Greg Larson is an editor, stand-up comedian, and author of the newly released book Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir (Nebraska, 2021). He spent two years as a clubhouse attendant for Cal Ripken Jr.’s Aberdeen IronBirds, the short-season single-A affiliate for … Continue reading From the Desk of Greg Larson: A Cub and His Cubs
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’m reading The Best of Me by David Sedaris. It’s a great … Continue reading March Staff Reading List
Congratulations to Suzanne Roberts, author of Bad Tourist! Her book is a Bronze Winner for the 29th annual North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA) Awards Competition. The following is the press release from the NATJA. PASADENA, CA—The North American Travel … Continue reading Suzanne Roberts Named Travel Media Competition Winner
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’m currently re-reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. I love dystopian … Continue reading February Staff Reading List
Based on the recommendations from major outlets like CNN and Forbes, BookAuthority has recently released a list of the 100 Best Baseball Books of All Time, and UNP had a great showing on the list. Take a look at these … Continue reading Best Baseball Books of All Time
Books Mahagony: A Novel Starred review in Publishers Weekly: “Glissant (1928–2011) is as comprehensive as he is unconcerned with the encumbrance of linearity, and has found the perfect form to explore the inescapable and reverberating legacies of colonialism. This is … Continue reading News and Reviews
Susan Devan Harness (Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes) is a writer, lecturer, and oral historian, and has been a research associate for the Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research at Colorado State University. She is the author of Bitterroot: a Salish Memoir of Transracial … Continue reading From the Desk of Susan Harness: Shifting the Gaze
Rick Bailey is a retired English instructor who taught writing for thirty-eight years at Henry Ford College in Michigan. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Enjoy Agenda: At Home and Abroad (Nebraska, 2019) and American English, Italian Chocolate: Small … Continue reading Excerpt: Get Thee to a Bakery
Books The Speed Game: My Fast Times in Baseball Praise from The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: “This is the second memoir by a basketball coach that I read over the long Thanksgiving weekend and it lived up to what … Continue reading News and Reviews
The following is from the University of Nebraska Press Fall 2020 Newsletter, i.e. Suzanne Roberts is the author of Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel (Nebraska 2020), Almost Somewhere: Twenty Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (Nebraska, 2012), and … Continue reading Why I Write: Suzanne Roberts
