Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in social media posts, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Let Our Bodies Change the Subject (Nebraska, 2023) by Jared Harél. About the Book: Let … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Let Our Bodies Change the Subject
Jared Harél’s Let Our Bodies Change the Subject (Nebraska, 2023) is officially out now. Be sure to mark your calendars for some upcoming events celebrating this new book. Let Our Bodies Change the Subject is a poetry collection that dives headlong … Continue reading Upcoming Events for Jared Harél’s Let Our Bodies Change the Subject
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 Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir (Nebraska, 2022) by Aileen Weintraub. About the Book: A laugh-out-loud memoir about … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Knocked Down
Jennifer Sinor is a professor of English at Utah State University. She is the author of four books, including Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World (Nebraska, 2020) and Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O’Keeffe. Her essays have appeared … Continue reading From the Desk of Jennifer Sinor: To Be Broken
This week the University of Nebraska Press will be at the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP), and we’re exited to host several authors in our booths to celebrate and sign their newest creative works. Visit us … Continue reading #AWP20 Preview
Anna Weir is a publicist at UNP and is her father’s daughter. Lise Funderburg is a writer and editor as well as a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania. Funderburg’s collection of oral histories, Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans … Continue reading The Most Interesting Dinner Party You’d Ever Attend: An Interview with Lise Funderburg
December Staff Reading List As readers and book lovers, nothing makes us happier than to give—or receive—books for any occasion. Here’s a list of the best books we’ve ever given, or been given. Gang of One: Memoirs of a … Continue reading The Gift of Reading
November Staff Reading List As bookish people and lovers of stories, this month we asked UNP staff members what book they were most thankful for. Here are the books we find ourselves turning to again and again. Home Cooking Laurie … Continue reading Grateful Reading
The following has been excerpted from Educated Tastes: Food, Drink, and Connoisseur Culture (Nebraska, 2011), a collection of essays edited by Jeremy Strong. This particular essay has been excerpted in honor of the picky eater at your Thanksgiving table. From “Feeding Finn” … Continue reading Excerpt: Educated Tastes
The following has been excerpted from White Gold: Stories of Breast Milk Sharing (September 2017) by Susan Falls. Falls is a professor of anthropology at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Preface My son has more than twenty-five siblings—milk siblings, that … Continue reading Excerpt: White Gold
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