Good Tuesday morning! I have four University of Nebraska Press-centric links for you today: Robert Camuto, author of Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine Country, met with Huffington Post blogger Louise McCready during his book tour last month. To read about Robert’s history with wine, the concept of wine as food and the way the terrain and climate in France affects its wines, read Louise’s blog post about Robert. Speaking of blogs, Alan Zaremba, author of The Madness of March: Bonding and Betting with the Boys in Las Vegas, spent this weekend at the CAA men’s basketball tournament, and he blogged up a … Continue reading Wine, March Madness and a smidge of soccer

March is the first month our spring season, and the University of Nebraska Press has more than a dozen new books out this month. You can visit the new titles page at the UNP web site for a full list of our March titles. Among our new releases is In the United States of Africa by Abdourahman A. Waberi. This is a story in which Africa is a rich and powerful nation, and the Unites States, Canada and the Europe are third-world slums. It’s also the story of a young white girl, who was adopted as a baby by an … Continue reading New March books available now, plus a nice Waberi review and some e-reader news

It’s finally beginning to feel that spring is just around the corner. And it is, as two major spring events occur this weekend: The beginning of Daylight Savings Time and the NCAA men’s basketball conference tournaments. What does a basketball tournament have to do the the University of Nebraska Press? More than you might think. Alan Zaremba, author of The Madness of March: Bonding and Betting with the Boys in Las Vegas, will be at the CAA tourney, and will post about the games, the fan and more on his blog. He’ll be in Richmond, Va., from March 7-9, so … Continue reading Spring means basketball tournament time

New from the University of Nebraska Press: Yellowstone Autumn: A Season of Discovery in a Wondrous Land by W.D. Wetherell. Wetherell describes Yellowstone as “America’s least-known best-known place.” The author, arriving at the park on the eve of his fifty-fifth birthday, feels the need to examine where life’s mileage has brought him. In the encounter that follows, a writer entering late middle age confronts not only a magnificent corner of the vast American landscape but also the American experience itself. Detailed in the wise, humorous, and lyrical language that has long distinguished W. D. Wetherell’s award-winning fiction, this introspective journey … Continue reading Linking in Lincoln: February 26, 2009

Good Monday morning! How did you spend your weekend? I spent mine wishing it was warmer (what happened to the 50-degree Saturdays of earlier this month?) and, once I resigned myself to the temperature, I decided to stay inside and read most of Little Pancho: The Life of Tennis Legend Pancho Segura, by Caroline Seebohm. Prior to picking up the book, I had never heard of Segura, a poor kid from Ecuador who through a mixture of luck, charm and hard work became a tennis star who toured the world. Later, he was the tennis pro at an exclusive club … Continue reading Little Pancho and a NYT link

As I wrote on Monday, University of Nebraska Press author Robert Camuto is visiting from France, stopping in cities on both coasts to read from his book Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine Country (he also brought with him some of the wines described in the book, and those who attend his talks will get a taste). Robert is blogging from the road, and you can read what he has to say (and view pictures) at his web site. While we’re on the topic of UNP author blogs, Kurt Caswell, whose book An Inside Passage comes out in May, … Continue reading Our blog, our authors’ blogs, and a New York Times blog