Hilary Zaid is the author of the award-winning novel Paper is White. Her short works have appeared in Mother Jones, Ecotone, Day One, Southwest Review, and Utne Reader, and have been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her newest book, Forget I Told You This, is the … Continue reading From the Desk of Hilary Zaid: The Necessary Edit, the Necessary Project
Reviews At the Base of the Giant’s Throat Review in The Wall Street Journal: “The story of America is, in a very real sense, the story of its rivers and the struggle to control them. Anthony Palumbi’s book, At the … Continue reading News & Reviews
Nina Kushner is an associate professor of history at Clark University. She is author of Erotic Exchanges: Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris and coeditor of Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France. Andrew Israel Ross is an associate professor of history at Loyola University Maryland. He is … Continue reading Excerpt: Histories of French Sexuality
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Charlie Murphy: The Iconoclastic Showman behind the Chicago Cubs (Nebraska, June 2022) by Jason Cannon. About the Book: … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Charlie Murphy
Local reading is about to be celebrated again in the capital city! After a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Nebraska Book Festival is back in Lincoln taking place on Saturday, June 10 at the Lincoln Foundation Garden and Lincoln City Library … Continue reading UNP at the Nebraska Book Festival
Pride Month is the perfect time to pick up a book featuring LGBTQ+ voices and perspectives written by one of our authors. With our summer reading sale, you can get our books half-off! As a bonus, now until the end of … Continue reading Pride Month Reading List
Venetia Hobson Lewis worked at several stock brokerages and for almost eighteen years as a corporate paralegal for a motion picture studio. She is the author of several award-winning Western short stories. Her newest book, Changing Woman: A Novel of … Continue reading From the Desk of Venetia Hobson Lewis: Finding the Women’s Voices Lost to Time
Shop our annual SUMMER SALE! Whether youre interested in history, poetry, sports, memoir, or want to find that perfect gift—save 50% on thousands of our books, including our imprints Bison Books, The Backwaters Press, and Potomac Books. Just enter 6SUMM23 … Continue reading Summer Reading Sale
Reviews Henry James Framed Review in Gay and Lesbian Review: “Michael Anesko has dedicated a prodigious amount of scholarship to produce an accessible, highly entertaining account of the 24 times that James sat for his portrait… This is a book … Continue reading News & Reviews
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