we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I swear every dev team for Microsoft products was like, "let's make it have *almost* what users need but not quite, leaving out just enough critical functionality that they'll have to find other tools. And let's make it so they don't realize what's missing until they've sunk a few hours in lolz"

February is Black History Month, and to mark the occasion we’re pleased to highlight our book series American Abolitionism and Antislavery, which presents the best scholarship on antislavery activism and abolitionism in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century United States.

Same goes for humanities scholars! Editors love quick responses, even "no," as much as we love suggestions!

And new, an interview in the Pittsburgh Review of Books pghrev.com/christopher-...

Books for Understanding ICE in Minnesota from @uminnpress.bsky.social. Been thinking about our publishing friends in the Twin Cities, proud to be in community with presses doing this kind of work and sending lots of support www.upress.umn.edu/books-for-un...

I talked to the brilliant @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social about the sentence he has been repeating for months, "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win." We discussed anti-Trump organizing and the important of sharing resistance successes. newrepublic.com/article/2059...

Kent State’s books and authors kicked off the new year with attention in Cleveland Scene, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New Books Network, and more. See all the latest in our January roundup.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

sources say your mom had to make a call on the land line, so the modem had to be disconnected

Great job, Brazil. "Bolsonaro . . . is unlikely to appreciate the approved reading list. It includes Brazilian works on Indigenous rights, racism, the environment and the violence meted out by the country’s 1964-85 dictatorship – a regime Bolsonaro openly supported."

“Future prospects for greater Pittsburgh are decoupled from the prospects of the steel industry, a reality... difficult to accept for a region identified for so long with the once monolithic industry.” From BEYOND STEEL by @chrisbriem.bsky.social (@ksupress.bsky.social). pghrev.com/did-the-wolf...

NPR built a visual archive of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, showing exactly what happened through the lenses of the people who were there. In Chapter 5, we look at how Trump’s pardons, political messaging and use of power reshaped the public story.

Big news: @rustbeltlab.bsky.social has launched “Rust Belt Studies"! We're proud to see KSUP represented in the inaugural issue, which has @jlauck1941.bsky.social's essay from “Where East Meets (Mid)West,” plus a review of Deborah Fleming’s “Ghosts of an Old Forest.” www.rustbeltstudies.org/journal

Big thanks to @clevelandmag.bsky.social for including Deborah Fleming’s “Ghosts of an Old Forest,” published this year by KSUP, on their list “50 Cleveland Book Releases We Loved in 2025”! clevelandmagazine.com/articles/50-...

Consider this a book publisher's very important contribution to the ongoing font discourse #FontDebate

Friends, calling this number will warm your heart. You need this today.

Thanks to @fitgradfts.bsky.social for highlighting Rebecca Jumper Matheson‘s book “Artisans and Designers,” new in our series with the Costume Society of America. If you’re in New York, don’t miss the author’s signing at FIT on December 1 at 5:30PM.

These cookbooks are delightful, as lovely objects to hold in your hand and as purveyors of great recipes. I've got Biscuits, Pickles & Preserves, and Buttermilk. Highly recommend.

Congrats, Danielle! "The Art of Pity" asks us to consider, in a most fundamental sense, why literature matters--something as relevant today as it ever has been (cc @ksupress.bsky.social)

👇 Facts without context, relationships, and meaning are literally just bits of trivia. Trivia =/= knowledge

What I said in a meeting just now: "book distribution may sound mundane but actually it impacts everything we do and is hugely important"

“I want a compass. / I need deliverance. Good god, take me” — Oliver Baez Bendorf (@oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social) . . . This poem appeared in The Spectral Wilderness by Oliver Baez Bendorf, published by Kent State University Press (@ksupress.bsky.social), 2015. Shared here with deep gratitude.

FYI1: The superb webinar "Turning your Dissertation into a Book" is up! FYI2: It's the 1st for "Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series" co-sponsored by @aupresses.bsky.social (HT, Faculty Outreach Committee) and hosted by Rutgers CMSI. #ReadUP #PublishUP www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SST...

From the New York Post to the Journal of Southern History, KSUP titles continue to help shape conversations around the region and the world. Congrats to all the authors whose books are featured in this month’s stack. Read more at the new roundup of news and reviews.

Teenagers are my favorite trick-or-treaters. They get really excited over fruit snacks, in particular, so I always encourage them to take extra

With the Browns and Steelers facing off this Sunday, it seems like a good time to ponder the relationship between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. @chrisbriem.bsky.social, author of our upcoming book “Beyond Steel,” argues it’s worth approaching the cities not as rivals but as Rust Belt partners.

Baker & Taylor now shutting down by January, following the ReaderLink acquisition falling through www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Great post! "In general, I do not edit reviewers’ reports before I send them to authors." I mostly completely agree, but in extreme cases I may delete sentences or change reviewers' language, especially if it feels targeted or truly offensive. Reviews should be constructive--never just an attack

Worth repeating, and appreciating every day: "More than 100 of North America’s top universities clearly believe that an energetic, outward-facing publishing program is a tremendous asset to, indeed a responsibility of, any university."

It was so lovely to chat with @llassabe.bsky.social! University presses are creative, resilient, mission-driven, and just one of my favorite things to talk about.

Absolutely terrible, terrible news. Trinity University has announced that Trinity University Press will close at the end of the fiscal year--described by one author as a "South Texas outlet for stories and culture" for which there is no replacement frankly. Awful. www.tpr.org/arts-culture...

KSUP author Jim Hollock on writing: “I think the difficulty is sticking to it. .... But it’s one of the better things I’ve ever done, because I knew, even if no one else does, I know the effort that went into it, and it is very satisfying when you can be finished with something.”

How do I find the right university press to publish my book? https://bit.ly/468Rupu @univpressofkansas.bsky.social answers this important question, one of more than 110 FAQs that host presses have answered on our Ask UP site. Curious about how university press publishing works? #AskUP!

My new post on Literary Cleveland’s Inkubator Festival, which starts today, and the activist conference READ Barcelona, organized by @versolibros.com —> open.substack.com/pub/derekkri...

In a new feature for the blog, we’re highlighting backlist titles that continue to resonate with issues in the region, nation, and world. First up: the series Voices of Diversity, which—in a mission that remains central to KSUP's work—helped celebrate the Cleveland area’s rich ethnic heritage.

The lineup for the Buckeye Book Fair has been released, and we’re thrilled that KSUP authors Deborah Fleming (author of “Ghosts of an Old Forest”) and Charles Malone (coeditor of “Light Enters the Grove”) will be there. Join the bookish fun on November 1 in Wooster!

What can Cleveland and Pittsburgh learn from each other? What would the two cities gain by teaming up as Cleveburgh? In a new podcast, @chrisbriem.bsky.social—author of our forthcoming book “Beyond Steel”—considers the relationship between two iconic Rust Belt cities: megaphone.link/CC6470937745

Behind the White House Curtain featured in the Kent State University Press Fall/Winter 2025 catalog.

Our fall catalog is here! Join us to: 📕anticipate new books (including titles by @chrisbriem.bsky.social and @terryallenbelew.bsky.social); 📕look back on 60 years of KSUP history; and 📕celebrate recent successes by @newsguy.bsky.social and others. www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/wp-content/u...

At Cleveland Magazine, @nickoloffoff.bsky.social has a new list of “81 Essential Cleveland Novels”—including one from KSUP! “The Coming of Fabrizze,” by Raymond DeCapite, was originally published in 1960 and tells the story of an Italian immigrant in the 1920s: clevelandmagazine.com/entertainmen...

New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/07/15/u...

I just backed this! It's a brilliant new project highlighting voices and stories of Southern Appalachia with wide-ranging art styles from acclaimed comics creators.

Pleased to share a new Q&A with @terryallenbelew.bsky.social, author of “The Deep Blue of Neptune”—selected as winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize.

Also: Most readers skip them. Even if you think you’re giving voice to your subjects, readers are less likely to take away meaning from an unparsed block quote than from interpretive text. It’s your job, as (nonfiction) author, to explain the interpretation to the reader.

Congrats to @mychal3ts.bsky.social for making the inaugural #TIME100Creators list! Influence comes in many forms, but Mychal’s is the kind that lifts people up. He’s a force for good in the world, spreading kindness, curiosity, and library joy. 📚💙 time.com/collections/...

My campus walk today took me to the parking lot at Kent State where students were gunned down on May 4, 1970. Always a visceral reminder of how threatened some feel by the expression of constitutional rights—and how critical it is that we honor these students’ legacies.

Happy pub day to Martin Bush, whose book “Deadbeats, Dead Balls, and the 1914 Boston Braves” is now available! www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2024/deadbea...

Great conversation with two baseball historians whose combined age is 186!!

Happy #TermTuesday! Today we're talking about page proofs, which is where a book really starts to take shape. For more information on what changes can be made at this stage, check out this article from @aupresses.bsky.social! (ask.up.hcommons.org/changes-made...)