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UNP Nebraska Book Award Winners
Reviews
Review in Booklist:
“This is an unforgettable view of an aspect of the NBA that most of us don’t see, in which the glitz and glamour we’re used to are replaced by the true, day-to-day grind of the $37,000-a-year-earning NBA hopeful. Squadron’s detailed narrative impeccably captures the pursuit of an elusive dream.”
Review in EuropeNow:
“This book will fascinate scholars in museum studies, postcolonial studies, memory studies, cultural geography, and anyone interested in tracing the history of material culture. Beyond the case study and geographic focus, this scholarship will also inform explorations into local colonial collections in other parts of the world, from Africa to Canada. By making space for Indigenous actions and reactions, the study will become a model for the decentering of historical studies on colonial artifacts.”
Review in Linden Review:
“The Sound of Undoing marks the emergence of a bold voice in creative nonfiction. It asks us to turn our collective ears to the cacophonous and the sonorous, the mundane and the sublime. Towers breathes new life into the familiar soundscape of our modern existence, asking us to rediscover the wondrousness of our sound-filled world.”
Review in Patrick Reardon Blog:
“The life of Bass Reeves was the stuff of legends, and Art T. Burton’s book is the raw material for the telling of those legends.”
Review in Mother Jones:
“I appreciate how Zaid—in addition to delivering a smart, surreal, and sexy thriller with a perfect ending—gets at the tensions between my generation’s love of things we can hold in our hands and the increasingly overwhelming universe of digital media, Big Data, consumer surveillance, and AI—wherein we are fed things more often than we discover them. “
Review in On The Seawall:
“…a thorough and generous book which explores the many types of roles an author may choose to assume when relaying a story. She argues that a young writer at the beginning of her artist’s journey may overburden herself with the search for her ‘voice,’ when in fact there are many voices inside her and the kindest thing to do is to write in them, observe them, and name them.”
Nourishing Waters, Comforting Sky
Review in H-Environment:
“Jones sees the landscape for the problems it has had and will have, but does not let that stop him from loving it any less fully; in this, the book is an inspiration. The beauty of Jones’s writing is not to be overstated. The reader can tell how much he is embedded in this particular landscape, and it is a true privilege to read the joy of another.”
Author Interviews
Interview with the Dallas Morning News
Interview with Downtown with Rich Kimball
Interview with Mighty Blue on The Appalachian Trail
Interview with Bleav
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