Happy Halloween, UNP blog readers!  Looking for something to do after the ghostly festivities come to a close?  Why not check out a UNP author event?  We have a vast array of readings, discussions, signings, and presentations this week, and there’s something to suit any ghoul’s or goblin’s fancy.  So, hang up your witch’s hat, put down that candy corn, and join us for an author event that is sure to be more treat than trick.

A number of our authors will make appearances and take part in readings and panel discussions at this year’s NonfictionNow Conference at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.  For more information, visit: http://english.uiowa.edu/nonfiction/nonfictionow07/index.html.  A list of our NonfictionNow participating authors and their events can be found below:

• John Price, author of Not Just Any Land, a memoir of Price’s rediscovery of his place in the American landscape and of his search for a new relationship to the life of the prairie, will participate in the “Always the Fourth Genre” panel discussion on Thursday, November 1^st from 8:45am to 10:15am.
• Susanne George Bloomfield and Eric Melvin Reed, the editors of Adventures in the West, will take part in a panel discussion entitled “The Death of the Scholarly” on Thursday, November 1^st from 3:30pm to 5:00pm.  Bloomfield is also the editor of Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie.
• Susanne K. George, author of the literary biography Kate M. Cleary, will serve on the panel discussion “The Death of the Scholarly” on Thursday, November 1^st from 3:30pm to 5:00pm.
• The author of Opa Nobody, Sonya Huber, will serve on the panel discussing “Trauma, Truth, and Trash” on Thursday, November 1^st from 3:30pm to 5:00pm.
• The editor of Landscapes with Figures, Robert Root, will participate in the panel discussion “Composition = Create Nonfiction” on Thursday, November 1^st from 3:30pm to 5:00pm.  Mimi Schwartz, author of Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed and the forthcoming Good Neighbors, Bad Times, will also appear on the panel.
• Just Breathe Normally author, Peggy Shumaker will give a reading on Thursday, November 1^st from 5:00pm to 6:00pm.  Kirkus called Just Breathe Normally “[a]n entrancing meditation on absolution and memory.”
• Jennifer Brice, author of Unlearning to Fly, will give a reading at the conference in the main lounge on Thursday, November 1^st from 5:00pm to 6:00pm.  Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz, co-authors of What Becomes You, which Glenn Scofield Williams of JustOut called “the best memoir I’ve read in a decade,” will also give a reading on Thursday, November 1^st in the main lounge from 5:00pm to 6:00pm and another from 6:00pm to 7:00pm.
• Dinah Lenney, author of the captivating memoir, Bigger than Life, will take part in a reading on Thursday, November 1^st from 5:00pm to 6:00pm. 
• David Shields, author of Black Planet, a critically acclaimed and controversial look at race and the National Basketball Association; Body Politic, touted by Kirkus as “[a] thinking person’s collection of sports essays;” and the sports novel, Heroes, will participate in a reading on Thursday, November 1^st from 5:00pm to 6:00pm.  He will also take part in a panel discussion entitled “Autobiography and Critique” the following day, Friday, November 2^nd, from 1:45pm to 3:15pm. 
• Diane Glancy, author of Designs of the Night Sky, which Library Journal called ". . . [a]n engaging novel that deals with the issues of present and past among Native peoples and of Spirit in those who have embraced Christianity,” will take part in the panel discussion “What Is It?” from 8:45am to 10:15am on Friday, November 2^nd.  Also appearing on the panel will be Joe Mackall, author of The Last Street Before Cleveland.
• Between Panic and Desire author, Dinty W. Moore, will participate in a panel discussion entitled “Of Thumbs” on Friday, November 2^nd from 1:45pm to 3:15pm. 
• Scraping By in the Big Eighties author, Natalia Rachel Singer, will take part in the panel discussion “Beauty and Power” on Friday, November 2^nd from 1:45pm to 3:15pm.  Cheryl Burke of Bust called Singer’s book “[a] tumultuous yet life-affirming quest for truth, beauty, and creativity in the self-absorbed 80’s.”

In addition, we have a many other author events for you to consider…

• Andrew K. Frank, author of Creeks and Southerners, an examination of intermarriages between Creek Indian women and European American men in the southeastern United States during the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, will take part in a session entitled “Imperialism on the Gulf Coast” at the Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting. He will read from his paper “In the Face of Conquest: Seminole Culture and the Preservation of Political Sovereignty in Long War” from 9:30am to 11:30am on Thursday, November 1^st at the Richmond Marriot Hotel in Richmond, Virginia.  Also appearing at the SHA Annual Meeting—Kathryn E. Holland Braund, the author of Deerskins and Duffels.  She will participate in the session “Imperialism on the Gulf Coast” from 9:30am to 11:30am.  Finally, James Alex Garza, author of The Imagined Underworld, will partake in a session entitled “Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary Change in Mexico” on Friday, November 2^nd from 9:30am to 11:30am. For more information, visit http://www.uga.edu/~sha/meeting/index.htm
• The author of Branch Rickey, Lee Lowenfish, will serve as keynote speaker at the State Historical Society of Missouri’s annual luncheon on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus on Saturday, November 3^rd.  For more information, visit: http://shs.umsystem.edu/annualmeeting/annualmeeting.shtml.  Lowenfish will also make an appearance and partake in a book discussion and signing at Borders in Brentwood, Missouri on Sunday, November 4^th at 2:00pm. The address for this Borders location is 1519 South Brentwood Blvd., Brentwood, MO 63144.
• Fictional Minds author, Alan Palmer, will chair a working breakfast at the Theory of Mind and Literature Conference at Purdue University on Monday, November 5^th to discuss the conference’s conclusions and propose directions for future research.  For more information, visit: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/fll/ToM/keynote.htm

For a full listing of author events, please visit our event page on the UNP Web site at http://nebraskapress.unl.edu/Catalog/ProductEvents.aspx?SearchOnLoad=true