Torsa Ghosal is an assistant professor of English at California State University, Sacramento. She is the author of Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative. Alison Gibbons is a reader in contemporary stylistics at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. She … Continue reading Excerpt: Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives
The Nebraska Heritage Book Club was formed to discuss books about Nebraska history, and to uplift Nebraskan authors. This month, the book club is discussing the One Book One Nebraska pick of 2023: The Mystery of Hunting’s End. Join them on … Continue reading Upcoming Book Discussion for The Mystery of Hunting’s End
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 the second edition of Black Gun, Silver Star (Bison Books, September 2022) by Art T. Burton. About … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Black Gun, Silver Star
ICYMI Teaser trailer for Lawmen: Bass Reeves, inspired by The Bass Reeves Trilogy in Dallas Morning News Reviews Forget I Told You This Review in Foreword Reviews: “Set in a dystopian near-future, Hilary Zaid’s conspiracy novel Forget I Told You This sets … Continue reading News & Reviews
Mike Bezemek is the author and photographer of three books that combine stories with trip guides, including Paddling the John Wesley Powell Route: Exploring the Green and Colorado Rivers and Discovering the Outlaw Trail: Routes, Hideouts, and Stories from the Wild West. His newest … Continue reading How the First Spacewalk Ended in a Ski Trip
Sarah Kee is a Publicity Assistant at UNP and is not an amateur detective. In honor of National Cozy Mystery Day, I’d be remiss to not talk about a mystery writer with Nebraska ties, Mignon G. Eberhart! Her book, The … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: National Cozy Mystery Day
Almost thirty years ago, Suzanne Roberts, author of Animal Bodies and Bad Tourist, embarked on a twenty-eight-day hike on California’s John Muir Trail that changed her life. Her story of a month in the backcountry Almost Somewhere was first published … Continue reading Postcards from the John Muir Trail: Looking Back on Mather Pass
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 Under My Bed and Other Essays (Nebraska, September 2022) by Jody Keisner. About the Book: In Under My Bed … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Under My Bed and Other Essays
Ruzana Liburkina is a cultural anthropologist and a research associate in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. Her newest book, The Visible Hands That Feed: Responsibility and Growth in the Food Sector, was published last … Continue reading Excerpt: The Visible Hands That Feed
Michael J. Devine is an adjunct professor of history at the University of Wyoming. Previously he was the director of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and a professor of history and director of the American Heritage Center at the University … Continue reading Excerpt: The Korean War Remembered
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