Tim Manners is a writer, communications consultant, and baseball fan. He is the coauthor of the memoir Schoolboy: The Untold Journey of a Yankees Hero (Nebraska, 2024). To learn more visit: https://schoolboyhoyt.com/ or follow the author on Facebook. Waite Hoyt’s life … Continue reading From the Desk of Tim Manners: A Ghostwriter’s Journey
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: March 18, 1888
Patrice Gopo is the author of Autumn Song: Essays on Absence. She lives with her family in North Carolina, where she enjoys walks just after dawn and thinks a perfect day ends with ice cream. Please visit patricegopo.com to learn more. Terra Trevor … Continue reading Patrice Gopo and Terra Trevor on Craft, Community, and the Art of the Essay
Hanne Nielsen is a senior lecturer in Antarctic law and governance at the University of Tasmania. Her research interests lay in representations of Antarctica, including Antarctica in advertising and Antarctica as a workplace. Nielsen has spent five seasons working as a guide in … Continue reading Brand Antarctica: Lenses on the Far South
Today is acclaimed American novelist Willa Cather’s 150th birthday. The National Willa Cather Center is celebrating with a series of special events to mark the occasion. Willa Cather (1873–1947) was born in Virginia, moved with her family to Nebraska in 1883, and … Continue reading From the Desk of Tracy Daugherty: The Timelessness of Willa Cather
Happy University Press Week! Help us celebrate university presses November 13-17. Since 2012, members of the Association of University Presses have participated in an annual celebration of University Presses. Following the example of the first University Press week, proclaimed by US President Jimmy … Continue reading UP Week: WHERE does your press #SpeakUP?
Almost thirty years ago, Suzanne Roberts, author of Animal Bodies and Bad Tourist, embarked on a twenty-eight-day hike on California’s John Muir Trail that changed her life. Her story of a month in the backcountry, Almost Somewhere was first published … Continue reading Postcards from the John Muir Trail: Creating My Own Language for the Landscape
Laura Reece Hogan is the author of I Live, No Longer I, O Garden-Dweller, and Litany of Flights. Her most recent book Butterfly Nebula was published this month by Backwaters Press. The James Webb Space Telescope, launched in late 2021, has provided the world … Continue reading From the Desk of Laura Reece Hogan: On Stars and Sea Creatures
Almost thirty years ago, Suzanne Roberts, author of Animal Bodies and Bad Tourist, embarked on a twenty-eight-day hike on California’s John Muir Trail that changed her life. Her story of a month in the backcountry, Almost Somewhere, was first published … Continue reading Postcards from the John Muir Trail: Muir Pass and Finding a Home in the Mountains
Almost thirty years ago, Suzanne Roberts, author of Animal Bodies and Bad Tourist, embarked on a twenty-eight-day hike on California’s John Muir Trail that changed her life. Her story of a month in the backcountry Almost Somewhere was first published … Continue reading Postcards from the John Muir Trail: Looking Back on Mather Pass
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