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Nebraska's Emerging Writers

Author : Z Publishing
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781727164114
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Nebraska's Emerging Writers written by Z Publishing and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Emerging Writers publications are part of an experimental series designed to match readers looking for new voices with up-and-coming authors looking to widen their reader base. We like to refer to publications in this series as "sampler platters" of writers and genres, such that readers can quickly and efficiently discover talented authors that they may otherwise have never heard of as well as compelling genres, topics, and themes they may never have given a shot before. In Nebraska's Emerging Writers: An Anthology, Nebraska's most promising up-and-coming authors have the chance to share their own words. Covering a wide array of genres and topics, these young talents will amaze you. Containing one essay per writer, this anthology is a compelling introduction to the great wordsmiths of tomorrow.

Nebraska during the New Deal

Author : Marilyn Irvin Holt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496215664
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Nebraska during the New Deal written by Marilyn Irvin Holt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a New Deal program, the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) aimed to put unemployed writers, teachers, and librarians to work. The contributors were to collect information, write essays, conduct interviews, and edit material with the goal of producing guidebooks in each of the then forty-eight states and U.S. territories. Project administrators hoped that these guides, known as the American Guide Series, would promote a national appreciation for America's history, culture, and diversity and preserve democracy at a time when militarism was on the rise and parts of the world were dominated by fascism. Marilyn Irvin Holt focuses on the Nebraska project, which was one of the most prolific branches of the national program. Best remembered for its state guide and series of folklore and pioneer pamphlets, the project also produced town guides, published a volume on African Americans in Nebraska, and created an ethnic study of Italians in Omaha. In Nebraska during the New Deal Holt examines Nebraska’s contribution to the project, both in terms of its place within the national FWP as well as its operation in comparison to other state projects.

Nebraska During the New Deal

Author : Marilyn Irvin Holt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496218000
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Nebraska During the New Deal written by Marilyn Irvin Holt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Nebraska Book Award As a New Deal program, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) aimed to put unemployed writers, teachers, and librarians to work. The contributors were to collect information, write essays, conduct interviews, and edit material with the goal of producing guidebooks in each of the then forty-eight states and U.S. territories. Project administrators hoped that these guides, known as the American Guide Series, would promote a national appreciation for America's history, culture, and diversity and preserve democracy at a time when militarism was on the rise and parts of the world were dominated by fascism. Marilyn Irvin Holt focuses on the Nebraska project, which was one of the most prolific branches of the national program. Best remembered for its state guide and series of folklore and pioneer pamphlets, the project also produced town guides, published a volume on African Americans in Nebraska, and created an ethnic study of Italians in Omaha. In Nebraska during the New Deal Holt examines Nebraska's contribution to the project, both in terms of its place within the national FWP as well as its operation in comparison to other state projects.

A Different Plain

Author : Ladette Randolph
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803239586
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book A Different Plain written by Ladette Randolph and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O Pioneers! was oh so long ago, and yet Willa Cather's masterpiece has proven to be an enduring template for readers' notions of Nebraska writing. The short stories collected here, so richly various in style, theme, and subject matter, should put an end to any such plain thinking about writing from this anything-but-plain state. Nebraska writers all, the authors explore the Midwest, a vastness of small towns, corn, cattle, football, and family businesses. They also venture far afield, to desolate western lives, crowded urban relationships, poignant couplings, comic families, and the worldly idiosyncrasies of characters everywhere. Whether about aging or coming-of-age, leave-taking or coming home, falling apart or finding love, these stories represent contemporary fiction at its best, from the high style of Richard Dooling's "Immortal Man" to Kent Haruf's soft-spoken "Dancing," from Ron Hansen's "My Communist" to Jonis Agee's earthy, offbeat "Binding the Devil." Original, spirited, and surprising, these contemporary writings depict a modern world on the move and extend the tradition of great fiction from Nebraska into the twenty-first century.

The Flat Water Rises

Author : Kyara Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732027527
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book The Flat Water Rises written by Kyara Brown and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Works Cited

Author : Brandon R. Schrand
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496211669
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Works Cited written by Brandon R. Schrand and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Doing things by the book" acquires a whole new meaning in Brandon R. Schrand's memoir of coming of age in spite of himself. The "works cited" are those books that serve as Schrand's signposts as he goes from life as a hormone-crazed, heavy-metal wannabe in the remotest parts of working-class Idaho to a reasonable facsimile of manhood (with a stop along the way to buy a five-dollar mustard-colored M. C. Hammer suit, so he'll fit in at college). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn informs his adolescent angst over the perceived injustice of society's refusal to openly discuss boners. The Great Gatsby serves as a metaphor for his indulgent and directionless college days spent in a drunken stupor (when he wasn't feigning interest in Mormonism to attract women). William Kittredge's Hole in the Sky parallels his own dangerous adulthood slide into alcoholism and denial. With a finely calibrated wit, a good dose of humility, and a strong supporting cast of literary characters, Schrand manages to chart his own story--about a dreamer thrown out of school as many times as he's thrown into jail--until he finally sticks his landing.

Nebraska Poetry

Author : Daniel Simon
Publisher : Stephen F. Austin University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781622881451
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Nebraska Poetry written by Daniel Simon and published by Stephen F. Austin University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A legacy project of the Nebraska 150 celebration"--Page facing title page.

Nebraska

Author : Ron Hansen
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802194168
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Nebraska written by Ron Hansen and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of the heartland by the National Book Award finalist and author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. “Nebraska captures a rowdy, changing America. Written with wit and brawny lyricism, in voices ranging from hip to tender, the stories gathered here are as diverse and expansive as the country they celebrate…References to America’s heartland abound throughout the book and serve as a central metaphor for what’s close to American hearts, what connects us: dreams, myths and possibilities as vast as the Great Plains. Wise and smart-alecky, creaking with legend and crackling with modernisms, these tales are about American obsessions past and present.” –The Washington Post Book World “Just as Raymond Carver came to be identified with a Pacific Northwest populated by blue-collar workers, and just as Richard Ford has crafted a Montana full of drifters, so Ron Hansen has carved out his own geographical niche. His Nebraska is a distinctive mix of 19th century settlers and 1980s breadwinners, of sudden storms and life-long yearnings, of lost souls stranded in the middle of nowhere.” –USA Today “Beautifully crafted stories… Wickedness, evil, malice is called by name; and for Hansen’s people the snake in the garden never fails to appear.” —The New York Times “Breathtaking virtuosity…These short narratives are utterly clean and smooth; they click together like a collection of river-washed stones that are each remarkably different yet polished by the same hand.”—Publishers Weekly

Quackery

Author : Lydia Kang
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1523501855
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Quackery written by Lydia Kang and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What won’t we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine—yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison—was dosed like Viagra. Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor, Quackery recounts the lively, at times unbelievable, history of medical misfires and malpractices. Ranging from the merely weird to the outright dangerous, here are dozens of outlandish, morbidly hilarious “treatments”—conceived by doctors and scientists, by spiritualists and snake oil salesmen (yes, they literally tried to sell snake oil)—that were predicated on a range of cluelessness, trial and error, and straight-up scams. With vintage illustrations, photographs, and advertisements throughout, Quackery seamlessly combines macabre humor with science and storytelling to reveal an important and disturbing side of the ever-evolving field of medicine.

How Winter Began

Author : Joy Castro
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803284799
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book How Winter Began written by Joy Castro and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iréne gives the wealthy businessmen what they want, diving headfirst into the filthy river, thinking only of providing for her baby daughter, Marisa, as the men salivate over her soaked body emerging onto the bank. A young boy tries to befriend the reticent younger sister of the town's cruelest bully, only to discover the family betrayal behind her quiet countenance. Josefa, a young bride, is executed for murdering the man who raped her. Joy Castro's How Winter Began traces these and other characters as they seek compassion from each other and themselves. Thematically linked by the lives of women, especially Latinas, and their experiences of poverty and violence in a white-dominated, wealth-obsessed culture, How Winter Began is a delicately wrought collection of stories. The question at the heart of this riveting book is how or whether to trust one another after the rupture of betrayal.

The Big Empty

Author : Ladette Randolph
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080329011X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Big Empty written by Ladette Randolph and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vast, barren landscape or a place of subtle natural beauty; the middle of nowhere or the gateway to the cultural and historical riches of the West; many things to many people and a cipher to many more?the great state of Nebraska is by force of circumstances a place of possibilities. What these possibilities are and what they promise are precisely what the writers of The Big Empty tell us. ø Exploring the state from its rural reaches to its urban engines, from its marvelous ecosystems to its myriad historical and cultural offerings, these narratives evoke Nebraska in all its facets. Writers as diverse as Ron Hansen, Ted Kooser, Michael Anania, Bob Kerrey, Mary Pipher, Delphine Red Shirt, and William Kloefkorn, among many others, bring a wealth of perspectives and styles to topics such as the Oregon Trail and the Cheyenne Exodus, farming and Internet cafäs, politics, weather, and family secrets. The result is a portrait whose broad strokes and rich detail capture the mysterious character of Nebraska.

More in Time

Author : Jessica Poli
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496227948
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book More in Time written by Jessica Poli and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Journey Through Literary America

Author : Thomas R. Hummel
Publisher : Val de Grace
ISBN 13 : 9780981742519
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book A Journey Through Literary America written by Thomas R. Hummel and published by Val de Grace. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 304 page coffee table book takes a look at 26 of America s great authors and the places that inspired them. Unique to this book of literary biography is the element of the photograph. With over 140 photographs throughout, the images add mood and dimension to the writing and they are often shockingly close to what the featured authors described in their own words. Lushly illustrated, and beautifully designed, the book is as much of a pleasure to look at as it is to read. Rags to riches. Forbidden loves. Supernatural experiences. Narrow escapes. Some of the greatest stories of American literature are the stories of the scribes themselves and of the places that sparked their imaginations. In 2007, writer Thomas Hummel and photographer Tamra Dempsey set out in search of the sources of inspiration for 26 of this country's greatest authors. Two years and twenty thousand miles later, the result is A Journey Through Literary America -- a literary pilgrimage in photography and prose. In the words of one reviewer, "this is a beautiful and necessary book."

Rock Tree Bird

Author : Twyla M. Hansen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496220625
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Rock Tree Bird written by Twyla M. Hansen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 Nebraska Book Award 2018 WILLA Literary Award This collection of poems by the State Poet of Nebraska covers significant emotional territory while remaining firmly grounded in the landscape. From memories of the isolation and beauty of growing up on a farm, to a burgeoning awareness as a teenager of the economic and cultural forces waged against family farming, to coming to terms with the legacies of her parents after their passing, and, finally, arriving at an appreciation of nature and the environment wherever and whenever she finds it, Twyla M. Hansen offers poems that are alternately sad, sweet, funny, moving, human, and humane.

Local Wonders

Author : Ted Kooser
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803278110
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (781 download)

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Download or read book Local Wonders written by Ted Kooser and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the "quietest magnificent book IUve ever read" (Jim Harrison, author of "Legends of the Fall") Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska--an area known as the Bohemian Alps--where nothing is too big or too small for his attention.

Letter from a Place I've Never Been

Author : Hilda Raz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496226828
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Letter from a Place I've Never Been written by Hilda Raz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With empathy and compassion, Hilda Raz writes poems that span her private and public lives. Her poems explore the complexities that come with being alive in the world today.

How It Looks from Here

Author : Nebraska Writers Guild
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781945834127
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book How It Looks from Here written by Nebraska Writers Guild and published by . This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nebraska Writers Guild presents How it Looks from Here: Poetry from the Plains, a collection of twenty-seven poets who share their insights, dreams, visions, and everyday lives in the way only poets can do. The poems nestled within these pages reflect the heart and the depth of Nebraskans, and even a few non-Nebraskans. The Nebraska Writers Guild is one of the oldest organizations of its kind in the country. The Guild strives to support and create a community for writers of all styles and genres. Guild members are scattered across the country and continue to carry forth the creative traditions of native Nebraskans, and charter Guild members, like Bess Streeter Aldrich, John G. Neihardt, and Willa Cather.