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Off the Shelf: Honyocker Dreams by David Mogen

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Mogen Read the "Finding Home" from Honyocker Dreams: Montana Memories by David Mogen:

"By the time I got to know my way around a new hometown, it was time to leave.

And where was “home”? While I was growing up we moved through a series of small towns along the Montana Hi-Line, the three-hundred-mile corridor stretching west from North Dakota to the Rockies, and north from the Missouri River to Canada. But we also lived in Bozeman and Missoula while Dad went to school, and since we visited relatives all across the state it sometimes seemed that all of Montana was home. For a while, Idaho was home, too. When I was twelve I began working as a farmhand for three summers in a row at my uncle Phil and aunt Roma’s Idaho homestead, nearly a thousand miles from my Montana home.

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A celebration of Bison Books

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The Golden West edited by Alicia Christensen celebrates the Bison Books tradition of giving readers the best historical, literary, and original western literature, bringing together some of the most beloved and iconic stories of the American West. Published in celebration of Bison Books' 50th anniversary, The Golden West collects iconic Western voices who have published with Bison Books throughout the years. Stories include those depicting adventures of the Corps of Discovery to the trials of the Oregon Trail, from traditional Sioux culture to Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, and from the cowboys, ranchers, farmers, and mountaineers who often make up our … Continue reading A celebration of Bison Books

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Spring break news roundup

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Welcome back to those of you who weren't around last week because of spring break. Here’s some news that you may have missed while lounging at a beach or shoveling snow in Omaha. Coda by French author Rene Belletto was reviewed on the news and entertainment radio show Breakfasters which is on 3RRR, an Australian radio station. Listen to what book critique Emmett Stinson had to say about Coda at RRR FM.     Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine by David Shields received some attention on the blog Negative Dunkalectics as “…really really thoughtful about race and masculinity.” … Continue reading Spring break news roundup

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Off the Shelf: Crazy Basketball by Charley Rosen

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Rosen Read from Chapter 1, "Portrait of the Hooper as a Young Man" from Crazy Basketball: A Life In and Out of Bounds by Charley Rosen, Foreword by Phil Jackson:

"My first formal game was in a ninth-grade tournament at Junior High School No. 44, where my class (of intellectually gifted students) was trounced by class 9-14, a low-IQ team of unruly young men who’d been left back several times and who shaved every day. My main memories of playing in the cold, windy schoolyard were of wearing my long pants with my shirttails flapping, of getting razzed for being so clumsy as to stumble over a foul line, and later getting beaten by my father for tearing my pants.

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Off the Shelf: The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz by Jules Verne

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Verne Read the beginning of The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz: The First English Translation of Verne's Original Manuscript by Jules Verne, translated and edited by Peter Schulman:

"“. . . And get here as soon as possible, my dear Henry. I can’t wait to see you. By the way, this country is magnificent and there’s a lot for an engineer to see in the industrial region of Lower-Hungary. You won’t regret coming.

 Yours with all my heart
 Marc Vidal”

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UNP author to help Major League Baseball trace its roots

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University of Nebraska Press Author David Block will serve on a committee that will trace the beginnings of U.S. baseball. The committee, announced by Major League Baseball on March 15, will be made up of 12 baseball experts who will seek out the history of baseball’s very early days, along with the game’s evolution and growth. The committee will also look at the history and evolution of in various regions, cities and communities. Block, the author of Baseball Before We Knew It, which won the Seymour Medal in 2006, is in good company; other committee members include Ken Burns and … Continue reading UNP author to help Major League Baseball trace its roots

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Off the Shelf: Coda by René Belletto

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Coda Read the beginning of Coda: A Novel by René Belletto, translated by Alyson Waters:

"It is to me that we owe our immortality, and this is the story that proves it beyond all doubt.

On Monday, the first of August in the year _ _ _ _ at 9:30 a.m., Anna and I arrived in front of the Parc Monceau in Paris. I was bringing my daughter to the house of her maternal grandparents, Maurice and Maureen Michelangeli.

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Author on Chicago radio

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New this month from University of Nebraska Press is Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball by Larry Baldassaro. It is a social history of baseball, tracing the evolution of American perceptions toward those big players of Italian decent like DiMaggio, Giamatti and Piazza. It chronicles the baseball exploits that influenced those perceptions. Baldassaro conducted more than fifty interviews with players, coaches, managers, and executives—some with careers dating back to the thirties—in order to put all these figures and their stories into the historical context of baseball, Italian Americans, and, finally, the culture of American sports. Baldassaro was invited by Cubs … Continue reading Author on Chicago radio

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Roundup news

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This month Another Burning Kingdom by Robert Vivian is featured on the Ninth Letter homepage with an excerpt from the book. Philip Graham writes “Vivian's prose travels strange territory, mixing colloquial speech with the heightened language of spiritual insight, a music fusing dissonance and consonance like matches trying to spark a reader alert.” Click here to take a look.   Lisa Harper, author of A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood was a guest blogger on Motherhood Later, Rather than Sooner last week. On the blog, Harper discusses her experience of becoming a mother at 36. Read her blog post here.   … Continue reading Roundup news

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Murder mystery review

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Author A. B. Guthrie Jr. (1901–91) was a historian and novelist whose 1949 book The Way West won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He was also a fantastic storyteller who could write a great murder mystery. The University of Nebraska Press has recently begun re-releasing his murder mysteries, all of which feature small-town Montana sheriff Chick Charleston and his highly educated sidekick, Jason Beard, in paperback editions. The most recent of those, Playing Catch-Up was recently reviewed in the Washington Post by Dennis Drabelle who said “for anyone who doesn't know Guthrie's work, Playing Catch-Up is a fine place to … Continue reading Murder mystery review