To celebrate Earth Day, the University of Nebraska Press is happy to feature some of our new and upcoming titles in Environmental Studies. For more books on the subject, check out these series: Our Sustainable Future, Outdoor Lives, Discover the … Continue reading Upcoming in Environmental Studies
On this day in 1841, the first detective story, Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” appeared in Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine! For this reason, we celebrate April 20th as Detective Fiction Day. We thought we’d mark the … Continue reading Celebrate Detective Fiction Day with The Mystery of Hunting’s End
Awards Tomás Q. Morín’s Let Me Count The Ways was nominated for the Vulgar Genius Awards. Winners will be determined by readers’ votes. Show your support for the Let Me Count the Ways by voting at their website, the poll … Continue reading News & Reviews
The Great Plains Center’s 48th annual interdisciplinary conference, Plant to Table, is happening now until April 20. This year’s conference focuses on Indigenous food sovereignty movements; the long-standing significance of the meatpacking industry; related topics of labor, immigration, and health … Continue reading Reading List: The Great Plains Center’s Plant to Table Conference
Uhuru Portia Phalafala is a senior lecturer of English literature at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. She is the author of Keorapetse Kgositsile and the Black Arts Movement: Poetics of Possibility and coeditor of Keorapetse Kgositsile: Collected Poems, 1969–2018 (Nebraska, 2023). Her … Continue reading Excerpt: Mine Mine Mine
UNP’s running (and walking) team, Footnotes, participated in the Lincoln Track Club’s Spring Forward on Saturday, March 25th. The 10-Mile, 5k and 1-Mile races began near the Lincoln Zoo. The Spring Forward Run was the first of the year! It … Continue reading People Make Publishing: The Footnotes at the Spring Forward
Happy National Poetry Month! The University of Nebraska Press is celebrating all month long with a 50% off sale on all poetry collections. Furthermore, our Backwaters Prize in Poetry competition is accepting submissions through May 1. The poetry published by … Continue reading National Poetry Month Reading List
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 Red Barber: The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend (Nebraska, 2022) by Judith R. Hiltner and James R. … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Red Barber
Held annually in Augusta, Georgia, the Masters begin today. The top contenders are Scottie Scheffler, who took over the world’s No. 1 ranking with his Players Championship victory, Jon Rahm and Rory McIlroy according to CBS sports. Don’t let the … Continue reading The 2023 Masters Reading List
Awards Mary Clearman Blew’s Think of Horses has won the Western Heritage Award for best Western novel of 2023 from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame/Western Heritage Museum Laura Bylenok’s Living Room is a finalist for the Medal Provocateur Award … Continue reading News & Reviews
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