Kate Buford’s Native American Son is up for best track and field book for the CBC Summer Sports Showdown book poll. You can vote once a day until Aug. 12. Click HERE to vote now! Continue reading CBC book poll for Summer Olympics: Vote for Kate!
The Federal Court fight continues over where Jim Thorpe's final resting place will be. Last week, his two sons testified. Read more about this pending Olympian case on Yahoo! News. If you want to know more about one of America's first great olympians, check out Native American Son by Kate Buford. With clarity and an eye for detail, Buford traces the pivotal moments of Thorpe’s incomparable career. Continue reading Federal court case contines over late olympian
Julija Šukys’ Epistolophilia was reviewed by Mélanie Grondin on the Montreal Review of Books blog. Read the full review here. Continue reading Review of Epistolophilia
In an article by Tom Zeller Jr., Green Illusions is analyzed and Zehner answers questions about his green energy conclusions. Read the article here. Continue reading Ozzie Zehner in Huffington Post
Click here to read a review of From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel by Robert S. Wistrich. Continue reading From National Review Online
Author and baseball pro, Aaron Pribble, was on Sportsideo talking about his career and book, Pitching in the Promised Land. Click here to watch the interview. Continue reading Aaron Pribble on video
Today is the start of the 2012 Olympics in London and one UNP author is already a strong advocate of one of the competitions: women's soccer. Tim Grainey, author of Beyond Bend It Like Beckham, is a sports journalist who has wrote extensively on soccer for World Football Pages, Soccer365.com and more. Recently, Grainey met another soccer fanatic in his area who shared his love of the sport. Check out the azcentral.com story "2 Southeast Valley soccer fanatics/writers meet for first time" to find out who. Continue reading Let the ceremonies begin!
Kate Buford is the author of Native American Son. In light of the Olympics beginning tomorrow, she writes of an Olympic past legend, Jim Thorpe, and today's Olympic excitement.
As the world gears up for Opening Day of the XXX Olympiad, media outlets are pumping out new alarming stories of security snafus in London along with the usual poignant tales of athletes’ life obstacles overcome.
The hype and frenzy are taken for granted now, but when did they begin? When did the world first realize the potential thrill the Games dangle in front of us every four years? That an athlete will come out of nowhere and astonish us with feats of bodily skill we have never seen before.
Though the first Games of the modern Olympic movement were held in 1896 in Athens, it wasn’t until the Fifth Olympiad in Stockholm in 1912 that one athlete – Jim Thorpe – created the model of the Olympic super-star. First he won the classic five-event track and field pentathlon by a huge margin – and then he did the same thing in the new ten-event decathlon.
Today is the start of Buffalo Bill Days in Golden, Colo. It's three days of activities celebrating Buffalo Bill including live music and a "Best of the West" parade. Click here for information. For more Buffalo Bill, check out forthcoming title Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace by John M. Burke, edited by Chris Dixon. It's a critical edition of Burke's 1893 book that established the legend of Buffalo Bill Cody as a frontier hero. Continue reading Celebrate Buffalo Bill in Colorado
Suzanne Roberts, author of forthcoming Almost Somewhere, was interviewed by Hanna Brooks Olsen from Blisstree. Click here to read Roberts' thoughts on hiking, nature and the female body. Continue reading Roberts interview
