Jackalope Dreams by Mary Clearman Blew “What Blew has achieved in her first novel is nothing less than stunning: a story beautifully told, characters richly conceived and developed, lessons subtly delivered, complete with shoot-’em-ups, horse wrangling and hidden stashes of cash. . . . [I]t is the poetry and preciseness of Blew’s writing that set Jackalope Dreams apart from others of its ilk. Hers is storytelling of the highest order.”—Sherry Devlin, Missoulian You can read previous praise for Jackalope Dreams at http://nebraskapress.typepad.com/university_of_nebraska_pr/2007/12/praise-for-jack.html. Continue reading More Praise for Jackalope Dreams

    From the death of Anne Boleyn, notorious throne chaser, to the  death of Clyde Barrow, notorious gangster, this has been quite a week in our history.  Have you seen the new movie The Other Boleyn girl? If so, then maybe you’ll agree that it makes you wonder what was going on behind the scenes in our histories biggest moments. Unfortunately for us This Week in History only provides the dates, but we can at least start there…. May 19, 1536: Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII of England is beheaded for adultery. If high crime … Continue reading This Week in History: May 19-22, 2008

LINKING IN LINCOLN: A SEN-HAITIAN-IONAL  EXPERIENCE!!                                             “Lyonel Trouillot’s novel Children of Heroes is a real tour de force" The weather is getting hotter, and so is the University of Nebraska Press! New this month is Children of Heroes by Lyonel Trouillot. Chronicling a childhood where he and his sister Mariéla were abused by their father and in the end “killed the man who tyrannized them and their piously pathetic mother, who is now a “blank.” They then escaped to somewhere “far away.”Now … Continue reading LINKING IN LINCOLN: May 22, 2008

ALL THAT GLITTERS…..IS LINKING IN LINCOLN! New this month from the University of Nebraska is The Golden Volcano by Jules Verne. The  French master of science fiction  who has given us such gems as Around the World in 80 Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, and Journey to the Center of the Earth did not abandon us, even in death. This manuscript, edited and altered by Verne’s own son, is about two cousins searching for the mythical Golden Volcano during the Gold Rush.  Hmm… a golden volcano, I’m going to go out on a limb here and say there … Continue reading Linking in Lincoln: May, 14 2008

WELCOME TO THE HOTEL “TRIVIA” We have all longed for different lives at some point or another. The lure of the unfamiliar has captured many a person, and propelled them into lives of distinction and sometimes disappointment. What would happen, however, if we were constantly faced with individuals as opposite from ourselves as day is to night? In the center of the rural boomtown of Soda Springs, Idaho, stands the historic Enders Hotel, Café, and Bar, a three-story brick building that has been many things to many people. But to one family who bought it as an attempt to renew … Continue reading Tuesday Trivia: May 12, 2008