Congratulations to Eric LeMay, whose book "The First 649 Days: Essays and Other Acts of Love" is a finalist for the 2026 Next Generation Indie Book Award (@indiebookawards.bsky.social) in the LGBTQ+ category! indiebookawards.com/previewwinne...

Can you build a winning gymnastics program without abuse? One Ohio high school shows that, yes, you can. Excerpt today on @defector.com from Nina Mandell's really fun book "A Fraction of a Point" from @ksupress.bsky.social. Gift link:

University presses make connections with their communities! Yesterday students from a local middle school visited KSU Press to learn about the different kinds of work that go into making books—a great opportunity for our staff to meet the next generation of readers, writers, and book people.

My recommendation for independent bookstore day tomorrow is that you go to an independent bookstore (or several), be very kind to the booksellers, and buy a book on their recommendation that you previously knew nothing about. Your life will be enriched.

April is Native Plant Month! On the blog, KSU Press director @tottencs.bsky.social puts the annual celebration of native plants in dialogue with last week's @rustbeltlab.bsky.social symposium on the Regenerative Rust Belt—and arrives at insight about publishing, place, and the act of giving voice.

A few years ago, I reached out to an author on a whim to tell her how much my toddler adored her book. She wrote back and offered to mail him a copy of her next book. In a happy coincidence, my child and that book's protagonist had the same name. There was delight all around. <3

Contrary to common narratives suggesting book challenges come from concerned parents, our data shows otherwise. ~92% of challenges to titles in 2025 came from pressure groups and gov't decision makers. 2.7% of challenges came from individual parents. We dig into the data: https://bit.ly/4cmgFWQ

Today and every day, the SAA celebrates the study of Shakespeare's works, times, contexts, and afterlife. Happy 462nd Birthday, Shakespeare!

Please do not use AI to review a scholarly manuscript. I absolutely do not care what Claude or whoever thinks about the rise of emu farming in Omaha 1850-1864. I asked you because I care what you think about it.

We need historians because the past is never just the past. Every policy debate, public conversation, and cultural shift is shaped by what came before. Historians help us understand context, trace change over time, and recognize what’s at stake. #TalkAboutHumanities 🗃️

Our celebration of National Poetry Month continues! New at the blog: Learn more about KSU Press’s ongoing collaboration with the Wick Poetry Center, including links to interviews, readings, and more.

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC. "All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources." blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...

It may be a grey, coffee-desperate Monday morning, but I've already read two proposals today that have me *excited.* Some days I'm struck by how lucky I am to work in this profession, to get such early access to the brilliance of others' writing.

"The essence of editing is ethics; it’s the act of caring for the expression of the thoughts of another as if they were your own."

KSUP is pleased to welcome the @aupresses.bsky.social Book, Jacket, & Journal Show! Congrats to all of our colleagues on the publication of beautiful books that push design in innovative directions. Not pictured: all the books that KSUP staff have swiped and moved to the top of their TBR lists . . .

I'm in the middle of this book right now and, friends, it is SO GOOD. The writing is exquisite in the best need-to-read-passages-aloud-to-my-partner-because-I'm-bursting-to-share-it kind of way.

“Someone who says I am against abortion but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life" - Pope Leo XIV time.com/7380294/pope...

Wonderfully written NY Times piece by a local dad involved in the resistance, really echoes with a lot of what we’re feeling: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o... (gift link)

Wow.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

This looks like it'll be excellent! Publishing in a series can be a great option, from the built-in credibility to getting to work with highly knowledgeable series editors in your field.

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