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University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· 7d

Dichos en Nichos by Sage Vogel is being performed as a play! Catch it at Teatro Paraguas in Santa Fe this August. www.teatroparaguasnm.org/dichos-en-ni...

Dichos en Nichos. A new play from the heart of Northern New Mexico, where the orchards, arroyo-roads, adobe homes, and even pigsties hold tales of wit, woe, romance, and wisdom. Directed by Makaela Vogel. Written by Sage Vogel. August 7-23, 2026. Fri & Sat 7 pm, Sundays 2 pm. Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, Suite B, Santa Fe, NM.

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· 12d

He has published three books with UNM Press: 📘 Vital Issues: Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the Boston Woman's Journal, 1904 📘 Mark Twain Remembered: An Anecdotal Biography 📘 Pasó por Aquí and The Desire of the Moth: Two Classic Novels of New Mexico

The Mark Twain Circle of America is proud to present the Louis J. Budd Award for
Distinguished Scholarship to Gary Scharnhorst, truly a distinguished scholar.

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· 12d

The Louis J. Budd Award recognizes scholarship in the field of Mark Twain Studies. This year’s recipient has had a distinguished career, including publication of essential reference works and a definitive multivolume biography. Gary Scharnhorst richly deserves the Louis J. Budd Award. Bravo!

The Mark Twain Circle of America has bestowed a tremendous honor on him: “The Louis J. Budd Award for Distinguished Scholarship is awarded in recognition of significant scholarship in the field of Mark Twain Studies. This year’s recipient has had a long and distinguished career, including publication of essential reference works, a definitive multivolume biography, and editorship of a prestigious journal, among other accomplishments. Gary Scharnhorst richly deserves the Louis J. Budd Award.”

Scharnhorst is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico; the author or editor of over fifty books, including award-winning biographies of Mark Twain and Owen Wister; the past president of the Western Literature Association; and the editor of the scholarly journal American Literary Realism.

He has published three books with UNM Press:
📘 Vital Issues: Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the Boston Woman's Journal, 1904
📘 Mark Twain Remembered: An Anecdotal Biography
📘 Pasó por Aquí and The Desire of the Moth: Two Classic Novels of New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· 19d

Learn more about the life and work of Rittenhouse, who had a deep connection to New Mexico and wrote a guidebook in 1946 about #Route66. David Farmer brings his own deep knowledge of books, printing, and the people who love them to this first biography about the pioneering writer and publisher.

Jack Rittenhouse: A Western Literary Life is the first biography of Jack D. Rittenhouse, the pioneering twentieth-century writer, printer, publisher, Western historian, antiquarian bookman, advertising executive, and chronicler of the golden age of Route 66.

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· 19d

Tom Leech, retired director of the Press of the Palace of the Governors, returns to the New Mexico History Museum for a conversation with David R. Farmer to celebrate the publication of Farmer’s new book, Jack Rittenhouse. Event sponsors: the NM History Museum + Friends of the Santa Fe Library

David Farmer will be in conversation with Tom Leech at the New Mexico History Museum to discuss Farmer's new book, Jack Rittenhouse: A Western Literary Life. This event is co sponsored by the New Mexico History Museum and the Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library.

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· 21d

www.unmpress.com/978082636840...

Book cover for Lieutenants and Light
Mapping the US Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico

by Robert E.C. Davis

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· 21d

The Wheels Museum hosts author Robert Davis for a talk and book signing. Lieutenants and Light, Mapping the U.S. Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico, tells the story of the over 90 heliograph stations across Arizona and New Mexico established in the late 1800s.

The Wheels Museum hosts author Robert E.C. Davis for a talk and book signing of Lieutenants and Light: Mapping the U.S. Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· 23d

NEW! The Changemakers: How New Mexico Became the Land of Women's #Equality, by Tasia Young. Part memoir, part history, this is the story of the extraordinary changes that took place in NM prior to and after the state Equal Rights Amendment in 1972 as documented by a woman at the center of it all.

NEW today!
The Changemakers: How New Mexico Became the Land of Women's Equality
Part memoir, part history, The Changemakers is the story of the extraordinary changes that took place in New Mexico prior to and after the enactment of the state Equal Rights Amendment in 1972 as documented by a woman at the center of it all.

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· 23d

NEW fiction from the Querencias Series: Beyond the Edge of the Known World, A Novel by Jerry Ortiz y Pino A young genizaro's journey of self-discovery. #booksky #historysky #HistoricalFiction

Book cover for Beyond the Edge of the Known World, by Jerry Ortiz y Pino. Next to the book cover is a description:
As the Spanish empire begins to unravel, the Emperor calls a constitutional convention in Cadiz in 1812, to which even New Mexico, the most remote and isolated of Spain’s colonies, is to send a delegate. Beyond the Edge of the Known World is the story of the adventure of the three-year journey the delegate, Pedro Bautista Pino, took to Cadiz, as told by his traveling companion: his 14-year old grandson, Juan de los Reyes Baca.

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· Jul 14

NEW! Love and Other Fish: Essays on Wonder, Loss, and Transformation In this luminous debut collection, #wildernessguide Hannah Hindley explores small creatures, big landscapes, and the shimmering connections between aquatic life and the human experience. #ecology #environmentalwriting #RiverTeeth

Book cover for Love and Other Fish: Essays on Wonder, Loss, and Transformation, by Hannah Hindley. Next to the image is a description of the book,"Rendered with a tenderness for both the wild planet and the human heart, Love and Other Fish will leave readers with a renewed sense of wonder at the world around them. New from University of New Mexico Press.

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· Jul 7

NEW—Undesirable: The Vietnam War and a Father's Battle for Justice is the powerful true story of a parent’s unflagging battle on behalf of a beloved son struggling with PTSD, mental illness, and addiction and a family who bore the burdens of war for decades. #vietnam #ptsd

Book cover for Undesirable
The Vietnam War and a Father's Battle for Justice

by Laura Kalpakian

Image of soldiers in Vietnam posing for a photograph. Next to the book cover is a review: “As heartbreaking as it is infuriating, Undesirable is further proof that for some soldiers—and those soldiers’ families—the war is never over.”—Stewart O’Nan, author of The Names of the Dead and The Vietnam Reader

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· Jul 7

Each chapter of the book describes an initiative, program, or innovation that proved central in FDP’s effort to make New Mexico one of the nation’s early childhood leaders. www.unmpress.com/978082636961...

Putting Our Youngest Children First
Building a Movement for High-Quality Early Childhood Education
by Lois Vermilya and Stephen Preskill

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· Jul 7

Putting Our Youngest Children First offers a clear path forward toward high quality early education by demonstrating how to create the kind of programs that children, families and communities deserve, and by showing how to build the political will to give high quality programs unambiguous support.

Putting Our Youngest Children First is a new book that describes in great detail what can happen when a large and dedicated group of people come together to do what is best for the well-being of children. Focusing on the history of the Family Development Program (FDP), an initiative in the University of New Mexico’s College of Education and Human Sciences, this book chronicles FDP’s 40 years of experience as one of New Mexico’s most powerful advocates for high quality early education and care. From the start and throughout its history, the leaders of FDP have understood that a community cannot flourish unless a strong system of early learning prevails. These leaders played a prominent role in shaping a statewide early childhood system that is community-based, family-driven and well-funded for all young children.

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· Jun 30

“[Lynn] Adler’s pictures show us the best of what photography can reveal: the beauty of connecting with one another. The finest of Adler’s Petaca photos evoke mystery or portray an exuberance for life that overshadows everything around it.”—Alex Harris NEW: And So We Moved to Petaca

NEW: And So We Moved to Petaca: Portrait of a New Mexico Community
Photographs by Lynn Adler; Edited and with an Introduction by Bill Shapiro, former editor in chief of LIFE magazine.

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· Jun 25

Book cover for The Maze of History
Komal Hok, O'odham Teachings, and an Earth-Based Sense of Time, by David Martínez. The culmination of David Martínez’s twenty-five years of studying, writing, and teaching about O’odham culture and history, The Maze of History at last captures the significance of Komal Hok’s work as an O’odham intellectual. Komal Hok’s recounting of O’odham origins forms the basis of an O’odham sense of history, which is based on their relationship with their jeved—the earth, soil, land—that was given them at the time of creation. Here is where I’itoi, along with Jeved mahkai (Earth medicine maker), Bán (Coyote), and Nuwi (Buzzard), shaped the first people into O’odham.

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· Jun 25

Tomorrow! David R. Farmer, author of Jack Rittenhouse: A Western Literary Life, will be at The Travel Bug Bookstore to talk about his book with the Old Santa Fe Association’s book group. This event is free and open to the public.

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· Jun 18

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· Jun 16

With major Hollywood stars like Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden, Hefner shows how, with the studio system beginning to crumble, Johnny Guitar sits at a moment when stars and directors began to exert more control over their images and films. www.unmpress.com/978082636964...

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· Jun 16

NEW from the Reel West Series: Johnny Guitar, by Brooks Hefner 📚️ The first book on the groundbreaking 1954 Western by director Nicholas Ray, controversial in its time, now celebrated as a groundbreaking example of high camp, #LGBTQ themes, and the outer limits of the Hollywood system.

NEW from the Reel West Series:
Johnny Guitar, by Brooks Hefner

Image of the book cover, which shows Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden. Next to the book cover is a description of the book: "Made at the peak of director Nicholas Ray's career, Johnny Guitar's layered themes of gender, sexuality, psychology, and politics make it one of the richest examples of the "adult Western."

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· Jun 12

Books on the Bosque celebrates Nathaniel Paolinelli’s new book Seventh and Central with a party!

Join us at Books on the Bosque on June 14th for a huge book event! There will be a lowrider car show! Lowrider bikes! A poetry reading by Jessica Helen Lopez, Albuquerque Poet Laureate Emeritus! And, at 1:00 pm, Nathaniel Paolinelli will be in conversation with New Mexico State Senator Leo Jaramillo.

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· Jun 12

A party to celebrate Nathaniel Paolinelli’s new book, Seventh and Central! There will be a lowrider car show! Lowrider bikes! A poetry reading by Jessica Helen Lopez! And Nathaniel Paolinelli will be in conversation with NM State Senator Leo Jaramillo. tinyurl.com/4we32azm

A night time picture of an illuminated lowrider on display with it's side tilted up in the air, with a little girl in face paint posing in front of it. Photo by Nathaniel Paolinelli.

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· Jun 11

JUNE 18 — The John Natsoulas Center for the Arts in Davis, CA is hosting a poetry reading with Danielle Lemay and Robin Becker, who will read excerpts from her new book. Midsummer Count collects the best work of Robin Becker, considered by many to be the foremost feminist poet of her generation.

John Natsoulas Gallery Hosts Poetry Reading Featuring Robin Becker and Danielle Lemay. Becker will read from her new book of poetry, Midsummer Count

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· Jun 11

On June 26, author Steven Davis will be joined in conversation by Taos Pueblo members Vernon Geronimo Lujan and Diane Reyna to discuss Davis' new book, Beating Heart of the World: The Taos Art Colony, the Pueblo Resistance, and the Battle for Indigenous America. Join us at SOMOS in Taos!

“Beating Heart of the World tells the stirring tale of how the savvy stewards of Taos Pueblo forged an unlikely though slyly effective alliance with bohemian newcomers to protect Indigenous lands and tribal traditions that seemed on the brink of extinction. In Steven L. Davis’s engrossing account, we are reminded why Taos has long been such a fervent crossroads of anti-establishment thought and aesthetics. Here, art meets politics in unexpected, eccentric, and often bewitching ways.”—Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and The Wide Wide Sea

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· Jun 11

Beating Heart of the World tells of a long-shot resistance movement that grew into a powerful campaign for Indigenous justice. It speaks urgently to our own era as new resistance movements percolate—and as new generations look to ancient Indigenous wisdom to guide sustainable pathways forward.

On June 26, author Steven Davis will be joined in conversation by Taos Pueblo members Vernon Geronimo Lujan and Diane Reyna to discuss Davis' new book, Beating Heart of the World: The Taos Art Colony, the Pueblo Resistance, and the Battle for Indigenous America. Join us at SOMOS in Taos for this free event!

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· Jun 8

The powerful true story of a parent’s unflagging battle on behalf of a beloved son struggling with PTSD, mental illness, and addiction, and a family who bore the burdens of war for decades. UNDESIRABLE by Laura Kalpakian coming July 7, 2026. #booksky tinyurl.com/ycxc33nw

Book cover for Undesirable: The Vietnam War and a Father's Battle for Justice, by Laura Kalpakian. Also shown is a blurb for the book. Paula Becker, author of A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction, says: “Undesirable is a poignant examination of duty: the author’s father’s to his son, her brother’s to his country, society’s to those who serve, and her own obligation to her father’s memory. This book reminds a new generation that wars fought far away still exact bitter collateral damage from everyone they touch back home."

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· Jun 6

🎉 WOOT! Lorca in Vermont: The Spanish Poet and His American Lover made it onto The Literate Lizard’s LGBTQ+ Pride Month list! theliteratelizard.com/lgbtq-pride-... Lorca in Vermont explores a relationship that influenced poems in his landmark collection Poet in New York. #booksky

Lorca in Vermont: The Spanish Poet and His American Lover, by Patricia A. Billingsley, is a featured LGBTQ+ Pride Month 2026 title by The Literate Lizard. Pictured here is the book cover for Lorca in Vermont, which is a photo of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca and American poet Philip Cummings.

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· Jun 5

Happy Pride Month! These books give voice to LGBTQ+ narratives and authors. 🏳️‍🌈Biographies of Federico García Lorca & Willa Cather 🏳️‍🌈Poetry by Stacey Waite & James Cihlar 🏳️‍🌈Memoir about the joy of dance & the grace of grief 🏳️‍🌈Transgressive art by Julio Galán Plus more! www.unmpress.com/pride-titles/

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· Jun 5

The Mountain Knows the Mountain, by Philip Connors, has been selected selected by the New Mexico Center for the Book to represent the state’s literary landscape at the National Book Festival as 🔥 New Mexico's Great Read 2026. #firewatch #wildfire #nationalbookfestival #haiku #haibun

The Mountain Knows the Mountain: A Fire Watch Diary, by Philip Connors, has been selected by the New Mexico Center for the Book at the New Mexico State Library (NMSL) to represent the state’s literary landscape at the National Book Festival as New Mexico's Great Read 2026.

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· Jun 3

Amados Compatriotas And Other Stories from New Mexico's Mexican Period, 1821-1846. Former NM State Historian Robert J. Tórrez draws from the marvelous treasure trove of primary documentation in NM’s Mexican-era archives to bring to light this little-known but crucial period. tinyurl.com/3e3vyu2a

University of New Mexico Press@unmpress· Jun 3

NEW! Amados Compatriotas by Robert J. Tórrez. These stories explore relations New Mexico had with the Native peoples that inhabited the territory and the impact and influence of trappers, adventurers, entrepreneurs, and traders that made their way to New Mexico over the Santa Fe Trail.