Steven Wingate is an associate professor of English at South Dakota State University and the author of several books, including Of Fathers and Fire (Nebraska, 2019), the award-winning Wifeshopping, and Thirty-One Octets: Incantations and Meditations. His forthcoming book, The Leave-Takers will be available March … Continue reading From the Desk of Steven Wingate: Writing to Reconcile Place
Robert Darcy is a professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is the author of Misanthropoetics: Social Flight and Literary Form in Early Modern England (Nebraska, 2021). My book talks about why Renaissance literature was interested in … Continue reading From the Desk of Robert Darcy: A Look at Misanthropy in Renaissance Literature
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
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. February Staff Reading List Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, … Continue reading What We’re Reading
From Ho-Chunk powwows and Chehalis stories to the saga of Chief Joseph and the making of the Cherokee Nation, the University of Nebraska Press is the proud publisher of one of the most distinguished lists in Native American and Indigenous … Continue reading Native American and Indigenous Studies Sale
Jackson Adams and Anna Weir are publicists at UNP. Today they share their thoughts about a few upcoming titles they’re particularly excited about as readers. The books in this discussion will be published in December. Jackson Adams: I recently read Carol Anderson’s One Person, No Vote, … Continue reading Publicist Picks: Nebraska Writers, the Soviet Union and Jim Crow, and Other December Books
UNP staff members are always reading, both within our list and outside of what we publish. This Halloween, we’re remembering books that left us chilled, unnerved, spooked. This month’s staff reading list is composed of books that, whether ghoulish or … Continue reading Books That Frighten Us
Since 2006, the University of Nebraska Press has worked to publish The Complete Letters of Henry James, an acclaimed series that fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the complete letters of one of … Continue reading From the Desk of Henry James: October 9, 1884
Jackson Adams and Anna Weir are publicists at UNP. Today they share their thoughts about a few upcoming titles they’re particularly excited about as readers. The books in this discussion will be published in October. Anna Weir: Nothing says “fall” like a forest of turning … Continue reading Publicist Picks: Early Forestry, the Gipper, and other October Books
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