Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re celebrating the First Book Birthday for The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms by Kim Adrian! About the Book: Within the recent explosion of … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to The Shell Game!
Earth Day is the largest civic-focused day of action in the world, encouraging humans to seriously consider the impact we have on the environment and to act—or change—accordingly. We encourage you to critically engage with emerging issues in social and … Continue reading Our Sustainable Future Beyond Earth Day
The following is an excerpt from Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl: How the 1985 Mets and Yankees Fought for New York’s Baseball Soul by Chris Donnelly (April 2019). From Chapter 2: “Never Played the Game” Three years. That … Continue reading Excerpt: Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl
Mark Spitzer loves fish and he loves to fish. As a nationally known author (Seasons of the Gar, Return of the Gar), writing about fish and their issues is what he does best. In this blog series, Spitzer shares his experiences … Continue reading Where in the West is Mark Spitzer?
Books The Hole Truth Determining the Greatest Players in Golf Using Sabermetrics Bill Felber Review on Golf: “This exercise is fun and well-written. Whether it will convince you which golfer is better at or over a given time period remains … Continue reading News and Reviews
The following is from the introduction of The Masters: A Hole-by-Hole History of America’s Golf Classic, Third Edition by David Sowell (Nebraska, 2019). Six days before Christmas in 1933, it was announced that a new golf tournament would take place … Continue reading Excerpt: The Masters
Adam R. Hodge earned his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in 2013 and is now Associate Professor of History at Lourdes University in Sylvania, Ohio. He is author of Ecology and Ethnogenesis: An Environmental History of the Wind River Shoshones, … Continue reading From the Desk of Adam Hodge: Enriching Experiences at Wind River
The following is an excerpt from When the Crowd Didn’t Roar: How Baseball’s Strangest Game Ever Gave a Broken City Hope (April 2019) by Kevin Cowherd. From the Prologue Adam Jones awakens from a fitful sleep and gazes at the … Continue reading Excerpt: When the Crowd Didn’t Roar
Rick Bailey is a retired English instructor who taught writing for thirty-eight years at Henry Ford Community College in Michigan. He is the author of American English, Italian Chocolate: Small Subjects of Great Importance (Nebraska, 2017) and the newest, The Enjoy Agenda: At Home and … Continue reading From the Desk of Rick Bailey: This American Smile
Books Our American Story: The Search for a Shared National Narrative Joshua A. Claybourn Reviewed by Kirkus: “Edited by attorney Claybourn, this collection addresses the possibility of a shared narrative within a country divided by political polarization… A mixed-bag collection … Continue reading News and Reviews
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