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 […]
Category: author events
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 […]
Chicago photography
This week will be busy for Gary Cialdella and Larry & Alaina Kanfer, authors of our two new photography books. Gary Cialdella will appear on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight program this […]
Alyn Shipton/Jimmy McHugh event at B&N New York
On October 9, 2009, Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle hosted an event for Alyn Shipton’s new book I Feel a Song Coming On: The Life of Jimmy McHugh, the first biography […]
John Broven at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame
John Broven, author of the recent book Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneers, will participate in a From Songwriters to Soundmen: The People Behind […]
“Poetry & Cultural Studies” event audio
On September 19, 2009, the Bowery Poetry Club in New York hosted a launch reading for Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader, edited by Maria Damon and Ira Livingston. Penn […]
“Barns of Illinois” launch party
Periodic downpours couldn’t keep away the 100+ people who celebrated the publication of Larry and Alaina Kanfer’s Barns of Illinois at the Larry Kanfer Gallery on October 1st. Larry Kanfer discusses Barns […]
One day, three events
On Thursday, September 24, University of Illinois Press authors will appear in Boston, Chicago, and Jackson, Mississippi. -P. Gabrielle Foreman, author of the book Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the […]
I feel events coming on
On October 5, 2009 we will publish I Feel a Song Coming On, the first biography of great American songwriter Jimmy McHugh. That week, Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle (NYC) and Michael […]
Barns of Illinois book launch
The University of Illinois Press and the Larry Kanfer Gallery invite you to celebrate the publication of Barns of Illinois. Photographs by Larry Kanfer Text by Alaina Kanfer Book launch […]
Orenic to speak in Chicago
Liesl Miller Orenic will discuss her new book On the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry at the Open University Of The Left, Lincoln Park Library, 1150 W. Fullerton in Chicago, […]
Book-TV at Printers Row
C-Span’s Book-TV filmed a handful of University of Illinois Press authors live at the Printers Row Lit Fest on June 6. Watch Karen Graves, C. Todd White, Margaret Washington, and David […]