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Runner, writer, reader

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Rachel Toor, author of Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running (2008), didn’t start out as a runner. In fact, she considered herself a bookish egghead who ran only to catch a bus. But since she ran her first race more than 20 years ago, she's finished dozens of marathons, qualified numerous times for Boston, and run many ultra-marathons and other endurance races, too. Toor is now sponsored by Athleta. For the next year, she'll blog for the clothing company about running, 2012 resolutions and above all, enjoying the ups and downs of life. Read her first blog post here … Continue reading Runner, writer, reader

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Off the Shelf: Descanso for My Father by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

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Read the beginning of the Prologue from Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher: "I watch my son as thunderclouds gather outside my Denver home. He stomps his wide little feet on the hardwood floor, clamoring for a tube of eucalyptus lotion he cannot reach and cannot have. He balls his dimpled fists into hammers, tugs at the reddish wisps of hair curling around his head like flames. He is twenty-three months old, the same age I was when my father died. I look at him now and try to imagine the impressions he is … Continue reading Off the Shelf: Descanso for My Father by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

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Lithuanian ambassador to the United States Žygimantas Pavilionis met with Ellen Cassedy, the author of the new UNP book, We are Here. Cassedy said that she wrote a book hoping that it will promote dialogue and understanding, and will help to fulfill the dreams that both the Lithuanians and Jews share for Lithuania. “In Lithuania, I not only learned about my family past, but also met wonderful people who are encouraging Lithuania to engage with its history in order to build a better future. I was moved and educated by how they were reaching across cultural borders,” Cassedy said. She … Continue reading Friday photo

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Meet prize-winning authors

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The Prairie Schooner is bringing three prize-winners to the UNL campus this week! Greg Hrbek, James Crews and Shane Book will participate in a meet and greet and Q&A today from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Dudley Bailey Library in Andrews Hall. Tomorrow night, the three authors will also read from their books at 8 p.m. in Anderson Hall, room 15. Both events are free and open to the public. Greg Hrbek is the author of Destroy All Monsters, and Other Stories (2011), James Crews is the author of The Book of What Stays (2011) and Shane Book is … Continue reading Meet prize-winning authors

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Featured poem

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James Crews’ poem, “The Bees Have Not Yet Left Us,” was recently featured on Verse Daily. This poem comes from his recent book of poetry, The Book of What Stays. Michael Simms from the Coal Hill Review said, "The Book of What Stays is one of the very best original books of poetry I've read in the past couple of years . . . . I feel that while this book may be the one that stays, there's a "part two" quickly on the way." To read Crews’ poem on Verse Daily, click here. Continue reading Featured poem

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Off the Shelf: Such a Life by Lee Martin

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Read the beginning of "Colander" from Such a Life by Lee Martin: "One summer morning the telephone rang in my grandmother’s house, and, because she was busy washing dishes at the sink, I ran to answer it. She kept the new dial phone on a library table by her bedroom window, a bedroom off the kitchen in the modest frame house where I’d spent the night. It was 1962, and I was seven years old. Progress had come to our sleepy, backwoods part of southern Illinois in the form of telephones you dialed instead of cranked and seven-digit numbers instead … Continue reading Off the Shelf: Such a Life by Lee Martin

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Discover great new writers

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Each year, the Discover Great New Writers Program from Barnes and Noble has introduced readers to up-and-coming new authors, many of whom have been from UNP. Past UNP winners include Ted Kooser (Local Wonders), Brandon Schrand (The Enders Hotel), Daryl Farmer (Bicycling Beyond the Divide) and most recently, Jon Pineda (Sleep in Me). Do you know an author (UNP or otherwise!) who you think should be considered for this honor?  If so, enter their works in the Facebook Sweepstakes here. You’ll be automatically in the drawing for a new NOOK Tablet. Check out Barnes and Noble’s website or stop by … Continue reading Discover great new writers

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A new year’s resolution of reading

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Inside In the United States of Africa (2009), French-speaking African writer Abdourahman A. Waberi turns the fortunes of the world upside down. On this reimagined globe a stream of sorry humanity flows from the West, from the slums of America and the squalor of Europe, to escape poverty and desperation in the prosperous United States of Africa. It is in this world that an African doctor on a humanitarian mission to France adopts a child. And this story is as deadly serious as it is wickedly satiric. Thanks to the translators, David and Nicole Ball, this tale was made available … Continue reading A new year’s resolution of reading

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An adventurer’s delight

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In a remote kingdom hidden in the Himalayas, there is a trail said to be the toughest trek in the world—24 days, 216 miles, 11 mountain passes, and enough ghost stories to scare an exorcist. Beneth Blossom Rain: Discovering Bhutan on the Toughest Trek in the World is Kevin Grange’s account of his journey across the country of Bhutan by taking on this infamous trail, the Snowman Trek. Seattle University Magazine’s Maura Beth Pagano called it “a treat for any adventurer.” She also said that “not only does the author let readers catch a glimpse into his time on the … Continue reading An adventurer’s delight