We Are Here by Ellen Cassedy was reviewed by Philip K. Jason for the Jewish Book Council. Jason said, "Cassedy’s quest is brilliantly balanced, totally engaging, and constantly penetrating." Click here to read the full review. Continue reading We Are Here gets rave review
Check out Ozzie Zehner's Green Illusions author video on Amazon! Click here to go to his Amazon page and watch the video at the bottom right corner. Continue reading Green Illusions video
Susan Kushner Resnick's new book You Saved Me, Too: What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me About Living, Dying, Loving, Fighting, and Swearing in Yiddish (Globe Pequot/Skirt!) was reviewed by Publisher's Weekly. Resnick is also the author of Goodbye Wifes and Daughters (University of Nebraska Press, 2011), which tells the story of the 1943 mining disaster in Bearcreek, Montana, and the women who survived the tragedy. Continue reading Author in Publisher’s Weekly
BEA officially ended last week, but you can still go online and relive some of the action here. Below is author Ellen Cassedy (left) with Donna Shear, director of University of Nebraska Press, in front of UNP's booth. Continue reading More from BEA
Matthew Gavin Frank's Pot Farm is the grand prize winner of the 2012 New York Book Festival. Click here for the full list of winners. Congratulations to Matthew! Continue reading Pot Farm named grand prize winner
Tomorrow night UNP author Terese Svoboda will be in Lincoln! Nebraska Summer Writers Conference and Caring People Sudan will present Nuer/Nebraska, an evening with Terese Svoboda, translator of Cleaned the Crocodile's Teeth: Nuer Song, celebrating Nebraskan-Nuer culture. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. in the University of Nebraska’s student union. Svoboda is also the author of Bohemian Girl (University of Nebraska Press, 2011). Continue reading UNP author in Lincoln
Author Wendy Call won the first place prize for Best History/Political Book in English in the International Latino Book Awards for her book, No Word for Welcome. The International Latino Book Award is the largest and most important Latino book awards in the USA. This year, the awards were sponsored by Libros Publishing, Scholastic, and Atria Books. No Word for Welcome follows the story of a large-scale development effort in central Mexico and the grassroots efforts to stop it. Congrats Wendy! Continue reading First place award winner
Tomorrow Terese Svoboda, author of Bohemian Girl, will be at the Printers Row Lit Fest in Chicago. Continue reading UNP author at Printers Row
Tonight is the opening of Center City Opera Theater's Slaying the Dragon, a new opera by composer Michael Ching and librettist Ellen Frankel. Slaying the Dragon is based on the upcoming UNP book Not by the Sword by Kathryn Watterson, in which she tells the inspiring true story of how a Jewish cantor and his family changed the life of a virulent white supremacist leader. The opening performance is at the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia at 8:00 p.m. with five performances through June 17. Click here for more information about the opera and performances. Philly.com previewed the opera earlier this week. Continue reading Slaying the Dragon opening night
Here's Robert K. Fitts at his book signing! Continue reading Author sighting at BEA
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