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Cover of "The Wizard of College Baseball: How Ron Fraser Elevated Miami and an Entire Sport to National Prominence" by David Brauer

"THE WIZARD OF COLLEGE BASEBALL provides a detailed backstory of one of the sport's most influential characters who, until now, has largely been overlooked," writes Willie Steele for NINE. muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

Cover of "Reading the Contemporary Author: Narrative, Authority, Fictionality" Edited by Alison Gibbons and Elizabeth King

"READING THE CONTEMPORARY AUTHOR invites its readers to pursue the potential for dialogue and comparison across the fields, methodologies, and approaches with which it engages," writes Hannie Lawlor for Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. muse.jhu.edu/pub/5/articl...

We're so excited to share that DEATH DOES NOT END AT THE SEA (@prairie-schooner.bsky.social) by Gbenga Adesina is a finalist for the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards! 🎉 bit.ly/4r4ijDF

Cover of "Leave While the Party’s Good: The Life and Legacy of Baseball Executive Harry Dalton" by Lee C. Kluck

"While some may think that a book about a baseball general manager may not make for very scintillating reading, Lee Kluck's biography of Harry Dalton is quite the opposite. It is a very readable book," writes Charles DeMotte for NINE. muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

UNP at the 33nd Annual NINE Spring Training Conference Today, March 4, through Friday, March 6, UNP will be at the 33nd Annual NINE Spring Training Conference! The Spring Training Conference is a multi-disciplinary academic conference, featuring presentations on a wide range of baseball topics, including history, analytics, law, media analysis, literature, architecture, cultural studies, rhetoric, and more. Senior Acquisitions Editor Rob Taylor will be in attendance alongside a number of UNP authors such as Steve Gietschier, Robert K.

Get excited for the upcoming baseball season at NINE's Spring Training Conference! Learn more about our presenting authors' schedules below.

In our latest book review, we explore "Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird," and what this misunderstood bird reveals about belonging, ecology, and the stories we tell about nature: https://rachelcarsoncouncil.org/mike-stark-starlings-curious-odyssey-hated-bird-bison-books-2025

Rewilding the Urban Frontier - Nebraska Press More so than other ecosystems, urban rivers typify our evolving relationship with nature. Once a necessity for the development of civilization, by the twenti...

"[REWILDING THE URBAN FRONTIER] is a gathering of high-quality reportage covering urban river recovery nationwide...This book should be of interest and accessible to all audiences, lay or professional," writes David Robertson in Ecological Restoration. bit.ly/4u0Tewc

Cover of "Marzia" A Judge’s Fight for Afghan Women’s Rights" by Marzia Babakarkhail and Pamela Say

MARZIA takes readers on a heart-pounding journey through the stark realities of life under Taliban rule following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.

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Women’s History Month Sale 2026 "We'd never have got through it if I hadn't been so strong." Ántonia Shimerda in My Ántonia by Willa Cather Save 50% off these books and more during Women’s History Month! Enter the code 6WHM26 in the discount code field of your shopping cart and click “Apply.” Offer expires March 31, 2026 and is good on U.S. and Canadian shipments only. Shop now!

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Cover of "In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico" by Samuel Holley-Kline

Samuel Holley-Kline joins @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to discuss his new book IN THE SHADOW OF EL TAJÍN which draws on the insights of the Indigenous Totonac peoples who have lived and worked there to analyze historical processes fundamental to the archaeological site. bit.ly/4aUsUex

To celebrate Women's History Month, save 50% on books that share women’s stories from Nebraska, Bison Books, and Potomac Books with discount code 6WHM26! bit.ly/WHMSale26

Biography spotlights Virginia Faulkner’s legacy at Nebraska Press A new biography revisits the life and legacy of Virginia Faulkner, the longtime University of Nebraska Press editor who helped revive Willa Cather’s reputation and build the Bison Books imprint. Once largely overlooked, Faulkner’s influence on the press — and American literary scholarship — still resonates decades later.

"As the University of Nebraska Press marks its 85th year, the house Faulkner helped shape is telling her story from the very imprint she helped build."

VIRGINIA FAULKNER by @neglectedbooks.com was featured in Nebraska Today, with comments from our Editor in Chief @bridgetrbarry.bsky.social!

Excited to start this #memoir from Timothy J. Hillegonds today. From what I’ve read, I think I’m really going to enjoy it. Published by @univnebpress.bsky.social.

A smiling Jill with her nails painted to match her book cover!

Did I get my nails done to match my title shade? Why yes, thank you for noticing. Turns out it’s pinker than it looks in font form 🤣 @univnebpress.bsky.social @cassmannes.bsky.social @riverteeth.bsky.social

In anticipation of spring, @univnebpress.bsky.social is offering 40% off baseball books, including these two -how cool that my book is next to a book about baseball in the Czech Republic. Use code 6BAB26 at checkout www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/baseball-sale/

From the Desk of Jill Christman: Baltimore Bound Jill Christman is the author of If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (Nebraska, 2022), Darkroom: A Family Exposure, and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood. She is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at Ball State University, where she serves as editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and Beautiful Things. Her new book…

From the Desk of Jill Christman: Baltimore Bound

On the blog, @jillchristman.bsky.social reflects on the decades-long journey to writing and publishing her new memoir THE HEART FOLDS EARLY.

‘Big Loosh’ Review: The Umpire as Showman Ron Luciano once ejected Baltimore’s Earl Weaver from both games of a doubleheader. He was eventually pulled off Orioles games.

Many thanks to David M. Shribman of the @wsj.com for the fine review of Big Loosh, from @univnebpress.bsky.social . It made my day!

Cover of book titled, "We Will Receive Justice: Native Histories of the Collapse of the California Missions." It features a painting of a single Native individual holding a bow and arrow standing in the abandoned courtyard of a mission complex with dark clouds and hills in the background.

Excited to announce that Gustavo Flores and I have a new book coming out later this year with @univnebpress.bsky.social! More details coming soon, but for now here is the amazing cover featuring art by Katie Dorame.

Music, or Immortality My uncle breeds like the fish. His music, like the universe, has its own end where there is no end.

Today's Feature:

"Music, or Immortality" by Tares Oburumu from Origins of the Syma Species published by @univnebpress.bsky.social

Read here:
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Cover of "Under Jackie's Shadow: Voices of Black Minor Leaguers Baseball Left Behind" by Mitchell Nathanson

"@mitch-nathanson.bsky.social does an excellent job of allowing these former players to tell their stories in their own words," writes J.L. Steele for NINE. bit.ly/4b6XsuD

Join Teo Rivera-Dundas, author of SLOW GUILLOTINE, at the Center for Fiction's First Novel Fridays event on March 6. bit.ly/4u74BCW

The Center for Fiction's March selection of novels ask what it means to stay, to leave, and to become someone new—within friendships, families, and the wider world.

Cover of "The Heart Folds Early: A Memoir" by Jill Christman

"THE HEART FOLDS EARLY [by @jillchristman.bsky.social] is living proof that 'writing the hard stuff' can have a real, emotional impact, especially in an environment that seeks to hide stories of miscarriages, abortions, and reproductive justice," writes Carlin Steere for Sweet Lit. bit.ly/4l0vHHK

February 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 titles where our noses have been buried. "This month I've been reading Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. The novel, set in 1920s Mexico, follows Casiopea Tun after she accidentally frees Hun-Kamé, the Mayan god of death, and must go on a quest to help him reclaim his throne from his brother.

Here's what UNP staff were reading in February:

I love @univnebpress.bsky.social & I'm excited to hang out with the folks who put such beautiful books out into the world! When my poet husband took over as my agent--crazy career move, I know--he asked me to name my dream press. I did. Reader, it worked. Hope to connect with y'all in Baltimore :-)

Write Now with Scrivener, Episode no. 59: Brad Bigelow, Biographer - Literature & Latte Show notes: Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please follow it on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Leave a rating or review, and tell your friends. And check out past episodes of Write Now with Scrivener.

"It was fragmented. I felt that this, first and foremost, was simply the story of a life, and that I wanted it to have momentum ... And I hope people will think so," shares Brad Bigelow, author of VIRGINIA FAULKNER, (@neglectedbooks.com) in an interview on Write Now with Scrivener. bit.ly/3ZOmGYx

Cover of "Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness" by Robert Aquinas McNally

"McNally provides a readily readable biography that does not simply celebrate Muir but prompts the reader to think more critically about the man and the ideas he helped make popular," writes Michael Childers for Western Historical Quarterly. bit.ly/4cJuQZI

Cover of "In the Japanese Ballpark: Behind the Scenes of Nippon Professional Baseball" by Robert K. Fitts

IN THE JAPANESE BALLPARK features engaging interviews with twenty-six baseball personalities to provide a behind-the-scenes look at the game. ⚾

Save 40% on this book and more during our Baseball Sale: bit.ly/BaseballSale26

Looking forward to being part of a book launch event this evening. I contributed a chapter on the Republican Party and the Lost Cause to this excellent collection, edited by Jen Murray and @johnmkinder.bsky.social 🇺🇸🗃️

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A history of gay liberation through rodeo, which from the mid-1970s provided a safe space where LGBTQ athletes could focus on their sport and evolved into a highly successful philanthropic organisation by the end of the 20th Century.

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UNP at AWP26 UNP will be exhibiting at the AWP Conference & Bookfair March 4-7 in Baltimore, Maryland. The AWP Conference & Bookfair is the annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers of contemporary creative writing. Visit us at booths 1069/1071 to browse our books and journals! Attending the conference virtually or can’t make it? Check out our virtual book exhibit 

Next week, UNP will be exhibiting at AWP 2026 (March 4-7) in Baltimore, Maryland! View our author's events or peruse the virtual exhibit below.