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 Twisting in Air: The Sensational Rise of a Hollywood Falling Horse (Bison Books, 2024) by … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Twisting In Air
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 Galloping Gourmet (Bison Books, 2023) by Steve Friesen. About the Book: Galloping Gourmet explores an … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Galloping Gourmet
Launched in 1961 as UNP’s first trade imprint, Bison Books reflects the Press’s commitment to general-interest books that appeal to the educated reader. Browse the latest and greatest in Bison Books, From Tiffany Midge’s bitingly witty essay collection to the remarkable … Continue reading Recent & Forthcoming Bison Books
Victoria Lamont is a professor of English at the University of Waterloo. She is the author of Westerns: A Women’s History (Nebraska, 2016) and coauthor of Judith Merril: A Critical Study. Her most recent book is The Bower Atmosphere: A Biography of B. M. … Continue reading Excerpt: The Bower Atmosphere
Michael K. Johnson is Professor of American literature at the University of Maine at Farmington. His books include Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West (University Press of Mississippi, 2014) as well as two biographies, Can’t … Continue reading From the Desk of Michael K. Johnson: Speculative Visions of the American West
The following is from the University of Nebraska Press Fall 2020 Newsletter, i.e. Can’t travel because of the pandemic? Tour the American and Canadian Wests and the Mexico borderlands from anywhere with Virtually Bison Books. UNP has developed an electronic portal … Continue reading “Virtually Bison Books” Tours Encourage Readership of Iconic Works
Jackson Adams and Anna Weir are publicists at UNP. Today they share their thoughts about a couple upcoming titles they are particularly excited about as readers. The books in this discussion will be published in August. Jackson Adams: I think we all have a fairly … Continue reading Publicist Picks: Jewish Sports Legends and Redefining Westerns
The following books will be available this Fall from Bison Books—the herd grows larger! The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas by Robert M. Utley The Heart of California: Exploring the San Joaquin Valley by … Continue reading Coming Soon from Bison Books
UNP Staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the titles where our noses have been buried. The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma by Ratika Kapur “It’s … Continue reading April Staff Reading List
This week UNP will be at the Western Writers of America convention in Tucson, Arizona. Saturday morning at 10:30 join Bison Books author Robert Aquinas McNally as he moderates “Writing Outside the Lines” with panelists Julia Bricklin, Kristi Eaton, and … Continue reading Western Writers of America
UNP blog 