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New Mexico book sale

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Last Friday, the state of New Mexico celebrated its 100th birthday! To continue the celebration, UNP is offering books about New Mexico at discounted prices! Save 25 percent on titles, including the following: Nobody's Horses: The Dramatic Rescue of the Wild Herd of White Sands by Don Höglund tells the dramatic story of wild horses struggling to live on the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.  A large-animal veterinarian, Höglund was called in to organize and lead a team of dedicated cowboys, soldiers, and other professionals in removing the surviving horses and their offspring to safety after years of … Continue reading New Mexico book sale

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Bohemian Girl listed as a favorite

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Last week on Salon.com, writers gave their opinions on their favorite books of 2011. Among those chosen was Bohemian Girl by Terese Svoboda. Lydia Millet, author of Ghost Lights, chose Bohemian Girl as her favorite and said, “Terese Svoboda writes some of the loveliest prose in America but has been startlingly overlooked by literary critics and readers.” Millet also called Bohemian Girl her favorite Svoboda book so far saying, “…its language is both modern and passably archaic — translucent, elevated but not pretentious, and often sly.” Read the rest of the authors’ favorites here. Continue reading Bohemian Girl listed as a favorite

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NPR review

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This past weekend, NPR's Only a Game chatted with author John Schulian about his book Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand: Portraits of Champions Who Walked Among Us. In Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand, Schulian, a much-honored sportswriter for nearly forty years, takes us back to a time when our greatest athletes stood before us as human beings, not remote gods. In this compelling collection, Schulian paints prose portraits to remind fans of what today’s cloistered stars won’t share with them. The review says that”…Schulian deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as some of his heroes…”  Click … Continue reading NPR review

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UNP author shares inspiration

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Today on the Story Prize blog, Greg Hrbek discusses his inspiration for his short story collection, Destroy All Monsters, which is a nominee for this year's prize. Hrbek explained how he “never thought he would write ‘fantastic stuff.’ I read The Canon in college and pretty much nothing else. The book that changed how I wanted to write was a novel by Scott Bradfield called The History of Luminous Motion.” To read the full interview, click here. Continue reading UNP author shares inspiration

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Holiday sale

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Save 25 percent when you order online from UNP! Click here for some gift books, including the following: In Search of Powder: A Story of America's Disappearing Ski Bum, by Jeremy Evans, is Evans' account of how he became immersed in ski bum culture—a carefree lifestyle whose mantra was simply: “Ski as much as possible.” At age twenty-six, Evans suffered a stroke, which caused him to reexamine his priorities, quit his job, move back to Tahoe, and throw himself into snowboarding.     Idaho Wine Country, by Alan Minskoff with photography by Paul Hosefros, is the first full-length exploration of … Continue reading Holiday sale

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Off the Shelf: Homesteading Space by David Hitt, Owen Garriott, and Joe Kerwin

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HittNew in a paperback edition, read from Homer Hickam's foreword of Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story by David Hitt, Owen Garriott, and Joe Kerwin:

"The book that follows is a riveting, insightful account of the Skylab missions flown by the United States in 1973 and 1974. It is also simply a great yarn. Skylab began as an underdog, was nearly knocked out several times, staggered back to its feet, and fought on against overwhelming odds until it became a champion. In a lot of ways, it was the Rocky of space, and just like the story in that great film, it is an inspiration for all who know it. The difference is the remarkable saga of Skylab is all true.

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Veterans’ Day

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Today we honor those American veterans who have served our country, putting their lives on the line for our freedom. According to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, an act approved on May 13, 1938 made November in each year a legal holiday – day a to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be known as “Armistice Day.” It was mainly set aside veterans of World War I, but after World War II had required the greatest mobilization of soldiers, sailors, Marines and air men in the nation's history, the 83rd Congress amended the act by … Continue reading Veterans’ Day

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Leonard Bloomfield Book Award

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A Grammar of Creek (Muskogee) by Jack B. Martin, has been selected to receive the Linguistic Society of America’s prestigious Leonard Bloomfield Book Award! The Bloomfield Award was established to recognize the volume which makes the most outstanding contribution to the development of our understanding of language and linguistics. Creek (or Muskogee) is a Muskogean language spoken by several thousand members of the Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole nations of Oklahoma and by several hundred members of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. This volume is the first modern grammar of Creek, compiled by a leading authority on the languages of the … Continue reading Leonard Bloomfield Book Award

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UNP books in the media

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This past week, two UNP books were reviewed by Necessary Fiction and the Omaha World-Herald. In Necessary Fiction, Steve Himmer reviewed Bohemian Girl by Terese Svoboda. He said that “…self-invention and renewal it offered is at the heart of Bohemian Girl.” Click here to read the full review.     And in the Omaha World-Herald, David Hendee called Atlas of the Great Plains by Stephen J. Lavin, Fred M. Shelley, and J. Clark Archer  a tool that could “…help save your life.” The Atlas of the Great Plains has more than three hundred original full-color maps, accompanied by extended explanatory … Continue reading UNP books in the media

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Off the Shelf: The Wink of the Zenith by Floyd Skloot

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SklootRead the beginning of "Going, Going, Gone" from The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life by Floyd Skloot:

"I was standing in the bedroom of our Brooklyn apartment with my ear pressed to the radio. It was dark outside, a spring evening in the mid-1950s, and through the open window I could hear people talking in the courtyard four stories below. I was eight or nine years old, and my brother Philip, a teenager, was sitting at his desk bent over homework. That explains why the radio’s volume was turned so low. Philip couldn’t hear it over the courtyard chatter or else he’d have told me to turn it down.

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