Mike Stark is a longtime journalist and author. His previous nonfiction books include the award-winning Chasing the Ghost Bear: On the Trail of America’s Lost Super Beast (Bison Books, 2022) and Wrecked in Yellowstone: Greed, Obsession, and the Untold Story of Yellowstone’s Most Infamous … Continue reading From the Desk of Mike Stark: A Bird that Gets Everyone Squawking
Edward H. Carpenter is the director of World Without War, an NGO focused on eliminating the root cause of the majority of human suffering in the 21st Century. His new book, Blue Helmet: My Year as a UN Peacekeeper in … Continue reading From the Desk of Edward H. Carpenter: How Effective is UN Peacekeeping?
On titles, memoirs-in-essays, novels-in-stories, and a forthcoming book Continue reading The Linked Essays Dilemma
David Krell is the author of 1962: Baseball and America in the Time of JFK (Nebraska, 2021), Do You Believe in Magic? Baseball and America in the Groundbreaking Year of 1966, and The Fenway Effect: A Cultural History of the Boston Red Sox (Nebraska, 2024). His … Continue reading Disco Balls and Baseballs: A Journey to 1978
Edward Armston-Sheret is a Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London. His new book On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration (Nebraska, 2024) was published in December. I recently … Continue reading From the Desk of Edward Armston-Sheret: Was Shackleton Different?
Terrence C. Petty is a writer and retired journalist. He worked for the Associated Press for thirty-five years. Based in Bonn, Germany, from 1987 to 1997, he covered German and European affairs, the pro-democracy movement that toppled the Berlin Wall, … Continue reading From the Desk of Terrence C. Petty: Nazis at the Watercooler
Katya Cengel is a freelance writer based in San Luis Obispo, California, and lectures in the Journalism Department of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Her work has appeared in New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. She is the … Continue reading From the Desk of Katya Cengel: Southeast Asian Refugees 50 Years Later
Since 2006, the University of Nebraska Press has worked to publish The Complete Letters of Henry James, an acclaimed series that fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists … Continue reading From the Desk of Henry James: Jan 7, 1889
Bill Thorness’s varied work as a journalist has spanned more than thirty-five years, from early work as editor of a national business magazine to current work as a freelance travel writer for the Seattle Times. He is the author of five … Continue reading From the Desk of Bill Thorness: What the War Uncovered
Leslie Patten has worked as a horticulturist, habitat specialist, and landscape designer. After moving to Wyoming, she has volunteered at the Buffalo Bill Museum of the West—preparing bird and mammal specimens and measuring wolf skulls for scientific research. Patten is the … Continue reading From the Desk of Leslie Patten: Searching for ‘One-Eye’
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