What can we learn from the stories of bison and the Pawnee seed keepers? How can conservation be practiced today? Nebraska Public Media has put together a book club kit inspired by Ken Burns’s The American Buffalo (premiers today), which explores … Continue reading Nebraska Public Media Book Club Kit
Fall is the season of endings, but some moments stay behind to haunt–perhaps a dead brother who appears unspeaking in a dust storm. Or the snatches of sad piano heard in an empty room of the C.C. White Building. Now … Continue reading Reading List: Books That Haunt
Patrice Gopo is the author of All the Colors We Will See, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and All the Places We Call Home. She lives with her family in North Carolina, where she enjoys walks just after dawn … Continue reading Excerpt: Autumn Song
ICYMI UNP Nebraska Book Award Winners Reviews Life in the G Review in Booklist: “This is an unforgettable view of an aspect of the NBA that most of us don’t see, in which the glitz and glamour we’re used to … Continue reading News & Reviews
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
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