The following is an excerpt from The Game of the Century: Nebraska vs. Oklahoma in College Football’s Ultimate Battle (Bison Books, 2005) by Michael Corcoran. On Thanksgiving Day 1971 a record fifty-five million homes tuned in to watch two powerhouse college football … Continue reading EXCERPT: The Game of the Century
Tayler Lord is a publicist at UNP and a member of #TeamJess for life. This Friday, Netflix will release four 90-minute episodes chronicling a year in the life of the Gilmore girls. I, for one, don’t know how to contain my excitement. I am a true lifelong Gilmore Girls fangirl. When I was in sixth grade, I used to come home every day after school, make a bag of popcorn, and call my best friend so we could watch Gilmore Girls at 4:00 p.m. on ABC Family together over the phone. I own every season on DVD and have seen … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: Gilmore Girls Revival
Tayler Lord is a publicist at UNP and has somehow only watched Hocus Pocus once this Halloween season. The other day someone asked me if I listen to music while I read. I was a little surprised by the question because it had … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: Do you listen to music while you read?
October Staff Reading List UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the books where our noses have been buried. Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth … Continue reading What We’re Reading
Anna Weir is a publicist who physically cannot stop bringing books into her tiny apartment. I decided early on that whatever my career wound up being, it had to involve books. Books were how I made friends and how I … Continue reading People Make Publishing: It Takes a Village
September Staff Reading List UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the books where our noses have been buried. Adnan’s Story: The Search for … Continue reading What We’re Reading
This year the National Park Service celebrates its 100th anniversary and as the National Park Foundation said, “the Centennial is more than a birthday. We want people everywhere to embrace the opportunities to explore, learn, be inspired or simply have fun in their 407 national parks….” UNP asked its authors to write about their favorite National Park to contribute to the #FindYourPark campaign on social media. The following contribution comes from O. Alan Weltzien, author of Exceptional Mountains: A Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes (Nebraska, 2016). At Tahoma I usually fail when asked about my favorite author or composer or rocker or beer … Continue reading From the Desk of O. Alan Weltzien #FindYourPark
August Staff Reading List UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the books where our noses have been buried. The Innocent Have Nothing to … Continue reading What We’re Reading
BookExpo America and BookCon May 11-14, 2016 (Chicago, IL) UNP conference attendees: Martyn Beeny, Marketing Manager Rosemary Vestal, Publicity Manager Alisa Plant, Editor-in-Chief Tom Swanson, Potomac Books Editor Getting UNP readers in at an early age! (She was asking … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: Summer Exhibit Roundup
Books Amiable Scoundrel by Paul Kahan Praise from Civil War Books and Authors: “Whatever one ultimately thinks of Paul Kahan’s portrait of Simon Cameron as a politician who was never as corrupt as posterity has been led to believe … Continue reading News and Reviews
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