Sonja Livingston is an associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. In addition to her newest book, The Virgin of Prince Street (Nebraska, 2019), she is also the award-winning author of Ghostbread, Ladies Night at the Dreamland, and Queen of the … Continue reading From the Desk of Sonja Livingston: On Inclining the Ear of the Heart
The following is an excerpt from Starring Red Wing! by Linda M. Waggoner (November 2019). She is also the author of Fire Light: The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist. From Chapter 2: Ochsegahonegah at the Lincoln Institute It was a … Continue reading Excerpt: Starring Red Wing!
Christopher Thornton is a professor of writing at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates. He has worked as a special correspondent to the U.S. State Department’s International Information Program, writing feature stories on Arab and Muslim life in the United … Continue reading From the Desk of Christopher Thornton: The Real Iran
Vladimír Dzuro, author of The Investigator, recently released from Potomac Books, is presenting his book today at 7:00 p.m. in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Union Auditorium located on city campus. Dzuro has been on an international tour supporting his new … Continue reading See Vladimir Dzuro, The Investigator, at UNL
Happy University Press Week! Today the UP Week Blog Tour’s theme is “How to Practice Compassion.” The following is an excerpt from Rabbi Shai Held’s The Heart of Torah, Volume 2: Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy (Jewish … Continue reading University Press Week: Practicing Compassion
Happy University Press Week! Today the UP Week Blog Tour’s theme is “How to Build a Community.” The following is a guest post from Katya Cengel, a freelance writer and journalist who has worked around the world. She discusses the relationships … Continue reading University Press Week: Building Community with Katya Cengel
Happy University Press Week! Today the UP Week Blog Tour’s theme is “How to be an Environmental Steward.” Visit our fellow university presses for insightful blog posts. Descriptions and links are below. The University Press Blog Tour University of Pittsburgh … Continue reading University Press Week: Environmental Stewardship
Happy University Press Week! Today the UP Week Blog Tour’s theme is “How to Speak Up and Speak Out.” The following is a guest post from Timothy J. Hillegonds, author of the recently-released memoir, The Distance Between (Nebraska, 2019). Small truths, … Continue reading University Press Week: Speaking Up with Timothy Hillegonds
Happy University Press Week! Today the UP Week Blog Tour’s theme is “How to be a Better (Global) Citizen.” The following is a guest post from award-winning author Robin Hemley, whose book Borderline Citizen is coming out in March 2020. I’m Not … Continue reading University Press Week: Citizenship with Robin Hemley
Robert Aquinas McNally is the author of The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age (Bison Books, 2017), which won a 2018 Commonwealth Club of California gold medal for the year’s best book on California. … Continue reading From the Desk of Robert Aquinas McNally: California’s Genocide Steps into the Light
