Last Saturday, UNP authors and editors participated in a panel, American Lives: Exploring the Modern Memoir, during the 2010 AWP conference. Kristen Elias Rowley, UNP Humanities Editor, fields a question during the panel. Seated from left to right: Fleda Brown, author of Driving with Dvorak, Aaron Raz Link, author of What Becomes You, Lee Martin, author of Turning Bones, and Sonya Huber, author of Opa Nobody. Fleda Brown and Kristen Elias Rowley, panelists.   A packed house attended the American Lives panel.   Aaron Raz Link talks to a conference attendee after the panel. Continue reading Bonus AWP Photos

University of Nebraska Press author Hedi Fried is one of four genocide survivors profiled in the documentary, The Last Survivor, which will be screened at the Dallas International Film Festival today. The Last Survivor profiles Fried, a survivor of the Holocaust, as well as survivors of genocides in Darfur, Congo and Rwanda. All four have worked through the horrific things they experienced in part by becoming active in genocide prevention and education efforts. The film has garnered rave reviews, including several awards from the Oxford Film Festival. Fried is the author of The Road to Auschwitz, which the University of … Continue reading UNP author subject of new documentary, The Last Survivor, plus two new sales

The final photos from last week's AWP:  Patrick Madden, author of Quotidiana, signs books at the University of Nebraska Press booth. Dinty W. Moore, New AWP president and author of Between Panic and Desire, and Terese Svoboda, author of Trailer Girl and Other Stories, take a moment for a photo opportunity. Continue reading AWP finale

Several authors stopped by the University of Nebraska Press booth on Friday to visit with their fans and sign books during the 2010 AWP conference.  Peggy Shumaker, author of Just Breathe Normally, and Dinty W. Moore, new AWP president and author of Between Panic and Desire, pose with each other's books. Sherrie Flick, author of Reconsidering Happiness: A Novel, signs books.  Terese Svoboda, author of Trailer Girl and Other Stories, talks to a conference attendee during her book signing. Continue reading Friday photos from AWP

Live from the 2010 Association of Writers and Writings Programs (AWP) conference in Denver, Colorado, 2008 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize Winner Kurt Caswell signs An Inside Passage for Ben Birkerts. Continue reading Live from the 2010 AWP Conference

Nebraska readers of this blog can celebrate Nebraska’s birth month by tuning into NET Television tonight at 8 p.m. for Nebraska Stories, a magazine-style news program highlighting notable Nebraskans, ideas and events that contribute to the state’s identity. Tonight’s program also highlights two University of Nebraska Press authors. George Norris is one of Nebraska’s best-known politicians and a force behind the formation of Nebraska’s Unicameral Legislature. The University of Nebraska Press published a new paperback edition of his autobiography last year. Former Nebraska State Senator David Landis will portray Norris in the Nebraska Stories episode tonight. Joel Sartore is Lincoln’s … Continue reading Nebraska Stories and an LA Times review

It's finally here! The University of Nebraska Press and Ted Kooser will celebrate the launch of his new book, Lights on a Ground of Darkness, tonight at the W. Dale Clark Library, 215 S. 15th St. in Downtown Omaha tonight at 7 p.m. Lights on a Ground of Darkness is a remembrance (written as prose, instead of poetry) of the time Kooser spent with his mother’s family in Guttenberg, Iowa, when he was a little boy. The event is free and open to the public, books will be for sale, and Ted will sign copies. And, if you missed it, Ted appeared … Continue reading Tonight’s the night! Ted Kooser to sign copies of his new book in Omaha