Awards

Black Jesus and Other Super Heroes

Venita Blackburn

Longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction

 

The Modoc War

Robert A. McNally

Finalist in the NCIBA Book Awards

 

Ila Borders

Ila Borders is nominated for the inaugural 2018 Dorothy Seymour Mills Lifetime Achievement Award

 

 

Books

Black Elk Speaks

John G. Neihardt

Profile of Black Elk in the New Yorker:

“In the nineteen-sixties and seventies, Black Elk Speaks became the kind of book one carried in a backpack while hitchhiking around the West. (In this, I am describing myself.)”

Glory Days

Melissa Fraterrigo

Praise from Chicago Tribune:

“A brutally beautiful tale about tortured souls in a Midwestern inferno of lost jobs, lost hopes, lost connections.”

 

 

Atlas of Nebraska

Edited by J. Clark Archer et al

Featured in Omaha World-Herald:

“How about the paths of tornadoes across the state? The origins of foreign-born Nebraskans? Areas state-designated as short of physicians, dentists and pharmacists? Or how horses have migrated from rural to urban areas? There are maps for all that.”

 

Rails of War

Steven James Hanzis

Review on Strategy Page:

“As he tells the story of the organization, movement, and work of these troops, Hantzis also gives us a look at the battalion’s personnel and their individual experiences coping with alien cultures and war. . . . Rails of War will prove a profitable read for anyone interested in military railroading or the CBI.”

 

Westerns

Victoria Lamont

Praise from Western American Literature:

“The study is an exemplar of what close reading can accomplish, and its prose is always polished, exact, and eminently lucid.”

 

The Coming Man from Canton

Christopher W. Merrit

Review from True West:

“A meticulously researched and carefully written study . . . an essential source.”

 

Welcome to the Oglala Nation

Akim Reinhardt

Review from Great Plains Quarterly:

“Reinhardt succeeds in presenting a dynamic version of Lakota political history. . . He has compiled an excellent resource.”

 

The Zoo at Night

Susan Gubernat

Excerpt in The San Francisco Chronicle.

 

Three books from The Jewish Publication Society listed in Jewish Book Council‘s “Feminist Jewish Perspectives” reading list.

 

Authors

Upton Bell

Author interviewed on WBZ Book Club.

 

 

Safiya Sinclair

Author interview on Lit Hub.

 

Grant Hayter-Menzies

Author interview on Horse Talk.

 

David Lazar

Author interview on The Rumpus.