University of Nebraska Press

09/16/2024

"A secondary meaning of riot is an extravaganza or elaborate display, which is a fitting description of Bassett’s sincere humor and playful imagination in these stories," writes The Masters Review of THANKS FOR THIS RIOT.

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09/12/2024

Lory Bedikian, author of JAGADAKEER: APOLOGY TO THE BODY, will be joining the International Armenian Literary Alliance for Literary Lights 2024! Join them at noon CT on September 21st for a virtual reading.

Get more details here:

Join us on September 21, for the final installment of Literary Lights 2024, featuring Lory Bedikian, author of Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body.

09/05/2024

Congratulations to our Nebraska Book Award Winners!

The Book Awards are sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book. Winners will be honored at the Nebraska Book Festival on October 12 at the UNL City Campus Union.

Congratulations to the following UNP authors who were Nebraska Book Award Winners! Winners will be honored at the Nebraska Celebration of Books (NCOB) literary festival on October 12 at the UNL Cit…

09/03/2024

Excerpt: We Who Walk the Seven Ways by Terra Trevor.

Terra Trevor (Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca, and German) sought healing and found belonging. After a difficult loss, Native women elders embraced and guided her over three decades, lifting her from grief and showing her how to age from youth into beauty. https://bit.ly/3Za09WR

Terra Trevor is an essayist and memoirist who draws from her Native roots and the natural world. Her stories are steeped in themes of place and belonging. She is the author of two memoirs and is a …

09/02/2024

Join Janelle Bassett, author of THANKS FOR THIS RIOT, for a launch event at Left Bank Books in St. Louis, MO. The event is on Thursday, September 5 at 6 PM. The event will also be livestreamed to Left Bank Books' YouTube channel.

R.S.V.P. and more at: https://bit.ly/4dOrL8E

08/21/2024

"Bassett's funny and arch book features characters, mostly women--caretakers, counselors, retail workers, mothers, grandmothers--trying to resist the strictures of their lives," writes Dana Isokawa for Poets & Writers.

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08/15/2024

Tim Manners, co-author of SCHOOLBOY, joins the Twin Bill podcast to discuss Waite Hoyt's life and legacy.

SCHOOLBOY is the never-before-published memoir of Waite Hoyt, Hall of Fame pitcher for the New York Yankees in their first dynasty decade, longtime Cincinnati Reds broadcaster after his playing career, and vaudeville star, funeral director, oil painter, and alcoholic.

https://apple.co/3X3ARar

08/13/2024

Congratulations to Chris Lamb whose book STOLEN DREAMS is on the shortlist for the Indiana Authors Awards!

STOLEN DREAMS is the civil rights–era story of young boys whose dreams of playing in the Little League World Series were dashed, not by a loss to a more formidable team, but because of the color of their skin.

View the full list of winners: https://indianaauthorsawards.org/all-authors/

08/08/2024

Larry C. Skogen, author of TO EDUCATE AMERICAN INDIANS, is speaking at the Wyoming State Archives tonight at 7 pm MST! This hybrid event is free and open to the public.

This presentation will focus on the methodology of educating Native Americans in the early 20th century. The talk will include references to Wyoming's first woman elected to Wyoming public office as the State Superintendent of Public Instruction Estelle Reel and her influence on educational practices concerning tribal nations.

Details: https://bit.ly/3YB31vw

08/07/2024

Nebraska Book Lovers, save the date! There's a new literary festival coming to town (Nebraska Book Festival).

More information: https://bit.ly/3A8iZDd

08/06/2024

A hearty congratulations to Parul Kapur! Her book INSIDE THE MIRROR is on the longlist for the New American Voices Award from the Institute for Immigration Research-GMU and Fall For The Book!

INSIDE THE MIRROR is a tale of visionary twin sisters who aspire to become artists in 1950s India, confronting a society hostile to women claiming their place in the world.

https://bit.ly/3LRa63u

08/01/2024

"The grandest, most successful and colorful of all the years I played baseball was 1927," begins Schoolboy Waite Hoyt in this excerpt of SCHOOLBOY in Yankees Magazine.

Read the excerpt here: https://atmlb.com/3Sqd7eL

07/31/2024

LIFE IN THE G is about the arduous quest to achieve an improbable goal: making it to the NBA. Alex Squadron details the pursuit of a dream in what turned out to be the most remarkable season in the history of minor league sports.

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07/31/2024

Today is the last day to save on thousands of books from across our imprints including Nebraska, Bison Books, Potomac Books, and The Backwaters Press.

Use code 6SUMM24 for 50% off. Browse here: https://bit.ly/UNPsummersale

07/29/2024

Gen Del Raye's collection of linked short stories, BOUNDLESS DEEP & OTHER STORIES, is introspective, surreal, and bitingly funny as it depicts a family’s tenacity in the face of relationships fractured by language and distance.

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07/26/2024

In CAPTIVES Catherine M. Cameron provides a detailed study of captive-taking in small-scale societies and explores the profound impacts that captives had on the societies they joined, opening new avenues of research.

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07/24/2024

BASEBALL by Steven Gietschier is a history of baseball as a sport and business during the middle of the twentieth century, examining and tracing its development within the broader contours of American history.

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07/23/2024

Dan Joseph joins Lois Thomson for an interview in Mt. Lebanon Magazine (Mt. Lebanon Municipality - Government) about his upcoming book BEHIND THE YOI.

Read the interview: https://bit.ly/4cUiLxJ

07/22/2024

For the characters in Bryn Chancellor’s WHEN ARE YOU COMING HOME?, home means physical spaces, but also love—familial, romantic, and unrequited. Throughout this book, characters leave and return, trying desperately to find their way home.

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07/19/2024

Amanda Hendrix-Komoto's IMPERIAL ZIONS explores the value of the body in Latter-day Saint theology through the faith’s attempts to spread its gospel as a “civilizing” force and relates it to American ideas about race, sexuality, and colonialism.

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07/17/2024

Javier Fernández-Galeano's MARICAS traces the erotic lives and legal battles of Argentine and Spanish q***r people, who despite state repression and sexual violence, carved out their own spaces in culture between the 1940s and the 1980s.

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07/15/2024

Dan Bernstein's JUSTICE IN PLAIN SIGHT is the story of a California newspaper and its lawyer who won two cases in the US Supreme Court, establishing First Amendment rights that widely expanded public access to the US judicial system.

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07/12/2024

Eric Schnall's I MAKE ENVY ON YOUR DISCO is the story of an art advisor who, fed up with his life in NY, flies to Berlin for a gallery show and finds a city brimming with excitement and possibility, yet facing an identity crisis of its own.

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07/10/2024

In IT'S FUN TO BE A PERSON I DON'T KNOW, Chachi D. Hauser combines memoir, cultural criticism, and poetic modes to examine gender identity and her relationship to Walt Disney and the Disney company.

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07/09/2024

I MAKE ENVY ON YOUR DISCO by Eric Schnall was featured in Chronogram's Five Hudson Valley Books to Read in July!

Add these books to your reading list:

Short reviews of Party Boys: How the Ballinger Brothers Built the Greatest Nightclubs on Earth by Lon Ballinger; I Make Envy on Your Disco by Eric Schnall; Trust and Safety by Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman; Odie Is being Called Back, and Other Poems by Gerard Malanga; and Becasue of Eve by Rondav...

07/08/2024

Meredith Roman’s OPPOSING JIM CROW examines the period in the 1900s, when the promotion of antiracism by party and trade union officials in Moscow became a priority policy.

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07/05/2024

Parul Kapur’s INSIDE THE MIRROR is set in an impoverished India struggling to remake itself into a modern state. Jaya’s story encompasses art, history, political revolt, love, and women’s ambition to seize their own power.

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07/04/2024

LIFE IN THE G is about the arduous quest to achieve an improbable goal: making it to the NBA. Alex Squadron details the pursuit of a dream in what turned out to be the most remarkable season in the history of minor league sports.

Save 50% during our Summer Sale: https://bit.ly/UNPsummersale

07/01/2024

DRESSING FOR THE CULTURE WARS by Betty Hillman examines the role of fashion, hairstyle, and dress in American politics to understand the “culture wars” and the resulting discussion of gender, race, and sexuality in the 1960s and 1970s.

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07/01/2024

Tim Manners joined FOX19 to discuss his book SCHOOLBOY, the never-before-published memoir of Waite Hoyt. Hoyt was a Hall of Fame pitcher for the New York Yankees in their first dynasty decade; a longtime Cincinnati Reds broadcaster after his playing career; and a vaudeville star, funeral director, oil painter, and alcoholic.

Watch the interview here: https://bit.ly/45OrEXh

FOX19 NOW News at 9:30 a.m.