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May 11, 2013 (May 9, 2013)

Q&A with Murphy Hicks Henry, author of Pretty Good for a Girl

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Murphy Hicks Henry is a professional banjo player and writer who founded the Women in Bluegrass newsletter and has written regularly for Bluegrass Unlimited and Banjo Newsletter. She answered our questions […]

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March 29, 2013 (April 2, 2013)

Q&A with Rob White, author of Contemporary Film Directors book Todd Haynes

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The Contemporary Film Directors series presents engagingly written commentaries on the work of living directors from around the world. Todd Haynes author Rob White was Commissioning Editor of Books at […]

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March 11, 2013 (March 11, 2013)

Nikkei Baseball on Only a Game

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Bill Littlefield, the host of NPR’s Only a Game interviewed Samuel Regalado, the author of Nikkei Baseball: Japanese American Players from Immigration and Internment to the Major Leagues. The interview […]

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March 5, 2013 (March 28, 2013)

Q & A with Advertising at War author Inger Stole

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Inger L. Stole is an associate professor of communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  She answered our questions about her book Advertising at War: Business, Consumers, and Government in […]

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February 22, 2013 (February 25, 2013)

Picturing Illinois authors featured on Chicago Tonight

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Picturing Illinois authors John Jakle and Keith Sculle appeared on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight” program on February 21st. “Chicago Tonight” also posted a gallery of some of the postcard art featured […]

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January 31, 2013 (January 31, 2013)

Stephen Wade on Baltimore NPR affiliate WYPR

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Aaron Henkin from WYPR radio in Baltimore conducted an engaging in-depth interview with Stephen Wade, author of the book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recording and the American […]

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January 28, 2013

College gambling on NPR’s Only a Game

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The January 26, 2013, edition of NPR’s syndicated program Only a Game featured an interview with Albert Figone, author of the University of Illinois Press book Cheating the Spread: Gamblers, […]

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January 4, 2013 (January 4, 2013)

Robert Lombardo discusses organized Crime in Chicago on PBS

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Robert Lombardo discusses his new book Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight. […]

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December 3, 2012

Banjo Newsletter features Stephen Wade

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Stephen Wade, author of the new book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience, is the subject of a cover story in the December 2012 issue […]

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November 21, 2012

Music Tomes interview with Fred Bartenstein

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Fred Bartenstein, editor of the recent Josh Graves memoir Bluegrass Bluesman, is featured in a recent Music Tomes interview. MT: What are you currently working on? FB: I wrote a number of […]

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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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September 28, 2012

Author Stephen K. Ashby Talks about the Chicago Teachers’ Strike

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Stephen K. Ashby, co-author of Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement, has spoken out strongly over the past several weeks about the Chicago Public Schools teachers’ strike. […]

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