May 18 is Astronomy Day. Established in 1973 by astronomer Doug Berger, Astronomy Day is designed to share the joy of astronomy with the general public. We’ve curated a list of books that are sure to have you gazing toward … Continue reading Reading List: National Astronomy Day
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 Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers (Nebraska, May 2023) by Erik … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Daybreak at Chavez Ravine
The University of Nebraska Press is proud to be on NetGalley’s publisher list. NetGalley is a digital platform that helps authors and publishers promote digital review copies to book reviewers and other publishing industry professionals. Join the online reader community here! … Continue reading UNP Books on NetGalley
Congratulations to UNP author Elliott West for being a 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist! The Pulitzer Prize in History is awarded to a distinguished and appropriately documented book on the history of the United States. The prize-winner was Jacqueline Jones for … Continue reading Elliott West is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist
The University of Nebraska Press is excited to join the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) in celebrating literary translation this May. Annually, the ALTA hosts Write the World, a series of virtual panels on all aspects of translation. This year … Continue reading Reading List: #ReadTheWorld
ICYMI Godfall by Van Jensen and The Sound of Undoing by Paige Towers were selected as part of the 2024 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. Both are in the book cover category. The covers were designed by UNP’s Nathan … Continue reading News & Reviews
Congratulations to Safiya Sinclair on her Guggenheim fellowship! The Guggenheim Fellowship is a prestigious award given to individuals who demonstrate exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or superior creative ability in the arts and exhibit great promise for their future endeavors. … Continue reading UNP Author Safiya Sinclair Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
Steve Steinberg is a baseball historian and author of Urban Shocker (Nebraska, 2017), winner of the SABR Baseball Research Award, and The World Series in the Deadball Era. Lyle Spatz is the author of many baseball books and the coauthor … Continue reading From the Desks of Steve Steinberg & Lyle Spatz: Mike Donlin
To celebrate Mother’s Day on May 12, we’ve curated a list of memoirs, fiction, anthropology, and history that explores the beautiful yet complicated kaleidoscope of motherhood. If This Were Fiction JILL CHRISTMAN If This Were Fiction is a love story—for Jill … Continue reading Reading List: Mother’s Day
The 2024 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, now in its 59th year, honors the university publishing community’s design and production professionals; recognizes achievement in design, production, and manufacture of print publications; and serves as a spark to conversations and source … Continue reading The 2024 AUPresses Book, Jacket, & Journal Show
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