Jim Leeke is a former journalist, copywriter, and retired creative director. He interviewed Ron Luciano during Luciano’s first book tour in 1982. Leeke is the author of several books, including The Gas and Flame Men: Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service during … Continue reading Excerpt: Big Loosh
Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor of anthropology emerita at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of History of Theory and Method in Anthropology (Nebraska, 2022), among other books. Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz is professor of communication emerita at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. She … Continue reading Excerpt: Invisible Contrarian
Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs is a professor of medicine emerita at Stanford University. She is the author of two critically acclaimed books, Jonas Salk: A Life and Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin’s Disease. Her latest book 90 Seconds to Midnight: A Hiroshima Survivor’s … Continue reading Excerpt: 90 Seconds to Midnight
David Kamper is a professor of American Indian studies, associate director and cofounder of the Center for Skateboarding, Action Sports, and Social Change, and cofounder of Surf/Skate Studies Collaborative at San Diego State University. His most recent book is Rezballers and … Continue reading Excerpt: Rezballers and Skate Elders
Andrea R. Morrell is an associate professor of anthropology at Guttman Community College, City University of New York. Her book Prison Town: Making the Carceral State in Elmira, New York (Nebraska, 2025) was published last month. In Prison Town Andrea R. Morrell illustrates … Continue reading Excerpt: Prison Town
Blake Allmendinger is a professor of English at the University of California–Los Angeles. He is the author of several books, including Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West (Nebraska, 2021), The Melon Capital of the World (Nebraska, 2015), Imagining the African American West (Nebraska, 2008), … Continue reading Excerpt: Tongues of Settlement
Liza Bennett is a full-time writer and former advertising executive. She has published ten novels, including Local Knowledge, So Near, A Place for Us, and Bleeding Heart under the name Liza Gyllenhaal. She divides her time between New York City and the Berkshire Hills in Massachusetts. … Continue reading Excerpt: Georgia and Anita
Harriet E. H. Earle is a senior lecturer of English at Sheffield Hallam University and a research fellow at the Centre for War, Atrocity, and Genocide at Nipissing University in Canada. She is the author of Comics: An Introduction and Comics, Trauma, and the … Continue reading Excerpt: Silence in the Quagmire
Alan D. Gaff is an independent scholar and the author of many books, including Lou Gehrig: The Lost Memoir, Bayonets in the Wilderness, Blood in the Argonne, and On Many a Bloody Field. He lives in Indiana. Baseball’s First Superstar: The Lost Life Story of … Continue reading Excerpt: Baseball’s First Superstar
Tristan Garcia is a rising star of the French intellectual and literary world, having published several books of philosophy—including the influential Form and Object—as well as eight works of fiction. His first novel won the Prix de Flore and was translated into … Continue reading Excerpt: Memories from the Jungle
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