Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers (Nebraska, May 2023) by Erik Sherman. About the Book: Daybreak at Chavez Ravine retells Fernando Valenzuela’s arrival and permanent influence on Dodgers history while bringing redemption to the organization’s controversial beginnings in LA. Through new interviews with players, coaches, broadcasters, and media, Erik Sherman reveals a new side of this intensely private m ..read more

The University of Nebraska Press is proud to be on NetGalley’s publisher list. NetGalley is a digital platform that helps authors and publishers promote digital review copies to book reviewers and other publishing industry professionals. Join the online reader community here! Peruse the forthcoming titles that we currently have available on the platform this month: The Wizard of College Baseball DAVID BRAUER David Brauer traces the roots of modern-day college baseball’s success to Ron Fraser’s work at Miami. The Wizard of College Baseball is an inspirational and entertaining r ..read more

Congratulations to UNP author Elliott West for being a 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist! The Pulitzer Prize in History is awarded to a distinguished and appropriately documented book on the history of the United States. The prize-winner was Jacqueline Jones for her book No Right to an Honest Living. West was a finalist for his book Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion. A masterly crafted and comprehensive narrative of how our nation’s history unfolded across the American West and how the West, no less than the Civil War, profoundly shaped the rise of modern America. –T ..read more

The University of Nebraska Press is excited to join the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) in celebrating literary translation this May. Annually, the ALTA hosts Write the World, a series of virtual panels on all aspects of translation. This year the event will be held on May 21. To celebrate the leadup to Write the World, we’re participating in the Read the World social media book fair to highlight the latest in translated titles at Nebraska. From May 13-21, check out the #ReadtheWorld hashtag to see translated books from several publishers. We’ve compiled a list of books to st ..read more

ICYMI Godfall by Van Jensen and The Sound of Undoing by Paige Towers were selected as part of the 2024 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. Both are in the book cover category. The covers were designed by UNP’s Nathan Putens and Lindsey Welch respectively. Awards Justice in Plain Sight by Dan Bernstein is the winner of the 2024 American Legacy Book Awards in the law category. Reviews Perfect Eloquence Starred review in Library Journal: “A wonderful and long-overdue tribute to a man whom many consider the best sports broadcaster who ever lived.” Agents of Empire Review in Pacific Northw ..read more

Congratulations to Safiya Sinclair on her Guggenheim fellowship! The Guggenheim Fellowship is a prestigious award given to individuals who demonstrate exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or superior creative ability in the arts and exhibit great promise for their future endeavors. Out of 3,000 applications reviewed by the Foundation, approximately 175 fellowships are awarded each year. Applications go through several stages of rigorous scrutiny and review before being awarded the fellowship, making those who receive the award undoubtedly worthy of massive praise. Sinclair was award ..read more

Steve Steinberg is a baseball historian and author of Urban Shocker (Nebraska, 2017), winner of the SABR Baseball Research Award, and The World Series in the Deadball Era. Lyle Spatz is the author of many baseball books and the coauthor (with Steve Steinberg) of The Colonel and Hug (Nebraska, 2015), winner of the SABR Baseball Research Award, and 1921 (Nebraska, 2010), winner of the Seymour Medal. Their most recent book Mike Donlin: A Rough and Rowdy Life from New York Baseball Idol to Stage and Screen was published this month. In the first decade of the twentieth century, Mike Donlin was one ..read more

To celebrate Mother’s Day on May 12, we’ve curated a list of memoirs, fiction, anthropology, and history that explores the beautiful yet complicated kaleidoscope of motherhood. If This Were Fiction JILL CHRISTMAN If This Were Fiction is a love story—for Jill Christman’s long-ago fiancé, who died young in a car accident; for her children; for her husband, Mark; and ultimately, for herself. In this collection, Christman takes on the wide range of situations and landscapes she encountered on her journey from wild child through wounded teen to mother, teacher, writer, and wife. Playing ..read more

The 2024 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, now in its 59th year, honors the university publishing community’s design and production professionals; recognizes achievement in design, production, and manufacture of print publications; and serves as a spark to conversations and source of ideas about intelligent, creative, and resourceful publishing.  Congratulations to our designers, Nathan Putens and Lindsey Welch, whose works were were among the top 51 book covers from 329 entries! A full list of winners can be seen here. Godfall by Van Jensen Designer: Nathan Putens ..read more

Since its founding in 1888, The Jewish Publication Society has shaped American Jewish life by bringing voices from across the Jewish tradition, past and present, into conversations at the heart of the contemporary world. Here’s how you can save on their latest titles in May. Click the links below to browse the sales; promo codes are good on U.S. and Canadian shipments only. Enter the code in the discount code field of your shopping cart and click “Apply” to save. Jewish American Heritage Month Sale; Now–May 31, 2024 Israel Independence Day Sale; May 14–May 20, 2024 ..read more