Jessica Cherry is a geoscientist, writer, aerial photographer, and commercial airplane pilot living in Anchorage, Alaska. She wrote a literary column for the alternative weekly Anchorage Press from 2019-2022. She is coeditor of Wheels on Ice: Stories of Cycling in Alaska … Continue reading From the Desk of Jessica Cherry: Polar Exploration Is for Everyone
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 Rhymes with Fighter: Clayton Yeutter, American Statesman (Nebraska, 2021) by Joseph Weber. About the Book: From a … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Rhymes with Fighter
Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight provides a popular history of spaceflight from the rocket scientists of the 1930s to today, focusing on the lives of astronauts, cosmonauts, technicians, scientists, and their families. These books bring to life experiences … Continue reading From Outward Odyssey Series authors: Reflections on NASA’s Artemis I Launch
Ted Kooser, U.S. poet laureate (2004–6) and winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, is an emeritus presidential professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of dozens of books, including Kindest Regards: New and Selected … Continue reading Excerpt: Cotton Candy
We are extending the submission period for the Zero Street Fiction Series to April 1st and changing the submission period going forward. It will now be open November 1 through April 1. The series seeks LGBTQ+ literary fiction of all kinds, from … Continue reading New submission period for Zero Street Fiction Series
Save 40% off books in honor of Hanukkah as well as a selection of the Jewish Publication Society’s recently released titles. Enter 6CH22 in the promotion code field of your shopping cart and click “Add Promotion Code.” Offer expires December … Continue reading Hanukkah Sale with the Jewish Publication Society!
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 Forgotten Botanist: Sara Plummer Lemmon’s Life of Science and Art (Bison Books, 2021) by Wynne Brown. … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Forgotten Botanist!
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt is emerita vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college and professor emerita of anthropology at Agnes Scott College. She is the author of numerous books, including Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist (Nebraska, 2019) and American Folklore … Continue reading Excerpt: Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice
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 recently finished The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth. One … Continue reading November Staff Reading List
The following is a letter from Jane Ferreyra, director of the University of Nebraska Press. Happy fall from the University of Nebraska Press! I recently celebrated my one-year anniversary as the director of the University of Nebraska Press—an indispensable asset … Continue reading A Word from UNP’s Director
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