UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the titles where our noses have been buried. “I recently finished Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson. The … Continue reading September Staff Reading List
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to If This Were Fiction (Nebraska, September 2022) by Jill Christman. About the Book: If This Were Fiction is a … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to If This Were Fiction
Torsa Ghosal is an assistant professor of English at California State University, Sacramento. She is the author of Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative. Alison Gibbons is a reader in contemporary stylistics at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. She … Continue reading Excerpt: Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives
ICYMI Teaser trailer for Lawmen: Bass Reeves, inspired by The Bass Reeves Trilogy in Dallas Morning News Reviews Forget I Told You This Review in Foreword Reviews: “Set in a dystopian near-future, Hilary Zaid’s conspiracy novel Forget I Told You This sets … Continue reading News & Reviews
Mike Bezemek is the author and photographer of three books that combine stories with trip guides, including Paddling the John Wesley Powell Route: Exploring the Green and Colorado Rivers and Discovering the Outlaw Trail: Routes, Hideouts, and Stories from the Wild West. His newest … Continue reading How the First Spacewalk Ended in a Ski Trip
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Under My Bed and Other Essays (Nebraska, September 2022) by Jody Keisner. About the Book: In Under My Bed … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Under My Bed and Other Essays
Ruzana Liburkina is a cultural anthropologist and a research associate in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. Her newest book, The Visible Hands That Feed: Responsibility and Growth in the Food Sector, was published last … Continue reading Excerpt: The Visible Hands That Feed
Michael J. Devine is an adjunct professor of history at the University of Wyoming. Previously he was the director of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and a professor of history and director of the American Heritage Center at the University … Continue reading Excerpt: The Korean War Remembered
Alex Squadron is a sports journalist who has worked as an associate editor for SLAM, producing cover stories on NBA stars and reporting on numerous marquee events, including the NBA Finals, NBA All-Star Weekend, and FIBA World Cup in China. … Continue reading From the Desk of Alex Squadron: On Life in the G
ICYMI Teaser trailer for Lawmen: Bass Reeves, inspired by The Bass Reeves Trilogy in Dallas Morning News Reviews Who Are the Jews—And Who Can We Become? Review in Publishers Weekly: “Hartman adroitly argues that ‘as long as the story we … Continue reading News & Reviews
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