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. November Staff Reading List The Last Ocean Nicci Gerrard … Continue reading What We’re Reading
Sonja Livingston is an associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. In addition to her newest book, The Virgin of Prince Street (Nebraska, 2019), she is also the award-winning author of Ghostbread, Ladies Night at the Dreamland, and Queen of the … Continue reading From the Desk of Sonja Livingston: On Inclining the Ear of the Heart
Happy University Press Week! Today the UP Week Blog Tour’s theme is “How to Speak Up and Speak Out.” The following is a guest post from Timothy J. Hillegonds, author of the recently-released memoir, The Distance Between (Nebraska, 2019). Small truths, … Continue reading University Press Week: Speaking Up with Timothy Hillegonds
Awards Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness Won two High Plains Book Awards for the categories of Creative Nonfiction and Indigenous Writer! Better Times Sara Batkie Named as a Traditional Fiction Finalist for the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award! Books … Continue reading News and Reviews
Susan Devan Harness’ gripping memoir Bitterroot won two 2019 High Plains Book Awards in the categories of Creative Nonfiction and Indigenous Writer. The High Plains Book Awards were established to recognize regional literary works which examine and reflect life on the High … Continue reading “Bitterroot” Wins Two High Plains Book Awards
SAVE 50% on over a thousand different titles from our rich and capacious backlist. From Native American History to Latin American Studies, from Military History to African Poetry, from books on the Great Plains to the literature of the American West, there’s … Continue reading Announcing the Fall Sale!
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Birthday to Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience by Prudence Bushnell. About the Book: On August 7, 1998, three years before President George W. Bush declared the War on Terror, the radical Islamist group al-Qaeda bombed the American embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, where Prudence Bushnell was serving as U.S. ambassador. Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience is her account of what happened, how it happened, and its impact twenty years later. When the bombs went off in Kenya and neighboring Tanzania that day, Congress was in … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Prudence Bushnell’s memoir
Char Miller is the W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History at Pomona College. Miller’s other books with the University of Nebraska Press include the co-authored third edition of Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land and the forthcoming co-edited volume, … Continue reading From the Desk of Char Miller: Fighting Fire with Fire
Awards The Man in the Arena Rodger McDaniel Selected as the Best Nonfiction Book for the Wyoming State Historical Society 2019 Book Awards! The Future Has and Appointment with the Dawn Tanella Boni Shortlisted for the National Translation Awards in Poetry! … Continue reading News and Reviews
The following is an excerpt from Bodies Built for Game edited by Natalie Diaz with associate editor Hannah Ensor (October 2019). From the introduction by Natalie Diaz: Before each of my basketball games, from rec league to high school, my mother told … Continue reading Excerpt: Bodies Built for Game
