Leaves of Grass 1855, 1956, 1860-61, 1867, 1871-72, 1881-82.

Who wrote fiction for Playboy? Now you know!

The people who just read PLAYBOY for the articles ended up encountering some of the finest American writers of the 20th century. Now, thanks to Nora Shaalan and the Post45 Data Collective, we have a record of the more than 1,000 stories published by PLAYBOY from 1953 to 2020!

If you're thinking about new classes to teach next year, @post45data.bsky.social is a great place to start, and a great classroom resource, for courses on... —SPECULATIVE FICTON —ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE —BESTSELLERS —THE HISTORY OF THE NEA ...and so much more! data.post45.org/our-data.html

You/your students might enjoy my and @bethdriscoll.bsky.social (& @blairesquiscoll.bsky.social!)'s The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/T/The-...

HELP!--PEDAGOGY! I'm teaching a new lit & film course called "Fictions of Writing and Publishing" about representations of cultural production. Think watching "You've Got Mail" paired with reading Percival Everett & Mona Awad novels. What critical-theoretical lit & film readings would you teach?

HELP!--PEDAGOGY! I'm teaching a new lit & film course called "Fictions of Writing and Publishing" about representations of cultural production. Think watching "You've Got Mail" paired with reading Percival Everett & Mona Awad novels. What critical-theoretical lit & film readings would you teach?

New episode of @printrunpodcast.bsky.social that I'm really excited about. We interviewed @lbmcgrath.bsky.social about her excellent new book MIDDLEMEN, about how agents shape the fiction landscape. The book is great and this conversation was really fun. soundcloud.com/printrunpodc...

Dreams do come true. I reviewed Annie McClanahan's Beneath the Wage in Spectre. My thanks to editors @grundrza.bsky.social and Camila Valle.

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

ACLS / MLA / AHA / Authors Guild won the NEH case against the mass termination of grants.

Affirming that NEH's stated mission is explicitly to reflect diversity: "Congress did not merely omit the anti-“DEI” criterion DOGE applied; it affirmatively instructed NEH to support programs and research that “reflect the diversity and richness of our American cultural heritage..."

The market for books can determine which ideas make it to the masses. So how does a book idea become a book deal? On our latest: Planet Money peers behind the curtain of the publishing industry to see what kinds of artistic and financial bets bring a book together.

I was THRILLED to join the Planet Money team for their fab book publishing series to talk about Bestsellers! How the NYT makes the list, how writers can make the list, how to hack the list. All while mere feet from book rainmaker Terry Gross’s studio! Give a listen!

"A powerful new account of 20th-century poetic modernism on the premise that modernist poetry was deeply 'enmeshed' with the changing nature of work under capitalism" STITCH, UNSTITCH, by Kristin Grogan, reviewed in The Space Betwee bit.ly/4uuNF8Q @kristingrogan.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

it's a good moment to preorder POWER SURGE at 40% off--a new conglomerate history of Hollywood from 1989 to 2004 www.ucpress.edu/books/power-...

We're #hiring! PUP seeks a Senior Project Manager of Publishing Operations to oversee the production of a diverse range of titles, including complex and high priority projects, from unedited manuscript through final publication (US, Remote/Hybrid). Apply by Friday, June 5th: hubs.ly/Q04f9RCX0

Ten years ago I flew to Austin to attend my first academic conference. Today I'm headed back to Austin, this time to accept the MELUS Book Award. A wonderful echo—and a time to reflect, with gratitude, on the opportunity to do this work alongside so many brilliant scholars, students, and friends!

When I teach print history, I have a repository of little facts I share to help both demystify very old objects and ask students to resituate the codex as technology. It's ✨️ cute little fact time ✨️ The space between lines is called "leading" in Adobe because metal pieces physically separated text.

Can’t wait to teach from this book in my history of publishing course this fall at Iowa

MIDDLEMEN: LITERARY AGENTS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN FICTION is out today! Today marks the culmination of a decade's worth of work on this project: I conducted my first interview in fall of 2016. I'm so thrilled to share it with you.

Kit's Pound chapter in Stitch, Unstitch is virtuosic & now we have a shit-talking podcast to accompany it! Check out This Guy Sucked--one of my favorite podcasts

We’ll be on Montez Press Radio this Friday, 4/24, for a panel on writers and their side gigs. Discussion moderated by Deputy Editor Wes Enzinna, in conversation with Bertrand Cooper, Bud Smith, and May Syeda. You can join us in person—or stream online. radio.montezpress.com#/show/3967

I'll be a Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Iowa starting this fall. Excited to move back to the Midwest with @carrielorig.bsky.social, who pulled off a Lorig-Sturm Iowa sweep with her TT position in School Psychology.

New Orleans Poetry Festival 2026 was perfect

I'm the first in my bloodline to have more than 1000 pdfs in a folder on my hard drive

Saving the English department by relabelling our chronological survey course "the eras tour"

Replace every how-to-publish panel with one on the material realities of publishing. This is where I’m at.

This is the shit 👇

Abstracts are due today for POETRY'S PROGRAM ERA INSTITUTIONS--a seminar at ASAP/17 in Madison this October. A heavy line-up is shaping up--join us! @asapartsnow.bsky.social

going to watch so many late '90s movies this summer

Cover drop! Extremely excited to have this incredible sculpture, Marisol’s Love (1962), on the cover of Relatability, out later this year press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

OK team--do we know a popular or recent "dark academia" novel with a plot focused on writing, literature, and/or publishing? doesn't matter how insane it is...

Download PDFs of ed sanders' seminal magazine FUCK YOU: A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS and blow the dust from your eye holes: www.ubu.com/vp/FuckYou.h...

I know that this is a repurposing of the GOP slogan from '46, but this is the vibe that the labor movement's political organizing needs to bring back for the upcoming midterms:

Deep Vellum’s POETRY OPEN CALL starts April 1st. details and guidelines: deepvellum.submittable.com/submit

A major sea change for the US movie industry is afoot, so in POWER SURGE, acclaimed author Thomas Schatz charts the era of Hollywood's last "Golden Age". For #SCMS26, he gives us a peek into that pre-streaming golden glow: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/h... #SCMS2026

the political satire to fantasy pipeline is telling

Penguin's relation to its poetry list is shifting...

Iowa Women's Archive at UI is looking for an archivist. Come share a hall with me and steward extremely cool materials! uiowa.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/iwa-col...

happy 100th birthday to poet Frank O'Hara check out the recording of last night's group reading celebrating O'Hara's birthday eve hosted by @nysnetwork.bsky.social, featuring Ron Padgett, Anne Waldman, Kay Gabriel, Eileen Myles, & more! youtu.be/-PQKQ8IQM8Y

William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:

Our O'Hara birthday eve group reading starts at 4pm EST! We've just upped our Zoom subscription to allow more than 100 participants at a time, so if you weren't able to register earlier plz try again now!

The download numbers for this episode have filled me with dread. Hopefully, an indication that we are ready to get organized. In the meantime, remember, print is a rent strike.

Absolutely thrilled to report that the Board of Governors at @uncpress.bsky.social have approved my book THE RACIALIZATION OF PRINT for publication by @oieahc.bsky.social. Forthcoming, early 2027.

REMINDER Help us build the SHARP 2025 Annual Bibliography! Submit citation information for titles you published/contributed to/edited (etc) in 2025 that are "book historical" (think broadly!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

new bit of writing: "Liberation Radio(s) Beyond the Internet Imaginary"--the text of the paper I'm delivering at #scms2026 tomorrow #othernetworks loriemerson.net/2026/03/25/l...