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June 10, 2016 (May 10, 2016)

Release Party: Foggy Mountain Troubadour

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With his trademark mandolin style and unequaled tenor harmonies, Curly Seckler has carved out a seventy-seven-year career in bluegrass and country music. Written in close collaboration with Mr. Seckler and […]

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May 27, 2016 (May 27, 2016)

Jane Bernstein on Rachel in the workplace

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Jane Bernstein, author of the UIP books Loving Rachel and Rachel in the World, has a new essay on Vice about her daughter Rachel’s job. As in both her acclaimed memoirs, Bernstein pulls […]

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May 19, 2016 (May 19, 2016)

An often overlooked observance

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In 2015, the State of Illinois designated May 19 as Malcolm X Day. It doesn’t always show up on the list of official state holidays, interestingly enough, perhaps due to […]

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May 10, 2016 (May 6, 2016)

Sweet home Chicago

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May 11-13, 2016, the publishing industry will descend upon the City of Big Shoulders for the textapalooza that is BookExpo America. BEA, held at Chicago’s McCormick Place this spring, is […]

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April 29, 2016 (April 28, 2016)

Honoring a Pioneer

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On Monday, April 25, The College at Brockport, State University of New York, honored alum Fannie Barrier Williams, its first African American female graduate. The institution dedicated a plaque to […]

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April 4, 2016 (April 4, 2016)

Q&A with the editors of Women, Work, and Worship in Lincoln’s Country

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Ann Dumville and her daughters Jemima, Hephzibah, and Elizabeth were not history makers in the way we traditionally think of such figures. None of these women held high political office […]

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March 21, 2016

From the modernist post: Kay Boyle and Hemingway

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Kay Boyle published more than forty books during her life including fifteen novels, and eight volumes of poetry. Yet her achievements can be even better appreciated through her letters to […]

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March 7, 2016 (March 3, 2016)

Champagne Casanova

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Available just in time to erase all the romantic mistakes you’ve made since Valentine’s Day, Casanova the Irresistible offers a tour of its subject’s 3,700-page memoir by French reconteur/gadfly/writer/critic Philippe Sollers. […]

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March 2, 2016 (March 2, 2016)

Series editor Gary K. Wolfe talks about Modern Masters of Science Fiction

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The Modern Masters of Science Fiction series is a survey of the work of individual authors who continue to inspire and advance the genre. With seven books released in the series […]

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February 26, 2016 (February 17, 2016)

Gordon Mumma and adventures of the ear

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“Pretty much every modern electronic artist you consider ‘out-there’ will appear a lot more ‘in-here’ when you’ve heard this.”–Rob Fitzpatrick, writing for The Guardian, on Gordon Mumma’s Electronic Music of Theater […]

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February 24, 2016 (February 23, 2016)

The composer and the Scarecrow

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Harold Arlen composed some of the great classics of the Great American Song Book including “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “Blues in the Night,” “Stormy Weather,” and, of the Wizard […]

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February 16, 2016 (February 15, 2016)

Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands receives C. Calvin Smith Award

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Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands: Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon & Black Activism by Will Guzmán has been honored with the C. Calvin Smith Award presented by the Southern Conference on African American […]

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