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 – […]
Daily Yonder reviews Archie Green
Sean Burns’s recent biography of folklorist Archie Green is the subject of an extended review in Daily Yonder. “Fascinating and insightful. . . . Burns provides an absorbing account of Archie’s […]
Book, Jacket, and Journal Show
The University of Illinois Press will host the annual Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, March 28–April 4, 2012. Sponsored by the Association of American University Presses, nearly 100 books and […]
Gillum Ferguson on WGN-TV’s Midday News
Gillum Ferguson, author the new book Illinois in the War of 1812, was a guest on the March 8, 2012, edition of WGN-TV’s Midday News. Today at noon, Ferguson will […]
Simine Short on WGN-TV
The March 6, 2012, edition of WGN-TV’s Midday News program featured an interview with Simine Short, author of the recent book Locomotive to Aeromotive: Octave Chanute and the Transportation Revolution. […]