Tomorrow join us at Francie & Finch Bookshop in downtown Lincoln at 6:00 p.m. for an author event with Kwame Dawes! His new collection, Nebraska, explores a constant theme in Dawes’s work—the intersection of memory, home, and artistic invention. The … Continue reading Kwame Dawes at Francie & Finch
The University of Nebraska Press adopted Cooper Park to help clean, preserve, and maintain it throughout the year. UNP’s first park clean-up was Friday, August 30, from 9 to 11 a.m. The Press chose this date to help begin the … Continue reading Cooper Park
UNP Staff member 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. May Staff Reading List Educated Tara Westover “I … Continue reading What We’re Reading
In case you haven’t heard, we extended our publishing program! UNP acquired The Backwaters Press earlier this year and will continue it’s yearly poetry prize. The submission period begins today and ends May 31. Guidelines for the prize series can … Continue reading The Backwaters Prize in Poetry
Join UNP this Sunday, February 24 at the Kinkaider Taproom in Lincoln from 2:00-5:00 p.m.! We’ll have $5 paperbacks and $10 hardcovers on sale. Kinkaider’s “Frame the Butcher IPA” is inspired by Great Plains photographer Solomon Butcher and now you … Continue reading Pop-up Bookshop in Lincoln
Tomorrow is the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s official Charter Day! The public is invited to meet with Chancellor Ronnie Green, deans, and dignitaries as they greet and hand out N|150 cupcakes to students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends of the university … Continue reading Celebrating Dear Old Nebraska U
One month from today, the University of Nebraska will officially celebrate its 150th anniversary. Throughout 2019, there will be many events beginning with Chancellor Ronnie Green’s State of the University address at the Lied Center in Lincoln 3:30 p.m. today. … Continue reading The University of Nebraska Turns 150
The Word Sender Award from the John G. Neihardt Foundation is given annually to someone dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the life and works of Neihardt. For the first time it was given to an organization this year. … Continue reading UNP honored for supporting works of John G. Neihardt
Rosemary Sekora is the publicity manager at UNP and finally enjoys whiskey thanks to Fred Minnick. Back in April, I declared that November would be Bourbon Book Month—and here we are! Potomac Books has two fantastic titles now available: Bourbon … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: Bourbon Book Month
The following is a brief excerpt from the introduction of I’m Not Like Everybody Else: Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and American Popular Music (October 2018) by Jeffrey T. Nealon. This is the latest book in the Provocations Series which takes a strong stand on contemporary … Continue reading Excerpt: I’m Not Like Everybody Else
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