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

In 1961 the University of Nebraska Press inaugurated the Bison Books trade paperback line, conceived as a way to bring affordable works of enduring literary merit to a mass audience. This year is Bison’s 50th year anniversary. The first season of publication included eight Bison Books with prices ranging from $1 to $1.50 each. Today there are more than 900 Bison Books in print, and the herd continues to grow. Last week, Governor Heineman signed a proclamation celebrating this milestone. Check out the official proclamation below. Also make sure to check out the Bison Book of the Month and register … Continue reading 50th Anniversary of Bison Books

Local author Bill Kloefkorn will be on The Joy Factor radio show on KZUM tomorrow, Wednesday, Jan. 19 at 6 p.m. to discuss his new poetry collection, Swallowing the Soap, published in October by the University of Nebraska Press. If you are in the Lincoln area, tune to 89.3 FM. The host of the show is Sheila Stratton. For more information visit The Joy Factor’s Facebook page.   William Kloefkorn is Nebraska’s state poet and emeritus professor of English at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln. He has published many books with the University of Nebraska Press, including a four-part memoir … Continue reading Lincoln author on local radio

Fabulous Harlequin: ORLAN and the Patchwork Self, which was published by University of Nebraska Press earlier this year, features the life and artwork of internationally renowned French artist ORLAN who is most famous for her series of cosmetic-surgery performances in the 1990s in which she reconfigured her face and body as a critique of the standards of beauty imposed on women. The book is full of photographs from her career from her Harlequin hybrid figures who sit in chairs, displaying a collection of hybridized garments and her transforming sugeries.    For those of you who are in the Lincoln area, ORLAN will be having a "round chair … Continue reading ORLAN discussion and exhibit at the Sheldon Museum

For three days and nights reading, writing and books were celebrated in Missoula at the Montana Festival of the Book. The festival featured writers from across the region in a variety of readings, panels, exhibits and signings. One of the panels had five history writers, including UNP author Sue Resnick, who dived into a plethora of Western topics including Irish in the American West to the Smith Mine disaster, which was the topic of Resnick’s book, Goodbye Wifes and Daughters. To read more about the panel discussion click here.     For those readers who are in Nebraska, UNP author … Continue reading UNP author on panel and open house invite