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 Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir (Nebraska, 2022) by Aileen Weintraub. About the Book: A laugh-out-loud memoir about … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Knocked Down
The AWP Conference & Bookfair is the annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers of contemporary creative writing. It includes thousands of attendees, hundreds of events & bookfair exhibitors, and five days of essential literary conversation and celebration. … Continue reading AWP 2021 Preview
Patrick Madden is a professor at Brigham Young University. He is the author of the award-winning Sublime Physick: Essays (Nebraska, 2016) and Quotidiana: Essays (Nebraska, 2010), and coeditor, with David Lazar, of After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays. His essays have appeared in a variety … Continue reading From the Desk of Patrick Madden: On Book Trailers
Anna Weir has been a publicist at UNP since 2016 and chasing a fickle muse since 2007. Words are hard. This is something I’ve said for years—me, an English major, the bookish kid with the scribbled-in notebook, the girl with … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: Words Are Hard
Randon Billings Noble is an essayist. Her work has been published in the Modern Love column of the New York Times, the Georgia Review, Fourth Genre, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Creative Nonfiction, and elsewhere. The Mid-American Review called her essay collection Be with Me Always (Nebraska, 2019) a … Continue reading From the Desk of Randon Billings Noble: Elegy for Dracula
Will Geoghegan is an award-winning sportswriter in Rhode Island who covers the Newport Gulls and Ocean State Waves of the New England Collegiate Baseball League. Since 2007 he has written about the Cape League at rightfieldfog.com. Why is Summer Baseball … Continue reading Will Geoghegan at Home: On Writing, Baseball, and Nostalgia
Books The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife Brad Balukjian Review in the Los Angeles Times: “If you are looking for a way to pass the time, I highly recommend a new baseball book that … Continue reading News and Reviews
Robert Vivian is a professor of English and creative writing at Alma College in Michigan and teaches as a core faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is the author of four … Continue reading From the Desk of Robert Vivian: Be Willing to Get Carried Away
Under the helm of series editor Kwame Dawes, the African Poetry Book Series seeks to discover and highlight works of African poetry with a wide-ranging scope; from classic works to modern and contemporary voices. The greatest challenge facing African poetry … Continue reading Series Update: African Poetry Book Series
This week the University of Nebraska Press will be at the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP), and we’re exited to host several authors in our booths to celebrate and sign their newest creative works. Visit us … Continue reading #AWP20 Preview
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