#Writing, Research, and #Creativity #Quotes from Deborah Kalb @deborahkalb.bsky.social #Book Q&As: August-December 2025; my new blog post @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social @beegillen.bsky.social brucerosenstein.com/writing-rese...

"Let me begin again as a speck of dust caught in the night winds sweeping out to sea. Let me begin this time knowing the world is salt water and dark clouds, the world is grinding and sighing all night, and dawn comes slowly, and changes nothing.” Philip Levine, born on this day in 1928

On this day in 1944, those on the home front opened their newspapers and learned about the death in Italy of a Texas soldier. The soldier—Captain Henry Waskow. The writer—Hoosier journalist Ernie Pyle. rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2019/07/erni...

Peter #Drucker weekend thought, 1995: “At eighteen, I was as immature, as callow, as naïve as any eighteen-year-old can be. It was not until fifteen years later, when I was in my early thirties, that I really knew what I am good at and where I belong." #quote

Author @slitrel.bsky.social stopped by the UNM Press booth at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting in Chicago and was delighted to see her brand-new book there! THE BATTLE FOR BRAZIL comes out this Tuesday. If you're at #AHA26, grab your copy early! www.unmpress.com/978082636904...

On the 5th Anniversary of the failed January 6th insurrection attempt, we’re reminded how fragile democracy can be. We must remember the darkness of that day so it’s never repeated. As history is rewritten by some, we choose to speak the truth of what happened.

TY, Sarena! 🩵🧜🏼‍♀️📚

Ore and Empire by Martin Stupich is included in Publishers Weekly's spring preview! This fine art #photography book parallels the still visible impacts of Spanish colonization with the industrial mining empire that overtook the same land. #booksky #historysky www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay 💙📚 Delusions and Grandeur by Mark Sundeen is an exquisite essay collection about freedom, far-fetched notions, and traveling through the Southwest. www.unmpress.com/978082636764...

We are thrilled to see two UNM Press books on the PEN longlists! 💙📚 🥳 a chronology of blood by Teo Shannon and Delusions and Grandeur by Mark Sundeen

Latin American Review of Books (@latamrob.bsky.social) review Tales from the Sharp End: "Scott-Stokes provides the reader with a fascinating tapestry of observations on history and culture that will serve as the perfect introduction for visitors to the country." #booksky latamrob.com/chiles-night...

Many thanks to Bruce Rosenstein, an author, editor, journalist, and speaker, for featuring me on his terrific blog, "Living In More Than One World." @brucerosenstein.bsky.social @unmpress.bsky.social @tracycrow.bsky.social brucerosenstein.com/three-questi...

Many thanks to Bruce Rosenstein, an author, editor, journalist, and speaker, for featuring me on his terrific blog, "Living In More than One World." @Brucerosenstein.bsky.social

Booklist loved WRECKING BALL, an underdog tale of a semipro football team. Rick Bass went to Texas to write about this team and ended up playing alongside them—at the age of 62! Have you read it yet? #booksky #football www.unmpress.com/978082636856...

Kast’s election will open his country's sores. Review: Tales from the Sharp End: A Portrait of Chile, Natascha Scott-Stokes #bookreviews #SouthAmerica #Chile #democracy #dictatorship #Pinochet latamrob.substack.com/p/chiles-nig...

A goldmine of treasures grant access into this twentieth century modernist poet's extraordinary work, The Uncollected Louis Zukofsky includes unpublished #essays, #drama, and #poetry that enhances Zukofsky's stature within the revolutionary modernist movement. www.unmpress.com/978082636878...

We are looking forward to 2026, but FIRST, we celebrate all we accomplished in 2025! Our team has explored, brainstormed, read, constructed, volunteered, and tailgated together: www.unmpress.com/blog/2025/12...

At Interstellar Flight Mag, Jamileh Alexandra interviews Gary Jackson, author of the poetry collection small lives, a super hero poetry book that evolves and trangresses the form by rendering a vast, emotional graphic novel in poetry. magazine.interstella...

Congratulations to @uwiscpress.bsky.social and @unmpress.bsky.social and their authors!

Largehearted Boy’s favorite poetry collections of the year included Gary Jackson's small lives! #poetrysky #booksky #afrofuturism

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” C.S. Lewis

Stars and Stripes thinks THE LLANO COUNTY MERMAID CLUB by @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social would make a great Christmas gift, and we completely agree! "Every element of this story holds enchantment." #booksky #givebooks www.stripes.com/living/2025-...

Nancy C. Cleary, the visionary behind Wyatt-MacKenzie Books & Gifts, has given Countenance by Joy Ross Davis new life with this stunning new cover that captures all the magic of The Playhouse Inn located in the hills of TN. I hope you find it as enchanting as I did. #reading #books #ghosts

“For years I longed to write a novel that incorporated #writers and #books and elements of magical realism into the narrative.” – Kathleen M. Rodgers in her new @deborahkalb.bsky.social #author Q&A #writing #research @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2025/11/q-wi...

On a new episode of Forgotten Hollywood, Chris Yogerst discusses the reasons he chose to write a deep-dive analysis of the John Ford film THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE. #booksky #filmsky #westerns

Q&A with Mariajo Ilustrajo about her new children's picture book, OH, CARROTS! tinyurl.com/hw3ruby7

Stop by the Stanford Theater in Palo Alto this weekend to see BROKEN ARROW on the big screen, and then check out Angela Aleiss's analysis of the film in her Reel West book of the same title—out now! #booksky #filmsky #westerns

Q&A with Kathleen M. Rodgers about her new novel, THE LLANO COUNTY MERMAID CLUB. tinyurl.com/y44z9nzf @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social

Grateful to Deborah Kalb for the chance to chat about my latest novel. I’m also a huge fan of Deborah’s compulsively readable adult novel, Off to Join the Circus. @deborahkalb.bsky.social @unmp.bsky.social

Q&A with Marcia Argueta Mickelson about her new YA novel, THE WRITING ROOM. tinyurl.com/4rxppykk @marciamickelson.bsky.social

This exclusive excerpt from THE LLANO COUNTY MERMAID CLUB by @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social on Fresh Fiction is a great chance to find out what this secret club of landlocked mermaids is all about! #booksky #litfic blog.freshfiction.com/kathleen-m-r...

🥰🧜‍♀️📚From my publisher:

Published October 21st! THE LLANO COUNTY MERMAID CLUB by @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social is a novel that walks the line between mystery and literary fiction as a woman returns to her hometown to figure out what led to her best friend’s tragic and mysterious end. 💙📚 www.unmpress.com/978082636826...

“In 2018, Rick Bass took the field as a member of the Texas Express, a semipro #football team based in the city of Brenham. It was his first season on the squad, a feat made all the more remarkable because of...his age—60...” Robert Ito of Alta Journal reports

Read our new blog post, where author Susan Aizenberg shares her connection to Frank O'Hara and offers advice for new poets. Discover why she urges writers to stay focused on the pleasures of the work rather than the outcome! 📚 ✒️ #poetrysky www.unmpress.com/blog/2025/09...

🦸🏿 OUT NOW! 🦸🏿 small lives by Gary Jackson is a collection of (mostly) prose poems that follow a cast of larger-than-life superhero characters—The Invincible Woman, The Telepath, and The Willpower Man—through the everyday moments that punctuate their adventures. #poetrysky 💙📚 tinyurl.com/ym27s9e6

"Growing up in the desert town of Sandhill, New Mexico, Marigold Hubbard and her friends wanted only one thing: to see the ocean..." Enter to win a copy of @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social' "The Llano County Mermaid Club" from the @unmpress.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky

UNM Press titles have been sparking a lot of conversations! Mark Sundeen on Radio Free Mike, Nan Fischer on Write On Four Corners, Matthew F. Schmader on KUNM, Judith Taylor on Garden Masterclass, & many more. See what's been happening with recent UNM Press books:

Renowned Korean American modern-dance choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess shares his deeply personal hyphenated world and how his multifaceted background drives his prolific art-making in Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly. Learn more: tinyurl.com/482wc746 Win a signed copy—see the first post!

Pride doesn't end when Pride Month is over…but this giveaway does! Repost or quote post by June 30th and we'll choose one winner to receive SIGNED COPIES of Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly + A Real Man Would Have a Gun! 💙📚 #booksky US shipping only. Winner will be randomly selected on 7/1/25.

"Dream of the Bird Tattoo depicts the interplay of the personal and the social in its vision of grief for a parent, and it does so movingly and with powerful softness." Thanks to @tristanbeiter.bsky.social and @strangehorizons.bsky.social‬ for this excellent review! #booksky

Cowardice, nonsense, and complete bullshit. These are not normal times. I stand with @padilla.senate.gov for doing what it takes to stand up to injustice.

Thank you for believing in my book, @unmpress.bsky.social I'm proud to share the savvy cover reveal. TY to my agent @tracycrow.bsky.social

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

To the @GOP senators and Congressmen who claim to support Ukraine, you do have some power… if you’re unwilling to exercise it then don’t pretend to care about your country more than your political career:

Now is the time for our citizenry to fight for our federal workers and national programs. Let’s stand up to the power-mad autocrats, plutocrats and theocrats attacking democracy—at home and abroad. I spoke with @briantylercohen.bsky.social about our historic assignment today.

We loved seeing @freadomfighters.bsky.social and all the other librarians at Sundance. Showing up for your school and public libraries really matters. Check out the resources available on the #UniteAgainstBookBans website. ➡️ uniteagainstbookbans.org/toolkit/ youtu.be/rTe3m8OdFV0?...

"Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism." General Omar N. Bradley, born on this day in 1893