Join Tom Shieber, Senior Curator at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and UWM Professor Emeritus Lawrence Baldassaro, author of Beyond DiMaggio and Baseball Italian Style, for a virtual conversation via Zoom hosted by Boswell Book Company about his major … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Larry Baldassaro in conversation with Tom Shieber
Jay Williams is the senior managing editor (ret.) of Critical Inquiry. He is the author of Author Under Sail: The Imagination of Jack London, 1893–1902 (Nebraska, 2014), editor of Signature Derrida and The Oxford Handbook of Jack London, and general editor of the forthcoming thirty-volume complete works … Continue reading From the Desk of Jay Williams: Writing about Jack London
In honor of the 40th anniversary of STS-1, the first launch of the Columbia Space Shuttle, authors from our Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight Series are coming together on April 10, 2021 for an online event, Columbia and … Continue reading Outward Odyssey Authors: Remembering STS-1
Ron Rapoport was a sports columnist and also served as the sports commentator for NPR’s Weekend Edition for two decades. He is the author of Let’s Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub, the Life of Ernie Banks and editor of The Lost Journalism … Continue reading From the Desk of Ron Rapoport: Bobby Jones and the Masters
Greg Larson is an editor, stand-up comedian, and author of the newly released book Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir (Nebraska, 2021). He spent two years as a clubhouse attendant for Cal Ripken Jr.’s Aberdeen IronBirds, the short-season single-A affiliate for … Continue reading From the Desk of Greg Larson: A Cub and His Cubs
Victoria Howard (c. 1865-1930) was the teller of Clackamas Chinook narratives and oral traditions. Howard worked with the linguist Melville Jacobs to record Clackamas Chinook oral traditions resulting in an intricate and lively corpus of linguistic and ethnographic material, as … Continue reading Excerpt: Clackamas Chinook Performance Art
Books The Rinehart Frames Starred review in Publishers Weekly: “In his electrifying debut, Mphanza presents a sustained project of ekphrasis and pastiche inspired by the work of African artists, Iranian film director Abbas Kiaro-stami, and the life and death of … Continue reading News and Reviews
Hilda Raz is a former editor of Prairie Schooner and was named the first Luschei Professor and Editor in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the poetry editor for the University of New Mexico Press, ABQ (in)Print, and … Continue reading Hilda Raz: New Voices Interview
Tim Wendel is the acclaimed author of fourteen books, including Escape from Castro’s Cuba (Nebraska, 2021), Castro’s Curveball (Bison Books, 2006) and Summer of ’68: The Season That Changed Baseball—and America—Forever. He is a founding editor of USA Today Baseball Weekly and a writer in … Continue reading From the Desk of Tim Wendel: Under the Spell of Havana
Congratulations to the following authors who have recently been recognized for their work. In the Lambda Literary Awards, Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun is a finalist for Gay Poetry, and Nepantla Squared by Linda Heidenreich is a finalist for … Continue reading Recent Award Winners & Finalists
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