Additional sales start today for Mother's Day and Jewish American Heritage Month! Find a gift for Mother's Day and save 25 percent on Eyes Right by Tracy Crow and This Is Not the Ivy League by Mary Clearman Blew. Act fast, offer ends May 11! Celebrate Jewish American Heritage month! Ellen Cassedy's We Are Here and Norman H. Finkelstein's American Jewish History are 25 percent off. Sale ends May 31. Continue reading Happy May Day!
On the Daily Beast, Andrew Sullivan blogged about Pot Farm by Matthew Gavin Frank. Check out "The Perils of A Pot Farm" here. Continue reading Pot Farm in Daily Beast
The 40th Anniversary of Title IX and the XXX Olympics in London this summer prompted writers to take a look at the history, culture and role of women and sports in the Spring edition of On The Issues Magazine. Authors Rachel Toor and Tim Grainey were among them. Read Toor's "Nine Titles Thinking About Title IX" here and Grainey's "The Rise and Fall and Possible Rise of Women's Pro Soccer" here. Continue reading UNP authors on the Web
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
