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Off the Shelf: Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball by Lawrence Baldassaro

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Baldassaro Read the beginning of Chapter 1, "Ed Abbaticchio: Forgotten Pioneer" from Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball by Lawrence Baldassaro, Foreword by Dom DiMaggio:

"In one of the first stories on Joe DiMaggio to appear in a national publication, Quentin Reynolds, associate editor of Collier’s magazine, recounted the following exchange among baseball writers covering spring training in 1936: “‘He says you pronounce it Dee-Mah-gee-o,’ one of the sports writers said gloomily. ‘That’s a very tough name to pronounce and also tough to spell,’ another added. ‘DiMaggio sounds like something you put on a steak,’ one writer said in disgust.”1

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Off the Shelf: Christine by Laura Curtis Bullard

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Bullard Read the beginning of the Introduction from Christine: Or Woman's Trials and Triumphs by Laura Curtis Bullard, edited and with an introduction by Denise M. Kohn:

"When Laura Curtis Bullard wrote Christine: Or Woman’s Trials and Triumphs she created one of antebellum America’s most radical heroines: a woman’s rights leader. Through the creation of her unconventional title character, Curtis Bullard gave voice to her own support for female suffrage, careers, and economic independence, which was termed the “woman’s rights” movement in the mid-nineteenth century and was considered scandalous, even sinful, by many Americans.1 Curtis Bullard was twenty-five when Christine, her second novel, was published in 1856, and she was the editor of a newspaper for women, the Ladies’ Visitor. She continued her career after she was married and became a mother, and in 1870 she succeeded Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as editor of the suffrage newspaper the Revolution, publishing essays about the social problems caused by women’s inequality that she had earlier dramatized in Christine.

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UNP author in the New York Times

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 The Wide Open reveals how some of the most interesting and accomplished writers and photographers in the country have met that challenge and given the genius of the prairie a vision and a voice. It contains poetry, prose and photographs of the prairie. ForeWord Magazine called it "A superb evocation of the prairie and its life." One of the contributing authors, Annick Smith, was featured in an article in the New York Times on Sunday, December 12. Smith and other writers are coming together with their love for the wild western prairies of Montana to try to stop Imperial Oil … Continue reading UNP author in the New York Times

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Off the Shelf: Local Wonders by Ted Kooser

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Kooser Read an excerpt from the 2011 One Book One Nebraska selection, Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps by Ted Kooser:

"In the weeks just before Christmas, my father’s store was busiest, its narrow aisles crowded with shoppers, its carefully arranged displays rumpled and disarrayed, and its floors slippery with melting snow. On Saturdays and when school let out in the afternoons, my sister and I helped out. She worked on the sales floor, and I made bows for the women in the gift-wrap booth.

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Local bookstore in Shelf Awareness

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Yesterday, Indigo Bridge Books, one of Lincoln’s own local sellers, was featured on Shelf Awareness. Indigo Bridge Books opened in 2008, and won immediate popularity with its  children’s bilingual story time. Today, it has added more events — kid and adult friendly alike. Indigo has events like indiZoo where an animal is brought in for kids to see, and from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. it offers a “priceless menu,” which usually includes baguettes and soups at a community table that spark conversation between the people who are there. It's also a good place to find University of Nebraska Press … Continue reading Local bookstore in Shelf Awareness

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1921 on air online

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1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York by Lyle Spatz and Steve Steinberg tells the story of the New York baseball at the dawn of the roaring twenties and the first all–New York Series that resulted in the first American League pennant for the now-storied Yankees’ franchise.  Last Sunday, Steve Steinberg talked about 1921 on the blog talk radio show New York Baseball Digest, hosted by Mike Silva. Listen to their discussion at the blog site. Steinberg doesn't come on until about six minutes into the recording. Continue reading 1921 on air online

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World’s most expensive book

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John James Audubon (1785–1851) is one of America’s premier wildlife artists. His monumental Birds of America, a collection of 435 life-sized prints, was published from 1826 to 1838 and is often considered the greatest picture book ever produced. The book huge — three feet long and two feet wide — because Audubon wanted to paint the birds as life sized.   One of the best preserved editions of the 19th century masterpiece was just sold for 7.3m GB in London this month, which makes it the most expensive book ever sold. If the book was sold in the United States, … Continue reading World’s most expensive book

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Off the Shelf: Footprints in the Dust edited by Colin Burgess

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Burgess Read the beginning of Chapter 1, "The Whole World Was Watching" from another featured gift book, Footprints in the Dust: The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969-1975 edited by Colin Burgess, foreword by Richard F. Gordon:

"The world watched and listened, breathless and mesmerized.

“Houston, this is Neil. Radio check.”

Could this really be happening? It all just seemed so . . . what’s the word for it? Unreal. That’s it. Unreal. This stuff happened in comic books, not in real life.

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Cervantes Prize winner

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Ana Maria Matute earned this year's Cervantes Prize, which is given annually to a Spanish or Latin American writer for lifetime achievement. Founded in 1976 by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, the Cervantes Prize is the highest award given for contributions to Spanish literature. Matute is the third woman to receive this prestigious honor.  In 1997, we published an English translation of her book, Celebration in the Northwest (Spanish title: Fiesta al Noroeste), as part of our European Women Writers series. Previous winners include the 2010 Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Mario Vargas Llosa, who was also a contributor to … Continue reading Cervantes Prize winner