The American Theatre and Drama Society has awarded its 2011/2012 Annual Book Award to Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930. This award recognizes outstanding works […]
Concert celebrates Nicholas Temperley’s 80th birthday
Nicholas Temperley, author of two University of Illinois Press books, will be honored by the North American British Music Studies Association with a July 28 concert at the University of Illinois’ […]
UIP author Dana Greene to speak at the National Portrait Gallery
The Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery will host the exhibition Poetic Likeness: Modern American Poets, which opens in October 2012. A portrait of poet Denise Levertov (1923-1997) will be included in the exhibit. In […]
Happy (early) Birthday, Richard Linklater
In honor of Richard Linklater’s birthday next week (July 30), here is an excerpt from an interview with the director that was published in David T. Johnson’s new book Richard Linklater. David Johnson: You’ve […]
San Francisco area accordion events
Marion Jacobson, author of the new University of Illinois Press book Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America, will travel to Northern California in mid-August for a series of music and […]
Woody at 100 wrap-up
This past Saturday, July 14, marked 100 years since the birth of Woody Guthrie. Will Kaufman, author of the University of Illinois Press book Woody Guthrie, American Radical, was interviewed and […]
The New Yorker on Philip Kaufman
The New Yorker‘s online Culture Desk column previews tonight’s screening of a director’s cut of Philip Kaufman’s The Wanderers and namechecks University of Illinois Press author Annette Insdorf. “Welcoming East Coast members of Wanderers Nation […]
Inside Higher Ed Q&A with John Timberman Newcomb
John Timberman Newcomb, author of the recent University of Illinois Press book How Did Poetry Survive? The Making of Modern American Verse, is featured in today’s edition of Inside Higher […]
Q&A with Blackness in Opera editors
On March 26, 2012, we published Blackness in Opera, which examines the intersections of race and music in the multifaceted genre of opera. The collection’s editors, Naomi André, Karen M. Bryan, […]
Hello, goodbye
The University of Illinois recently transitioned to a computer-based phone system, which made our desktop telephones obsolete. The collection cart made the rounds this morning. […]
George Szell biography featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition
On July 7, 2012, NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday featured a segment on Michael Charry’s recent biography of Cleveland Orchestra conductor George Szell. “Michael Charry was the ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’ to celebrated 20th-century […]
Q&A with Ghost of the Ozarks author Brooks Blevins
In 1929 a drifter named Connie Franklin was killed in the Arkansas Ozarks and his teenage fiancé was raped. Five local men were arrested for the crimes. On the eve […]