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The 22 Weeks rolls on as the panel of pigskin prognostication unite to discuss the recent FCC decision regarding the Blackout rule in the NFL. What will be the effects of the new rule? What… Continue reading JERRY IZENBERG AUTHOR OF ROZELLE JOINS THE SHOW 22 Weeks: Season 3 Episode 5.
French novelist Patrick Modiano is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, adding to the University of Nebraska Press backlist of Nobel Prize winners. Modiano is the author of Out of the Dark, which was translated by University of … Continue reading UNP backlist shines with Third Nobel Prize winner in Literature
Wise Latinas Writers on Higher Education Edited and with an introduction by Jennifer De Leon Yadires Nova-Salcedo interviewed Wise Latinas editor, Jennifer De Leon, on Friday, February 28, 2014. During the discussion, De Leon reveals her hopes for how Wise … Continue reading Authors on camera
Billy “the Hill” and the Jump Hook The Autobiography of a Forgotten Basketball Legend By Billy McGill and Eric Brach Reviewed in City Weekly “Now, almost 50 years since fading from the cultural consciousness, McGill recounts his fame-to-rags-to-(spoiler alert)-eventual-middle-class-life in … Continue reading Review roundup
Wheels Stop The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986-2011 By Rick Houston with a foreword by Jerry Ross “On each page you are transported further and further into the book and even though at first the book … Continue reading Reviews and in the news roundup
The Life and Poetry of Ted Kooser By Mary K. Stillwell Reviewed in Ploughshares “It’s an intimate portrait rich with details of how family history and life on the Plains influenced Kooser’s early world vision, and then how Kooser juggled … Continue reading Review roundup
Occasional Desire Essays David Lazar Reviewed on Popmatters.com “In the world of essay writing there is a gap that is rarely filled, between the mass-market dilettante approach of magazines like the New Yorker, the proudly obscure realm of academia, and … Continue reading Review roundup
Advise and Dissent Memoirs of an Ex-Senator by James G. Abourezk with a Foreword by Fred Harris Reviewed in Capital Journalism “The first Arab American ever to serve in the U.S. Senate, Abourezk was strident in his criticism of U.S. … Continue reading Review roundup
Making the American Body by Jonathan Black Reviewed in Publishers Weekly “The antecedents of the American fitness industry are varied and fascinating, and journalist Black (Yes, You Can!: Behind the Hype and Hustle of the Motivation Biz) does a superb … Continue reading Review roundup
Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works by Tillie Olsen Reviewed in The Literarian “I cried for all the culmination of chance events, all the wrong and right turns, the happenstances, the recognition of the importance of what is, the immediate and deliberate decisions, the random bits of conversation, the crossing of paths, the unlikely encounters, the impossibility of the discovery of a forty-year old magazine in a flea market bin, the books that happened to be in a particular library at a precise moment Tillie Olsen happened by, the accumulated consciousness, the ruminations, the overcoming, the struggle … Continue reading Review roundup
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