The University of New Mexico Press has formed a new imprint, High Road Books, that will launch in March 2021 with titles "dedicated to thoughtful, stylish, provocative fiction and nonfiction with western roots and national appeal."
Director Stephen Hull said, "We have been the publisher of New Mexico for more than 90 years. With the launch of High Road Books, we continue to expand upon our legacy as New Mexico's window on the world."
Katherine White, sales and marketing manager, said, "High Road Books will offer an exciting new opportunity for UNM Press to share amazing authors with readers, some who may be discovering our catalog for the first time."
The first three titles, to be published next March, are:
Fortunate Son: Selected Essays from the Lone Star State by Rick Bass, "a literary tour of the state, from Galveston Bay to the Hill Country outside Austin, and from Houston in the 1960s to today."
The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack by Ralph Blumenthal, "the weird and chilling true story of Dr. John Mack, the eminent Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer who risked his career to investigate the phenomenon of human encounters with aliens."
Hill of Beans: A Novel of War and Celluloid by Leslie Epstein, which "chronicles the making of Casablanca, as studio head Jack Warner attempts to engineer an improbable publicity stunt: the invasion of North Africa by British and American forces to coincide with the release of the film in 1942. This is the novel that Epstein--the son and nephew of Philip and Julius Epstein, the screenwriters of Casablanca--was born to write."