Jim Leeke is a former news journalist, a retired copywriter and creative director, and a U.S. Navy veteran. He is the author of several books, including The Turtle and the Dreamboat (Potomac Books, 2022), The Best Team Over There (Nebraska, … Continue reading Excerpt: The Gas and Flame Men
To celebrate Read an Ebook week, we are excited to announce that the University of Nebraska Press (UNP) is partnering with Glassboxx and Longleaf to roll out a seamless e-reader solution: the Leaf e-reader app. With more than 2,500 UNP … Continue reading UNP announces new e-reader app: Leaf
“We’d never have got through it if I hadn’t been so strong.” —Ántonia Shimerda in My Ántonia by Willa Cather The National Women’s History Alliance, which spearheaded the movement to declare March National Women’s History Month, has announced that the women’s history theme … Continue reading Women’s History Month Sale
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. “I just finished One Woman Show. I’m a short story and museum … Continue reading February Staff Reading List
Melissa K. Byrnes is a professor of modern European and world history at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Her latest book, Making Space: Neighbors, Officials, and North African Migrants in the Suburbs of Paris and Lyon was published in January. Since … Continue reading Excerpt: Making Space
Reviews A New Deal for Quilts Review in The Literate Quilter: “In her Preface, Smucker connects Pandemic quilt making to the past and in the last chapter includes examples of Pandemic quilts, demonstrating how quilters respond to current events and … Continue reading News & Reviews
Rebecca M. Valette is professor emerita of Romance languages at Boston College and an internationally recognized expert in language methodology, testing, and applied linguistics. She and her husband, Jean-Paul Valette, have curated several exhibitions of Navajo textiles. They are coauthors of Weaving … Continue reading Excerpt: Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver
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 Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (University of Nebraska Press, February 2023) by Elliott … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Continental Reckoning
The University of Nebraska Press is happy to announce that Tomás Q. Morín will be the judge for the 2024 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry competition. Morín is the author of the poetry collections Machete, A Larger Country, and Patient Zero. He … Continue reading Announcing the Judge for the 2024 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry
Reviews The Book of Revolutions Review in Catholic Biblical Quarterly: “In sum, F.’s exemplary reader-friendly work of critical biblical scholarship respects traditional approaches in demonstrating that pluralism, not singularity, better explains the origins of the Torah, its conflicting teachings, and … Continue reading News & Reviews
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