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Camuto on tour, Toor at AWP and one last look at Valentines

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University of Nebraska Press fans in Seattle, San Francisco and New York will have a chance to meet a UNP author frequently mentioned on this blog (and in many wine columns) this week. Robert Camuto, author of Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine Country, will be in Seattle tomorrow (Feb. 17), in San Francisco Feb. 18 and 19, and in New York Feb. 21 through 25. For information on where you can see him (and taste some of the wines he describes in his book), visit his web site. You can read reviews of Corkscrewed in the Seattle Weekly … Continue reading Camuto on tour, Toor at AWP and one last look at Valentines

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Off the Shelf: Yellowstone Autumn by W. D. Wetherell

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Yellowstone Autumn Read from Chapter One of Yellowstone Autumn: A Season of Discovery in a Wondrous Land by W. D. Wetherell:

"Yellowstone is purest America, Wonderland, the country's least-known best-known place. Millions go there, but very few see it; the normal park stay is less than twenty-four hours, and only 2 percent of visitors ever leave the park roads. People know about the geysers, remember their parents' stories about feeding the bears, have heard horror stories about the crowds, and most seem content to leave it at that; in the contemporary American imagination it's become a place that was long since tamed, Jellystone National Park, with photogenic bison, adorable rangers, and Old Faithful.

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A Valentine from Valentines: A reading by Ted Kooser

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Happy Valentine's Day, one day early, from the University of Nebraska Press. Our valentine to you is actually from one of our authors. Click on the video below to listen to Ted Kooser read selections from his acclaimed book, Valentines, a collection of Valentine's Day poems he wrote and sent to friends each year for 22 years. I love his tie. Video courtesy of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Office of Communications. Continue reading A Valentine from Valentines: A reading by Ted Kooser

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Happy 200th birthday, Abraham Lincoln!

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Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky 200 years ago today. We here at the University of Nebraska Press brought treats to work in honor of the president’s big day (apparently, Lincoln was fond of apples and wild game; we are celebrating with cupcakes). We’re also celebrating by offering our readers 25 percent off Abraham Lincoln titles through the end of the month. If you live in Lincoln, you can check out this article in the Lincoln Journal Star for other local ways to celebrate Honest Abe’s birthday. And for some fun facts about our 16th … Continue reading Happy 200th birthday, Abraham Lincoln!

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Tuesday Trivia: February 10, 2009

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New from the University of Nebraska Press: Searching for Tamsen Donner, by Gabrielle Burton. One summer in the 1970s, Burton, her husband, and their five daughters piled into the family station wagon and meticulously traced the path of the Donner Party, stopping at places the ill-fated pioneers stopped, visiting their graves and trying to understand that long-ago journey. Burton, a fledgling writer, intended to write a novel about Tamsen Donner, the wife of party leader George Donner. Decades later, Burton wrote instead about her summer searching for Tamsen, and what that journey meant for her family, and for her development as … Continue reading Tuesday Trivia: February 10, 2009

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Another week, an award and a podcast

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Welcome back to the work week. I hope you’re enjoying the warm (yet rainy weather), and perhaps have the good fortune of being able to spend the day curled up with a good book. If not, here’s a bit of reading to tide you over. Remember how on Friday I mentioned that University of Nebraska Press author John Turnbull (The Global Game) would appear on NPR’s Only a Game? Well, he did, on Saturday, and you can listen to him and fellow editor Alon Raab discuss soccer with host Bill Littlefield here. In other news, UNP author William L. Ramsey has received … Continue reading Another week, an award and a podcast

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Off the Shelf: The Real Lincoln by Jesse W. Weik

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The Real Lincoln cover image Read from the editor's introduction of The Real Lincoln: A Portrait by Jesse W. Weik, edited by Michael Burlingame:

"When published in 1922, Jesse W. Weik's The Real Lincoln impressed one reviewer as "a singularly rounded, yet unstudied, unretouched portrait of Lincoln as a private man, not that vague abstraction, a public character." Weik's pages, she added, convey "the profound vitality of the man himself" and are "of far more absorbing interest than the smooth surfaces of such a book as Charnwood's Lincoln." Readers of Weik's study of Lincoln seem to "just glimpse him disappearing around the corner of yesterday, to catch an echo of his grave, jesting tones," to feel "the pressure of the atmosphere which enveloped him, the deprivations which left their marks upon him." The Real Lincoln, she said, should be regarded as "a complement or appendix" to William H. Herndon's 1889 biography of Lincoln, which Weik co-authored.1

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February 6, 2009: Two radio shows and one award

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University of Nebraska Press title In the Mind’s Eye by Elizabeth Dodd was featured on the NET Radio program “All About Books” yesterday. To listen to Otis Young and Charles Stephen discuss Dodd’s critically acclaimed collection of nature essays, visit the NET Radio podcast page (then click on the Feb. 5 link under “All About Books”). In other news, each year The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum (formerly the Cowboy Hall of Fame) selects an Outstanding Western Novel of the year. The 2008 winner is UNP title Jackalope Dreams, by Mary Clearman Blew. Set in Montana, Jackalope Dreams is … Continue reading February 6, 2009: Two radio shows and one award

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Today’s round of accolades

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Shelf Awareness is reporting today that University of Nebraska Press author Dinty Moore has received the Grub Street National Prize for his memoir, Between Panic and Desire. Moore won in the non-fiction category, in which, interestingly enough, Terese Svoboda was a finalist for her title, Black Glasses Like Clark Kent: A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan. This fall, Bison books will reprint Svoboda’s short story collection, Trailer Girl and Other Stories. For the full Shelf Awareness mention, click here (and scroll down to the books and authors section). Grub Street, by the way, is a non-profit creative writing center in … Continue reading Today’s round of accolades