Excited to share that “Casey Jones: America’s Engineer” (tentative title) now has final @uncpress.bsky.social board approval and is heading to publication (in early 2027). Thanks especially to @lucaschurch.bsky.social for working with me to get this over the line. Stay tuned for more details…🚂

This is an incredibly kind and thoughtful early (and unpaid for I swear!) review of my new book, thank you so much for this 🧵 @profhalloran.bsky.social ping @lucaschurch.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social

In any event, Jim Crow in the Asylum is an essential text, and folks should move it to the top of their reading lists.

You can order from here and use come 01UNCP30 for a 30% discount uncpress.org/978146968920...

I wrote something about my friend, DG Martin.

One of the books I’m proudest of. Congratulations, @drkyliesmith.bsky.social!

Ready to talk about your book at #ASA2025! Come on down to @uncpress.bsky.social’s booth and talk to me! 😎📖

Man, I always forget how good Angels of Light are

I want someone to pitch me a book on Southern gay comix and how they changed queer lit. Any takers?

Quarterly check in! How are we doing?

You can support Mike Africa, Jr., great nephew of the founder of MOVE, in reclaiming one of the homes from the bombing with his fundraiser today.

It’s been a huge few months for me. I came out 🏳️‍🌈 at 46 and am living on my own for the first time in my life. I was in a very dark place until I accepted my truth. The second pic is of me scared yet excited for the future. Also sorry for the earnest post lol love y’all

Amidst all of this, I am looking forward to hosting the fabulous Ryan Emanuel from Duke today. His book “On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice” from @uncpress.bsky.social and edited by @lucaschurch.bsky.social was the best book I read last year uncpress.org/book/9781469...

What if you never actually stop putting together IKEA furniture

I want someone to pitch me a good, empathetic book about the history of the mobile home.

You’ll get 25% off my book if you pre-order today-Friday via Barnes & Noble. I’m really proud of IN THE RHODODENDRONS & I want to find its people. AND other beautiful books are coming out soon and you can use the same offer to pre-order them as well, so I wanted to share a couple recommendations.

Recently, UNC Press authors have had their US visas revoked and talks canceled. For over 100 years, we have stood for academic freedom and open discourse, and continue to do so. Read more on the UNC Press Blog ⬇️

Will always be one of my favorites books I've acquired

There aren't enough good shitposts on here but they're doing Sieg Heils on Twitter so Hello Again! I'm an acquisitions editor in trade books (music, literary nonfiction, Southern regional) and sociology, lit studies, Appalachian Studies, and probably other stuff. Let's start anew! No more Nazi shit!

How do we make this not the dregs asking for me, a friend

Bluesky the social media safety school

The vibe here continues to elude me. Where are the dumb people

This is what being an editor is btw

I have the devil's number of followers i am scared for my afterlife pls help and follow

Hello, here is the secret of being a good acquisitions editor: read widely and develop a hunger for knowledge; in that wide reading, develop good taste. Be expansive, empathetic, but never accept less than incredible work. Have no hobbies except books and what they could mean. Rinse and repeat.

I went to a memorial service today and the only person whose phone went off during the eulogy was wearing a Donald Duck tie.

Hi if you’re new here and new to me, I published a weird fiction novel last year with @malarkeybooks.bsky.social called Thunder From a Clear Blue Sky. That’s an awesome title and the cover is amazing, so the novel doesn’t even have to be any good.

Well if we’re talking about the south, nobody stands a chance against the ironclad voter suppression & gerrymandering of the southern GOP, & yes they do have many crooked ways of ensuring only votes for them get counted. @lucaschurch.bsky.social

Tomorrow at 10am at ASA, @derekcrim.bsky.social and I have the enormous pleasure and honor of having *The End of College Football* (@uncpress.bsky.social) publicly engaged by some of our fav and most respected scholars. Please join us if you are at the conference!

Hello app! I'm an essayist in Portland, currently working on a book of nonfiction for @uncpress.bsky.social about the genius of Janet Jackson. Music writers, essayists, CNF people, lemme know where you're at!

Hello is anybody peer reviewing anymore asking for a friend

No clue who did this but they’re not wrong!! @uncpress.bsky.social

C'mon and join the cool kids

Y'all are going to want this one. It's an informative, if not very sobering, read.

Please check out this interview @derekcrim.bsky.social and I did with @blackagendareport.bsky.social on our @uncpress.bsky.social book, which is slated for release in less than two weeks! www.blackagendareport.com/bar-book-for...

It looks like Dorothy Allison has passed on. I will cherish the class I was able to take with her and will be forever grateful for her support of my writing. My love and thoughts to her family. We have lost someone very special.

Part of my anger at this outcome is that I did not want to vote for Harris based on her unwavering commitment to continuing supporting the genocide in Gaza. But I voted for her. I'm in a swing state, so I did what I thought was the lesser of two evils (that old saw). (1/2)

Gonna listen to Cale's Vintage Violence and edit a manuscript. Love to you all.

Southerners are sick & tired of being screamed at to vote out their dictators who are hellbent fascists. Do you know how hard they try? @sotreu.bsky.social @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social @authorwinifred.bsky.social @grrlysquirrel.bsky.social @lucaschurch.bsky.social @takahanazawa.bsky.social

Y'all need to keep listening to Black southerners I'm telling y'all. The slurs ain't nothing for us. You have no idea the white supremacist violence we're hardened to endure. We could share. @knilirabaj.bsky.social @grrlysquirrel.bsky.social @neonlime.bsky.social @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social

This hits close to home for me because I know Henderson, North Carolina well, our babysitter lived in a trailer park there that we had fun visiting her at when I was a kid, & a Black man has been lynched in 2024 there. @markanthonyneal.bsky.social @neonlime.bsky.social @lucaschurch.bsky.social

Just landed! 🥰🛬

He’s not kidding btw

RIP to the best ever to do it. I usually qualify stuff like this—"most interesting," "most precise," but no. Alice Munro was the best short story writer. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/b...

Thrilled to have signed a contract with @uncpress.bsky.social and to be working with @lucaschurch.bsky.social to publish my book, White Space, Black Lines: The Racialization of Free Verse in the Modernist Era!

Excited to share somthing I've been cooking up with @lucaschurch.bsky.social and our partner-in-crime David Menconi: a new book series we hope will expand and challenge the way people think about "roots music" in the US. If you're a writer working on these topics, pitch us!

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