This weekend a few UNP authors will be presenting at book festivals around the country. David Davis will be at LitFest Pasadena in California. He is presenting on a panel titled “Writing the Sports Narrative: Going Beyond Box Scores and … Continue reading Author events this weekend
Every year, the Popular Culture Association (PCA) honors the highest quality of scholarship in popular culture studies. This year’s PCA Awards were swept by books nominated by university presses. Books from the University of Missouri Press, University of Nebraska Press, University … Continue reading PCA Awards
This week the American Indian Studies Center at University of California, Los Angeles and its Southern California co-hosts will welcome NAISA, the largest scholarly organization devoted to Indigenous issues and research. UNP will have new and notable titles on display at booth 212. Below is a sample of what you’ll find. Indigenous Cities: Urban Indian Fiction and the Histories of Relocation by Laura M. Furlan is a critical study of contemporary American Indian narratives set in urban spaces that reveals how these texts respond to diaspora, dislocation, citizenship, and reclamation. Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations edited by Jacqueline … Continue reading NAISA preview
Michael Dax is the author of Grizzly West: A Failed Attempt to Reintroduce Grizzly Bears in the Mountain West (Nebraska, 2015). He lives and writes in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Last summer, in its second attempt since 2010, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service … Continue reading From the Desk of Michael Dax: What Yellowstone delisting means for Bitterroot Grizzlies
Writer and poet Philip F. Deaver passed away last month at a hospice in Orlando, Florida. He was seventy-one years old. Deaver was the author of How Men Pray and Silent Retreats and winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. He was … Continue reading Remembering Philip K. Deaver
Awards Amina Gautier Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award: “Amina Gautier is a prolific and award-winning writer of short fiction. In myriad stories that captivate readers and critics alike, she complicates and illuminates the intersection of self and place, with characters … Continue reading News and Reviews
The following is an excerpt from More than a Doctrine: The Eisenhower Era in the Middle East (May 2018) by Randall Fowler. From Eisenhower, Containment and the Middle East Like much of American foreign policy in the early Cold War, … Continue reading Excerpt from More than a Doctrine: The Eisenhower Era in the Middle East
University of Nebraska Press author Margaret Jacobs was one of thirty-one scholars named a Carnegie Fellow this month. She is the first University of Nebraska-Lincoln professors awarded the honor. Jacobs was selected from more than 270 proposals and will be … Continue reading UNP author named Carnegie Fellow
Scott D. Seligman is a writer and historian. He is the author of several books, including Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York’s Chinatown and The First Chinese American: The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo. His articles … Continue reading From the Desk of Scott D. Seligman: Uncovering a Compelling Story
The following books are now available in paperback editions. The Soccer Diaries: An American’s Thirty-Year Pursuit of the International Game by Michael J. Agovino “An intimate and wonderfully written account of a sport that is increasingly shaking America’s soul out.”—Colum McCann, author of … Continue reading Now in Paperback
