Looking for something to read? Half off most of our books until May 31! yalebooks.yale.edu

"Just the sensation of spending, that's the point." —Jean Rhys, "Good Morning, Midnight" (1939)

Cleveland Magazine recently called KSUP one of “the region’s most committed champions,” saying we’re “grounded in the belief that Northeast Ohio has stories worth telling, and audiences eager to read them.” We’re posting now to say thanks, and to invite you to sample our writerly Rust Belt authors.

got plans to make progress on your next article or book this summer? Considering becoming a journal editor, or joining your university press's editorial board in the fall? #feedingtheelephant has resources for you: networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

"I want a long, calm book about people with large incomes—a book like a flat green meadow and the sheep feeding in it." —Jean Rhys, "Good Morning, Midnight" (1939)

"It is cold and dark outside, and everything has gone out of me except misery." —Jean Rhys, "Good Morning, Midnight" (1939)

"That's my idea of luxury—to have the sheets changed every day and twice on Sundays. That's my idea of the power of money." —Jean Rhys, "Good Morning, Midnight" (1939)

A pawnshop owner, scowling as he takes one's stuff to be valued: "A fish, lording it in his own particular tank, staring at the world outside with a glassy and unbelieving eye." —Jean Rhys, "Good Morning, Midnight" (1939)

Rather than being annoyed that the NYRB book-of-the-month is a title I have already read, I find myself being pleased for at least this once being "with it."

"I go to a handful of conferences each year & my favorite part is always getting to meet our authors." We sat down with our Academic Marketing Specialist, Ann Bingham, to talk about what goes into attending a conference and how authors can make the most of them 📚 open.substack.com/pub/uncpress...

Big news, friends! My new chapbook, Disposable, is now available for pre-order from Sheila-Na-Gig editions! HUGE thanks to Hayley Mitchell Haugen for her support and to Julia WD Harrison for the phenomenal cover art. sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-...

Have you discovered our new podcast? In this second episode, host Sonja Srinivasan speaks with Ilan Stavans, Joseph O. Legaspi reads a poem, and more. Listen in on YouTube (with captions) or Spotify and like and follow! Links here: worldliteraturetoday.org/podcast

Pay for a lawman in the Western District of Arkansas in the late 19th century: $2/arrest, regardless of the severity of the crime. From Michael Wallis, "Belle Starr: The Truth Behind the Wild West Legend."

A tantalizing what-if in @derekkrissoff.bsky.social's interview with Jon Boorstin about his new book, "The American: The Hidden History of Daniel J. Boorstin and His Twentieth Century"— John Hope Franklin and Daniel Boorstin once began a book together, "Two From Tulsa, a Tale of Two Cities."

An A+ book title from @uscpress.bsky.social: "Welcome to the Sh*t Show: A Memoir of Colorectal Cancer and the Power of Self-Advocacy."

An example of the Civil War guerrilla-to-outlaw pipeline. From Michael Wallis, "Belle Starr: The Truth Behind the Wild West Legend."

OKC trying to play as few playoff games as possible (laudatory)

Summer in Jasper County, Missouri: "In the early 1850s, area farmers were plagued by swarms of bloodsucking horseflies as large as honeybees... All plowing was done by moonlight when the flies were dormant." —Michael Wallis, "Belle Starr: The Truth Behind the Wild West Legend"

Summer Book Sale is live! ☀️📚 Save on new and classic titles from University of Texas Press across Nature, food, $25 and under, and more until July 31st, 2026! Browse the summer sale: utpress.utexas.edu/s...

As usual, I'm equal parts thrilled ("I'm keynoting an event, co-billing w/ #SoTL bigshot @peterfelten.bsky.social!") and freaked out, #introvert style ("So. Many. People. Looking at me while I talk?!" 😱) www.magnapubs.com/faculty-deve...

Big thank you to @jamesmlang.bsky.social and to @onehe.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about teaching & learning #snafus + #SnafuEdu (@oupress.bsky.social). onehe.org/resources/wh...

"And the silence!—my footsteps seem intolerably loud, seem the only noise in the world: ringing out as they rise into the night, sound waves on a cosmic journey, transmitting their mysterious message, this resonant staccato, to whoever listens among the stars." —María Luisa Bombal, "The Final Mist"

"Her nose was planted on her face like a knife in an apple." —Jean-Paul Sartre, "Nausea"

Elizabeth Zaleski (@greatfartsoflit.bsky.social and project editor at @ohiostatepress.bsky.social) discusses her observations about and the impacts of “puzzling citation style variation” when it comes to using style guides like MLA, APA, and Chicago. @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social #FeedingTheElephant

Ululating from the Underground: Syrian Women's Protests Under Siege, out in Nov, PB in May. The blurbs: "I am honored to have reviewed this book. I am a better scholar, professor, human, for it" Nadine Sinno "there is truly nothing like it" Amira Jarmakani I MEAN sunypress.edu/Books/U/Ulul...

Looking at a painting of a man with a "calm and implacable judgement in his eyes": "What I thought about him could not reach him... But his judgement went through me like a sword." —Jean Paul Sartre, "Nausea"

"I had thought out this sentence, at first it had been a small part of myself. Now it was inscribed on the paper, it took sides against me. I didn't recognize it anymore." —Jean-Paul Sartre, "Nausea"

The May issue is looking great at Literati Press Bookshop in the Paseo Arts District of OKC. We love being next to items about Route 66, which is also celebrating its centennial this year.

"I knew that when one is confronted with a face sparkling with righteousness, after a moment this sparkle dies away, and only an ashy residue remains: this residue interested me." —Jean-Paul Sartre, "Nausea"

🚀 One giant sale for mankind! UPM’s Anniversary Sale is LIVE 🌟 📚 Get 56% OFF all books (some exclusions apply). Don’t miss this milestone moment!

Now *I* didn't have to wait 20 years for it, but I'm thrilled nonetheless!

OK ya'll, I did it. I sent in my final manuscript after revisions to @oupress.bsky.social. Nearly 20 years in the making. Reefs or Rubbish: A More-Than-Human Policy History of Rigs-to-Reefs coming your way soon! #envhist

"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." —Jean-Paul Sartre, "Nausea"

In case you missed it, I wrote a Drafting the Past newsletter with some of the results of a recent listener survey. Check it out here:

As the Kent State community and people around the world remember the events of May 4, 1970, KSU Press joins the commemoration with a selection of books on May 4 themes: www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/category/may4/

We’re thrilled to welcome Flower Darby back to Higher Listenings to discuss her new book "The Joyful Online Teacher" — and the radical idea that joy belongs at the center of serious teaching.

Your summer reading stack = upgraded. 📖 We’ve rounded up standout titles (and podcasts) from influential voices in higher ed, including @derekbruff.bsky.social, @sarosecav.bsky.social, @flowerdarby.bsky.social and more. Access now👇 tophat.com/blog/2026-su...

"I feel more and more need to write—in the same proportion as I grow old." —Jean-Paul Sartre, "Nausea"

"I must not put in strangeness where there is none. I think that is the the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything." —Jean-Paul Sartre, "Nausea"

Asking the Production dept for this layout on Monday for the next Classics title they work on. ::rubs hands in anticipation::

Lunchtime Listen! OUP author @flowerdarby.bsky.social shares about being a joyful online teacher on episode 620 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. teachinginhighered.com/podcast/the-...

It’s the UC Press 40% Spring Sale! Visit ucpress.edu and use promo code SPRING40 to enjoy 40% off any UC Press book. ⁠

An Oklahoma freshman is about to smash the NCAA season home-run record. Even more incredible, she’s not alone. What’s driving softball’s home-run explosion: on.wsj.com/4uibjoC

A social psychology experiment about racism that unexpectedly turned into a second social psychology experiment about racism. Account by Sandra Rouce, included in George Henderson's book on desegregation efforts at the University of Oklahoma, 1967-1971, "Race and the University: A Memoir"

Delighted with how the cover designer at @oupress.bsky.social nailed "effervescent" for @flowerdarby.bsky.social's "The Joyful Online Teacher," the newest book in our "Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed" series.

"We found out that some of our staunchest enemies wore counterculture clothes and some of our most supportive friends looked like models of mainstream America. The black students and I had cast too shallow a net when looking for allies." —George Henderson, "Race and the University: A Memoir"

It's Dam Proud Day!!! 🧡🦫 🧡🦫 OSU Press friends, staff, and authors are dam proud that the press has been publishing exceptional books about the Pacific Northwest for 65 years! Visit our giving page at: beav.es/press-proud. [Photo: 2026 Oregon Book Awards in Portland, OR] #DamProudDay #GoBeavs

“A writer of conscience, with a keen observing eye and an unmatched sense of wonder and history, Badkhen is also an exquisite stylist.” Rilla Askew reviews these “beautifully rendered, often wrenching essays.” @rilla-askew.bsky.social worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/may/see...

The design team at @beltpublishing.bsky.social did such an amazing job with this — just knocked it out of the park (and hopefully right into your hands).

“Provocative, impressive, and exhaustively researched." —Jakobi Williams "We Are Black, Too" by Jacynda Ammons is the newest book in the @oupress.bsky.social "Greenwood Cultural Center Series in African Diaspora History and Culture," edited by University of Oklahoma professor Karlos Hill.