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Friday round up

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Tonight at Indigo Bridge Books, in the Haymarket, from 6-7 p.m. author Wendy Call will give a presentation on her book No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy. Her slideshow presentation will include both English and Spanish portions. To find more information on this event, click here.   In other exciting author news, Shane Book was selected as a “New American Poet” by the Society of America. Book is the author of Ceiling of Sticks which was published in 2010 and was the Prairie Schooner Book Prize winner in Poetry. Click here for the full list … Continue reading Friday round up

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Local Wonders

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Tune into NET Radio's Friday Live tomorrow morning for music from the new musical, Local Wonders. The show was adapted by Theatre Professor Virginia Smith, who will be on tomorrow's program, along with musicians Paul Amandes and the Turtle Island String Quartet. You can catch the show on at 91.1 FM at 9 a.m. tomorrow, or visit netnebraska.org, for streaming, webcast and podcasts of previous shows. For a description of the whole show click here.   Another local artist is being featured in Nebraska this month. Terese Svoboda was interviewed by blog Les Femmes Folles about her work as a Nebraska … Continue reading Local Wonders

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Women winners

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Congratulations to Susan Kushner Resnick for winning the Best Woman Writer award at the 2011 High Plains Book Awards on Oct. 15. The winners were announced at a banquet held at Montana State University in Billings. Resnick’s book, Goodbye Wifes and Daughters, tells the 1943 story of an explosion in the Smith coal mine in Bearcreek, Montana, which killed all but three of the men in the mine at the time of the blast.  The book unfolds that tragic day and its aftermath through the eyes of the family members — mostly wives and children — of those miners. Lisa … Continue reading Women winners

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Why Nebraska

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Terese Svoboda, author of Bohemian Girl, is a Nebraska native who often finds herself writing about her home state. Now a New Yorker, Svoboda will return to Nebraska for a book launch party in Omaha this Saturday evening, October 15. There will be a discussion at 7 p.m. followed by a reception and exhibit from 7:30-8:30 p.m. at KANEKO (11th and Jones). On Oct., 14, catch her on Friday Live on NET Radio (91.1 FM in Lincoln) at 9 a.m. She will also be in town for the Omaha Lit Fest.    Below is a guest posting by Svoboda, in … Continue reading Why Nebraska

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What They Saved book launch

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What They Saved by Nancy K. Miller is about her discovery of a minuscule family archive: a handful of photographs, an unexplained land deed, a postcard from Argentina, unidentified locks of hair. Miller follows their traces from one distant relative to another, across the country, and across an ocean. Her story, unlike the many family memoirs focused on the Holocaust, takes us back earlier in history to the world of pogroms and mass emigrations at the turn of the twentieth century. Earlier this month, the book launch took place at Girls Write Now. Below is a photo from the event. … Continue reading What They Saved book launch

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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-