Today in Lincoln the weather seems to be less than dreary with high chances of rain soaking your morning newspaper. (Not that it happened to me or anything…) But it’s nothing that a good collection of poetry can’t fix. Swallowing the Soap is the newest collection by Nebraska’s poet, William Kloefkorn. It contains new and selected poems that span his forty-year career. The poems inside include limited editions and hard-to-find books along with some of his most popular poems. It is filled with the panoramic landscapes of Kansas and Nebraska, the stories of the rough and tender people who live … Continue reading UNP author on the radio and in stores

Nebraska is known for corn, the Cornhuskers and of course, farming. With the decline of family farms and rural communities and the rise of corporate farming and the resulting environmental degradation, American agriculture is in crisis. But this crisis offers the opportunity to rethink agriculture in sustainable terms. John E. Ikerd’s Crisis and Opportunity describes what sustainable agriculture is, why it began and how it can succeed. He talks about the consequences of agriculture industrialization and offers methods that can restore social responsibility to our agriculture system. Ikerd will be at the Annual North American Aronia Berry Festival in Missouri … Continue reading Author John E. Ikerd is a featured speaker at the Aronia Festival

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

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