May is Jewish American Heritage Month and Shavuot begins May 28. Celebrate all month long and save 40% on classic and contemporary Jewish texts with both of these sales! Use code 6SH20 or 6JAHM20 at check out to save on … Continue reading Announcing Two New Sales for May
David C. Beyreis has a PhD in history from the University of Oklahoma and teaches history at Ursuline Academy of Dallas. He is the author of Blood in the Borderlands: Conflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, 1821-1920 (May 2020). One Lucky … Continue reading From the Desk of David C. Beyreis: One Lucky Historian
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. The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma by Ratika Kapur “It’s … Continue reading April Staff Reading List
The following is an excerpt from The Estrada Plot: How the FBI Captured a Secret Army and Stopped the Invasion of Mexico by Bill Mills (Potomac Books, April). After months of living with only the barest of necessities while battling Obregón’s forces … Continue reading Excerpt: The Estrada Plot
Jackson Adams and Anna Weir are publicists at UNP. Today they share their thoughts about a couple upcoming titles they’re particularly excited about as readers. The books in this discussion will be published in May. Anna Weir: I’ve been looking forward to Out of the … Continue reading Publicist Picks: Tracking Technology, Repairing the World, and Other May Books
Robert Fitts is the author of Mashi: The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer (Nebraska, 2015), Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Baseball (Nebraska, 2008), and Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan (Nebraska, 2012), winner … Continue reading Robert Fitts at Home: On Writing and Japanese Baseball History
Books Here’s the Pitch by Roberta J. Newman Last Seasons in Havana by César Brioso Awarded the SABR Baseball Research Award! The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Season of 1932 Thomas Wolf Starred … Continue reading News and Reviews
Will Geoghegan is an award-winning sportswriter in Rhode Island who covers the Newport Gulls and Ocean State Waves of the New England Collegiate Baseball League. Since 2007 he has written about the Cape League at rightfieldfog.com. Why is Summer Baseball … Continue reading Will Geoghegan at Home: On Writing, Baseball, and Nostalgia
The following is from the University of Nebraska Press Spring 2020 Newsletter, i.e. Sue William Silverman is a memoirist, poet, and teacher of writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has published several books, including Because I Remember … Continue reading Why I Write: By Sue William Silverman
Patrick Madden is a professor at Brigham Young University. He is the author of the award-winning Sublime Physick: Essays (Nebraska, 2016) and Quotidiana: Essays (Nebraska, 2010), and coeditor, with David Lazar, of After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays. His essays have appeared in a variety … Continue reading Patrick Madden at Home: On (not) Writing (much) and the Essayistic in Life
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