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Spring means basketball tournament time

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It’s finally beginning to feel that spring is just around the corner. And it is, as two major spring events occur this weekend: The beginning of Daylight Savings Time and the NCAA men’s basketball conference tournaments. What does a basketball tournament have to do the the University of Nebraska Press? More than you might think. Alan Zaremba, author of The Madness of March: Bonding and Betting with the Boys in Las Vegas, will be at the CAA tourney, and will post about the games, the fan and more on his blog. He’ll be in Richmond, Va., from March 7-9, so … Continue reading Spring means basketball tournament time

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On Statehood Day and Women’s History Month

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The beginning of March means two things to us here at the University of Nebraska Press. One, it’s Nebraska’s birthday! Nebraska turned 142 years old yesterday, on March 1. Two, the beginning of March marks the beginning of Women’s History Month. Many of our best known, most acclaimed titles were written by women, about women, or, often, both. We’re celebrating by offering a 25 percent discount these 16 titles. Sale titles include those written by famous Nebraska authors Willa Cather and Bess Streeter Aldrich, as well as about famous Nebraskans like Grace Abbott and former Lincoln Mayor Helen Boosalis. Today … Continue reading On Statehood Day and Women’s History Month

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Off the Shelf: Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman among Books by Ilana M. Blumberg

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Houses of Study cover image Now available in a paperback edition, read from the Preface of Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman among Books by Ilana M. Blumberg:

"The story I tell in the pages to come begins in 1988, when I landed in Israel, eighteen years old and female. My crosscultural education began with a lesson in language. The term ‘‘yeshiva’’ (seminary), I quickly learned, did not apply to girls or women. In America, our teachers had talked about our year of study in ‘‘yeshiva’’ without distinguishing between male and female students and institutions. But when I got to Israel, conversations in Hebrew came to a standstill when Jews, both religious and secular, asked me why I’d come to Israel and I explained that I’d come to learn in ‘‘yeshiva.’’ I’d used the wrong term, they explained. Girls and young women went to mikhlala (women’s college), not yeshiva.

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Another week, another cold Friday, and perhaps, another snowy Saturday, too. It’s becoming all too predictable here in the Midwest. Luckily, there is news in the world of the University of Nebraska Press. First off, one of our authors is in New York this weekend, attending the Festival of New French Writing. Abdourahman Waberi, author of In the United States of Africa, will give a lecture this afternoon. The festival’s web site notes that In the United States of Africa was “unanimously hailed by critics” when it was published in French in 2006 (yay accolades!). The UNP’s English translation of … Continue reading

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Linking in Lincoln: February 26, 2009

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New from the University of Nebraska Press: Yellowstone Autumn: A Season of Discovery in a Wondrous Land by W.D. Wetherell. Wetherell describes Yellowstone as “America’s least-known best-known place.” The author, arriving at the park on the eve of his fifty-fifth birthday, feels the need to examine where life’s mileage has brought him. In the encounter that follows, a writer entering late middle age confronts not only a magnificent corner of the vast American landscape but also the American experience itself. Detailed in the wise, humorous, and lyrical language that has long distinguished W. D. Wetherell’s award-winning fiction, this introspective journey … Continue reading Linking in Lincoln: February 26, 2009

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AAUP winners at the Sheldon, Camuto still on tour, and the NYT says nice things about the new Kindle

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If you haven’t been to the Sheldon Museum of Art to check out the AAUP Book, Jacket and Journal Show, now’s the time to go. The show, featuring the best examples of design from university presses in the United States and Canada, will be at the Sheldon through Friday. Among the books in the show is the University of Nebraska Press title A Life in Letters. In other news, Robert Camuto’s tour of Seattle, San Francisco and New York is nearly over. If you haven’t been following the author of Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine Country on his … Continue reading AAUP winners at the Sheldon, Camuto still on tour, and the NYT says nice things about the new Kindle

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Today’s notes from the blogosphere

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Donner party scholars, researchers and general enthusiasts are excited about Searching for Tamsen Donner by Gabrielle Burton! At least the blogger behind The Donner Blog is. Click the link to read Kristin Johnson's post about this spring University of Nebraska Press title. Another of our spring authors, Kurt Caswell, netted a starred review in Publisher's Weekly for his essay collection An Inside Passage. PW writes: In these luminous essays on wanderlust, Caswell, an assistant professor of creative writing at Texas Tech University, embraces travel writer Bruce Chatwin's contention that walking is a poetic act that can cure the world of … Continue reading Today’s notes from the blogosphere

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Little Pancho and a NYT link

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Good Monday morning! How did you spend your weekend? I spent mine wishing it was warmer (what happened to the 50-degree Saturdays of earlier this month?) and, once I resigned myself to the temperature, I decided to stay inside and read most of Little Pancho: The Life of Tennis Legend Pancho Segura, by Caroline Seebohm. Prior to picking up the book, I had never heard of Segura, a poor kid from Ecuador who through a mixture of luck, charm and hard work became a tennis star who toured the world. Later, he was the tennis pro at an exclusive club … Continue reading Little Pancho and a NYT link

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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