NEW FROM UNM PRESS

DISPATCHES FROM THE DROWNINGS: Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction

by B. J. Hollars

In homage to Michael Lesy's cult classic, Wisconsin Death Trip, Hollars pairs reports from late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century journalists with fictional versions, creating a hybrid text complete with facts,

lies, and a wide range of blurring in between. Read on...

AFRICANS INTO CREOLES: Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in Colonial Costa Rica

by Russell Lohse

Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa to the New World. Read on...

A CAROL DICKENS

CHRISTMAS: A Novel

by Thomas Fox Averill

"Joyfully riffing on a holiday classic, Tom Averill's A Carol Dickens Christmas is a moving and contemporary tale that, like the work of that other Dickens, focuses on what affects us deeply: judgment and compassion, grief and hope, cruelty and kindness. With a warm and realistic cast of characters, this is a story for people who believe in the magic of the season and-more to the point-- in simply caring for each other."--- Laura Moriarty, author of The Chaperone. Read on...

CONJUGAL BLISS: A Comedy of Martial Arts

by John Nichols

"A hilarious, raucous, painfully graphic portrait of The Marriage from Hell."
--- Chicago Tribune. Read on...

A SELECTED HISTORY OF HER HEART: Poems

by Carole Simmons Oles

"Through the lens of her singular and compelling life, Carole Simmons Oles guides us through our fractured, confused, violent century. At seventy, facing an increasingly fragile body, Oles crafts language that creates bonds-across cultures and tongues, across decades and oceans and continents. These powerhouse poems reach out generation to generation with generosity and compassion. These poems invite us in, offer food and drink and shelter."
--- Peggy Shumaker, author of Gnawed Bones. Read on...

THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INDIAN OPPORTUNITY: Quiet Champion of Self-Determination

by Thomas A. Britten

In this book, the first study of the NCIO, historian Thomas A. Britten traces the workings of the council along with its enduring impact on the lives of indigenous people. Read on...

THE SKY IS SHOOTING BLUE ARROWS: Poems

by Glenna Luschei

Edited by Noel Woodward

Celebrating life, travel, aging, and nature, this new book shines with Luschei's view of the world. Read on...

PUBLICITY POSTS

LOSING THE RING IN THE RIVER

by Marge Saiser

Congratulations to Marge Saiser whose poetry collection "Losing the Ring in the River" won the 2014 WILLA Literary Award in Poetry from Women Writing The West! For more info about the book visit unmpress.com.

GOIN' CRAZY WITH SAM PECKINPAH AND ALL OUR FRIENDS

by Max Evans, as told to Robert Nott

Variety talks with Max Evans about his forthcoming book, "Goin' Crazy with Sam Peckinpah and All Our Friends": "The book is chockablock with wild and woolly tales, but according to Evans, the Peckinpah who regularly visited him in New Mexico 'was a whole different human being' than the raucous, often dangerous Peckinpah of filmmaking lore." Read on...