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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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50th Anniversary of Bison Books

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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

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Lincoln author on local radio

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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

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Local bookstore in Shelf Awareness

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Yesterday, Indigo Bridge Books, one of Lincoln’s own local sellers, was featured on Shelf Awareness. Indigo Bridge Books opened in 2008, and won immediate popularity with its  children’s bilingual story time. Today, it has added more events — kid and adult friendly alike. Indigo has events like indiZoo where an animal is brought in for kids to see, and from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. it offers a “priceless menu,” which usually includes baguettes and soups at a community table that spark conversation between the people who are there. It's also a good place to find University of Nebraska Press … Continue reading Local bookstore in Shelf Awareness

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ORLAN discussion and exhibit at the Sheldon Museum

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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