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
A recent translation of Herta Müller's Hunger Strike has been reviewed in the New York Times. See it here. Müller is the 2009 Nobel Prize in Laureate and also the author Nadirs (University of Nebraska Press, 1999), which is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on her childhood in the Romanian countryside. Continue reading Müller in NYT
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
Banzai Babe Ruth is the story of baseball all-stars staying for a month in Japan, playing 18 games, spawning professional baseball, and spreading goodwill. Robert Whiting said in the Wall StreetJournal that Banzai Babe Ruth by Robert K. Fitts “deserves a spot in any baseball (or Japan) lover’s library.” On Shelf-Awareness, Fitts is hailed as “…excellent at capturing occasional bouts of dissension among the American players, describing the respectable quality of play by their Japanese opponents, and especially at capturing the ominous atmosphere that surrounded the tour. Fans will love the stats and player photos, too!” Continue reading Banzai Babe Ruth rave reviews
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
Congratulations to Anne F. Hyde for becoming a Pulitzer finalist! Her book, Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860, was named a finalist in the History category. Earlier this year, she was awarded the 2012 Bancroft Prize, one of the most coveted awards in the field of history. Empires, Nations, and Families shows how the world of river and maritime trade effectively shifted political power away from military and diplomatic circles into the hands of local people. Congrats again, Anne! Continue reading Hyde becomes Pulitzer finalist
Congratulations to Ken Armstrong for winning a Pulitzer in investigative reporting! Armstrong and Michael J. Berens of The Seattle Times won for their coverage of how a little known governmental body in Washington moved patients from safer pain-killers to a cheaper but more dangerous drug. Armstrong is one of the authors of Scoreboard, Baby, where he goes behind the scenes of the Huskies’ Cinderella story to reveal a timeless morality tale. Libby Sander of the Chronicle of Higher Education called Scoreboard, Baby a tale that "should be required reading for anyone linked to university life." Continue reading Armstrong wins Pulitzer
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