University of New Mexico Press
LightNews LightNews
banner
unmpress.bsky.social
University of New Mexico Press
@unmpress.bsky.social
6.1K followers 310 following 380 posts
Established in 1929, the award-winning trade and scholarly publishing unit of the University of New Mexico.
Posts Replies Media Videos
unmpress.bsky.social
In a new blog post, author Jehanne Dubrow discusses her mother's traumas, the power of poetry, and how instead of leaning away from our traumas or inner workings we should lean in. (DuBrow's mother pictured here)
Check it out here: tinyurl.com/mr2s5k3k
A vintage photo of a smiling woman with short dark hair smiling.
November 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Reposted by University of New Mexico Press
chrisyogerst.com
My favorite still from the set of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. I wanted this in the book but I couldn't find the rights to use it and an original was too expensive. I've been doing interviews now that the book's out and will make a list below! @unmpress.bsky.social @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
unmpress.bsky.social
Spine Magazine gives a shoutout to the cover design of two of our 2025 books in this University Press special coverage! #booksky #coverdesign
SPINE-University Press Week 2025: Special Coverage
The Uni Press round-up is back! We welcome you to our ongoing feature, now penned by designer and photographer Giles Hoover , in which we periodically highlight a selection of recent university…
spinemagazine.co
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
unmpress.bsky.social
November 16th at Su Teatro, Denver, the "Late Bloomers" performance will feature a story by UNM Press author Robert Garner McBrearty!

www.storiesonstage.org/2025-26-seas...
2025-26 Season Info & Tixs
​ SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE FOR 2025-26 SEASON!!
www.storiesonstage.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
unmpress.bsky.social
It's publication day for this edited collection featuring leading scholars in #criminology, #sociology, and #politicalscience that offers an unprecedented global analysis of how the world’s most lucrative illicit market operates today.

Learn more here: www.unmpress.com/978082636820...
Cover of Cocaine: The Global Reach of the World's Most Lucrative Illicit Drug, edited by Sebastian A. Cutrona and Jonathan D. Rosen. Image behind the text is stacked white bags. “With cocaine production reaching record levels and expanding well beyond traditional core markets, this timely volume usefully updates our understanding of an ever-evolving illicit transnational industry... especially welcome and unusual is the volume’s truly global coverage. The wide-ranging mix of contributors—representing a nice combination of veteran drug-trade analysts and younger scholars—cross not only geographic and disciplinary borders but also the borders between academia and the policy world.”—Peter Andreas, author of Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
unmpress.bsky.social
On a new episode of Forgotten Hollywood, Chris Yogerst discusses the reasons he chose to write a deep-dive analysis of the John Ford film THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE. #booksky #filmsky #westerns
Episode 378-The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Podcast Episode · Forgotten Hollywood · 11/06/2025 · 22m
podcasts.apple.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
unmpress.bsky.social
The Connecticut Horticultural Society planted the seed for further exploration in their lovely review of Judith Taylor's "Women & Gardens: A History From the Victorian Era to Today."

tinyurl.com/8r34cnht
#WomensHistory
The Connecticut Horticultural Society reviewed Judith Taylor's book "Women and Gardens, A History From the Victorian Ear to Today." In the review they noted "This detailed introduction to the influence of gender and class...in what has now become a female-dominated field provides direction for future reading to those wo=ho want to explore specific topics in-depth."
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Reposted by University of New Mexico Press
deborahkalb.bsky.social
Q&A with Kathleen M. Rodgers about her new novel, THE LLANO COUNTY MERMAID CLUB.
tinyurl.com/y44z9nzf
@kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Reposted by University of New Mexico Press
illinoispress.bsky.social
Check out Khani Begum's review of "Thelma and Louise" by Susan Kollin (@unmpress.bsky.social) in Journal of Film and Video Vol. 77, No. 3, on @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
Cover of Journal of Film and Video, Volume 77, No. 3, Fall 2025 Purple letters spelling out "JFV" and full journal title in green and white text on a black background with close-up photo of a camera lens
November 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
unmpress.bsky.social
Stop by the Stanford Theater in Palo Alto this weekend to see BROKEN ARROW on the big screen, and then check out Angela Aleiss's analysis of the film in her Reel West book of the same title—out now!

#booksky #filmsky #westerns
The Stanford graduate who changed Hollywood’s view of Native Americans
Stanford Theatre is screening the classic, game-changing Western ‘Broken Arrow.’
www.mercurynews.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
unmpress.bsky.social
~A Cautionary Tale from Argentina~
Karen Robert compares the current "disappearance" tactics in the United States to the abductions of Argentine citizens from 1976-1983.

#abolishice #abductions #argentina
A Cautionary Tale from Argentina
Karen Robert compares the current "disappearance" tactics in the United States to the abductions of Argentine citizens from 1976-1983.
www.unmpress.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
unmpress.bsky.social
Bookworks welcomes Nasario García for a reading and book signing of his new memoir, Martíneztown, 1945: Tales of Life and Loss in an #Albuquerque Barrio.

November 6 at 6 pm, at @bkwrks.bsky.social

www.unmpress.com/events/nasar...
#booksky
Nasario Garcia at Bookworks, Nov 6 — 6 pm, Book Reading and Signing. Cover image of Martineztown, 1945 featuring a young Nasario sitting on the hood of a truck. Author photo of Nasario as an older man to the side.
November 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Reposted by University of New Mexico Press
chrisyogerst.com
Honored to have just received kind praise of this book by Ford scholar Joseph McBride. I was, perhaps, most nervous about his feedback as he is so incredibly passionate and defensive of Ford. With praise for Scott Eyman (who blurbed) and Joe McBride, both towering Ford experts, I can now rest easy.
November 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Reposted by University of New Mexico Press
rboomhower.bsky.social
Had a great time talking to @gabriellakd.bsky.social about my Malcolm Browne biography from the @unmpress.bsky.social.
November 4, 2025 at 7:47 AM
unmpress.bsky.social
Time to celebrate the release of Martineztown, 1945 by Nasario Garcia!🎉 This memoir tells the story of moving from his family ranch in the Río Puerco to Albuquerque’s oldest barrio, Martíneztown, home and refuge for Nuevomexicanos seeking better lives during World War II. #booksky
Nasario Garcia's poignant memoir. new from UNM Press. Cover image of Martineztown, 1945 featuring a young Nasario sitting on the hood of a truck. Author photo of Nasario as an older man to the side.
November 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
unmpress.bsky.social
New month, new books! Today we're releasing The Wounded Line by Jehanne Dubrow🎉 It is the first craft-based writing book of its kind, grounded not only in research but also in the heart, and in the belief that even our deepest hurts can find a lyrical form. 📖✒️ #booksky
New from UNM Press, The Wounded Line: A Guide to Writing Poems of Trauma by Jehanne Dubrow. Cover is red with white text.
November 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Reposted by University of New Mexico Press
librarything.com
Thank you to @unmpress.bsky.social for offering this one through our Early Reviewers program!
nancyadairb.bsky.social nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 9d
#bookmail #theykillpeople Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution and America’s Obsession with Guns and Outlaws
#KirkEllis
@librarything.com
#highroadbooks
November 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Reposted by University of New Mexico Press
writingwestward.bsky.social
🚨New Episode Alert🚨

This month we chat with essayist, novelist, and Univ. of Montana environmental studies professor Mark Sundeen about his new essay collection, "Delusions + Grandeur: Dreamers of the New West" (@unmpress.bsky.social, 2025).

writingwestwardpodcast.podbean.com/e/080-mark-s...
080 - Mark Sundeen - Delusions + Grandeur: Dreamers of the New West | Writing Westward Podcast
A conversation with Mark Sundeen about their book Delusions + Grandeur: Dreamers of the New West (University of New Mexico Press, 2025)   Mark Sundeen is an award-winning novelist, essayist, and Assoc...
writingwestwardpodcast.podbean.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
unmpress.bsky.social
Author Karen Robert talks to the Latin American Review of Books about the remarkable study that led to her book DRIVING TERROR, which looks at the role of the Ford Falcon in Argentina's darkest period.
Podcast 32: The death squads' auto of choice
Driving Terror looks at the role of the Ford Falcon in Argentina's darkest period: author Karen Robert talks to us about her remarkable study
latamrob.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
unmpress.bsky.social
"Most folks, including myself when I was regularly reading comics as a kid, imagine some version of a Superman/Clark Kent figure when asked to close their eyes and immediately conjure the idea of a superhero. I’d like to disrupt that archetype."
An Interview with Gary Jackson, author of small lives – swamp pink
October 7, 2025 | blog, news
swamp-pink.charleston.edu
October 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
unmpress.bsky.social
This exclusive excerpt from THE LLANO COUNTY MERMAID CLUB by @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social on Fresh Fiction is a great chance to find out what this secret club of landlocked mermaids is all about! #booksky #litfic

blog.freshfiction.com/kathleen-m-r...
Kathleen M. Rodgers | Exclusive Excerpt: THE LLANO COUNTY MERMAID CLUB – Fresh Fiction
Exclusive Excerpt for The Llano County Mermaid Club by Kathleen M. Rodgers:
blog.freshfiction.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
unmpress.bsky.social
How Haiku Healed a Broken Spirit, a guest blog by Philip Connors, discusses the enormous impact of a get well gift from a friend, Connors' exploration of #haiku, and why he started incorporating the poetic form into the diary he kept as a fire lookout.

#booksky #poetrysky

tinyurl.com/yu5532h8
A man with glasses and a white beard (Philip Connors) holds a microphone in one hand and a copy of "Haiku" in the other, with the cover facing toward the audience.
October 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
unmpress.bsky.social
This week we've been mixing and mingling at the New Mexico Library Assn. conference, where we have been offering a sneak peak at a beautiful Spring 2026 title: Seventh and Central — #Lowriders, a book of stunning photographs by Nathaniel Tetsuro Paolinelli. Check it out: tinyurl.com/4skzn89e
October 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
unmpress.bsky.social
Hometowns to Hollywood wrote a wonderful quick review of BROKEN ARROW by Angela Aleiss, one of the newest additions to our Reel West series on Western films. #booksky #filmsky
Broken Arrow
Broken Arrow (1950) offered a shift in how Native Americans were being portrayed by classic Hollywood. Though the film has its flaws and fair share of artistic liberties, this film makes strong soc…
hometownstohollywood.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
unmpress.bsky.social
WHERE THE NORTH ENDS by Hugo Moreno made the Most Anticipated October 2025 Releases from Latinx in Publishing! This surreal novel weaves between dreamscapes and reality, modern day and 17th century colonial New Mexico. #booksky latinxinpublishing.com/blog/most-an...
October 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM