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NYT review

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This is Not the Ivy League by Mary Clearman Blew is Blew’s behind-the-scenes memoir of pursuing a career at a time when a women’s place in the world was supposed to have limits. Her education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural school, then escaped, via scholarship, to the University of Montana, where, still in her teens, she met and married her first husband. It is her account of what it was to be that girl, and then that woman—pressured by husband and parents to be the conventional wife of the … Continue reading NYT review

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Lifetime achievement award

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UNP author and sports journalist, Ron Thomas, is the recent recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Sports Journalism given by Sport in Society and the Northeastern University School of Journalism. He is receiving this award based on the articles he has written over the last 38 years, as well as his book, They Cleared the Lane (University Nebraska Press, 2002). They Cleared the Lane tells the story of what basketball was really like for the first black NBA players, including recent Hall of Fame inductee Earl Lloyd, and early superstars such as Maurice Stokes and Bill Russell. … Continue reading Lifetime achievement award

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The PEN Center USA literary awards

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UNP is proud to announce that Quotidiana by Patrick Madden was a finalist for the 2011 PEN Center USA Literary Awards in the Creative Nonfiction category. PEN Center USA’s annual awards program recognizes literary excellence in eleven different categories. Quotidiana is a collection of essays in which Madden muses on the origins of human language, the curative properties of laughter, and the joys and woes of fatherhood, among other topics. Madden received widespread praise for his writing style: Madden/Quotidiana: 2011 PEN Center USA Literary Awards, finalist, Creative Nonfiction category. "Words form constellations; they glitter on the pages. . . . … Continue reading The PEN Center USA literary awards

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Scandal after scandal

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College football season is almost back, but the season never seemed to actually end in the first place. Over the past few months, scandal after scandal has began to surface. From coast to coast, teams are taking the field and universities are reacting and recovering to a variety of events involving Ponzi schemes and selling team memorabilia for profit. The NCAA has been busy with investigations. Dj Gallo from ESPN wrote “2011 offseason scandal power rankings” published June 30, if you would like a quick recap of the teams that were in the news. More recently University of Miami has … Continue reading Scandal after scandal

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Off the Shelf: Brassies, Mashies, and Bootleg Scotch by Bill Kilpatrick

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Kilpatrick Read the beginning of "The Founding Father, Part I" from Brassies, Mashies, and Bootleg Scotch: Growing Up on America's First Heroic Golf Course by Bill Kilpatrick:

"I called him dad, Daddy when I was younger, and more often than not as the years went by I called him Pop. He called me Willie. I referred to him as my father, my dad, and the Old Man. His name was William, known as Bill, and he remains indelible in my consciousness.

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Off the Shelf: Black Elephants by Karol Nielsen

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Nielsen Read the beginning of chapter 1, "The New Zealand Sheep Farmer and the Recruit" from Black Elephants: A Memoir by Karol Nielsen:

"The minivan bumped along hills that hugged Lake Titicaca. Haze made the water look silver. I sat behind Dirk, a German traveler with a ponytail. It hung to the middle of his back, streaked bronze from the South American sun. He wore dusty jeans and a tank top that skimmed his torso. Dirk was one of those hard-core travelers, the kind I’d met along the way, who took regular trips through Latin America, Africa, and the Far East. They seemed so worldly, and despite the army tanks, tear gas, and guns I’d seen during my year as a writer for an English-language newspaper in Argentina, I still felt sheltered. I was only beginning to understand the underbelly of the world, something the serious travelers seemed to have understood from birth.

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Wendy Call Interviewed on PRI’s The World

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Wendy Call, author of No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy, recently discussed her new book with Lisa Mullins on PRI's The World radio program. Listen to Wendy explain what drew her to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, an area of the country that Mexicans call "little waist". Listen to an additional interview with Wendy as she talks about her visits to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the effect of economic globalization on the area: http://uprisingradio.org/home/?p=21550 Continue reading Wendy Call Interviewed on PRI’s The World

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SABR Drawing Winner

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Congratulations to Richard Hausman of Alameda, California, the winner of our Register to Win drawing from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) conference. Richard won the book Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats: How Baseball Outlasted the Great Depression by David George Surdam. In Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats, Surdam looks at how organized baseball managed to survive the Great Depression. In a time where extra spending money for tickets was scarce, Major League Baseball pursued other sources of money. By replacing coaches with player-managers and developing the Minor League farm system, night baseball, and radio broadcasts, the teams’ income … Continue reading SABR Drawing Winner

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Off the Shelf: Wright Morris Territory edited by David Madden with Alicia Christensen

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Morris Read the beginning of "A Man of Caliber" from Wright Morris Territory: A Treasury of Work edited by David Madden with Alicia Christensen:

This story, originally published in the Kenyon Review in 1949, is an early version of the novel The Works of Love.

"On summer nights, the window open, he could lie there and hear the hum of the wires, or the click when the semaphore changed from red to green. Then he would roll on his side, put up his head, and watch the Flyer go through. The streaming coaches made a band of yellow light on the plains. It would be a little while before the night was quiet again.

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Off the Shelf: Searching for Tamsen Donner by Gabrielle Burton

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Burton Read the beginning of Chapter 2 from Searching for Tamsen Donner by Gabrielle Burton:

"The year before I bought the motorcycle, summer 1972, I went to Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference in Middlebury, Vermont, nervously bearing a thin sheaf of poems. At age 33, I was away from home alone for the first time since I had married ten years before. My children were 9, 7, 5, 2, and 10 months. I weaned the baby from breastfeeding in order to go.

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