Richard Hughes, author of the new book Christian America and the Kingdom of God, was quoted yesterday in a San Antonio Express-News column on the debate in Texas over how Christianity’s […]
Category: author commentary
Livingston vs. Berube
At Bully Bloggers, Ira Livingston, co-editor of the recent University of Illinois Press book Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader, takes on Michael Berube’s recent Chronicle of Higher Education essay […]
Divas on Screen author on screen
Mia Mask, author of the new book Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film, was interviewed on New York’s CBS affiliate WCBS-TV . […]
Beito op-ed in L.A. Times on T. R. M. Howard
David Beito and Linda Royster Beito, authors of the new book Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power, penned an op-ed in today’s Los […]
Oriard new in The League
Michael Oriard, author of the recent reissue The End of Autumn: Reflections on My Life in Football, contributed his first piece this week to The Washington Post‘s “The League” column. A major […]
Some things learned in writing “Paradoxes of Prosperity” by Dwight L. Teeter, Jr. & Paula T. Kaufman
When working with Professor Lorman (Larry) Ratner on another University of Illinois Press book (Fanatics and Fire-Eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War, 2003), he frequently said that there […]
Illinois Press author comments on Gates arrest
Nathaniel Norment, Jr., author of the new book The Addison Gayle Jr. Reader, is quoted by Temple University’s Newswise. If this is the first time Professor Gates has been arrested, after having […]
The Still Uncertain Status of Latinas: From J.Lo to Judge Sotomayor by Mary Beltrán
My research and the writing of my new book, Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meanings of Film and TV Stardom, was such a lengthy process, during which the […]
Portraying Gershwin–Getting the Whole Story by Walter Rimler
When I started this biography of George Gershwin I already knew quite a bit about him. I’d been intrigued—that’s probably too mild a word but I’d rather not go all the […]
History News Network features Evans & Bradley
Authors of two recent University of Illinois Press books are featured this week on the History News Network. Open Wound author William McKee Evans on race in the United States: Scholars who locate […]
Still Human by Michael Oriard
The original edition of The End of Autumn came about when an editor at Doubleday saw a piece I had written for the New York Times about the suicide of […]
Richard Hughes vs. Newt Gingrich
In a Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed column, Richard Hughes, author of Christian America and the Kingdom of God, takes on Newt Gingrich’s claims that the United States is a Christian nation. […]