The July 24 Fairfax edition of the Washington Post features a preview of Roni Stoneman’s upcoming weekend concert, background on this legendary performer, and a nod to her recent University of […]
Category: author events
Spring on the roof
Oni Buchanan, a poet whose new collection Spring will be published by the University of Illinois Press this autumn, will be reading from the rooftops in New York City on August 5. […]
Hazel Dickens to appear on “Jubilee”
A Hazel Dickens performance filmed in Owensboro, Kentucky, during the summer of 2007 for Jubilee will air on KET June 18, 2008. Hazel’s new book book with Bill Malone, Working Girl Blues: […]
Jack Forbes at the UC Davis Bookstore
Jack Forbes, author of The American Discovery of Europe, spoke recently to a crowd of fifty patrons at the UC Davis Bookstore. Tradebooks buyer Paul Takushi captured the event. […]
Joe Evans and Christopher Brooks in Baltimore
Today’s Washington Post blurbs tomorrow’s Baltimore celebration of the release of Follow Your Heart: Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues. Authors Joe Evans and Christopher […]
“English in Print” exhibition to open at the Grolier Club in New York
English in Print: From Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton, the companion exhibit to the new book by Valerie Hotchkiss and Fred C. Robinson, will open at The Grolier Club in […]
Erika Falk on C-Span’s Book TV
Erika Falk, author of Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns, will be featured this weekend on C-Span’s Book TV. The segment was filmed at Dr. Falk’s recent lecture at the […]
Barbara Christian celebration at Cody’s Books
Friends of Barbara Christian will be celebrating her life and work by reading from the new book New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000 at Cody’s Books in Berkeley on May 4, 2008. Participants will […]
University of Illinois Press at OAH by Kendra
The Organization of American Historians held its Annual Meeting in NYC this year, in midtown Manhattan at the Hilton New York. It was a good and busy meeting for us, with […]
Erika Falk featured on KARK-TV Little Rock, filmed by C-SPAN’s Book-TV
KARK 4 News in Little Rock, Arkansas, covered Erika Falk’s recent event at the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock. Watch the news piece here. For an expanded view […]
Just Landed: Erika Falk’s “Women for President”
Erika Falk’s timely new book Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns just landed on my desk. The official publication date is January 21, 2008, but it is available […]
Poetry Foundation Shout Out to Stephen Cramer
Rigoberto González gives a Poetry Foundation Wednesday Shout Out to Stephen Cramer’s new book of poetry, Tongue & Groove. “Last week I attended a New York City book party in celebration of […]