Kathleen Flenniken, author of Famous, the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry in 2005, will be at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus tomorrow, Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 7:30PM. She will read from Famous and signing books at Bailey Library, 228 Andrews Hall. Continue reading Flenniken in Nebraska
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
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
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
Quite a bit of UNP authors are lined up for events this week, from poets to prose writers, and chroniclers and biographers. On Tuesday, October 9th, poet Kathleen Flenniken (Famous) will be at the Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City, IA for a reading and book signings. Bill Littlefield, radio show host and author of Only a Game, will also be doing readings and book signings this week. He’ll be at Concord Bookstore in Concord, MA this coming Sunday, October 7 and on October 9, he’ll be at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA. In the Shadow of the Moon … Continue reading Author Events October 4 thru October 10, 2007
Redirections, new colors, new pages. . . everything has changed! If you’re reading us from a reader, pop on over and visit us in your web browser. See the new and wonderful colors that is now the University of Nebraska Press blog! See the individual pages on the right sidebar! And see where the book links lead you! See how many exclamation points I can use on one blog post! Come back throughout the week and see if anything else has changed. Feedback, anyone? Email me or leave a comment. Your trusty blog coordinator,DeMisty. Continue reading Some Notable Changes
Aaron Link, author of What Becomes You, has a blog (aptly) called What Becomes You S.L. Wisenberg wrote Holocaust Girls: History, Memory, and Other Obsessions. She has a website and a blog. Elizabeth M. Campbell is the granddaughter of the famous commander Georg von Trapp. She translated his memoir To the Last Salute: Memories of an Austrian U-Boat Commander and wrote an introduction. Elizabeth also has a website. Photographer and writer Joel Sartore, author of Nebraska: Under a Big Red Sky, has a visually stunning website. Lynn Stegner wrote the novel Because a Fire Was in My Head. She has … Continue reading University of Nebraska Press Author Websites and Blogs
Below is a compilation of all links referred to on Thursday and Friday Lincoln’s Linking posts. I tried to organize them. . . Miscellaneous Cute Overload.com Stuff on My Cat Habitat for Humanity Robot Wisdom Weblog Craig’s List Gawker Never Ending Sun Read/WriteWeb DIY Happy D.I.Y. Kids Daily DIY: Feeding the Desire to Make & Mod D*I*Y Planner: Paper, Productivity & Passio Women’s Studies/Feminism Feminist Law Professors BlogHer Lit Blogs A Work in Progress The Super Coolest Book Club Ever G.R.I.T.S (Guys/Girls Raised In The South) Tilting at Windmills Litblog Co-op Garden Bloggers Book Club Ship of Fools Kimbooktu Sports … Continue reading Weekly Links
Unlearning to Fly by Jennifer Brice “Unlearning to Fly, a memoir in essays, doesn’t order Brice’s memories so much as allow forces of wind and weather to reveal them. . . . The reader sees in Brice’s stories her family’s attempts at an ordinary life in terrain that would just as soon ‘buck us off its back.’”—Marjorie Gellhorn Sa’adah, Los Angeles Times Book Review “There is a refreshing humility implicit in the way Brice has constructed her memoir; it’s a structure that acknowledges the overall sweep of her life is not unusual . . . but that its particulars are … Continue reading Praise for Unlearning to Fly
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855-1872, Vols. 1 and 2Edited by Pierre A. Walker and Greg W. Zacharias “The volumes are beautiful, solidly put together, with big type, wide margins, and copious annotations remarking on cross-outs and misspellings and new words written over old ones. . . . [They] bring a high seriousness to letters that were usually dashed off; certainly the scholars preparing these volumes will have spent many more hours on each letter than did either James or the recipients he was addressing.”—Edmund V. White, The New York Review of Books Read earlier praise for The complete … Continue reading More Praise for The Complete Letters of Henry James
