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August 21, 2013

Remembering jazz pianist and author Marian McPartland

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Jazz performer and musical ambassador Marian McPartland, passed away this week at her home in Port Washington, N.Y. at age 95. In addition to a performance career that took off […]

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April 16, 2013

David Levering Lewis on MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail

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Fifty years ago today Martin Luther King Jr. completed his open letter from Birmingham Jail. David Levering Lewis, writes in his book King: A Biography (recently released in a new […]

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March 22, 2013

Read an excerpt from One Woman in a Hundred

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SymphonyNOW has posted an excerpt from Mary Sue Welsh’s book about trailblazing harpist Edna Phillips, One Woman in a Hundred. Phillips was the first woman to hold a principal chair […]

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October 3, 2012

An introduction from the editor

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Last week we released Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir, by Josh Graves, and edited by Fred Bartenstein, a new book in our series Music in American Life. The book was a […]

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June 6, 2012 (June 11, 2012)

Goodbye, Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury, author, Illinois native, and subject of Becoming Ray Bradbury, has died. Jonathan Eller, his biographer, had this to say about him in an article last year in New […]

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March 23, 2010 (March 23, 2010)

Jane Bernstein at the Cleveland International Film Festival

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Jane Bernstein is in Cleveland this week for the showing of Rachel Is in the Cleveland International Film Festival. The film, directed by daughter Charlotte Glynn, follows a year in […]

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May 13, 2009

Midland Authors award winner

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Congratulations, John Hallwas. The Society Of Midland Authors has named Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers winner of its 2009 prize in the Biography category. […]

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January 23, 2009

Is President Obama Reading a UI Press book?

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On inauguration day, Aretha Franklin gave President Barack Obama a collection of her dad’s sermons, along with a biography of her late father. Is it possible that she gifted Obama […]

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