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Off the Shelf: The Madness of March: Bonding and Betting with the Boys in Las Vegas by Alan Jay Zaremba

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Madness As we gear up for March and basketball tournament season, this is the first of several mini-excerpts we'll offer from The Madness of March: Bonding and Betting with the Boys in Las Vegas by Alan Jay Zaremba. Read from the prologue:

"The first weekend of the NCAA basketball tournament brings a dedicated legion of basketball bettors to Las Vegas. From early Thursday morning until Sunday evening, men—and the crowd is overwhelmingly male—sit in rowdy smoky casinos watching up to forty-eight college basketball games. Who are these people? They pay to fly out to Las Vegas, spend money on lodging, sit for four days straight watching basketball games, and often lose hundreds of dollars on near misses and if onlys, and yet as they taxi to the airport on Sunday evening they are planning their betting strategy for the following year with undiminished passion.

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Our blog, our authors’ blogs, and a New York Times blog

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As I wrote on Monday, University of Nebraska Press author Robert Camuto is visiting from France, stopping in cities on both coasts to read from his book Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine Country (he also brought with him some of the wines described in the book, and those who attend his talks will get a taste). Robert is blogging from the road, and you can read what he has to say (and view pictures) at his web site. While we’re on the topic of UNP author blogs, Kurt Caswell, whose book An Inside Passage comes out in May, … Continue reading Our blog, our authors’ blogs, and a New York Times blog

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Joern on Des Moines community radio, happy birthday to Wallace Stegner, and goodbye to Silas the cat

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There’s lots going on in the world of the University of Nebraska Press today. Let’s get right down to it. First, what are you doing at 12:42 p.m. today? If you’re going to be at your computer, you can stream an interview with Pamela Carter Joern, author of The Floor of the Sky and The Plain Sense of Things.  Joern will be on Des Moines community radio station 99.1, visiting with John Busbee, host of The Culture Buzz. Second, today is the 100th anniversary of Wallace Stegner’s birth. Stegner, whose novel Angle of Repose won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction … Continue reading Joern on Des Moines community radio, happy birthday to Wallace Stegner, and goodbye to Silas the cat

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Tuesday Trivia: February 17, 2009

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New from the University of Nebraska Press: Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England, edited by Carole Levin and Robert Bucholz. Queens and Power provides a forum for the underexamined, anomalous reigns of queens in history. These regimes, primarily regarded as interruptions to the “normal” male monarchy, have been examined largely as isolated cases. This interdisciplinary study of queens throughout history examines their connections to one another, their constituents’ perceptions of them, and the fallacies of their historical reputations. You’ve probably already guessed the topic of this week’s Tuesday Trivia….queens.  Our focus is a bit broader than just … Continue reading Tuesday Trivia: February 17, 2009

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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!