Looking for an entertaining and enlightening cinematic experience? Look no further than In the Shadow of the Moon, a documentary featuring first-hand accounts of each of the Apollo lunar missions from the astronauts who took part in these monumental space flights. For our local blog readers, note that the film will continue its run at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln’s Ross Media Arts Center through this Thursday, November 8th. For more information, including show times, visit the Ross Center Web site at http://theross.org/. The film has been compared favorably to its literary counterpart, In the Shadow of the Moon: A … Continue reading “In the Shadow of the Moon” at the Ross Media Arts Center

It’s almost Halloween, my favorite holiday which so happens to fall on my favorite time of the year.  Maybe I like Halloween because it is in autumn.  Or, maybe I like autumn because it holds Halloween.  Hm. That’s enough about me.  Here’s what our authors will be doing these next few days leading to and including October 31. Africa on Six Wheels‘ author Betty Levitov will be here in Lincoln, NE at the SouthPointe Pavilions Barnes & Noble Booksellers tomorrow, October  25th at 7:00pm.  Also in Lincoln this week is the Nebraska Book Festival.  Crazy Horse, this year’s featured book … Continue reading Author Events October 25 thru October 31, 2007

    Because a Fire Was in My Head by Lynn Stegner October Featured Title Barnes & Noble Book Explorer’s Club  Check out the Barnes & Noble online Book Explorers Club. Moderated by Ande Zellman of the Literary Ventures Fund, Book Explorers Club talks about your favorite literary discoveries, new and old, and highlights an author and book of note each month. In October, the featured book is Because a Fire Was in My Head by Lynn Stegner. During the month of October, author Lynn Stegner will converse with readers on the message board. Learn more by going to Barnes … Continue reading Stegner Featured on Online Book Club

Nebraska poet and two-time U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser will speak next Sunday, Oct. 14, at 1:00 p.m. at Sokol South Omaha (21st and U Streets). Kooser won’t be reading poetry, though. He’ll be reading from and discussing his memoir Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (UNP, 2002). According to Newsday writer Dan Cryer, Local Wonders includes “eloquent meditations on country pleasures, the rhythms of the seasons and the lingering presence of Czech folk culture in rural Nebraska." In the book, Kooser’s first collection of prose, he describes with exquisite detail and humor the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska—an … Continue reading Live in Omaha: Kooser to speak about Nebraska wonders

Essayist John Price’s eagerly read literary memoir and study of Midwestern nature writers the likes of William Least Heat-Moon and Mary Swander has finally hit bookshelves in paperback. The essence of Not Just Any Land is John’s rediscovery of his Midwestern roots and affinity for the American grasslands where he had grown up but had longed to escape from. Fortunately, Fate intervened. His love of literature—he studied literature and creative nonfiction at the University of Iowa—introduced him to regional writers who, like John, struggled with their own identities as Midwesterners and yet chose to write about, rather than abandon, a … Continue reading Not Just Any Price: Now in paperback—Price’s Not Just Any Land