Please join us in welcoming the return of UIP’s The UPside podcast! We can’t think of a better way to kick off of this re-release than with an interview with […]
Christopher Reali, Interviewed on The UPside Podcast
Category: interviews
Q&A with Lydia R. Hamessley, Author of Unlikely Angel
Lydia R. Hamessley, author of Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton, answers questions about her inspirations, Appalachian music, songwriting, and, of course, music legend Dolly Parton. Q: Why did […]
Q&A with Donald W. Rogers, Author of Workers against the City: The Fight for Free Speech in Hague v. CIO
Donald W. Rogers, author of Workers against the City, answers questions about the labor movement, American history, free speech, CIO v. Hague, and civil liberties. Q: Why did you decide […]
Q&A with Elizabeth A. Clendinning, Author of American Gamelan and the Ethnomusicological Imagination
Elizabeth A. Clendinning, author of American Gamelan and the Ethnomusicological Imagination, answers questions about the intricacies of global ensembles, gaps between classroom discussions and real-life applications, and the cohesion of […]
Q&A with Jonathan R. Eller, author of Bradbury Beyond Apollo
Jonathan R. Eller, author of Bradbury Beyond Apollo, the final book in his trilogy biography of Ray Bradbury, answers questions about his reasoning for writing a trilogy, academic and literary […]
Donna J. Nicol and Jennifer A. Yee on “Reclaiming Our Time”
Donna J. Nicol is an associate professor and the chair of Africana studies at California State University Dominguez Hills. Jennifer A. Yee is an associate professor of Asian American Studies […]
Q&A with Roger R. Tamte, author of “Walter Camp and the Creation of American Football”
Roger R. Tamte is a patent attorney and scholar of early American football who has studied Camp for many years. He recently answered some questions with us about his new […]
Roger Biles on C-SPAN2 Book TV at Printers Row Lit Fest
Last weekend, Chicago hosted one of the largest literary events in the Midwest: Printers Row Lit Festival. The festival is a reader’s dream featuring a wealth of author panels, and […]
Q&A with Linda Civitello, author of “Baking Powder Wars”
Linda Civitello teaches food history in southern California. She is the author of Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People, winner of the Gourmand Award for Best Food History […]
Q & A with “Local Vino” Author James R. Pennell
James R. Pennell is a professor of sociology at the University of Indianapolis. He is also a lifelong musician and singer-songwriter who regularly performs in Central Indiana. He recently answered some questions […]
Dick Simpson on Against the Current
Dick Simpson, co-author of Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality, recently sat down with Dan Proft on the latest edition of Against the Current to talk about the history of […]
Q&A with Baring Witness editor Holly Welker
Holly Welker is an award-winning poet and essayist living in Arizona. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Best American Essays, and […]