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10/09/2025

This new PBS documentary, based on Peter Harnik's FROM RAILS TO TRAILS, explores the 60-year movement to convert abandoned railroads into public trails for cycling and walking.

Premieris October 15 on public television stations nationwide (check local listings). https://bit.ly/4mJIOvS

Coming to public television in October, 2025.

10/06/2025

Excerpt: DEATH DOES NOT END AT THE SEA by Gbenga Adesina

DEATH DOES NOT END AT THE SEA, winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, explores the complexity of elusive citizenship.

Gbenga Adesina, a Nigerian poet and essayist, is the inaugural Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Black and Diasporic Poetry at the Furious Flower Poetry Center, James Madison University. He rece…

10/03/2025

Next Tuesday, join Thomas Wolf, author of BASEBALL IN THE ROARING TWENTIES, at the Burke Centre Library from 7pm-9pm. Wolf will discuss the Golden Age of Sports within the context of the nation’s exuberant excess, corruption, and the encroaching economic collapse.

https://librarycalendar.fairfaxcounty.gov/event/15079972

10/02/2025

September 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. “I finished reading R.F. Kua…

10/01/2025

"I can’t remember anyone ever talking to me about what it meant to be female... it would have been helpful to consider how I was part of a lineage of women, and that is something of which to be proud," says Melissa Fraterrigo author of, THE PERILS OF GIRLHOOD in an interview with Literary Mama.

Read it here: https://shorturl.at/zbUfL

09/30/2025

UNP is hiring! Join our team as Project Editor of Journals. Details on how to apply below.

Project Editor, Journals

09/29/2025

New in the American Lives Series: CHARACTER WITNESS by Jason Brown

CHARACTER WITNESS is a memoir about a son’s relationship with his mother, chronicling her struggle with mental illness, addiction, and poverty while exploring how the son’s troubles as a young man began to mirror hers.

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09/29/2025

Excerpt: INVITATION by Mi Jin Kim

In these stories, set mostly in South Korea, all must contend with the uncertainty and danger that come with connection, real or imagined, and grapple with what it is we really want from the people we think we need. https://wp.me/p4J9AE-hHg

09/26/2025

Melissa Fraterrigo joins Author2Author to discuss her new book THE PERILS OF GIRLHOOD as well as her writing journey.

Melissa Fraterrigo’s memoir, The Perils of Girlhood is published by the University of Nebraska Press in Fall 2025. She is also the author of the novel Glory Days (University of Nebraska Press), which was named one of “The Best Fiction Books of 201...

09/26/2025

Melissa Fraterrigo, author of THE PERILS OF GIRLHOOD shares her tips for writing memoir on the blog. https://wp.me/p4J9AE-hS6

09/25/2025

Join UNP in Spearfish this weekend at the 2025 South Dakota Festival of Books! Find a full list of our author's events below. https://wp.me/p4J9AE-hSf

09/24/2025

Save 40% on everything you order from our new American Studies and Cultural Criticism catalog! Enter coupon code 6AM25 in your shopping cart, then click "Apply." https://bit.ly/3IoX27y