In 1961 the University of Nebraska Press inaugurated the Bison Books trade paperback line, conceived as a way to bring affordable works of enduring literary merit to a mass audience. This year is Bison’s 50th year anniversary. The first season of publication included eight Bison Books with prices ranging from $1 to $1.50 each. Today there are more than 900 Bison Books in print, and the herd continues to grow. Last week, Governor Heineman signed a proclamation celebrating this milestone. Check out the official proclamation below. Also make sure to check out the Bison Book of the Month and register … Continue reading 50th Anniversary of Bison Books

Local author Bill Kloefkorn will be on The Joy Factor radio show on KZUM tomorrow, Wednesday, Jan. 19 at 6 p.m. to discuss his new poetry collection, Swallowing the Soap, published in October by the University of Nebraska Press. If you are in the Lincoln area, tune to 89.3 FM. The host of the show is Sheila Stratton. For more information visit The Joy Factor’s Facebook page.   William Kloefkorn is Nebraska’s state poet and emeritus professor of English at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln. He has published many books with the University of Nebraska Press, including a four-part memoir … Continue reading Lincoln author on local radio

Fabulous Harlequin: ORLAN and the Patchwork Self, which was published by University of Nebraska Press earlier this year, features the life and artwork of internationally renowned French artist ORLAN who is most famous for her series of cosmetic-surgery performances in the 1990s in which she reconfigured her face and body as a critique of the standards of beauty imposed on women. The book is full of photographs from her career from her Harlequin hybrid figures who sit in chairs, displaying a collection of hybridized garments and her transforming sugeries.    For those of you who are in the Lincoln area, ORLAN will be having a "round chair … Continue reading ORLAN discussion and exhibit at the Sheldon Museum

For three days and nights reading, writing and books were celebrated in Missoula at the Montana Festival of the Book. The festival featured writers from across the region in a variety of readings, panels, exhibits and signings. One of the panels had five history writers, including UNP author Sue Resnick, who dived into a plethora of Western topics including Irish in the American West to the Smith Mine disaster, which was the topic of Resnick’s book, Goodbye Wifes and Daughters. To read more about the panel discussion click here.     For those readers who are in Nebraska, UNP author … Continue reading UNP author on panel and open house invite

In 2009, the University of Nebraska Press published Hurricane Katrina: America’s Unnatural Disaster,  which questions the efficacy of the national and global responses to Katrina’s central victims, African Americans. This collection of essays explores the extent to which African Americans and others were — and are — disproportionately affected by the natural and manmade forces that caused Hurricane Katrina.  One of the book's editors, Dr. Matthew Whittaker (also a historian at Arizona State University) spoke at A Conversation with Cornel West – How We Got Here on Oct. 2. He spoke about the Arizona immigration law and the history of … Continue reading UNP editor talks about immigration

As I am writing the Chilean miners who have been trapped underground for 69 days are being rescued. At the time of this posting, there has been 20 out of the 33 miners rescued. Definite progress and hope for their families. See more news and a count down of those being rescued at CNN.com. One of UNP’s authors, Susan Kushner Resnick, brings a light to problems that miners have had way before the Chilean miners were trapped. In her book, Goodbye Wifes and Daughters, she explores a WWII -era mine explosion in Montana that killed 75 men. Sue discusses the disregard for safety back … Continue reading UNP author ahead of current news

Ana Maria Shua's Death as a Side Effect, which will be published this fall by the University of Nebraska Press, transports readers to a dystopia future Argentina where gangs and professional thieves roam the streets, the wealthy purchase security behind fortified concrete walls and travel is unsafe all over the country. Protagonist Ernesto seeks his vanished lover through the closed districts and ubiquitous sercurity cameras. Ana María Shua’s brilliantly dark satire has been regarded as one of the one hundred best Latin American novels published in the last twenty-five years.   Shua is also the author of Microfictions (Nebraska 2009), … Continue reading UNP author’s work at Frankfort book fair