The 2008 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced yesterday. You can view the full list of this year’s winners and finalists in poetry, literature, and various categories of news reporting here. No University of Nebraska Press titles won Pulitzers this year, but today does bring news from our Nobel Prize-winning author, J. M. G. Le Clezio. The University of Nebraska Press has obtained rights to publish an English translation of Le Clezio’s short story collection Mondo and Other Stories. The collection is slated for publication in spring 2011. Even Publishers Weekly took notice. In other award news, The Great Plains during … Continue reading Pulitzers, UNP in Publishers Weekly, and three titles up for awards

The Buffalo News (in Buffalo NY) recently ran a fantastic review of Searching for Tamsen Donner, by Gabrielle Burton. Here’s an excerpt of what writer R.D. Pohl has to say: The portions of the book that recount the Burton family trek across the Rockies and High Sierras are written with a deft comic touch and the plucky, feminist bravado that made “Heartbreak Hotel” such a crossover hit. What may surprise readers is the author’s intuitive gifts as a researcher and narrative historian. She succeeds where other historians and biographers have failed in uncovering and publishing here all 17 of Donner’s … Continue reading Review of Searching for Tamsen Donner, one award winner, and one nominee

Good news here at the University of Nebraska Press. In the past few days, we’ve learned that no less than SIX of our titles are up for various awards: — The Great Plains During World War II by R. Douglas Hurt, and Bright Epoch: Women and Coeducation in the American West, by Andrea G. Radke-Moss, have been both been selected as finalists for the Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize. — Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees' First Dynasty by Dan Levitt, Chief Bender's Burden: The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star by Tom Swift, are two of the … Continue reading Awards, Awards, Awards!

Welcome back to the work week. I hope you’re enjoying the warm (yet rainy weather), and perhaps have the good fortune of being able to spend the day curled up with a good book. If not, here’s a bit of reading to tide you over. Remember how on Friday I mentioned that University of Nebraska Press author John Turnbull (The Global Game) would appear on NPR’s Only a Game? Well, he did, on Saturday, and you can listen to him and fellow editor Alon Raab discuss soccer with host Bill Littlefield here. In other news, UNP author William L. Ramsey has received … Continue reading Another week, an award and a podcast

University of Nebraska Press title In the Mind’s Eye by Elizabeth Dodd was featured on the NET Radio program “All About Books” yesterday. To listen to Otis Young and Charles Stephen discuss Dodd’s critically acclaimed collection of nature essays, visit the NET Radio podcast page (then click on the Feb. 5 link under “All About Books”). In other news, each year The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum (formerly the Cowboy Hall of Fame) selects an Outstanding Western Novel of the year. The 2008 winner is UNP title Jackalope Dreams, by Mary Clearman Blew. Set in Montana, Jackalope Dreams is … Continue reading February 6, 2009: Two radio shows and one award

Shelf Awareness is reporting today that University of Nebraska Press author Dinty Moore has received the Grub Street National Prize for his memoir, Between Panic and Desire. Moore won in the non-fiction category, in which, interestingly enough, Terese Svoboda was a finalist for her title, Black Glasses Like Clark Kent: A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan. This fall, Bison books will reprint Svoboda’s short story collection, Trailer Girl and Other Stories. For the full Shelf Awareness mention, click here (and scroll down to the books and authors section). Grub Street, by the way, is a non-profit creative writing center in … Continue reading Today’s round of accolades

New this month from the University of Nebraska Press is The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer’s Life by Floyd Skloot. At forty one, writer Floyd Skloot, was struck with a “brain-ravaging virus” and this was the topic of his first three memoirs. In Wink, however, he tries to uncover where the “magic comes from”, and how “circumstance and nature” came together to make him the writer that he is. This week Linking in Lincoln will do our part to help uncover that as well.  Just what makes up Floyd Skloot? Join me, and we can find … Continue reading Linking in Lincoln: October 30,2008

 Well readers, it has been quite a week. The University of Nebraska Press author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature. His titles published with the University of Nebraska Press include Onitsha and The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts. Also this week in history: October 13, 1969: World Series. Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski  is the first person to end a world series with a home run.     The World Series always ends with a bang. No one knows this better than Shoeless Joe Jackson, when he defended his innocence against allegations that he … Continue reading This Week in History: October 13-17, 2008

New this month from the University of Nebraska Press is Blue Skies, Black Wings: African American Pioneers of Aviation by Samuel L. Broadnax. After a love of flying and years spent as a pilot at the Tuskegee Army Air Base, Samuel Broadnax began to research the experiences of other black pilots and “pioneers” of aviation. This book is a culmination of those tales, from Charles Wesley Peters who flew his own plane in  1911, to the 1945 Freeman Field mutiny against segregationist policies. This week Linking in Lincoln will pay tribute to the struggles and fights of these men with … Continue reading Linking in Lincoln: October 9, 2008