Awards Patrick Madden’s Disparates won the 15 Bytes Book Award for Creative Nonfiction! The Rhinehart Frames by Cheswayo Mphanza is a finalist for the 2021 NBCC Awards! Neal Scheindlin’s The Jewish Family Ethics Textbook is a finalist in the 2021 … Continue reading News & Reviews
UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the books we gifted to loved ones this holiday season! Continue reading December Staff Reading List
The Burglar’s Christmas was originally published near the beginning of Willa Cather’s writing career in 1896 under the pseudonym of Elizabeth L. Seymour. The story follows William Crawford on the cold streets of Chicago as he contemplates the multiple failures plaguing … Continue reading Excerpt: The Burglar’s Christmas
Fred Luebke, founding director of the Center for Great Plain Studies at UNL and founding editor of Great Plains Quarterly, passed away on November 27, 2021 at the age of 94. After earning his degree in 1968, he became a … Continue reading Remembering Fred Luebke
The following is from the University of Nebraska Press Fall 2021 Newsletter, i.e. The University of Nebraska Press lost two of its most renowned scholars this spring with the passing of both Raymond J. DeMallie (October 16, 1946– April 25, … Continue reading UNP Mourns the Loss of Scholars DeMallie and Parks
Awards What Isn’t Remembered Longlisted for 2022 PEN American Literary Award for the Debut Short Story Collection category! Reviews Let Me Count the Ways Review in Publishers Weekly: “With quotations from medical literature, historical treatises, and poetry threaded in, the … Continue reading News & Reviews
We’re excited to see several of our baseball books on Alex Belth’s list of “100 Best Baseball Books” ever written for Esquire magazine. Read the excerpts below to see what they said about each book. The Summer Game by Roger … Continue reading Six UNP Books Featured in Esquire’s Top 100 Baseball Books
The following is from the University of Nebraska Press Fall 2021 Newsletter, i.e. Paul A. Johnsgard, an internationally respected naturalist and UNP author, passed away on May 28, 2021, at the age of eighty-nine. Johnsgard was a professor emeritus of … Continue reading In Memoriam: Paul A. Johnsgard, 1931-2021
UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the titles where our noses have been buried. “I am finally reading The Breaking of Northwall by Paul O. Williams. It’s … Continue reading November Staff Reading List
Books Look Review in Wall Street Journal: “His lavishly illustrated Look: How a Highly Influential Magazine Helped Define Mid-Twentieth-Century America aims not only to rescue the glossy from obscurity but to burnish its reputation for courageous journalism. In the process, … Continue reading News and Reviews
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