Andrew Farkas is an assistant professor of English at Washburn University. He is the author of The Big Red Herring, Sunsphere, and Self-Titled Debut. His latest book is The Great Indoorsman which is now available. When I was a kid, my parents would ask … Continue reading From the Desk of Andrew Farkas: Behind the Book
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 (Bison Books, 2012), and four collections of poetry. Visit her website: suzanneroberts.net. Her latest book Animal Bodies is now available. I … Continue reading From the Desk of Suzanne Roberts: Boogie Boarding, the Beginner’s Mind, and the Writing Life
The 2022 AAG annual meeting will be held online from Friday, Feb. 25 – Tuesday, March 1. You can visit us at the AAG virtual exhibit hall as well as on our own virtual exhibit page here. To save 40% … Continue reading UNP at Virtual AAG
Sarah Deutsch is a professor of history at Duke University. She is the author of Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870–1940 and No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880–1940. Her … Continue reading Excerpt: Making a Modern U.S. West
The Burglar’s Christmas was originally published near the beginning of Willa Cather’s writing career in 1896 under the pseudonym of Elizabeth L. Seymour. The story follows William Crawford on the cold streets of Chicago as he contemplates the multiple failures plaguing … Continue reading Excerpt: The Burglar’s Christmas
With the holiday season upon us, we here at Nebraska would like to express our appreciation and gratitude. For the rest of the year, until December 31, 2021, our entire backlist, a collection consisting of over 4,000 different books, will be available … Continue reading Holiday Sale
Clayton Trutor holds a PhD in U.S. history from Boston College and teaches at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont. He writes about college football and basketball for SB Nation. Trutor is also the Vermont state chairman of the Society for American Baseball Research … Continue reading From the Desk of Clayton Trutor: The History Behind Atlanta’s World Series Victory
Erin Flanagan is a professor at Wright State University. She is the author of two short story collections, The Usual Mistakes (Nebraska, 2005) and It’s Not Going to Kill You, and Other Stories (Bison Books, 2013). Her book, Deer Season (Nebraska, 2021), is now available. … Continue reading From the Desk of Erin Flanagan: This Isn’t the Life I Signed Up For
Victoria Howard (c. 1865-1930) was the teller of Clackamas Chinook narratives and oral traditions. Howard worked with the linguist Melville Jacobs to record Clackamas Chinook oral traditions resulting in an intricate and lively corpus of linguistic and ethnographic material, as … Continue reading Excerpt: Clackamas Chinook Performance Art
Tim Wendel is the acclaimed author of fourteen books, including Escape from Castro’s Cuba (Nebraska, 2021), Castro’s Curveball (Bison Books, 2006) and Summer of ’68: The Season That Changed Baseball—and America—Forever. He is a founding editor of USA Today Baseball Weekly and a writer in … Continue reading From the Desk of Tim Wendel: Under the Spell of Havana
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