A new book by Roger Welsch, adjunct professor of anthropology, tells the story of his lifelong relationship with Native American culture. Published by University of Nebraska Press, “Embracing Fry Bread: Confessions of a Wannabe” describes Welsch’s pilgrimage through Native life, from lessons in the vagaries of “Indian time” and the difficulties of the reservation, to […]

A new agreement has expanded the publishing relationship between UNL’s Center for Great Plains Studies and the University of Nebraska Press. Under the terms of the deal, the NU Press will assume responsibility for production, marketing and subscription services for the Center for Great Plains’ flagship journals, “Great Plains Quarterly” and “Great Plains Research.” For […]

For turning the big 5-0, paperback books have never looked so good. Bison Books, the University of Nebraska Press paperback arm, is celebrating 50 years of publishing some of Western literature’s most iconic and valued stories. “It’s an opportunity to look back at all of the contributions to affordable literature that Bison Books has made […]

For the third consecutive year, a University of Nebraska Press author has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, a contributor to “The Global Game: Writers on Soccer” (University of Nebraska Press, 2008), has been named the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. He contributed the essay “The Empty […]

Victoria Smith, associate professor of history, will read from and sign copies of her newest book, “Captive Arizona, 1851-1900,” starting at 7 p.m., April 28 at the University Bookstore. “Captive Arizona,” published by the University of Nebraska Press, tells the story of kidnapping endemic in Arizona from the end of the Mexican-American War through statehood […]

The University of Nebraska Press has been awarded a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support publication of translated works in 2010 and 2011. This grant will help support the publication of several translated titles, including a short story collection by J.M.G. Le Clézio, the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize […]

The Department of English, the Creative Writing Program, Prairie Schooner and the University of Nebraska Press will host the 2010 Prairie Schooner Book Prize Symposium, Feb. 15 and 16 at UNL. Recent Prairie Schooner book prize winners Paul Guest, Anne Finger, Mari L’Esperance and Kara Candito will read from their winning collections and participate in […]

The University of Nebraska Press will host a Hurt Book Sale on Nov. 5 and 6 at the NU Press warehouse on R Street, between 8th and 9th streets in the Haymarket. The sale is open to only UNL faculty, staff and students and friends of the NU Press from 5 to 7 p.m. Nov. […]

NU Press authors awarded 2008, 2009 literature honors For the second year in a row, a University of Nebraska Press author has received the Nobel Prize for Literature. German writer Herta Müller, whose short story collection “Nadirs” was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1999, is the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize […]

Captive Arizona, 1851-1900 By Victoria Smith, associate professor of history and Native American studies Published by University of Nebraska Press, 294 pages Captivity was endemic in Arizona from the end of the Mexican-American War through statehood in 1912. The practice crossed cultures – Native Americans, Mexican Americans and whites kidnapped and held each other captive. […]