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HOWL if you love City Lights Books in San Francisco! Right now a UNM Press title is featured right by the front desk: Tending the Fire, by Christopher Felver.

Winner of the Gold Medal for Photography in the 2018 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards | 2017 INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist

Christopher Felver’s Tending the Fire celebrates the poets and writers who represent the wide range of Native American voices in literature today. In these commanding portraits, Felver’s distinctive visual signature and unobtrusive presence capture each artist’s strength, integrity, and character. Accompanying each portrait is a handwritten poem or prose piece that helps reveal the origin of the poet’s language and legends. As the individuals share their unique voices, Tending the Fire introduces us to the diversity and complexity of Native culture through the authors’ generous and passionate stories.

If you're in San Francisco, pop by City Lights. The rest of us can get the book at UNMPress.com.

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

🎉 Congratulations to Albuquerque's newest Poet Laureate, Damien Flores.

Yesterday, The City of Albuquerque's Department of Arts & Culture along with the Albuquerque Poet Laureate Organizing Committee welcomed their seventh Poet Laureate, Damien Flores: an Albuquerque born-and-raised decorated poetry champion. Congratulations, Damien!🎉👏

To learn more about Damien Flores, click here: https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/albuquerque-welcomes-seventh-poet-laureate/

Coming this September from UNM Press: The Half-Life of Guilt, by Lynn Stegner

Shelf Awareness loved this novel — and the cover artwork by Felicia Cedillos! “Stegner's simply stunning writing is full of sentences that sing off the page.”

Read Sara Beth West's enthusiastic review:
https://www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/2024-07-01/review:_the_half-life_of_guilt.html

The Half-Life of Guilt is available for preorder now at UNM Press.

Shelf Awareness

NEW from UNM Press:
Nopalito, Texas — Stories

In this stunning debut story collection, everyone’s got the blues but nobody is willing to sing it. Evelyn Smith, Candace Lambert, and Dorene Wahrmund chafe against rigid small-town expectations. Others in hardscrabble Nopalito find themselves fenced in—an aging gay liquor store owner estranged among his neighbors, a mother and son bound by mutual resentment, two neighboring farm boys attracted to each other. Their stories are driven by desperation, rarely spoken, that troubles the community’s inhabitants as it nudges them toward connection, toward moments of hope. Meischen draws these characters with a tenderness that belies the hardness of their lives.

Available at unmpress.com

David Meischen

🎉 Crosses of Iron has been recognized by True West Magazine as "an instant classic!"

"Fortunately for students and scholars of the West, journalist Nick Pappas decided that the story of the nearly forgotten—and completely abandoned coal town—was worth researching and writing about. The award-winning writer’s Crosses of Iron: The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico and Its Twin Mining Disasters is an instant classic and a cautionary tale of what the coal company’s pursuit of profit cost in human lives.... Pappas’s Crosses of Iron should be considered one of the finest investigations of Western mining history."

True West Magazine Nick Pappas

Tale of Two Cities Two new mining town histories, plus a Ford film trilogy history, a biography of Buffalo Bill, Lincoln’s spies and a conman for the ages. The history of

This is going to be a fascinating conversation! Join us at Bookworks June 30th!
A Conversation & Reading with David Meischen

David Meischen in Conversation with Cynthia Sylvester Join us at Bookworks to enjoy David Meischen in conversation with Cynthia Sylvester about his latest book, Nopalito, Texas: Stories.

The Albuquerque Journal reviews the new biography of one of their own: Carl Magee, a columnist for Albuquerque newspapers from 1919 to 1927 who purchased the Albuquerque Journal in 1920.

Citizen Carl: The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge, and Invented the Parking Meter is available at unmpress.com

https://www.abqjournal.com/lifestyle/shedding-light-citizen-carl-a-biographical-look-at-a-new-mexico-muckraker/article_469569b4-1ebf-11ef-a54f-4b3294c36257.html #2

Albuquerque Journal Jack McElroy

Shedding light: 'Citizen Carl' a biographical look at a New Mexico muckraker If it weren’t for Jack McElroy, Carl Magee would likely remain in obscurity. McElroy is the author of the recently published biography of Magee, titled “Citizen Carl: The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge, and Invented the Parking Meter.” Magee was a man of many and wide-ranging abi...

A Bookish Monday with New Arrivals from Ray E. Boomhower, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Potomac Books, University of Nebraska Press, Cornell University Press, William Morrow, Hanover Square Press, Penguin Classics, Chronos Books, Mariner Books, Atria Books,
Liveright Publishing, and University of New Mexico Press.
https://youtu.be/dkBn8dv8zwU?si=o-bY6Tk_W7g5c3iS

Come check out our Southwest literature, pictured is a selection of titles from the shelf 🌵

Topics range from Billy the Kid, Santa Fe and Indigenous history, local environmental activism, the atomic bomb and Los Alamos, local authors such as William deBuys & Tony Hillerman, the Santa Fe Trail, any many many more!

👏👏👏 Congratulations, Jehanne Dubrow! Her book, Exhibitions, has won the GOLD MEDAL for Essays in the Foreword Book Awards!

https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books/exhibitions/

Foreword Reviews

"Exhibitions" is a 2023 Foreword INDIES Winner "Exhibitions" is a Foreword INDIES winner in Essays (Adult Nonfiction). What happens when beauty intersects with horror? In her newest nonfiction collection, Jehanne Dubrow interrogates the ethical questions that arise when we aestheticize atrocity. Ultimately Exhibitions is a collection concerned w...

NEW from UNM Press: Julio Galán — The Art of Performative Transgression, by Teresa Eckmann.

Eckmann’s book serves as the first English-language monograph on Julio Galán’s life and work. Galán, a Mexican Neo-Expressionist painter, combined gender-fluid imagery, his performative persona, q***r self-representation, and cross-cultural visual and textual references to create large-scale, layered, dialogical visual puzzles. An artist ahead of his time, Galán’s content and imagery is relevant to contemporary LGBTQ+ social movements. Julio Galán will be a core book of study for decades to come.

Author Teresa Eckmann is an associate professor of contemporary Latin American art in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is also the author of Neo-Mexicanism: Mexican Figurative Painting and Patronage in the 1980s (UNM Press).

NUEVO de UNM Press: Julio Galán — El arte de la transgresión performativa, por Teresa Eckmann.

El libro de Eckmann constituye la primera monografía en inglés sobre la vida y obra de Julio Galán. Galán, un pintor neoexpresionista mexicano, combinó imágenes de género fluido, su personalidad performativa, su autorrepresentación q***r y referencias visuales y textuales interculturales para crear rompecabezas visuales dialógicos, en capas y a gran escala. Un artista adelantado a su tiempo, el contenido y las imágenes de Galán son relevantes para los movimientos sociales LGBTQ+ contemporáneos. Julio Galán será un libro de estudio fundamental en las próximas décadas.

La autora Teresa Eckmann es profesora asociada de arte latinoamericano contemporáneo en el Departamento de Arte e Historia del Arte de la Universidad de Texas en San Antonio. También es autora de Neomexicanismo: pintura figurativa mexicana y mecenazgo en los años 1980 (UNM Press).

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Professor Buzzkill — Busting Myths, Taking Names — Welcomes Ray Boomhower back to his podcast to learn more about journalist Malcolm W. Browne and the photo he captured of the self-immolation of Buddist monk Thich Quang Duc.

Boomhower says his book, Ultimate Protest, is really three books in one: the story of Browne in Vietnam, the arc of Browne's life as a reporter, and the story of the historic photo.

Enjoy this fascinating conversation: https://bit.ly/boomhower

Professor Buzzkill Ray E. Boomhower

Malcolm Browne and the Self Immolation of Thích Quảng Đức Professor Buzzkill Ray Boomhower joins us to discuss how the most unlikely of war correspondents, Malcolm W. Browne, became the only Western reporter to capture Buddhist monk

Tomorrow! Join in over Zoom as Kelley Coffeen presents "Everyday Cooking: Spice It Up!"

https://www.unmpress.com/events/everyday-cooking-spice-it-up-with-kelly-coffeen/

Kelley Cleary Coffeen

Everyday Cooking: Spice It Up! With Kelly Coffeen - University of New Mexico Press Kelley Coffeen, author of The Big Book of Hatch Chile, presents “Everyday Cooking: Spice It Up!” at the Academy for Learning in Retirement.

The great Julia Alvarez in conversation with Matthew Munoz. Santa Fe Lit Fest 2024.

More from the Santa Fe Literary Festival. Utterly fearless conflict photojournalist Lynsey Addario speaking about her 25 years in conflict zones.

The first day of the Santa Fe Literary Festival 2024. It began last night with a moving remembrance of recently departed NM writers Cormac McCarthy, N.Scott Momaday, John Nichols, and Stanley Crawford.

Congratulations to UNM Press author Jehanne Dubrow! Her book, Exhibitions: Essays on Art and Atrocity, has won the Eric Hoffer Book Award in the nonfiction category of “Culture”!

The Eric Hoffer Book Award honors the memory of the great American philosopher Eric Hoffer by highlighting salient writing, as well as the independent spirit of small publishers. Since its inception, the Hoffer has become one of the largest international book awards for small, academic, and independent presses.

What happens when beauty intersects with horror? In her newest nonfiction collection, Jehanne Dubrow interrogates the ethical questions that arise when we aestheticize atrocity. The daughter of US diplomats, she weaves memories of growing up overseas among narratives centered on art objects created while working under oppressive regimes. Ultimately Exhibitions is a collection concerned with how art both evinces and elicits emotion and memory and how, through the making and viewing of art, we are—for better or for worse—changed.

Exhibitions is available at https://bit.ly/3QNIZcE

We are thrilled to be at the NM Hospitality Association Governor’s Conference on Hospitality and Tourism. UNM Press author Judith Fein is sharing her philosophy on how to explore and enjoy New Mexico. Her book, Slow Travel, is available at UNMpress.com

Chapter 16's reviewer challenges: "Read (Citizen Carl), and see if you don’t find that its themes — facts vs. lies, corruption, public feuds as spectator sport — still resonate today." Get your copy of this compelling biography at unmpress.com

The Good Fight As a career newspaperman, including 17 years as executive editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel, author Jack McElroy recognizes a good story. He’s got a grea…

Wild Carnivores of New Mexico is a first-ever landmark study of New Mexico's wild carnivores. The book includes discussions on habitat, evolving or altered ecosystems, and new discoveries about animal behavior and range, and it also provides details on the distribution, habitat associations, life history, population status, management, and conservation needs of individual carnivore species in New Mexico.

UNM research leads to publication of book about wild carnivores of New Mexico A new book from a University of New Mexico researcher examines the wild carnivores of New Mexico, from the common striped skunk to the now extinct grizzly bear. Jean-Luc E. Cartron, a research professor in the UNM Department of Biology, teamed up with...

Congratulations! Last week, the Historical Society of New Mexico honored five UNM Press authors with prestigious awards at their annual conference.

Enrique Lamadrid and José A. Rivera
Water for the People: The Acequia Heritage of New Mexico in a Global Context — winner of the HSNM Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez Award

Jerry Thompson
Under the Piñon Tree: Finding a Place in Pie Town — winner of the HSNM Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Award

Judith Phillips
The Gardens of Los Poblanos — winner of the HSNM Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award

Nick Pappas
Crosses of Iron: The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico, and Its Twin Mining Disasters — winner of the HSNM Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award

Available at unmpress.com


Judith Phillips , Nick Pappas , Enrique Lamadrid

Huge thanks to Pasatiempo for this introduction to our Native Edge series, which highlights established and emerging Native voices producing experimental and genre work in fiction and creative nonfiction: Mystery, horror, science fiction, and noir sitting side-by-side with experimental literary fiction and creative nonfiction.

UNM Press rolls out new series promoting Native American experimental and genre fiction Native Edge will feature new and rereleased works of genre fiction and experimental writing from Native authors.

Congratulations to Enrique Lamadrid for receiving the New Mexico Writers’ Lifetime Achievement Award, honoring his contributions to Southwestern literature:

“Given in recognition of Dr. Lamadrid's lifetime achievement as an educator, editor, author, activist, historian, and scholar dedicated to advancing understanding of Nuevo Mexico through literature, folklore, ethnopoetics, music, literary translation, and more. Lamadrid is a Distinguished Professor emeritus at the University of New Mexico and an editor of UNM Press's award-winning Querencias series, which promotes a transnational, humanistic, and creative vision of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, based on all aspects of expressive culture, both material and intangible. As a teacher, editor, and collaborator, Lamadrid has the respect and admiration of the New Mexico literary community.”

NEW BOOK to check out:

Citizen Carl
The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge, and Invented the Parking Meter

Carl Magee accomplished a LOT in his life, including working at the Lower Rio Grande Valley newspapers:

Former Valley editor exposed national scandal; invented parking meter A century ago, a remarkable editor blew the lid off the Teapot Dome affair. He would go on to lead the Lower Rio Grande Valley newspapers.

In this ruminative memoir, Lunday (Gnome) reflects on the disappearance of his stepfather. “A funeral offers release, but vanishing has a life of its own,” Lunday contends, weaving together recollections, letters, and literary analysis to contemplate the nature of loss and how losing his stepfather affected him.

- Publishers Weekly on DISEQUILIBRIA: MEDITATIONS ON MISSINGNESS by Robert Lunday

Read the review: https://loom.ly/sLXphIM
Preorder DISEQUILIBRIA today: https://loom.ly/kFS5rGo

Look inside!

The famous and highly sought-after Mimbres painted pottery in southwestern New Mexico continues to fascinate people today as much as it did when it first became known more than a century ago. Despite several publications promoting Mimbres archaeology and innumerable analyses of style, dating, iconography, meaning, identity, use wear, and trade and travel implications, however, there had been little interest in the actual production of Mimbres pottery. This changed with the professional investigations of the 1970s when petrographic analysis began, and then again, in the late 1980s and 1990s, when Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) was first employed in the study of Mimbres pottery production and distribution.

THE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF MIMBRES POTTERY by Darrell G. Creel assesses a much-expanded INAA data set and presents a new and more-informed interpretation of ceramic production and distribution in the Mimbres region. The results should guide future research in the region and will also serve as an example of how INAA data can help students and scholars understand many other interrelated aspects of prehistoric Mimbres society in addition to Mimbres pottery production.

https://loom.ly/gzQzc5Y

Our Spring, 2023 catalog is now available!

UNM Press welcomes the New Century Gardens and Landscapes of the American Southwest Series and its debut essay collection, WATER FOR THE PEOPLE: THE ACEQUIA HERITAGE OF NEW MEXICO IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT edited by Enrique R. Lamadrid and José A. Rivera, along with the first works in the Reel West series, RIDE LONESOME by Kirk Ellis and BLOOD ON THE MOON by Alan K. Rode.

Find these titles and more in this season's catalog: https://loom.ly/UUhP5Hs

Director Stephen Hull recommends LOVE, LOOSHA, edited by Chip Livingston:

"This is a book for anyone who cares about literary culture, arts and letters of the late 20th century, and good literary gossip. I love this book for creating expansive scenes and close-up views of these writers’ lives."

Order the book: https://loom.ly/cdr7TUA
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Fiscal Services Tech Jillian Rapp recommends DINÉ BAHANE' by Paul G. Zolbrod:

"Beautiful language, and fascinating! This translation of a folk epic is a great gift for the reader in your life."

Order the book: https://loom.ly/sPYtrUI
See all our recommendations: https://loom.ly/CeEpFIw