Fans of Dinty W. Moore and his acclaimed, experimental, and completely hysterical memoir Between Panic and Desire are in for a treat. Check out the links below. The first is a recent interview with Dinty on the "Greg and Dan Show" on WMDB Radio in Peoria, Illinois. The second is a recording from Dinty's Ohio State University appearance, where he read from the chapter "Son of George McManus." Happy listening!
Author Mark Moyar on "Between the Covers"Check out this interview with Mark Moyar, author of Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism in Vietnam, on "Between the Covers" with Jack Miller from the National Review.
Happy listening!
Check out this podcast interview with David Starkey, editor of Living Blue in the Red States from The Marketplace of Ideas radio show out of Santa Barbara, California:
http://www.colinmarshallradio.com/marketplace
Happy listening!
Author Dinah Lenney reads from her memoir Bigger Than Life: A Murder, a Memoir at the Writers’ Program Publication Party. The cast is made possible by the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. And, if you like today's cast, be sure to come back tomorrow to view an interview with Dinah on The Gregory Mantell Show. We linked to the show before, but why send you away when you can watch it here?
Enjoy!
To make life easier on folks, we at the University of Nebraska Press blog went through our old podcasts and recast them! From now on, you just have to press play and listen to these classic podcasts, ranging from authors with surprisingly melodic voices reading from their works to events covering hot topics, good writing, and photography! So that you won't have trouble finding these archived podcasts, we have included—in this post—short descriptions and links below.
September, 2006: A talk with author Pamela Joern about her novel —The Floor of the Sky—and writing during the (downtown) Omaha Lit Fest.
September, 2006: Interview with Bob Vivian about writing and his book, The Mover of Bones at the (downtown) Omaha Lit Fest.
October, 2006: Louise Barnett reads from the introduction to her book Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer
November, 2006: An Evening on Chuck Hagel -- Author Charlyne Berens speaking at a salon for her book Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward
February, 2007: An Evening w/Joel Sartore. Sartore speaks about photography, life, and the work in Nebraska: Under a Big Red Sky.
April, 2007: Translator of Georg von Trapp's memoir—To the Last Salute— reads her introduction and an excerpt of the first English edition of the book. Did I mention that she's the granddaughter of the famed U-Boat captain/writer?
You'll still have to download this month's podcast (there's a short version and a long version), which I highly recommend.
e have a choice of two for May's podcast. John Schulian, who introduced the Bison edition of Paper Tiger: An Old Sportswriter's Reminiscences of People, Newspapers, War and Work by Stanley Woodward, was kind enough to record an excerpted version of his introduction and a complete reading of his introduction. Enjoy!
Full Version, about 17 minutes:
Download Schulian_Paper_Tiger_L_UNPress.mp3
Excerpted Version, about 9 minutes:
"At Close Range with National Geographic," NET Television's documentary on UNP author Joel Sartore, will be televised nationally on PBS February 5 at 9 pm CST. If the anticipation is too much, here is the audio from the Nebraska: Under a Big Red Sky launch party back on
On November 30, 2006. Sartore speaks about his current projects, the rigors of wildlife photography, the ups and downs of digital photography, and the challenges of getting the perfect shot.
n October 26, 2006, the University of Nebraska Press and the Joslyn Castle Institute for
Sustainable Communities hosted a discussion on the book Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward with author Charlyne Berens. Michael R. McCarthy, co-founder and manager of the McCarthy Group in Omaha, and Geitner Simmons, editorial page editor of the Omaha World-Herald, participated as panelist at the event.
To listen to a recording of the live event, please download our podcast.
his month's podcast features UNP author Louise Barnett reading from the new preface to Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer.
Barnett describes some of the fascinating and slightly unusual experiences--including adopting the persona of Custer for a battery of psychological tests--that have arisen from her fascination with the (in)famous general. Her work proves that George Armstrong Custer remains a national historical obsession.
For more than a century, Americans have been captivated by the legend of General George Armstrong Custer. But the various truths of Custer’s life and last stand prove elusive. Why are we so taken with the myth and the so-called mystery behind the man?
In a field teeming with highly partisan and wildly speculative treatments of Custer, Louise Barnett enters with a volume widely acclaimed by both military and cultural historians as the most balanced account of his life and legend. Custer's life spans two great eras of American history, and Barnett's commanding work pushes beyond the existing literature to a comprehensive view of this controversial figure.
