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Acquiring Editor

Courtney Ochsner

American Lives

The singular American life is a source of endless diversity, and the methods of telling the life are as important as the details themselves. The American Lives series, called “splendid” by Newsweek, features works of creative or literary memoir that, whether evoking moments of death or disease, in family or marriage, history, politics, religion, or culture, provide glimpses into singular American lives. Taken together, these stories coalesce into a richly textured and colorful portrait of our contemporary culture.

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The Sound of Undoing

The Sound of Undoing

A Memoir in Essays

Paige Towers

March 2023

Nebraska

It's Fun to Be a Person I Don't Know

It's Fun to Be a Person I Don't Know

Chachi D. Hauser

March 2023

Nebraska

Under My Bed and Other Essays

Under My Bed and Other Essays

Jody Keisner

September 2022

Nebraska

If This Were Fiction

If This Were Fiction

A Love Story in Essays

Jill Christman

September 2022

Nebraska

Shadow Migration

Shadow Migration

Mapping a Life

Suzanne Ohlmann

March 2022

Nebraska

Let Me Count the Ways

Let Me Count the Ways

A Memoir

Tomás Q. Morín

March 2022

Nebraska

Knocked Down

Knocked Down

A High-Risk Memoir

Aileen Weintraub

March 2022

Nebraska

This Jade World

This Jade World

Ira Sukrungruang

October 2021

Nebraska

What Becomes You

What Becomes You

New Edition

Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz

April 2021

Nebraska

To Hell with It

To Hell with It

Of Sin and Sex, Chicken Wings, and Dante's Entirely Ridiculous, Needlessly Guilt-Inducing Inferno

Dinty W. Moore

March 2021

Nebraska

Sky Songs

Sky Songs

Meditations on Loving a Broken World

Jennifer Sinor

October 2020

Nebraska

Anything Will Be Easy after This

Anything Will Be Easy after This

A Western Identity Crisis

Bethany Maile

September 2020

Nebraska

How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences

How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences

Sue William Silverman

March 2020

Nebraska

Borderline Citizen

Borderline Citizen

Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood

Robin Hemley

March 2020

Nebraska

Meander Belt

Meander Belt

Family, Loss, and Coming of Age in the Working-Class South

M. Randal O'Wain

October 2019

Nebraska

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