Sunday, September 17, 3:00 pmInaugural Reading from FamousCelebration to followOpen Books: A Poem Emporium2414 N. 45th StreetSeattle, WA 98103(206) 633-0811 Continue reading September Events for Featured Blogger Kathleen Flenniken
September 14, 2006: 6:00 p.m. Reading/SigningThe BookwormCountryside Village8702 Pacific StreetOmaha , NE September 15-16, 2006:Omaha Literary Festival Old MarketOmaha, NEhttp://www.omahalitfest.com September 22, 2006:7:30 p.m. Reading and SigningHamline UniversityGiddens Learning Center100E Snelling and HewittSt. Paul, MN September 25, 2006:6:30 p.m.Reading and SigningEdina Community Library5280 Grandview SquareEdina, MN Continue reading September Events for Featured Blogger Pamela Carter Joern
During September, save 25% on our football books, including Steve Smith’s Confessions of a Cornhusker Football fan and the story of the game of the century. Browse our football books here. Continue reading Save 25% on UNP football books!
New books this month from the University of Nebraska Press: the first biography of Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel, Mildred Walker’s last novel, The Orange Tree, the paperback edition of One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark, a new edition of Ted Kooser’s collection of poems reflecting on the 1888 blizzard, plus much more. Browse our new books here. Continue reading New in September from the University of Nebraska Press
irst books of poetry are generally a miscellany. There are the poems for one’s parents, the love and sex poems, the first person narratives, the gestures at style and quirkiness. In recent years, more and more poetry books have appeared built around a theme or obsession–a lynching in Indiana, say, or the 76 definitions of the word "fall," the death of a sibling, a harrowing divorce. Poets with first books want to be fashionable too. The problem is, our poems were not often composed with a theme in mind at all, but were each conceived in a vacuum, as though … Continue reading Finding the Theme
September 15th and 16th, various writers will be reading and discussing writing. Many of the writers attending will be University of Nebraska Press authors. Visit (downtown) Omaha Lit Fest website for more details. UNP Authors in Attendance: Jonis Agee, author of Sweet Eyes Pamela Joern, author of The Floor of the Sky John Price, author of Not Just Any Land Ladette Randolph, editor of A Different Plain Gerald Shapiro, author of Bad Jews Terese Svoboda, author of Tin God Robert Vivian, author of Mover of Bones Kellie Wells, author of Skin Continue reading UNP Authors at the (downtown) Omaha Lit Fest
The University of Nebraska Press and the Joslyn Castle Institute for Sustainable Communities will host a discussion of the new biography, Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward by Charlyne Berens, professor of journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, on Thursday, October 26, 2006, 7:00–8:30 p.m., at the Joslyn Castle, 3902 Davenport Street, in Omaha, Nebraska. Who is Chuck Hagel, what is his story, and is he a genuine player on the national political stage? In Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward, Charlyne Berens sets out to answer these questions in her close and careful look at one of the most interesting and independent figures … Continue reading UNP Salon for New Chuck Hagel Biography
he Mover of Bones by Robert Vivian is truly a book of biblical proportion in more ways
than one. It is a book that speaks of life and death in such a poetic way, you almost feel as if you are in church listening to a sermon written solely to make you think about 
your life and how big of a mess you’ve made of it, and how on Earth you are going to start to pull it together.
Each story in this book has its own truth, warning, moral, and gospel-like lesson to be extracted. Chapters cover life, death, resurrection, homosexuality, sodomy, abortion, and everything that might come in between. Vivian does not stand on either side of a drawn line on any of these topics, but he does present such a crystal-clear situation that you as a reader are made to think about how you feel.
ell, it seems we’ve gone and put the science fiction category to shame! In my attempts to drag myself through the dark finale of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, I seem to have killed my muse. It was either that or the guest pass to World of Warcraft and the flood of guests my own age distracting me from more mature pursuits.
No more apologies. Today, I step back to consider the lighter tales in science fiction, hopeful futures. My hopes for utopian visions in In the Days of the Comet by H.G. Wells were discouraged a bit by the introducer’s notes about the pessimistic, even murderous disposition of the main character. The pleasant old man in the tower in the prologue, however, turns out to be the same man. Instead of a first person account of the destruction of the world, Wells is still hopeful enough to give this character the vision and experience of a transformation that turns men into "angels."
Again, I borrow from the introducer, none other than Ben Bova, of his own science fiction fame. He, a more qualified judge of these things, also points out that Willie Leadford, is not the protagonist. The comet is.
Spoilers beyond what you can find on the back jacket follow…
aul A. Johnsgard is the Foundation Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska and author of several books published with the University of Nebraska Press. In 2004, he won the National Conservation Achievement Award and in 2001, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, both sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation. Washington State Magazine has an in-depth feature article on Paul A. Johnsgard. Joel Sartore (Author of Nebraska: Under a Big Red Sky) took photos for the article. Books by Paul A. Johnsgard: Those of the Gray Wind: The Sandhill Cranes Birds of the Rocky Mountains Crane … Continue reading Paul A. Johnsgard Interview in Washington State Magazine
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