Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in social media posts, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Truman and the Bomb: The Untold Story (Potomac Books, 2023) by D. M. Giangreco. About … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to D.M. Giangreco’s Truman and the Bomb
Book lovers, get your calendars out and save the date. A new literary festival is taking place in Lincoln. The 2024 Nebraska Celebration of Books (NCOB) will take place on Oct. 12, 2024, in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus … Continue reading N.COB: a new literary festival to take place this fall
Sigrid Anderson is the librarian for English language and literature at the University of Michigan’s Hatcher Graduate Library and a lecturer in the Department of American Culture. Her book, Land of Sunshine: Race, Gender, and Regional Development in a California Periodical, … Continue reading Excerpt: Land of Sunshine
The Sealey Challenge is a community call to read one book of poetry a day during August. From chapbooks to full collections, the challenge encourages you to engage with diverse voices and share your reading experience online with the #SealeyChallenge … Continue reading Poetry Must-Reads During the Sealey Challenge
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. “This month I’ve been reading Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Bury Your … Continue reading July Staff Reading List
The African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) promotes and advances the development and publication of the poetic arts through its book series, contests, workshops, and seminars and through its collaborations with publishers, festivals, booking agents, colleges, universities, conferences and all other … Continue reading Michael Imossan Wins 2024 Sillerman Prize
ICYMI Tom Hoffarth, author of Perfect Eloquence, was on LA CBS Sports Corner! Reviews Westerns Review in Ancillary Review of Books: “In Westerns: A Women’s History, Victoria Lamont spotlights women within the Western genre: fictional protagonists and their flesh-and-blood authors. Lamont … Continue reading News & Reviews
To help spread the word about new UNP books, our publicity team launched the UNP Influencer Partnership in 2023. As part of the partnership, influencers can request and receive galleys (physical or e-book) or finished books of their choice. We … Continue reading UNP Influencer Partnership: Fall/Winter 2024 titles available
James Mallery is a licensed architect specializing in existing and historical buildings in Los Angeles. He has a PhD in history and has taught architectural history and U.S. history at various institutions. His new book, City of Vice: Transience and San Francisco’s … Continue reading Excerpt: City of Vice
The University of Nebraska Press is pleased to announce the selection of the next book in the fiction series, Zero Street. All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere by DeMisty D. Bellinger will be published on September 1, 2024. Fantastical, sensual, and … Continue reading Announcing the third book in the Zero Street Fiction series
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