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Briefly Noted: Two Lenexa authors make 2021 Kansas Notable Books list
Two Lenexa authors make 2021 Kansas Notable Books list
Two Lenexa authors, Al Ortolani and Elizabeth C. Bunce, are on the 2021 Kansas Notable Books list.
State Librarian Eric Norris announced the 16th annual selection June 3 with a list of 15 books that were either written by a Kansas or about a Kansas related topic. All books were published the previous calendar year.
Ortolani’s
Swimming Shelter: Poems and Bunce’s
Premeditated Myrtle: A Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery both made the list. Both will be presented with a medal at the Kansas Book Festival at Washburn University on Sept. 18, according to a press release.
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This year s Kansas Book Festival will move from its usual venue at the Kansas Statehouse to Mabee Library at Washburn University.
The festival is scheduled for 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 18 and will feature free presentations by 40 authors, outdoor performances, a book-art exhibit, food vendors and exhibitor tents with publishers from around Kansas.
The event will kick off 4 p.m. Sept. 17 with a presentation by Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award winner Rebek Taussig who will speak about her memoir Sitting Pretty: The View from my Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body.
Aimee Nezhukumatahil, author of World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments, will headline the festival, according to a news release from Kansas Book Festival executive director Tim Bascom.
George Frazier: The University Press of Kansas must be preserved
By George Frazier
In late January, I received an email from my publisher, the University Press of Kansas, that an external consultant will conduct a review of the Press and put forward a recommendation to its trustees about how or if the Press will continue to operate. As a writer and armchair academic (I have a Ph.D. in computer science but work as a software architect rather than professor), this felt like one more 2020 pandemic-year kick in the gut.
Four years ago, the Press published my book “The Last Wild Places of Kansas: Journeys into Hidden Landscapes.” Since then I’ve traveled across the state giving talks about Kansas wild places. At every stop, somebody comes up after my presentation to let me know how my book put down in print what they had felt all their lives about Kansas that it is a place that matters. Books are powerful like that. They can legitimize and validate feelings that are somet