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UNP ForeWord Book of the Year Award Winners

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The ForeWord Book of the Year Awards have been announced, and two of our books were winners. Stolen Horses by Dan O’Brien won silver in the Fiction-General category, and Quotidiana by Patrick Madden took bronze in the Essays category. Stolen Horses describes the conflict between long-time residents and affluent newcomers in the ranch town of McDermot, Nebraska. McDermot is an ideal place for those who want to escape from their hectic city lives, but the town means something very different to these people than it does to its original inhabitants. This disagreement between new and old interests escalates, leading to … Continue reading UNP ForeWord Book of the Year Award Winners

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Off the Shelf: Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats by David George Surdam

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Surdam Read the beginning of the Prologue, "Clash of Titans" from Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats: How Baseball Outlasted the Great Depression by David George Surdam:

"Two of baseball’s most famous teams arrived at Yankee Stadium on September 9, 1928 for a four-game series that began with a doubleheader. The Philadelphia Athletics, managed by Connie Mack, held a one-half game lead over the New York Yankees.

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Off the Shelf: Or Perish in the Attempt by David J. Peck

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Peck Read the beginning of Chapter 1, "Politics and Passion: The Exploration of the American Wilderness" from Or Perish in the Attempt: The Hardship and Medicine of the Lewis and Clark Expedition by David J. Peck:

"A love for the wilderness and outdoor adventure are born into the heart and mind of nearly every American, or, at the least, learned early in life. It is nurtured and grows in some more than in others, but it is difficult to grow up in the United States without a strong love of the vast open expanses with which we North Americans are blessed. Coupled with our love of the wilderness comes a fascination with the people who blazed the trails into the wild. That sense of awe and admiration for these pathfinders is cultivated and personified by American icons of the wilderness, men such as Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Joe Walker, John Muir, Richard Byrd, and the most famous of all, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.

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Author Aaron Pribble on Book-TV June 19th

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Night owls, get excited for some quality late-night television! Everyone else, get your DVR’s ready. On Sunday, June 19th at 12 AM, Book-TV, a show on C-Span 2, will air a segment with Aaron Pribble. Pribble is the author of Pitching in the Promised Land: A Story of the First and Only Season in the Israel Baseball League. He will be talking about the book, which documents his coming of age spiritually and athletically in one short season in the throes of romance, Middle Eastern politics, and the dreams of America’s pastime far from home. Make sure to tune in! … Continue reading Author Aaron Pribble on Book-TV June 19th

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Author Larry Baldassaro on All About Books

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Larry Baldassaro, author of Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball, was featured yesterday on the NET Radio Show All About Books. To listen to the interview, click here. In Beyond DiMaggio, Baldassaro tells the stories of Italian Americans’ contributions to baseball. The book also serves as a social history of baseball, tracing the evolution of American perceptions toward those of Italian descent as it chronicles the baseball exploits that influenced those perceptions. Continue reading Author Larry Baldassaro on All About Books

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UNP Books Recommended in the Omaha World-Herald

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On June 12th, the Omaha World-Herald published a list of ten recommended books with Nebraska ties. These four University of Nebraska Press titles were featured in the article: “A Sandhills Ballad” by Ladette Randolph (University of Nebraska Press, $18.95) In this novel, the many faces of western Nebraska are a stark background to the heartbreaking story of Mary, who after losing her husband and one leg in a car accident, ends up in an unhappy marriage with a somber and repressive minister. She gets stronger and more independent, and ultimately must make a difficult decision for herself and her children. … Continue reading UNP Books Recommended in the Omaha World-Herald

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Mimi Schwartz Essay

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Mimi Schwartz is an author of two books with the University of Nebraska Press. Good Neighbors, Bad Times is the story of Schwartz’s twelve-year, three-continent quest to uncover her Jewish past. In Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed, Schwartz writes with a keen and amused eye about growing up in an immigrant Jewish family, coming of age in New York in the 1950s, marrying her high school beau, and arriving at feminist consciousness in the 1970s. Tikkun, a magazine that promotes peace, healing, and transformation throughout the world, recently published an essay by Schwartz. The piece is a compilation of Schwartz’s … Continue reading Mimi Schwartz Essay

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Father’s Day Sale

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The University of Nebraska Press wants to honor and thank fathers for all that they do. Now through June 17th, receive a 25 percent discount on books selected just for Dad. If the father in your life is into history, check out World War I by Jennifer D. Keene. In this book, Keene uses letters, diaries, and the personal memories of those involved to uncover what daily life was like for the men and women who served in the Great War. For sports fans, Pitching in the Promised Land would make an excellent gift. Author Aaron Pribble played in the … Continue reading Father’s Day Sale

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Off the Shelf: Ten Years on the Rock Pile by Lee Vincent

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Vincent Read the beginning of "A Slife of Life on the Mountain" from Ten Years on the Rock Pile: A Collection of Stories, Some Hilarious, Some Tragic, about Life at the Summit of Mount Washington by Lee Vincent, Foreword by Guy Gosselin:

"For a long time nothing has been written about Mount Washington and the immediate area, and to me this has been sort of a tragedy in that there has been so much taking place on the mountain in the past ten years and nothing has really been said. It is with this idea in mind that I have written these short stories pertaining to the mountain, trying to include the humor, tragedy, and everyday lifestyle of those men that inhabit the summit of Mount Washington year-round.

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Off the Shelf: Let There Be Pebble by Zachary Michael Jack

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Jack Read the beginning of Chapter 1 from Let There Be Pebble: A Middle-Handicapper's Year in America's Garden of Golf by Zachary Michael Jack:

"When I announced to my coworkers I would be taking a “professional leave” from teaching to spend a U.S. Open year on the storied fairways of Pebble Beach, they looked at me as if I’d taken leave of something else: my senses. They’re intellectuals, teachers all, and not one of them an avid golfer.

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