CEILING OF STICKS is a powerful and unflinching sort of documentary poetics bearing elegiac witness to the effects of global politics on individual lives. Save 40% during National Poetry Month with code 6PM26: bit.ly/PoetryMonth26

"Across each of the book’s seventy-one short essays, Silverman directs our attention through vibrant images...showing us both the initial shock and lasting power of interpersonal crimes big and small," writes Brook Champagne for @riverteeth.bsky.social. bit.ly/4lTiNvD

Shop our office overstock at the Dirty Book Sale! Happening Apr. 8, from 10am-4pm at the Crib in UNL's City Campus Union. Books will be $5 each, or you can fill a bag for $20.

SPITBALLER is the biography of baseball player Stan Coveleski, a Hall of Fame pitcher who grew up in Pennsylvania coal country and became one of the best in the Deadball Era, throwing the spitball before it was banned. Get baseball books for 40% off with code 6BAB26: bit.ly/BaseballSale26

"TO EDUCATE AMERICAN INDIANS is an invaluable source for any scholar of Native American boarding school histories. I eagerly await volume 2," writes Andrea Montgomery-Huebner for @kshistoryjournal.bsky.social. bit.ly/4tbbIJ9

“In fifteen, twenty years, if I save one person from a fire,” Martin Schneider said from inside the cavernous garage of the fire station in his hometown of Olomouc, “my job is done.” Read more from WE SACRIFICE EVERYTHING TO BASEBALL by @michaelclair.bsky.social. bit.ly/4s2KvXX

The 2026 Backwaters Prize in Poetry is open for submissions now through May 1. This year's contest is judged by @dseuss.bsky.social, the author of six books of poetry, including MODERN POETRY (2024) and FRANK: SONNETS (2021).

"The core insight of this ingenious little book is that, on screen, the day after tomorrow often looks a lot like today," writes Colin Carman for @hnetreviews.bsky.social of WHO WOULD YOU KILL TO SAVE THE WORLD? bit.ly/4tdjW3s

Why should anyone read the story of some unknown woman written by some unknown writer? Here's a little attempt to answer that question. Available now from @univnebpress.bsky.social: Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts by Brad Bigelow

My train and boat material is sourced from Michael Martone’s classes lo those many years ago, and the concept of TACKING has grown into some of my best advice for writing the hard stuff. @riverteeth.bsky.social @pinestatepublicity.bsky.social

"Though I don’t come at it from an academic perspective, examining masculinity, or as I’ve come to see it, masculinities, has become central to what I write about," shares Tim Hillegonds, author of AND YOU WILL CALL IT FATE, in an interview with @deborahkalb.bsky.social. bit.ly/4rWEkow

To celebrate National Poetry Month, all of our poetry books are 40% off! Including titles from the @apbf.bsky.social series and the Raz/Shumaker @prairie-schooner.bsky.social Book Prize in Poetry winners.

You can still get 40% off -- the same price I pay for the book! -- at @univnebpress.bsky.social with code 6AS26. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

“I can’t tell you what your difficult material is,” I tell my students, “but you know. And if you don’t know you know, you have an inkling. Your body is trying to tell you," shares @jillchristman.bsky.social, author of THE HEART FOLDS EARLY, with @writersdigest.bsky.social. bit.ly/4d8ew53

March Staff Reading List

Today is the last day to save 50% on books from Nebraska, Bison Books, and Potomac Books for Women's History Month. Shop the sale now and use code 6WHM26 at checkout: bit.ly/WHMSale26

SLOW GUILLOTINE by Teo Rivera-Dundas follows three broke weirdos whose collective desire to make and think about art is constantly interrupted by their art-industry-adjacent minimum-wage jobs. Save 40% when you order now: bit.ly/4bPT3f0

Excerpt: HOSTAGE by Mimi Nichter In HOSTAGE, Mimi Nichter recounts her survival of the hijacking of Trans World Airlines Flight 741, the first incident of international terrorism and one of the most significant events in aviation history.

Head to @debutiful.bsky.social for a cover reveal of HUM by Sanam Sheriff, designed by Lindsey M. Welch, along with a Q&A with Sheriff about its creation! debutiful.net/2026/03/26/s...

Great to see "They Are Dead and Yet They Live" on sale at #SMH. @univnebpress.bsky.social @drjenmurray.bsky.social

A happy Opening Day reminder that you can snag some bookmarks and get the book for 40% off from @univnebpress.bsky.social with code 6AS26! www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

At the dawn of the celebrity era of sports, Mike Donlin was one of the nation’s first athletes to capture the public’s attention. This biography by Steve Steinberg and Lyle Spatz shows why. Find your next book this baseball season: bit.ly/BaseballSale26

SOME ARE ALWAYS HUNGRY by Jihyun Yun chronicles a family’s wartime survival, immigration, and trauma through the lens of food, or the lack thereof. Save 50% during Women's History Month: bit.ly/WHMSale26

The University of Nebraska Press will be running their Passover sale until the 9th April. Don't miss out on 40% off selected titles using code: 6PSP26 Browse here: buff.ly/46gn7d0 @univnebpress.bsky.social

Happy first book birthday to THANK YOU FOR STAYING WITH ME by @baileygaylinmoore.bsky.social!

Submissions are now open for the 2026 NWSA Women of Color Caucus – Frontiers Student Essay Award! 1 annual $500 award is available for a woman of color who is a current graduate student and member of NWSA and the Women of Color Caucus: frontierswsjournal.org/call-for-pap...

Congratulations to Gbenga Adesina and DEATH DOES NOT END AT THE SEA!

Congratuations to Raz/Shumaker Book Prize Winner Gbenga Adesina on being longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize! @univnebpress.bsky.social

"In Eric C. Wat's short story collection, DADDY ISSUES, the author reveals hidden responsibilities, roles, and rules that shape the lives of his queer, Asian-American protagonists, who have come of age in L.A.," writes Lori O'Dea for the Gay and Lesbian Review. bit.ly/4lHuk11s

News & Reviews featuring @raveler904.bsky.social @neglectedbooks.com @sholleykline.bsky.social and more!

A laugh-out-loud memoir about a free-spirited, commitment-phobic Brooklyn girl who, after a whirlwind romance, finds herself living in a rickety farmhouse, pregnant, and faced with five months of doctor-prescribed bed rest because of unusually large fibroids. Save 50%: bit.ly/WHMSale26

Excerpt: THE HEART FOLDS EARLY by Jill Christman THE HEART FOLDS EARLY is a story of transformation through tragedy, and an examination of the way in which great loss can make us simultaneously fearful and intrepid.

First copies of my book From the Dugouts to the Trenches, #otd 2017. As far as I know, still the only history of #baseball during #ww1. Published by @univnebpress.bsky.social.

Just 11 days left to get these and other great books that celebrate women 50% off @univnebpress.bsky.social Use code 6WHM26 at checkout. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/womens-histo... I recommend "Out of Gaza". I wrote "From Chernobyl with Love". The title "From Miniskirt to Hijab" has me sold.

“Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have to learn,” Aaron Raz Link remarks. Few would know this better than the coauthor of WHAT BECOMES YOU, who began life as a girl named Sarah and twenty-nine years later began life anew as a gay man Get 50% off select books bit.ly/WHMSale26

"There is much more to this haunting novel that remains with the reader long after it's finished," writes Jessica Cory for the North Carolina Literary Review (pg 22) of TWINLESS TWIN by Dean Marshall Tuck. bit.ly/4sjwDtt

UNDER JACKIE'S SHADOW tells the stories of thirteen Black Minor League baseball players during the post–Jackie Robinson era who were left behind even as both baseball and the country claimed a newfound racial progressiveness. Save 40% during our Baseball Sale: bit.ly/BaseballSale26

"[INDIGENOUS ENLIGHTENMENT] will no doubt serve as an indispensable resource for those who wish to dig deeper into the history of Indigenous literacy practices across the globe," writes Phillip Round for Historical Studies in Education. bit.ly/4cKRsJs

THE JANUARY CHILDREN by Safia Elhillo depicts displacement and longing while also questioning accepted truths about geography, history, nationhood, and home. Get 50% off select books during Women's History Month: bit.ly/WHMSale26

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With the World Baseball Classic championship about to start, I want to mention that my book about how Czechia's amateur ballplayers were able to become WBC stars comes out on April 1! Preorder with code 6AS26 at @univnebpress.bsky.social for 40% off www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

"Wilke has written a fascinating, informative, and entertaining history of LGBT folks in the American west," writes Hank Trout for the Gay & Lesbian Review.

Congratulations to @wilderwriter.bsky.social, Leslie Stainton, @baileygaylinmoore.bsky.social, Scott D. Seligman, and Michael Shapiro whose books are 2025 Foreword INDIES finalists!

"DISINTEGRATING EMPIRE by [@elisefranklin.bsky.social] makes an important contribution not only to the history of the construction of the French, but also to the Western European welfare state regime after the Second World War," writes Nikola Tietze for Connections. bit.ly/412lnFJ

"There was some kind of sharp stick in the eye impact to the Trump years for me, personally. And it really encouraged me to think that through, to try to write about that experience," shares Randolph Lewis, author of BUMMERLAND, with @austintadarida.bsky.social: bit.ly/47Izdkl

I’m here for all the conversations. I had this thought after I talked with @gaylebrandeis.bsky.social for The Chicago Review of Books. . . my brother Ian died in May 2025, but he is always in the room. @pinestatepublicity.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social chireviewofbooks.com/2026/03/06/i...

B. M. Bower was the first author to make a living writing popular westerns. THE BOWER ATMOSPHERE recounts the remarkable twists and turns of Bower’s life, from her beginnings on a Montana cattle ranch to her success as a writer. Get 50% off select books: bit.ly/WHMSale26

"@saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social takes in orality as the heart of a history that refuses Eurocentrism, brings in praise songs, hunter songs, the Quran, and even dialogue between an animist Bori spirit and Nietzsche," writes Poetry Northwest in a review of BAKANDAMIYA. bit.ly/419hAXb

Happy first book birthday to STARLINGS by @mike-stark.bsky.social! STARLINGS is a history of starlings in America, an oddball, love-hate story at the intersection of human folly, ornithology, and one bird’s tenacious will to endure.

Probably a good time to remind people that I’m writing a book on the history of the World Baseball Classic due out next year through @univnebpress.bsky.social 🤗.