Awards Black Jesus and Other Superheroes: Stories Venita Blackburn Winner of the 2018 PEN Los Angeles Literary Award in Fiction Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter’s Reckoning Julija Šukys Shortlisted for the 2018 Vine Awards for Canadian … Continue reading News and Reviews
Micah McCrary’s work has been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Rumpus, Midwestern Gothic, Identity Theory, and Third Coast. He is an assistant editor at Hotel Amerika, a contributing editor at Assay, and a founding coeditor of con•text. In my essay “Two Cities,” I wrote … Continue reading From the Desk of Micah McCrary: Growing Pains
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 Glory Days (Nebraska, 2017). About the Book: The small plains town of Ingleside, Nebraska, is populated by down-on-their-luck ranchers and … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Glory Days
The following is an excerpt from Indians in the United States and Canada: A Comparative History, Second Edition (Nebraska, 2018) by Roger L. Nichols. This book is 30% off for a limited time. Enter 6NUC in the promotion code field of your … Continue reading Excerpt: Indians in the United States and Canada
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 Dream Like a Champion: Wins, Losses, and Leadership the Nebraska Volleyball Way (Nebraska, 2017). About the Book: Since becoming the Nebraska … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Dream Like a Champion
From fan confessions to championship reflections, two new editions highlight the ups and downs of being a Husker fan. Steve Smith immerses readers in the mad, mad world of Husker football fandom in Forever Red: More Confessions of a Husker … Continue reading New Books Give Husker Fans More from their Favorite Teams
As the 2018 Fall/Winter season begins, let’s take a moment to see what UNP was publishing fifty years ago. Compared to the more contemporary catalogs of recent years, the 1968 catalog is slim—only thirty-three pages of books—many of the titles … Continue reading Throwback to the Fall of 1968
Ron McDole played defense for Nebraska Cornhuskers football from 1958-1961, and is coming back to visit his alma mater this weekend. McDole tells his story in The Dancing Bear: My Eighteen Years in the Trenches of the AFL and NFL … Continue reading Former Husker Returns to Nebraska
Rosemary Sekora is publicity manager for UNP and book festival coordinator. The festival is held to celebrate Nebraska’s literary heritage and contemporary authors and to stimulate public interest in books, reading, and the written word. The 2018 Nebraska Book Festival is … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: ‘Twas the Night Before the Festival
The running of the women’s 3,000 meter Olympic race on August 11, 1984 in Los Angeles was always going to be historic athletic moment. Young American prodigy, Mary Decker was seeking to finally medal after setting world records and she … Continue reading The Olympic Budd-Decker collision happened 34 years ago today
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