The 40th Anniversary of Title IX and the XXX Olympics in London this summer prompted writers to take a look at the history, culture and role of women and sports in the Spring edition of On The Issues Magazine. Authors Rachel Toor and Tim Grainey were among them. Read Toor's "Nine Titles Thinking About Title IX" here and Grainey's "The Rise and Fall and Possible Rise of Women's Pro Soccer" here. Continue reading UNP authors on the Web
Poet Ted Kooser's new book, House Held Up By Trees (Candlewick, 2012), was reviewed in Read the Spirit. Kooser has published many books with UNP, among them Lights on the Ground of Darkness, which is also mentioned in the review. Continue reading Kooser’s new picture book
Author Julija Šukys was on The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright discussing her new book, Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė. Listen to the full interview here. Continue reading Šukys on CBC radio
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, author Ellen Cassedy found hope for the future discussing her Lithuanian connection to the past. Check out her articles in the Huffington Post and The Baltimore Sun. Continue reading Cassedy speaks out
Red Sox fans have officially been singing “Take me out to the ball game” for a century. Fenway Park’s 100th anniversary is today and what better way to celebrate than to play the New York Yankees. Check out MSNBC and NBC Sports for photos and reactions. And take advantage of UNP’s Boston Baseball sale. You can save 25 percent on Ted Williams: A Baseball Life by Michael Seidel and Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball by Mark Armour. Continue reading Boston baseball
UNP is offering 25 percent off select books in honor of Shavuot. At the discount price, you can get books like The JPS Bible Commentary: Ruth. The authors provide a critical, line-by-line commentary of the biblical text, presented in its original Hebrew, complete with vocalization and cantillation marks, as well as the 1985 JPS English translation. The extensive introduction places the book within its historical, literary, and critical context, discusses contemporary interpretations of the story of Ruth and is included in theJPS Bible Commentary Series. Click here for more sale titles. Offer ends May 25, 2012. Continue reading In honor of Shavuot
Chris Lamb, author of Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball published articles over this past week on what inspired Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson Day. See his full articles in the New York Times and USA Today. Continue reading UNP author in the media
Author Ellen Cassedy's article “What Lithuania can teach us about dealing with the Holocaust” for Haaretz Daily Newspaper in Israel, discusses how Lithuania can provide a dialogue for helping people understand the Holocaust. “The approach to the Jewish past thatI saw in Lithuania poses questions, rather than supplying answers,” Cassedy said. “Rather than being forced to repent, people are invited to design their own vehicles of remorse.” See full article here. Cassedy’s new book, We Are Here, is a memoir of her personal journey discovering her Yiddish background and an exploration of the people of Lithuania. In October, Cassedy will … Continue reading Lithuanian past and present
This week in Bloomberg Business Week, Colleen Barry shows how ex-mafia land is producing prize-winning wine. Wine from the Centopassi vineyard which is on display at the Vinitaly wine fair through tomorrow in Verona are “the result of a (EURO) 1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) European Union-Italian project to integrate ex-Mafiosi property in the southern regions of Sicily, Calabria, Puglia and Campagna back into the legal economy.” In Robert Camuto’s book, Palemento, he chronicles his journey through Sicily where he explores the emerging wine scene while also discovering the anti-Mafia movement growing in the former mob vineyards around infamous Corleone. Read … Continue reading Ex-mafia land and Italian wine
This week on the Jewish Book Council, Rabbi Barry Schwartz began discussing his new book, Judaism’s Great Debates. His book, which will be published in July, is an engaging and well-researched argument that debate and disputation are not only encouraged within Judaism but reside at the very heart of Jewish history and theology. Schwartz's post is titled, “We Need More Jewish Debate, Not Less,” and is the first of three blog posts he's writingfor the Jewish Book Council this week. Continue reading Judaism’s Great Debates
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