Today marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day set aside to remember those who suffered more than 60 years ago. Hédi Fried, a Holocaust survivor, is the author of the autobiography, The Road to Auschwitz: Fragments of a Life, edited and translated by Michael Meyer and published by the University of Nebraska Press. Fried commented, "It took me forty years to realize that I am a witness and that it is my task to tell what I experienced." Read more about Hédi on her blog entry at the Huffington Post. Hédi is featured in the documentary, The Last Survivor, presented by Righteous Pictures. The … Continue reading Holocaust Remembrance Day, honoring Holocaust Survivor Hédi Fried, UNP author and subject of new documentary

Today, A. B. Guthrie Jr. will be inducted into the Montana State Historical Society’s Gallery of Outstanding Montanans. In honor of his induction, here's a synopisis of why he's notable: Shortly after graduating from college with a journalism degree, Guthrie took a job with the Lexington Leader, in Kentucky, and worked there for 30 years. In 1944, 18 years after he started at the paper (and when he was 43 years old), he received a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard University, where he wrote his first novel, The Big Sky. Many other titles followed, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Way West, … Continue reading A. B. Guthrie Jr. in the Gallery of Outstanding Montanans

Jim Johnston, author of the University of Nebraska Press title, The Long Road of War: A Marine’s Story of Pacific Combat, died earlier this month. He was 86 years old. Johnston lived most of his life in southwest Nebraska community of Wauneta, in Chase County, where he established Johnston Real Estate in 1963. His wife and three sons still live there. In 1998, the University of Nebraska Press published The Long Road of War, in which Johnston told his story of service during WWII, which he served mostly in the Pacific. The book was well received in military circles and … Continue reading Remembering Jim Johnston, Yellowstone Autumn reviewed

An interview with Terese Svoboda (author of Trailer Girl and Other Stories, which will be published as a Bison paperback in December) was featured on the arts and culture blog The Millions last week, as part of a National Poetry Month feature. In the interview, Svoboda discusses the importance of song in Sudan, something she spent time researching and translating years ago – and also something she discussed at an event in Grand Island a few weeks back. Click here for an interesting interview with a surprise coincidence. In other, more general, National Poetry Month news, ForeWord Magazine has is … Continue reading More poetry during National Poetry Month