, author of the recent book Christian America and the Kingdom of God, addresses the nation’s cultural divide at CNN.com. “83% of the American people claim to be Christians. If those […]
Publishing secrets revealed!
What does it take to get an article published in a scholarly journal? Sound, original scholarship, you say? That’s important, but what about presentation? How do you go about interesting […]
PBS’ History Detectives investigate the Theremin
Albert Glinsky, author of the University of Illinois Press book Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage, will appear on the PBS series History Detectives on Monday, June 28, 2010. From the […]
Steve Cushing on Chicago Public Radio
Chicago Public Radio’s 848 recently interviewed Steve Cushing about his long-running radio program and the new book Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews. “Thirty years ago this month, on these […]
James Nowlan on C-Span
James Nowlan, co-author of the new book Illinois Politics: A Citizen’s Guide, was interviewed live on C-Span’s Book-TV at the Printers Row Lit Fest. […]
Revisiting the Tailor’s Wife by Danke Li
On my last trip back to China in late December 2009, I managed to squeeze in three days to try to visit some of the women whom I interviewed for […]
Fashion & Feminism by Linda Layne
One of the questions raised by the discussion with my students regarding the virtues and vices of making birth control packs look like compacts is the relationship of fashion with […]
Are “Fashionable” Birth Control Packs Feminist or Antifeminist? by Linda Layne
The page proofs of Feminist Technology were ready in time for me to give the book a trial run in my spring course, Women Leaders/Feminist Entrepreneurs. As anticipated, the students […]