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A Challenge to Meet by Halloween

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The blog Tomato Nation is having its third annual donation challenge for DonorsChoose.org, an organization that supplies students in need with resources.  You can find Tomato Nation’s challenge page here.  You can also win prizes with your donations, anything from review CDs, signed MSCL DVDs, compliments of Ms. Claire Danes, and books from the University of Chicago Press, and books from the University of Nebraska Press!  Now, you may be asking, "What books can I win from the University of Nebraska Press if I donate to the Tomato Nation’s challenge?"  Then, I’d answer, "You can win Branch Rickey by Lee … Continue reading A Challenge to Meet by Halloween

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Regier’s Obsession · Book of the Sphinx

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by Willis Goth Regier Book of the Sphinx is the product of an obsession.  The more I learned about Sphinxes, the more I wanted to know, and there was always more.  Imagine a curious cat the size of the Sphinx of Giza. My curiosity began with that enormous Sphinx, known through the centuries as Horemakhet.  I wondered what it had to do with Phix, the man-eating Sphinx of Thebes, the one that posed deadly riddles.  These are the two most famous Sphinxes, and there are many more, a vast number.  I set out to find all I could, sort them, … Continue reading Regier’s Obsession · Book of the Sphinx

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Author Events October 11 thru October 17, 2007

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No rest for the wicked, or UNP authors, who will be out like midnight light bulbs this week.  Frances Washburn, author of the novel Elsie’s Business, will be at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC on Wednesday, 10/17/2007 for the Vine Deloria Jr. Native Writers Series.  At 12:00pm for an informal meet the author session and at 6:30pm for a reading and discussion followed by a reception and book series. Poet Kathleen Flenniken (Famous) will be giving a reading and signing books for Johnson County Library’s The Writers Place series.  The event is in Overland Park, … Continue reading Author Events October 11 thru October 17, 2007

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Rural Marketing

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by Mary Ridder Comparing business activity in the heart of Manhattan, New York, to the Sandhills, Nebraska was fascinating last week. As I walked down 5th Avenue I couldn’t help but see why rural communities and businesses have such unique challenges. While every business must address marketing, the ultimate concern, not all have to   face it where sheer numbers are challenging. I met a manager of a gallery on 7th Avenue and W. 55th Street. The monthly rent is $20,000. And in the first 7 to 8 days of each month, the rent bill is paid. The businesses in … Continue reading Rural Marketing

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New in October

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New in October from the University of Nebraska Press: the most recent winners of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction and Poetry, a collection of Bill Littlefield’s commentaries from the National Public Radio program, Only a Game, 151 recipes adapted for American measurements and markets from the Paris restaurant, Le Pré Verre, plus much more. Browse all of our new October books here. Continue reading New in October

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Stegner Featured on Online Book Club

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    Because a Fire Was in My Head by Lynn Stegner October Featured Title Barnes & Noble Book Explorer’s Club  Check out the Barnes & Noble online Book Explorers Club. Moderated by Ande Zellman of the Literary Ventures Fund, Book Explorers Club talks about your favorite literary discoveries, new and old, and highlights an author and book of note each month. In October, the featured book is Because a Fire Was in My Head by Lynn Stegner. During the month of October, author Lynn Stegner will converse with readers on the message board. Learn more by going to Barnes … Continue reading Stegner Featured on Online Book Club

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Live in Omaha: Kooser to speak about Nebraska wonders

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Nebraska poet and two-time U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser will speak next Sunday, Oct. 14, at 1:00 p.m. at Sokol South Omaha (21st and U Streets). Kooser won’t be reading poetry, though. He’ll be reading from and discussing his memoir Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (UNP, 2002). According to Newsday writer Dan Cryer, Local Wonders includes “eloquent meditations on country pleasures, the rhythms of the seasons and the lingering presence of Czech folk culture in rural Nebraska." In the book, Kooser’s first collection of prose, he describes with exquisite detail and humor the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska—an … Continue reading Live in Omaha: Kooser to speak about Nebraska wonders

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It’s Almost Friday, so Click Your Thursday Away

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First off, fellow Thursday clickers, I can honestly say that it won’t be such a random click week.  If you haven’t heard it on the news shows, in the papers and zines, you may have heard about Sputnik’s fiftieth anniversary from Google’s little depiction of the first man-made and launched satellite today. I would draw you a picture of the spherical object myself, but I wouldn’t want to blind you with my stunning artistic abilities. Secondly, and for your first direct link this historical Thursday, I’m proud to announce that the University of Nebraska Press is having an October web … Continue reading It’s Almost Friday, so Click Your Thursday Away

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Not Just Any Price: Now in paperback—Price’s Not Just Any Land

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Essayist John Price’s eagerly read literary memoir and study of Midwestern nature writers the likes of William Least Heat-Moon and Mary Swander has finally hit bookshelves in paperback. The essence of Not Just Any Land is John’s rediscovery of his Midwestern roots and affinity for the American grasslands where he had grown up but had longed to escape from. Fortunately, Fate intervened. His love of literature—he studied literature and creative nonfiction at the University of Iowa—introduced him to regional writers who, like John, struggled with their own identities as Midwesterners and yet chose to write about, rather than abandon, a … Continue reading Not Just Any Price: Now in paperback—Price’s Not Just Any Land