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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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Authors on air

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One week ago Wendy Call, author of No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy, was a guest on Iowa Public radio. Call and radio host, Ben Kieffer, discussed globalization and free trade, along with her book. Listen to their conversation here. Call will also be on a panel titled “The Art of Nonfiction” for the Texas Book Festival, which will be broadcast on CSPAN’s Book TV on Oct. 23. She will be joined by two other writers, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts and Hugh Raffles. Check back for more details. Terese Svoboda will be a guest on NET Radio's … Continue reading Authors on air

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Why Nebraska

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Terese Svoboda, author of Bohemian Girl, is a Nebraska native who often finds herself writing about her home state. Now a New Yorker, Svoboda will return to Nebraska for a book launch party in Omaha this Saturday evening, October 15. There will be a discussion at 7 p.m. followed by a reception and exhibit from 7:30-8:30 p.m. at KANEKO (11th and Jones). On Oct., 14, catch her on Friday Live on NET Radio (91.1 FM in Lincoln) at 9 a.m. She will also be in town for the Omaha Lit Fest.    Below is a guest posting by Svoboda, in … Continue reading Why Nebraska

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Off the Shelf: All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos) by Catherine C. Robbins

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Robbins Read the beginning of the Introduction, "Flying Together" from All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos) by Catherine C. Robbins:

"In 2006 the twelve bands of the Kumeyaay-Diegueño Nation raised a new national flag—their own—at Cabrillo National Monument on San Diego’s Point Loma. For the first time, their flag took its place alongside the banners of the nations that had invaded and gained control of their land: Portugal, Spain, Mexico, and the United States. Those had flown regularly for years over historic Point Loma during an annual ceremony marking the European American arrival that had begun five centuries before. Now a Native American nation that has called the area home for millennia hoisted its own standard. The Kumeyaay-Diegueño flag flew firmly in a stiff breeze that day, a signal of the love and sacredness that American Indians attach to an occupied and besieged homeland. It also demonstrated the return of Kumeyaays to a place where historians estimate they had first set foot between eleven thousand and thirty thousand years ago. With energy and dedication plus the inspiration of one of their respected elders, Jane Dumas, they had circled back to a place they had never really left.1*

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2011 Nobel Prize in Literature

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Tomas Transtromer, a Swedish poet who has written more than 15 collections of poetry, was named the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature today. His poems have translated into English and 60 other languages. Julie Bosman from the New York Times wrote a profile on Transtromer saying, “Critics have praised Mr. Transtromer’s poems for their accessibility, even in translation; his descriptions of the long Swedish winters, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature.” Read the full story here. The University of Nebraska Press congratulates Transtromer, even though his win breaks our streak — … Continue reading 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature

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Reviews and mentions

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Reviews and other mentions of our new fall books continue to roll in. Following is a sampling of some of the notice UNP books and authors have received recently. Yesterday, Between Panic and Desire by Dinty W. Moore was reviewed in the Coal Hill Review by Sue Kreke Rumbaugh. Between Panic and Desire documents the disorienting experience of growing up in a postmodern world. In Moore’s book, Rumbaugh says, “With subtle wit and outright humor, Dinty W. Moore takes the reader on a journey like no other in his latest memoir.” Click here to read the full review. Earlier this … Continue reading Reviews and mentions

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Sci fi sale

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UNP is offering 25 percent off science fiction and fantasy books through the month of October. You can get a discount on books like The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories and Year 3000. The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories is a collection of stories from Miles J. Breuer, edited by Michael R. Page, which were written in the 1920s and 1930s.       Year 3000, first published in 1897, is a futuristic utopian novel that follows two young lovers who, as they travel from Rome to the … Continue reading Sci fi sale

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Off the Shelf: Finding Oil by Brian Frehner

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Frehner Read the beginning of the Introduction from Finding Oil: The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859-1920 by Brian Frehner:

"Shortly after walking over the dry west Texas plains, Jett Rink knelt on the ground while squeezing handfuls of oil-soaked dirt through his fingers and gazed in amazement at the black crude slowly bubbling to the surface. Later, Rink stood atop a cable tool drilling rig when a loud noise caught his attention. The black crude that had merely bubbled to the surface began to emit an awesome roar as it erupted from the hole Rink punctured in the earth. He stepped back to behold the spectacle he had created, as oil spewed from the earth and rained down on him. He held both hands in the air as if to thank Mother Earth for her beneficence, and jumped up and down to celebrate his good fortune.

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