There are 72 restaurants in Roger Naylor’s new guidebook, Arizona Boots and Burgers: A Guide for Hungry Hikers, and we’re sending each one a copy of his book! Want to find the best hikes across the Grand Canyon State that have a delicious restaurant nearby? Grab your own copy: tinyurl.com/yc3st2rf

"It’s a meaty yet accessible book that captures the lightning-in-a-bottle nature of the generation’s ur-text." The LA Times takes a look at Kirk Ellis's study of Bonnie and Clyde in his new book THEY KILL PEOPLE. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Thanks to the Albuquerque Journal for this wonderful profile of Garrett Peck's new book THE BRIGHT EDGES OF THE WORLD! It comes out March 10th, but you can get an early copy this weekend at his launch event at Bishop's Lodge, just north of Santa Fe. #booksky www.abqjournal.com/lifestyles/k...

Now in paperback for the first time! Jim Kristofic shares his story of navigating white and Indigenous spaces in the powerful and haunting lands of the Southwest—showing us how to use old traditions to find new beginnings and a better way to live. #booksky www.unmpress.com/978082636113...

ORE AND EMPIRE by Martin Stupich is out now! Check out what H-Environment had to say about it: "... a must-have accoutrement for the coffee tables of people who love El Paso, mining history, or both." #historysky #Texas #photobook

👽️ Now in Paperback: ALIENS LIKE US? by Anthony Aveni Anthony Aveni speaks to the trained astrophysicist and the curious layperson alike about a simple but previously unexplored question: Why do we assume aliens, if they are really out there, behave just like us? 💙📚 www.unmpress.com/978082636742...

Winner of the 2021 Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Western Novel, THE KING OF TAOS by Max Evans is now available in paperback for the first time! #booksky Find out more about this fun and down-and-dirty Western set in 1950s New Mexico: www.unmpress.com/978082636164...

🥾🍔 Packed with more than 70 restaurants and hikes, this is the ultimate dining guide—one that pairs each eatery with a nearby hiking trail. ARIZONA BOOTS AND BURGERS will help you find the best trails and treats all across Arizona! #Arizona #hiking #foodie Get your copy: tinyurl.com/yc3st2rf

Accomplished photographer Martin Stupich documents the overlap of Spanish colonization and the ASARCO mining and smelting operations sites in his striking new striking photography book, ORE AND EMPIRE. #industrialphotography #environmentalphotography #photobook Check it out: tinyurl.com/mw29zwe8

"What makes good flash is what makes good stories in general. Capturing the decisive moment with arresting detail. Writing to the questions, not the answers." Read more of author Grant Faulkner's tips and tricks for writing flash fiction below! 💙📚✒️ tinyurl.com/3h9vawrr #booksky #flashfiction

You can now find UNM Press books at the Albuquerque Sunport! Pick up a guidebook to Breaking Bad film locations on your way in, a green chile cookbook on your way out, or discover a new southwestern author to read on your long flight. #newmexicotrue #newmexicotravel #airportshopping #abqlocal

"…a must-have accoutrement for the coffee tables of people who love El Paso, mining history, or both." Thank you to H-Environment for this incredible review of ORE AND EMPIRE by Martin Stupich! This beautiful photography book comes out on February 17th. #booksky #photosky

On Display through April 12! Retrospective exhibition of the work of painter Curt Walters celebrates the release of his new book, Resilience: The Life History and Grand Canyon Art of Curt Walters. Visit Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West.

Join David Martinez, author of the forthcoming book THE MAZE OF HISTORY, for a free online discussion about O’odham Basket design on Thursday, February 12 at 12:00 p.m. See you there! 💙📚 ✒️ #booksky #authortalk #writing Find more info here:

Better than a #SuperBowl commercial: Rick Bass talks about the similarities between storytelling and football games, and why we’re so compelled by this sport. See the whole interview at the UNM Press YouTube channel.

Catch a special sneak peek from Robin Becker's upcoming book Midsummer Count: New and Selected Poems, featured in the New Yorker! 🎉☀️ #booksky #poetrysky #thenewyorker

🏈 At 34 years old, two "old dudes" are headed to #SuperBowlLX — Seattle kicker Jason Myers, and Patriots offensive tackle Morgan Moses. Rick Bass has them beat by a long shot. HE suited up for the semi-pro team Texas Express at the age of 60!

Today's Feature: "Give Us Your Pronouns" by Stacey Waite from A Real Man Would Have a Gun published by @unmpress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/give-us...

🎙️ PODCAST! Light, Camera, Author chats with Kirk Ellis about They Kill People: Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution, and America's Obsession with Guns and Outlaws

The Quarterly Review of Biology has high praise for Venomous River, by Eli Greenbaum: “(Greenbaum's) blend of wide-eyed naturalist, hard-core scientist, and modern environmentalist lead to 10 superbly written chapters of breathtaking adventures.” tinyurl.com/3tepyhnd

Your first look at this week's 20% off new release book picks, four fiction, four nonfiction. You don't have to support Jeff Bezos to get discounts on hot new books. Come to us: theliteratelizard.com/front-page-b.... Titles/authors in alt-text. Authors and publishers on Bluesky in comments. #Booksky

“‘I just want to want,’ she sang. ‘I just want to want to want to want.’ Because there’s no stopping want. Or that’s what we hoped.” something out there in the distance, words by @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social and photographs by Gail Butensky, published by @unmpress.bsky.social

Happy Book Birthday to Delilah Montoya: Activating Chicana Resistance by Josie Lopez! This ambitious volume is the first publication to provide an art-historical examination of the broad scope and depth of Delilah Montoya’s body of work. 💙📚 #chicano #artsky tinyurl.com/5yw68pnv

Available now! They Kill People by Kirk Ellis is the story of the making of Bonnie and Clyde. It is the story of the outlaws whose real lives were anything but glamorous. Most of all, it is the story of how violence and a predilection for firearms became a fundamental part of American identity. 💙📚

Out today! NUCLEAR FAMILY: A MEMOIR OF THE ATOMIC WEST by Ty Bannerman (@tybannerman.bsky.social) is a collection of essays that explore the legacy of the Manhattan Project as it has affected the lives of one American family. #booksky #memoir Learn more: tinyurl.com/4bau5k4n

NEW in February! ⭐ GUIDEBOOK: Arizona Boots and Burgers, by Roger Naylor ⭐ MEMOIR: Nuclear Family, by Ty Bannerman ⭐ POETRY: Midsummer Count, by Robin Becker ⭐ HISTORY: They Kill People, by Kirk Ellis ⭐ PHOTOGRAPHY: Ore and Empire, by Martin Stupich ⭐ ART: Delilah Montoya, by Josie Lopez #booksky

Author Kirk Ellis will be in conversation with Gene Grant to discuss the new book by Ellis, They Kill People: Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution, and America's Obsession with Guns and Outlaws. Join us at Bookworks Feb. 5th at 6 p.m. See you there! 📚 ✒️ Details: tinyurl.com/3x39scwz

Tonight! Grant Faulkner and Gail Butensky will be at Copperfield’s Books, Petaluma, to introduce their new book, something out there in the distance, joined in conversation by Kara Vernor. #booksky www.copperfieldsbooks.com/event/grant-...

In a recent podcast episode of Write On Four Corners, Philip Conners, author of The Mountain Knows the Mountain, talks about his revision process, journaling suggestions, and the importance of a good pen!💙📚 ✒️ www.ksje.com/podcasts/wri... #booksky #poetrysky #podcast

January 29th, Grant Faulkner and Gail Butensky at City Lights Bookstore, in-person & streaming on ZOOM. #photography #flashfiction #litfic #booksky #booklaunch Register for the streaming link here: citylights.com/events/grant...

Gregory Weeks, author of Embracing Autonomy: Latin American–US Relations in the Twenty-First Century, offers some insights into what's going on with Venezuela. www.unmpress.com/blog/2026/01...

CONGRATULATIONS to Thomas W. Swetnam (@firescar.bsky.social), author of The Jemez Mountains: A Cultural and Natural History! WINNER of the 2025 Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association 📚💙 #NewMexico

Natascha Scott-Stokes talks about her book Tales from the Sharp End on the Travel Writing Podcast #booksky #LatinAmerica #travel

Author Rick Bass talks with Write On Four Corners about his time with the semipro football team, the Texas Express. #football #superbowl #booksky www.ksje.com/podcasts/wri...

Join us for a special reading of Kirk Ellis's new book They Kill People at Collected Works on February third at 6 p.m. See you there! 💙 📚✒️ Read more about it on our blog here: tinyurl.com/ur9kxtyv #booksky #BonnieandClyde #reading

"One of the most important archaeological discoveries of the last century, which rocked the field of archaeology." Enter to win a copy of "Those Who Walked Before" from @unmpress.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky www.librarything.com/ner/detail/5...

JANUARY 27 — Grant Faulkner and Gail Butensky will be at Pegasus Books in Berkeley to introduce their new book of flash fiction and photography, something out there in the distance. #booksky tinyurl.com/bdz5ew3u

Our authors shine in reviews, interviews, and articles that have people talking about UNM Press books! #booksky www.unmpress.com/blog/2026/01...

The Wounded Line is an Editor's Choice at New Pages! www.newpages.com/blog/books/n...

"Not only does their slim, lovely book celebrate the collaboration between a writer and photographer but that between lovers to create a relationship, even that between cells to create a body." Smokelong Quarterly reviews something out there in the distance! 💙📚 www.smokelong.com/the-burning-...

An interview with Chapter House about my book Punishment Bag forthcoming from @unmpress.bsky.social :

Cover Reveal! UNDESIRABLE by Laura Kalpakian tells a heartbreaking story of a father’s love for his son & a son’s experience at war. This #memoir demands that we ask what we—& our government—owe to our veterans for the physical, psychological, & emotional sacrifices they and their families make. 💙📚

"Clear, sensuous, and accessible, Leslie Ullman’s poems exhibit the vast scope of creative imagination." Check out this new review of UNRULY TREE at Compulsive Reader #booksky #poetrysky

On this episode of Colombia Calling, Natascha Scott-Stokes discusses her book Tales from the Sharp End: A Portrait of Chile, "exploring themes of inequality, personal history, and the impact of climate change."

"Each poem transports the reader into new spaces and situations, where they are invited into and positioned alongside some of the most challenging circumstances imaginable." North of Oxford takes a look at A CHRONOLOGY OF BLOOD by @teoshannon.bsky.social northofoxford.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/a...

"Football throbs with a creative vitality; no two games are ever quite the same." This recent interview between Rick Bass and Deborah Kalb lets us into the secret world and magical inner workings of football! 🏈 💙📚 Read all about it here: deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2025/09/q-wi...

New book alert! PUNISHMENT BAG by Jake Fournier (@realmartinbuber.bsky.social) 💙📚 In conversation with collections like John Ashbery's Some Trees and Wallace Stevens's Harmonium, Punishment Bag is a daring #poetry debut that carves its own unsettling territory. www.unmpress.com/978082636922...

Out Now! something out there in the distance is a combination of fiction by @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social and photography by Gail Butensky that tells the story of two lovers on a road trip through the American West. 💙📚 #literary #photography Check it out here: www.unmpress.com/978082636858...

Happy Book Birthday to A METHOD OF REACHING EXTREME ALTITUDES by Nancy J. Allen! The lush and layered stories in this delightful debut stretch from the deep darkness of Carlsbad Caverns to the light of desert stars. 💙📚 #literary Find your copy here: tinyurl.com/3vswedu3

NEW! The Battle for Brazil, by Susanne M. Litrel, is an examination of a crucial turning point in the colonial history of Brazil and especially the enduring consequences of local and trans-Atlantic resistance to Dutch colonialism. www.unmpress.com/978082636904...