What a fantastic interview! If it inspires you to do what Rachel has done for another city, get in touch with us at @beltpublishing.bsky.social

After I finished this, I googled to read reviews that pubbed when it did. Two popped up: one by Malcolm Bradbury (NYT) & one by Frank Kermode (Atlantic). What would be a similarly impressive contemporary trifecta?

Sometimes the NYT runs opeds or essays about some small cultural thing that I also do and that makes me hate myself (listen to serious British podcasts at night)

Dr. Patty Heyda is coming to @rhodeislandcollege.bsky.social to talk about her book The Radical Atlas of Ferguson USA by @beltpublishing.bsky.social publishing. If you're a map nerd, sociologist, political scientist, journalist, environmentalist or interested in social justice, don't miss it.

How your angry screed finds me (I actually did just take this snap)

Great thread. I’ve taught myself a lot about American copyright history and current laws over the past year— it’s v interesting & not what one might expect. And incredibly important to understand right now.

Chicago

That the term “antisemitism” has become a rogue signifier that has slipped away from any relation to any signified is, as we say, bad for the Jews.

I'm watching the irate responses to this development roll in & I am baffled. 1) Authors can opt out. 2) People don't understand that in 3 years (or sooner?) this will all be moot. As soon as the courts rule that AI use is fair use, which is how this is trending, everything will be up for grabs.

re-upping this. Seeing lots of convos but thus far no one has contacted or tagged me. I am here if you want to discuss.

I see there’s ppl upset by an Arcadia email about AI, Belt Publishing, and my role. I realized this only when I opened up this app a few minutes ago. I am happy to answer any questions people might have.

Walk off walk off walk off

Walk off. There’s a cool term for it. Let’s do it.

Vladimir Guerrero is such a fab name

Is that a bible verse of the pitcher’s cap?

Ok its true I’ve ignored baseball forever but the hair thing is really throwing me

[ruining everything to say] turns out you can instantly relax and feel *different* and that change is in fact possible simply by moving through the world without the damned phone

This book is insane (complimentary)

Got a nice package in the mail yesterday. You, too, could receive it! beltpublishing.com/products/cin...

I gave a copy to my mother and she just texted me to say she loved it 👇

Vacation read #1 could almost qualify for cover of the day

Heists are always brazen

Sorry but Oberlin *was* similar to what Lepore describes in that period. There were spurious Title ix cases and other scandals. It wasn’t a substantive issue outside the cloisters of campus (or inside in any structural sense). Show trials with no serious punishments. But it was a thing

The Michelle Goldberg piece about Platner is excellent.

My recent uber driver grew up in Ghana where he developed a lifelong love of Sidney Sheldon

We need a new social media poem to riff on. I’m sick of the damned plums.

goddamnit the sexy Louvre thief photo was also stolen. 🥺

Many are the men, small and great, old and new, landsmen and seamen, who have at large or in little, written of the whale.

Cover of the day

In 2018 J.D. Vance gave a talk up at the Appalachian Studies conference (a very small gathering), and everyone in the room stood up and turned their backs on him.

A LOT OF PROFESSIONALS ARE CRACKPOTS

C'mon guys, buy more books filled with FACTS " In adult nonfiction, all formats had declines with trade paperback suffering the largest fall, off 17.4%"

Get yourself a copy of comedic environmental memoir about Lake Erie, Ohio cliches, and malaria in Toledo. It has everything!

I keep thinking about this passage from THE AGE OF INNOCENCE.

You know what I’d love to read? More coverage of those who are out there keeping an eye on ICE. The lawyers taking on cases. The volunteers stepping in where USAID left. Etc.

HE'S REALLY EXCITED

would be kinda cool to direct U of M press

Go behind the scenes on Cincinnati in 50 Maps with @awoodruff.bsky.social's neat new landing page. andywoodruff.com/posts/2025/c...

I get to do a cover reveal today! I proudly present the cover to SOULMATES my debut YA horror-romance graphic novel coming out next year.

the only thing I can focus on today is which books to read on my upcoming *vacation* Taking recs (but don't be offended if I swat yours away (I'm particular!)

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

Cover of the day

THE publishing story of the year and almost invisible in the worlds I frequent. absolutely fascinating to me the divergence.

Think you follow publishing? Which novel, published in September, sold 150,000 copies in its first week and has scored a 7 figure Hollywood deal?

Some ppl in PGH have been confused about why I moved here from CLE thinking the cities are so similar. Au contraire! This is a great article explaining why they are so different

stuff likes this really does help me keep going, not gonna lie

The first time a new release has made it on Cover of the Day.

this website is an argument for a Literary Designers Fund

Oh no ppl are starting to talk about Winter Institute 😬