Books The Speed Game: My Fast Times in Baseball Praise from The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: “This is the second memoir by a basketball coach that I read over the long Thanksgiving weekend and it lived up to what … Continue reading News and Reviews
Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush and Sara L. Spurgeon are the editors of Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre (Nebraska, 2020). How We Got Weird Okay, we were always a little weird. But we hid it well. We … Continue reading How We Got Weird: Behind the Creation of Weird Westerns
The following is an excerpt from Late Westerns: The Persistence of a Genre (December 2018) by Lee Clark Mitchell. From the Introduction Consider a handful of scenarios recently set in the American West: a corpse repeatedly buried and disinterred on its journey … Continue reading Excerpt: Late Westerns
The following is an excerpt from The Kid and Me: A Novel (August 2018) by Frederick Turner. Narrated by George Coe, an aged veteran of New Mexico’s Lincoln County War, The Kid and Me tells what it felt like to ride alongside Billy the Kid, … Continue reading Excerpt: The Kid and Me
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 August. Anna Weir: Personally, I’ve been looking forward to The Kid and Me since January. … Continue reading Publicist Picks: The Old West, Untold Histories, and the End of the Summer Season
UNP is a proud publisher of women writers and women’s history. Celebrate Women’s History Month with these reading suggestions. Westerns: A Women’s History Victoria Lamont This thoroughly-researched and engaging history disproves the assumption that the Western genre has always … Continue reading Reading List: Women’s History Month
The following has been excerpted from Morta Las Vegas: CSI and the Problem of the West by Nathaniel Lewis and Stephen Tatum (November 2017). Morta Las Vegas is the latest book in the Postwestern Horizons series. From Chapter 1: The Problem … Continue reading Excerpt: Morta Las Vegas
Books The Cruft of Fiction David Letzler Praise from Heradas Review: “It’s all very well illustrated and argued, and the sections covering the handful of novels discussed that I haven’t read, were often more interesting to me than the ones covering … Continue reading News and Reviews
APRIL 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. Care of Wooden Floors by … Continue reading What We’re Reading
Dominique Brégent-Heald is an associate professor of history at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her articles have appeared in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, American Review of Canadian Studies, Western Historical Quarterly, Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, and Journal of American Culture. She is … Continue reading From the desk of Dominique Brégent-Heald
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