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Bliss and Other Short Stories receives glowing reviews

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Ted Gilley’s Bliss and Other Short Stories is a collection of nine stories that introduces readers to an edgy vision and a world in which certainties are tested and found wanting. The stories in Bliss all feature characters going about their business, developing relationships, living their lives, and generally aspiring toward happiness, even when faced with violence, unrequited love, deaths of loved ones, and other tragedies.  Gilley is the recent winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Bliss, which is Gilley’s first book, has received tons of praise. Kevin O’Kelly of the Boston Globe wrote, “Bliss and Other Stories is … Continue reading Bliss and Other Short Stories receives glowing reviews

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Football Books on Sale!

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Football season is well underway and UNP is having a sale on all football books! The Cornhuskers won their first two games and former Husker, Ndamukong Suh, has already sacked a quarterback in the NFL. Go big red! Steve Smith explores the roller coaster experience of being a fan of the Big Red in Forever Red: Confessions of a Cornhusker Football Fan. Smith takes the reader on a journey into an obsessed Nebraska fan’s soul and into the mad, mad world of Cornhusker football fandom. Even if you aren’t a Husker fan, we have many more books to feed your football appetite. … Continue reading Football Books on Sale!

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Off the Shelf: Unlearning to Fly by Jennifer Brice

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Unlearning to Fly cover image Read the beginning of Chapter 1, "At the Airport: A Romance" from Unlearning to Fly by Jennifer Brice:

"My father proposed to my mother in an airport. I like that sentence so much, I can hardly bear to revise it. But I must. The second time my father proposed to my mother, it was in an airport. The first time was in a car. They’d met three weeks earlier, when my father’s brother, Sam, asked my mother to be my father’s blind date for his own birthday party. He was twenty-seven and she was twenty-five. Back then, Al Brice was holding down three jobs: a mechanic for Pan Am, an afterhours fueler for a jet fuel-supply company, and a logger for his family’s fledgling land-clearing concern. Carol Heeks was a public health nurse who’d arrived in Fairbanks in July of 1961 at the wheel of a blue Plymouth Valiant. A New Yorker by birth and temperament, she was unwilling to spend the rest of her life in a frontier outpost so unprepossessing that a person could drive the length and breadth of it—as she once had—without ever realizing she’d arrived.

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UNP author visits UNL on Monday

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It’s a rainy day here in Lincoln, but an excellent day to curl up on the couch with a good read. Between Panic and Desire by Dinty Moore is an unconventional memoir of one man and his culture.  Blending narrative and quizzes, memory and numerology, and imagined interviews and conversations with dead presidents on TV, the book dizzily documents the disorienting experience of growing up in a postmodern world. “Insouciant” and “irreverent” are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moore’s books—and, invariably, “hilarious.”  Since we enjoy Moore’s books (and we hope you do, too) … Continue reading UNP author visits UNL on Monday

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Robert Camuto kicks off Palmento book tour tomorrow

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The Univeristy of Nebraska Press is proud to share that one of its authors, Robert Camuto, is kicking off his national book tour tomorrow for Palmento: A Sicilian Wine Odyssey. The book is about his journey through the Etna region of Sicilily where he discovers more than just great wine. He also meets the winemakers of Italy’s largest and oldest wine region.  During his visits, he gets to know winemakers whose families have been in the business for generations; ex-pats drawn to Sicily by its remoteness, beauty and heritage of great wines; young Sicilians blending new technology and ancient production … Continue reading Robert Camuto kicks off Palmento book tour tomorrow

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Off the Shelf: Swallowing the Soap by William Kloefkorn

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Read the poem, "Eating Mulberries for Breakfast" from Swallowing the Soap: New and Selected Poems by William Kloefkorn, edited and with an introduction by Ted Genoways:   Eating Mulberries for Breakfast   Mostly purple, purple becoming snowdriftas sugar falls from the small mouthof the dispenser,   purple you gathered from the tree justyesterday, your little brotherabove you lost almost   in branches of purple, purple risingin the bowl as the thick milkrises, and with a silver spoon   you begin to eat what you knowyour buddy Gene will laugh atwhen you tell him, if you   tell him, snowdrift sugar … Continue reading Off the Shelf: Swallowing the Soap by William Kloefkorn

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Scoreboard, Baby on NPR’s Only A Game sports show

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Football season is almost upon us. Tomorrow Lincoln will be one giant tail gate with fans in red running the city with high excitement for the Huskers to play the season opener. In the spirit of college football season, the University of Nebraska Press is looking into a more scandalous side of the pigskin sport.  Scoreboard, Baby: A story of College Football, Crime and Complicity by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry is a true story about the University of Washington’s 2000 football season. It puts together interviews, articles and thousands of documentation on the season that brought them a victory … Continue reading Scoreboard, Baby on NPR’s Only A Game sports show

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Stolen Horses reviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered

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Stolen Horses, by Dan O’Brien, is an old-fashioned Western novel in some ways. The fictional setting – McDermot, Nebraska – is a place where cowboys still live on the ranch homesteads settled by great-great-grandparents, where everyone knows the local history, where many people are resistant to change. But in other ways, it’s a modern story, one that touches on healthcare inequity, corruption, the growing gulf between the rich and poor, and what happens when change finally does come to a place as remote and untouched as McDermot. NPR’s Alan Cheuse reviewed Stolen Horses on All Things Considered last night. A … Continue reading Stolen Horses reviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered

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Off the Shelf: The John Lardner Reader edited and with an introduction by John Schulian

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John Lardner Reader cover image Read the beginning of the Introduction from The John Lardner Reader: A Press Box Legend's Classic Sportswriting, edited and with an introduction by John Schulian:

"Since TV and talk radio started throwing crazy money at them, more and more otherwise admirable sportswriters have been only too happy to install whoopee cushions where their regard for the language used to be. It’s a natural reaction, I suppose, like realizing that the only way to be heard in a noisy bar is to shout louder than everybody else. But sly humor and high style have taken a drubbing everywhere sports are written. Worse yet, John Lardner has been forgotten. That’s as wrong as wearing white socks at a funeral.

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Praise for Robert Camuto’s Palmento (and Corkscrewed, too!)

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Eric Asimov writes about wine for the New York Times – wine trends, wine regions, individual wines, wine culture, etc.  Wine blog The Daily Sip posted this Q&A with Asimov yesterday, in which Asimov writes about his wine writing philosophy (I especially liked this quote: I don't think it's so important that people know a lot about wine as it is they drink wine if they like it. I don't think anyone is under any obligation to know about wine. I don't think of myself as an educator, but more as an inspirer.) Asimov also discussed some wine writers he … Continue reading Praise for Robert Camuto’s Palmento (and Corkscrewed, too!)