Some years ago, Ralph Stanley made a fascinating comment on the life on a prominent touring musician. He told me that he was usually able to book Saturday performances close enough […]
Category: author commentary
Randall Bezanson op-ed in Washington Post book blog
Short Stack, The Washington Post‘s book blog, features an opinion piece by Randall Bezanson, author of the new book Art and Freedom of Speech. “If a National Endowment for the […]
To the Editor of the Sunday Book Review:
George Kirsch, author of Golf in America, wrote a letter to the New York Times Book Review to correct the record on Woodrow Wilson’s golf routine: Actually, after the first few […]
Wash his mouth out with soap
Bob Ostertag, author of the new book Creative Life, blogs at Huffington Post about recent student protests at his university in California. Governor Schwarzenegger should wash his mouth out with soap. Seriously. […]
Tiger Woods and the evolution of Golf in America
George Kirsch, author of the recent University of Illinois Press book Golf in America, comments on Tiger Woods and the history of golf in the Wall Street Journal‘s Speakeasy blog. […]
Dinner for Mr. Ringo
Four years ago at this time I had just started at the Press and was planning my first publicity trip to Chicago. My predecessor had provided a list of her […]
Maggie Hinchey on the Cover by Lara Vapnek
Searching for illustrations for my book, Breadwinners, recapped the challenges—and rewards—of writing about working women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Documentation of women who worked as servants, […]
Gary Cialdella on WGN-TV
Gary Cialdella discusses his new book The Calumet Region: An American Place on WGN-TV’s Midday News. […]
On the Banks of the Queen City by Jon Hartley Fox
As a first-time author, the whole meeting-the-readers idea is still pretty new to me. I’ve spent virtually all of my writing life working in a vacuum, very rarely having any […]
Coming to New York by Alyn Shipton
Coming to New York to launch I Feel a Song Coming On, my new biography of songwriter Jimmy McHugh, was certainly quite a contrast to the way any of my […]
Baseball Digest interviews Jennifer Ring
Jennifer Ring, author of the new book Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball, was interviewed by Baseball Digest. BBD: Why do you think Ken Burns gave women’s baseball very […]
Richard Hughes interview
The Church of Jesus Christ blog has posted an engaging interview with Richard Hughes, author of the new book Christian America and the Kingdom of God. Q: Professor, this book was published […]