An excerpt from Hopi Katsina Songs by Emory Sekaquaptewa, Kenneth C. Hill, and Dorothy K. Washburn, forthcoming March 2015. Songs Recorded by Natalie Curtis in 1903 Part I: Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music (IUATM) 1. Angaktsìntawi1 (Curtis Burlin 391, Cylinder … Continue reading EXCERPT: Hopi Katsina Songs
Former Minnesota North Star hockey standout, Jean-Paul Parise, passed away last week. The following is an excerpt from Frozen in Time: A Minnesota North Stars History by Adam Raider that details Parise as a fan favorite. J.P. Parise (1967-75, 1978-79) Jean-Paul (J.P.) … Continue reading EXCERPT: Frozen in Time
An excerpt from The Role and Limitations of Technology in U.S. Counterinsurgency Warfare by Richard W. Rubright, forthcoming February 2015 from Potomac Books. 3 Limits of Politically Correct Doctrine The Melians: You may be sure that we are … Continue reading Excerpt: The Role and Limitations of Technology in U.S. Counterinsurgency Warfare
An excerpt from In Food We Trust: The Politics of Purity in American Food Regulation by Courtney I. P. Thomas Chapter 2: The Cranberry Crisis Advances in food science and technology that occurred during the twentieth century have made it possible for food systems to be organized, configured, and structured in ways that promote food safety. But if that is the case, why are there so many food safety crises in the United States? The answer is not that an industrialized food system cannot be made safe but that large and powerful corporations have perpetuated the regulatory focus on adulteration … Continue reading Excerpt: In Food We Trust
An excerpt from A Guide to the Ghosts of Lincoln, New Edition. THE FACE IN THE WINDOW Perhaps no other incident in the unusual history of Lincoln, Nebraska, affected as many people as did the apparition at a Near North … Continue reading Excerpt: A Guide to the Ghosts of Lincoln
Bill Fields is a senior editor at Golf World. The following is from his forthcoming book, Arnie, Seve, and a Fleck of Golf History, which will be available June 1, 2014. Long before Jack Fleck, who died March 21 at age 92, defeated Ben … Continue reading A Fleck of History: Jack Fleck and Ben Hogan
With the recent passing of Joe Weider, the creator of a bodybuilding empire, it sheds light on the fitness craze through American history. His iconic past is represented in Making the American Body: The Remarkable Saga of the Men and Women … Continue reading Making the American Body
Read the begining of We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust by Ellen Cassedy:
"A soft summer rain was falling as a white-haired woman made her way to the microphone. “Tayere talmidim!” she began. “Dear students!” Through the pattering of drops on my umbrella, I leaned forward to catch her words. The old woman’s name was Bluma, a flowery name that matched her flowered dress. She was a member of the all-but-vanished Jewish community in Vilnius, Lithuania, the city once known as the Jerusalem of the North. “How fortunate I am,” she said in a quavering voice. “I have lived long enough to see people coming back to Vilnius to study Yiddish.”
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Earlier this week on the Dzanc Books blog, The Collagist, author Matthew Gavin Frank answered interview questions in the form of excerpts. Frank is the author of upcoming book, Pot Farm, which details the strange, sublime, and sometimes dangerous goings-on at Weckman Farm, a place with hidden politics and social hierarchies, populated by recovering drug addicts, alternative healers, pseudo-hippie kids, and medical marijuana users looking to give back. Click here for insight into what Frank thinks about writing and why he does it in the interview titled “There is a Glossary of Terms for the Lives We are Leading Together.” Continue reading UNP author unplugged
Read the beginning of Mountains of Light: Seasons of Reflection in Yosemite by R. Mark Liebenow: "In the middle of the night something pushes on my toes. Half asleep, I think a nocturnal squirrel is rooting around at the bott om of my tent. There is scuffling and the animal bumps hard against the hollows of my feet. That’s no squirrel. It’s larger, perhaps a raccoon. Th en I hear a low gutt ural snort and National Geographic images rush into my head -grizzlies mauling their helpless prey, wolves tearing elk apart with their long savage teeth. With my heart pounding, I lie as … Continue reading Off the Shelf: Mountains of Light: Seasons of Reflection in Yosemite by R. Mark Liebenow
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