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Ted Kooser celebration

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Last Friday, University of Nebraska-Lincoln libraries hosted a celebration for Ted Kooser at the Van Brunt Visitors Center. Ted recently donated a collection of manuscripts, journals, workbooks and correspondence from 1966-2010 to the libraries. Ted Kooser has published many books with UNP such as Valentines, Local Wonders and The Blizzard Voices, just to name a few. University and community members gathered to celebrate Ted's work and to thank him for his donation.  UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman introduces Ted at the celebration.  Ted Kooser addresses the crowd. All photos courtesy of the University Libraries. Continue reading Ted Kooser celebration

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BEA retrospective

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The University of Nebraska Press is back from Book Expo America. As always, it was wonderful to catch up with the authors, booksellers, reviewers, agents, bloggers, and others who we work with throughout the year. This year, we did a few things a bit out of the ordinary for us at BEA. First of all, we invited BEA attendees to stop by our booth to register to win 50 books up to $500. This made our booth a popular destination (as did the Bison Books tote bags we gave away), and Elizabeth Schow of Brigham City Library was our big … Continue reading BEA retrospective

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UNP at BEA

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The University of Nebraska Press is getting ready for Book Expo America, which begins Tuesday, May 24 in New York. Stop by our booth (number 2546) to check out our latest books, to pick up a copy of Karol Nielsen’s Black Elephants, which is forthcoming in October, and to say hello. Additionally, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of our paperback imprint, Bison Books, we will be giving away 50 books up to $500 to one lucky winner. Stop by our booth to register to win. We’ll announce the winner at 2 p.m. on Thursday. Visit our blog next week … Continue reading UNP at BEA

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Friday round up

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On April 30, poets Paul Martone and Erin Hoover are going to feature a discussion if Taste of Cherry by Kara Candito on their podcast venture, Late Night Library. The discussion will go live at 4:00 pm. Click here for complete information about Late Night Library. Earlier this month, the New York Journal of Books posted an article written by reviewer Debra Leigh Scott about the independent small press community. Scott wrote this piece after attending The Associated Writing Program Conference in Washington, D.C. The article was written based on herexperience there and conversations with independent presses like the University … Continue reading Friday round up

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Steve Steinberg writes-

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Earlier this month, the Museum of the City of New York hosted a program on Casey Stengel, the famous outfielderand manager, called “Casey Stengel's Baseball, The Greatest Character of the Game.” More than 100 people gathered at the museum to hear Steve Steinberg, coauthor of 1921:The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York and a panel of people giving their insights to Stengel’s life. For those of you who are diehard baseball history fans, Steve Steinberg took detailed notes. Following is a rundownof the panel discussion that night, complete with many nuggets of baseball trivia. … Continue reading Steve Steinberg writes-

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Women’s college basketball buzz

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For all you basketball fans out there, on Saturday, Feb. 19 UConn and Notre Dame’s Women Basketball teams will be facing off once more. Why is this important? It is a reunion game of what was arguably the greatest game in the history of women's collegiate basketball. On March 6 of 2001, these two top women’s college basketball teams played each other for the Big East Tournament championship. UConn’s Sue Bird hit twelve-foot pull-up jumper at the buzzer over national player of the year Ruth Riley and it was the end of an epic contest between the teams. Bird at … Continue reading Women’s college basketball buzz

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Shout-outs and signings

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UNP is all over the news this week… First off, tonight Paul Johnsgaurd, author of the brand-new book, Sandhill and Whopping Cranes (as well as many other University of Nebraska Press titles), will be at the University Bookstore in Lincoln for a reading and a signing at 7. Come out and support a local professor and author! The blog Our Man in Boston gave a shout-out to our Flyover Fiction Series. Flyover Fiction, edited by Ron Hansen, features contemporary fiction set on the Great Plains, a region located in the center of the country and referred to either sentimentally as … Continue reading Shout-outs and signings

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Off the Shelf: Sandhill and Whooping Cranes by Paul A. Johnsgard

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Johnsgard Read the beginning of Chapter 1, "Lesser Sandhill Cranes", from Sandhill and Whooping Cranes: Ancient Voices over America's Wetlands by Paul A. Johnsgard:

"There is a wonderful old tradition in some parts of Scandinavia, in which the children hang their stockings outside their houses during those days in early spring when the European common cranes first return from their wintering areas in France and Spain. Sometimes the children place an ear of corn or some other gift for the cranes, whose welcome voices and overhead flocks are the surest sign of spring and renewed hope for the future after enduring a long, unbearably dark and frigid Scandinavian winter.

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