Books Finding a New Midwestern History Jon K. Lauck Review by the Russell Kirk Center: “…the chapters cover a wealth of topics. Many of the authors take a fairly conventional approach to the region—there are the customary chapters, for example, … Continue reading News and Reviews
Save 50% off these summer reading books! Enter 6SUMM in the promotion code field of your shopping cart and click “Add Promotion Code.” Offer expires July 15, 2019 and is good for U.S. and Canadian shipments only. Browse the books … Continue reading Summer Reading Sale
A holiday first suggested by Nebraska journalist and tree-lover J. Sterling Morton in 1872, Arbor Day was initially a day set aside to encourage pioneers to plant trees in an otherwise flat and lonely landscape. Since 1885 Arbor Day has … Continue reading Celebrate Nature this Arbor Day
Former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser turns eighty years young today. A near lifelong Nebraska resident, Kooser is one of the iconic poets of the Midwest and has published seven books of poetry with the University of Nebraska Press as well … Continue reading Happy 80th Birthday, Ted Kooser!
John Sibley Williams serves as editor of the Inflectionist Review and works as a literary agent. He is the author of four poetry collections, including As One Fire Consumes Another, which won the Orison Poetry Prize; Disinheritance; and Controlled Hallucinations. He lives in Portland, Oregon. He is … Continue reading From the Desk of John Sibley Williams: Don’t Assume It’s All True
Books The Hole Truth Determining the Greatest Players in Golf Using Sabermetrics Bill Felber Review on Golf: “This exercise is fun and well-written. Whether it will convince you which golfer is better at or over a given time period remains … Continue reading News and Reviews
In case you haven’t heard, we extended our publishing program! UNP acquired The Backwaters Press earlier this year and will continue it’s yearly poetry prize. The submission period begins today and ends May 31. Guidelines for the prize series can … Continue reading The Backwaters Prize in Poetry
The AWP Conference & Bookfair is an essential annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers. Each year more than 12,000 attendees join our community for four days of insightful dialogue, networking, and unrivaled access to the organizations and … Continue reading AWP 2019 Preview
The following is an excerpt from Hearing Voices: Aurality and New Spanish Sound Culture in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (February, 2019) by Sarah Finley. Hearing Voices is in the New Hispanisms series, which publishes innovative studies that investigate how … Continue reading Excerpt: Hearing Voices
Jackson Adams and Anna Weir are publicists at UNP. Today they share their thoughts about a few upcoming titles they’re particularly excited about as readers. The books in this discussion will be published in March. Anna Weir: I’ve been reading through Randon Billings Noble’s haunted and … Continue reading Publicist Picks: Haunting Essays, Faulty Helmets, and other March Books
