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Shelf Awareness review

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The Least Cricket of Evening by Robert Vivian is written about Midwestern towns and Europeans cities, and tries to find the spiritual significance of circumstances and places and those who inhabit them. Vivian’s collection was reviewed yesterday in Shelf Awareness, in the From My Shelf section.  Bruce Jacobs said “With a poet's eye and ear, Vivian elevates the everyday to the universal in a contemplative voice.” Click here to read the full review. Continue reading Shelf Awareness review

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A tastey book sale

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Take advantage of this cold rainy weather to stay inside and do some extra reading! Especially reading that may inspire your taste buds to help cope with the chilled temperatures. Right now you can save 25 percent of wine and food books, like Corkscrewed and Masters of American Cookery. Corkscrewed by Robert V. Camuto recounts his journey through France’s myriad regions—and how the journey profoundly changed everything he believed about wine.       Masters of American Cookery: M. F. K. Fisher, James Beard, Craig Claiborne, Julia Child by Betty Fussell demonstrates vividly how each of these chefs has made … Continue reading A tastey book sale

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Guest blog: Jeremy Strong

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Educated Tastes is a collection of new essays, edited by Jeremy Strong, that examine how taste is learned, developed, and represented. From the highs (and lows) of connoisseurship to the frustrations and rewards of a mother encouraging her child to eat, the essays in this volume explore the complex and infinitely varied ways in which food matters to all of us. Strong has given UNP an insight as to how this book began and where the idea came from. Below is an explanation from the author himself: The background to Educated Tastes starts with an article I published in Gastronomica … Continue reading Guest blog: Jeremy Strong

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Off the Shelf: The Least Cricket of Evening by Robert Vivian

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VivianLeastRead the beginning of "Ghost Hallway" from The Least Cricket of Evening by Robert Vivian:

"I live in a ghost hallway. They come and go whenever they want, like the transparent, blow-away wings of bees. Their spirits hover inside this house on Mechanic Street like a twilight hue filling a wine glass. I live more or less inside their moods, which they carry behind them in traces of light that flood the panes one window at a time and in the creaky flutes of rusty hinges. The ghosts don’t say “boo” and they don’t swing chains. They’re good ghosts as far as I can tell, calm as a cup of tea, considerate and watchful and able to pay attention to the least thing for hours.

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Friday round up

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Tonight at Indigo Bridge Books, in the Haymarket, from 6-7 p.m. author Wendy Call will give a presentation on her book No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy. Her slideshow presentation will include both English and Spanish portions. To find more information on this event, click here.   In other exciting author news, Shane Book was selected as a “New American Poet” by the Society of America. Book is the author of Ceiling of Sticks which was published in 2010 and was the Prairie Schooner Book Prize winner in Poetry. Click here for the full list … Continue reading Friday round up

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Adoption discussion

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Tomorrow at 3 p.m. ET, journalist and author Jacob Wheeler will be on the program Adoption Discussions to talk about the recent court ruling made in the adoption of Karen Abigail Monahan Vanhorn, who was adopted from Guatemala when she was two years old by an American couple. Later discoveries show that she was kidnapped from her family and now, at six years old, she has to return to her Guatemalan family. Wheeler’s book, Between Light and Shadow, puts a human face on the Guatemalan adoption industry, which has exploited, embraced, and sincerely sought to improve the lives of the … Continue reading Adoption discussion

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Off the Shelf: Private Property by Paule Constant

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ConstantRead the beginning of Chapter 1 from Private Property by Paule Constant, translated by Margot Miller and France Grenaudier-Klijn:
 
"The senior girl was helping Tiffany adjust her celluloid collar. A quick glance at the cuffs, the pleats of the skirt. It seemed alright. They had to hurry now, to catch up with the others. They were running. The refectory was that way, and over here, the bathrooms. Now they were tearing down the stairs. The infirmary, the laundry, the chapel, the parlor. At the back the classrooms, and at the far end, the gymnasium. Back that way, the kitchens. Here the playground.

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Local Wonders

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Tune into NET Radio's Friday Live tomorrow morning for music from the new musical, Local Wonders. The show was adapted by Theatre Professor Virginia Smith, who will be on tomorrow's program, along with musicians Paul Amandes and the Turtle Island String Quartet. You can catch the show on at 91.1 FM at 9 a.m. tomorrow, or visit netnebraska.org, for streaming, webcast and podcasts of previous shows. For a description of the whole show click here.   Another local artist is being featured in Nebraska this month. Terese Svoboda was interviewed by blog Les Femmes Folles about her work as a Nebraska … Continue reading Local Wonders

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Women winners

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Congratulations to Susan Kushner Resnick for winning the Best Woman Writer award at the 2011 High Plains Book Awards on Oct. 15. The winners were announced at a banquet held at Montana State University in Billings. Resnick’s book, Goodbye Wifes and Daughters, tells the 1943 story of an explosion in the Smith coal mine in Bearcreek, Montana, which killed all but three of the men in the mine at the time of the blast.  The book unfolds that tragic day and its aftermath through the eyes of the family members — mostly wives and children — of those miners. Lisa … Continue reading Women winners

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Off the Shelf: In Thought and Action: The Enigmatic Life of S. I. Hayakawa

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HaslamRead the Prologue from In Thought and Action: The Enigmatic Life of S. I. Hayakawa by Gerald W. Haslam with Janice E. Haslam:

"It remains one of the most gripping images from the 1960s: bantamweight Dr. S. I. Hayakawa—plaid tam-o’-shanter ensconced on his head—scrambling onto a sound truck parked in front of the San Francisco State College campus, hoping to use it to address the assembled crowd, but ripping out speaker wires instead, and halting an illegal demonstration—or denying First Amendment rights, depending upon your perspective. Either way, he shut down the sound system. Inside the truck that day, student activist Ernie Brill was “stunned, flabbergasted.”

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