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

Francis French, co-author of two titles in UNP’s acclaimed Outward Odyssey series, received San Diego’s “Outstanding Contribution to Aerospace Education” award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in a special ceremony on May 22, 2008. According to the press release issued by the San Diego Air & Space Museum, French was honored for his work heading the Museum’s education efforts to interest and engage a new generation of audiences in science, technology and engineering, as well as his prior work in science education at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, Sally Ride Science, and his popular science books … Continue reading Author Francis French Honored for Contribution to Aerospace Education

ONE BOOK, ONE NEBRASKA, ONE TUESDAY TRIVIA! Restoring the Burnt Child, by William Kloefkorn is the fourth installment in his highly regarded  memoir, that when completed, will cover the four elements of Water, Fire, Earth, and Air (and no he has no affiliation with Captain Planet). Winner of the One Book, One Nebraska award, Kloefkorn is no stranger to praise from the Great Plains literati. In this installment of Tuesday Trivia we will be taking a look at him and other  former winners of One Book, One Nebraska to see if you, our readers, have  been paying attention to these … Continue reading Tuesday Trivia: May 19, 2008

A.J.B. Johnston’s Endgame 1758: The Promise, the Glory, and the Despair of Louisbourg’s Last Decade has been short-listed for the Atlantic Book Awards’ 2008 Dartmouth Award for Non-Fiction. Click here for a link to the Atlantic Book Award Web page. Congratulations to the author on this honor! Continue reading Endgame 1758 Short-Listed for Dartmouth Book Award

We are pleased to announce that UNP author Norman L. Macht is the winner of the 2008 Larry Ritter Award, granted by the Society for American Baseball Research‘s Deadball Era Committee, for his book, Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball. Our congratulations go out to Mr. Macht for this outstanding accomplishment! Continue reading UNP Author Receives Ritter Award