Meta DuEwa Jones, author of the recent book The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word, was a guest in the second half of the April 2, […]
Q&A with The Poco Field author Talmage A. Stanley
Talmage A. Stanley is the director of the Appalachian Center for Community Service and an associate professor and chair of the Department of Public Policy and Community Service at Emory & […]
Mitchell Nathanson on NPR’s Only a Game
Mitchell Nathanson, author of the new book A People’s History of Baseball, was interviewed on the March 31, 2012, edition of National Public Radio’s syndicated program Only a Game, hosted by Bill […]
Q&A with John Sayles author David Shumway
On March 26, 2012 the University of Illinois Press published John Sayles, a new book in the Contemporary Film Directors series. Author David Shumway comments on the filmmaker’s independence and reveals his favorite […]
Book signing at MoMA’s Philip Kaufman film exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art in New York will host a Philip Kaufman film retrospective April 11-16, which will feature five of the director’s films including The Right Stuff and The Unbearable […]
Q&A with Henry Mancini author John Caps
For four years John Caps was a producer, writer, and host of the National Public Radio syndicated series The Cinema Soundtrack. Here he discusses his new book Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music. Q: […]
Q&A with authors of The Ecology of the Spoken Word: Amazonian Storytelling and Shamanism among the Napo Runa
On March 12, 2012, the University of Illinois Press published The Ecology of the Spoken Word: Amazonian Storytelling and Shamanism among the Napo Runa by Michael A. Uzendoski and Edith […]
WNYC’s Soundcheck Squeezes This
Marion Jacobson, author of the new book Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America, was a featured guest on the March 20, 2012, edition of WNYC’s Soundcheck program. […]
Donald Hickey interviewed for National Review Online podcast
This year is the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. To celebrate, the University of Illinois Press has published a Bicentennial Edition of Donald Hickey’s The War of 1812: A […]
New Editor-in-Chief at the University of Illinois Press
Laurie Matheson has been named Editor-in-Chief of the University of Illinois Press. Her publishing career began in New York City as an editorial assistant at Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1984. She […]
Gillum Ferguson on the road
Gillum Ferguson is visiting bookstores, libraries, historical societies, and museums throughout the State of Illinois to discuss and sign copies of his new book Illinois in the War of 1812. […]
Marty Robbins bio book events
March features two book events to celebrate the publication of Diane Diekman’s new biography of country superstar Marty Robbins, Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins. Saturday, March 17 – […]