Check off some books on your summer reading list and save! Choose a title from the outdoor adventures category like Yellowstone, Land of Wonders by Jules Leclercq. If you can’t go to Yellowstone this summer experience the park the way this Belgian travel writer did in 1883 when he spent ten days on horseback in Yellowstone, the world’s first national park. Or pick one of the memoirs to inspire inward reflection. The Days Are Gods by Liz Stephens takes you on her journey as she relocates from L.A. to Utah and shares her expertise on being an outsider. See full list here. Offer … Continue reading Summer reading specials

Shall we? Book Expo America (BEA) is going on right now in New York. To learn more about it or find out what's hot and happening, check out Wikipedia, the official Facebook page, the Huffington Post, or Twitter (#bea13 or @UnivNebPress). Speaking of BEA, the winner of the Publishing Hackathon is scheduled to be announced today (May 31). I'm particularly intrigued by BookCity. In fact, I had a conversation with Richard Nash (Am I the only one who considers this name-dropping? I totally feel like I'm name-dropping.) at TOCCON a couple of years ago where we talked about how cool it would … Continue reading Bookish Links and Delightful Miscellany

Author Larry Ruttman describes his impressions about his book signing at the 92Y . I must be the luckiest man alive! Imagine having the most exciting night of your life at age eighty-two. Not that my fifty-year career as a … Continue reading From the desk of Larry Ruttman

Let's hit it: 8-year-old's invention for keeping books dry in the bath Travel back in time with the WIRED Media Kit from 1992 Britain's most remote bookshop is for sale History of Typography Which Shakespeare Character are You? This is a Bookshop The Jacket Racket: Vintage Book Cover Design Continue reading Bookish Links and Delightful Miscellany

Across the city of Lincoln, nonprofit organizations—including Friends of the University of Nebraska Press—are spreading the word about the upcoming Give to Lincoln Day on May 16. The Lincoln Community Foundation sponsors this 24-hour online fundraising event and offers $200,000 for a matching funds challenge. The UNP Friends are excited to be a part of this community effort and hope to jumpstart fundraising for a large e-book conversion project. There is good reason for excitement and hope because in 2012, the first time the event was held, $1.3 million was raised from 5,448 donors for Lincoln nonprofits in just 24 … Continue reading Give to Lincoln Day is May 16

Miniature Books Redefining a Little Library is a recent article in the NYT about a miniature book collector. I love miniatures and, obviously, I love books so I find this irresistible. Wouldn’t you love to browse through his dollhouse library? Speaking of miniatures, did you know that UNL is home to The Kruger Collection of Miniature Furnishings and Decorative Arts? I wonder where they get the little stands that hold the dimes.  #fridayreads My #fridayreads this week is Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. I’ve loved her books ever since my boss at the bookstore put Behind the Scenes at the … Continue reading Bookish Links and Delightful Miscellany

Thank a Writer This is a great project. Maggie Mason of Mighty Girl started a site called Go Mighty so that people could post and share their lists of life goals. Goals cover just about anything you can think of—from redecorating a room to learning the trapeze to writing a thank you note to your favorite author(s). . . . Closing the book, I felt overcome. I set it on my chest and felt the weight of it while I breathed. I chase that feeling when I read. The one that makes me want to find the author, pour them … Continue reading Bookish Links and Delightful Miscellany

The opening of the Jackie Robinson biopic 42 this week shines renewed light on the campaign to desegregate baseball, one of the most important civil rights stories of the 1930s and 1940s. UNP author Chris Lamb brilliantly encapsulates the larger … Continue reading Jackie Robinson: More Than the Movie

In an article published this month in Current Biology, Mary Bomberger Brown and Charles R. Brown found that their 30-year study of cliff swallows in southwestern Nebraska revealed a significant relationship between human activity and the evolution of the birds’ bodies. Cliff swallows living and building nests near highway overpasses and bridges have a better chance of avoiding cars and trucks than in the past because of a shorter wingspan that now helps them dodge those approaching vehicles. Read more at Today@UNL. Charles R. Brown is the author of Swallow Summer in which he writes about his treks to the Cedar … Continue reading New study suggests cliff swallows evolved to dodge traffic