reading an academic writing guide/handbook where the author confidently claims that unlike academic writing, writing emails never caused anyone anxiety. want to throw the book across the room.

Quite a quote from Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, who was asked about his STOP THE GENOCIDE eye black after today’s game www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

As a white guy with an ivy degree who is bad at math, I'm exactly the target audience for that article. it's a really striking example of the way white resentment is aimed and shaped; the way the visibility of race & gender (combined with their interpretive flexibility) make them into flashpoints

Want a taste of *Sweet Taste of Empire*? See this pre-launch discussion w/ a former student about the book, my relationship to writing and to food -- and why it's not just about the early modern. #booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #writing #foodhistory #history bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...

Stephanie's essay on D. A. Miller on Jane Austen is, alone, worth the price of admission! It's how I'm closing out my grad seminar on close reading this semester, paired with her Norton Library edited edition of Sense and Sensibility. All to say: buy the book! It's shipping!

Next week, Penn Press authors @georginaemw.bsky.social (PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE) and @wsperrazza.bsky.social (ANATOMICAL FORMS) will discuss their books in a virtual panel! See the flyer for more info, and join the event on Thursday Sept. 18 at 12 p.m. CDT / 6 p.m. BST!

One thing to note about this is that it was apparently a double-tap strike: Israel killed one journalist (among others) in the first strike, waited a few minutes, and then carried out a second strike that killed first-responders and other journalists. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

📢 AHOY, you can get @sarialtschuler.bsky.social's The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States in PB for a mere $8.74....see it & selected titles at 75% off from @pennpress.bsky.social THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER www.pennpress.org/franklins-fa...

It looks like my book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is available for preorder, and will be out next month! Please ask your university libraries to order it—if enough copies sell, it will flip to open access! www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

I'm language editing a manuscript by a nonnative English speaker and something I think is really cool about this work is the new-to-me words and sometimes beautifully unusual turns of phrase because the writer's vocabulary and syntactic imagination aren't as limited by convention as mine are

Authors often give me so much more personal info than I technically need. Running late? No worries. I get it. No Qs asked. But now I get why they do it -- because many people will assume you're not truly unavailable unless you unload tons of details about the exact hardship you're dealing with.

Hot tip for authors: make sure you treat the people responsible for producing and marketing your book with respect. I mean that is the bare minimum and should go without saying, but it's amazing how some folks don't realize how they're shooting themselves in the foot.

once again putting forward my hot take that treatment for mental health issues caused by work should be covered by workers comp

publishing related emails are very, very, very rarely truly "high importance"

have been enjoying telling my authors of long mss that they can make significant progress towards meeting their word count limit by removing the location from all their citations

See you at #AUPresses25 on Monday!

PSA: Mon 6/9 I’m moderating an @aupresses.bsky.social panel w/ @stephanieyevans.bsky.social, @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social, @jsavrankelly.bsky.social, & @byjennytan.bsky.social about editorial labor—in house & freelance, acq & production, scholarly & developmental. Join us! whova.com/web/TpWjMk1C...

Thinking about this smart discussion from @byjennytan.bsky.social on signposting in scholarly writing today networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

It is not blood libel to state accurately who is being killed and by whom. If the IDF and its supporters do not want its reputation linked to the slaughter of more than 16,000 babies and children, I would suggest they stop killing babies and children.

I just shared @byjennytan.bsky.social's great @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social piece on effective and not-so-effective uses of "I argue that" and other metalanguage in scholarly writing with an author, so now I've come here to share it with all of you, too. A+ advice! networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

dont’t! steal! books! from! the! exhibit! when! the! exhibitor! is! at! lunch!!!

favorite conference swag ever

If you're attending #Kzoo2025, come visit us in the book exhibit tomorrow, Saturday 5/10, where we'll be giving away our display copies to graduate students and contingent scholars between 3 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. (limit one book per person)! #kzooicms #ICMS #medievalstudies

The @princetonupress.bsky.social annual 50% off sale is on and it's lowest price you'll see THE BOOK PROPOSAL BOOK all year (it's even better than my author discount or the bulk purchase discount, so stock up now for faculty & friends). Use code BLOOM50 press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

If you're attending #RenSA25/#Shax2025, come visit us in the book exhibit tomorrow, Saturday 3/22, where we'll be giving away our display copies to graduate students and contingent scholars between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. (limit one book per person)!

BREAKING: At least 100 Palestinians, including many children, have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip as Israeli officials threaten a ground invasion, according to Reuters. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/191eo5

least favorite conference book exhibit interaction: it's a tie between "hey peon, when can i speak to an editor?" and "hey peon, where are the refreshments? why are we out of coffee? no more hot water??"

tfw a conference asks editors to participate in a panel, then schedules that panel for 8:15 am on “spring forward” sunday 😭

Be my student for a week! I'm teaching an Intro to European Medieval Manuscripts at the California Rare Book School this summer. The deadline for applications is April 1. www.calrbs.org/introduction...

My book has a cover! Forthcoming in September thanks to the team @pennpress.bsky.social www.pennpress.org/978151282744...

preparing my out-of-office auto reply email for Friday: “So, Penn Press is closed today because the Eagles won the Super Bowl…”

tfw you have to start using a productivity app just to manage your email 😭

Aaaaah it’s all happening! End the empty tyranny of blurbs! As an editor responsible for getting blurbs—from reader reports but still time and thought intensive—I am not a fan! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

this is such a lazy misguided form of critique. the committee referred to here is a group that advised the TSA on preventing terrorism. unless you think that was the cause of the crash, there’s no casual connection

BOOK GIVEAWAY - Things are Bad right now, so I will send a free copy of my book Glorious Bodies to one randomly selected person who makes an appointment to start HRT or get a trans surgery of any kind. Just DM me or reply here and let me know, and I will enter you in the drawing :)

What is one to conclude from the contrast between the AHA’s position on Ukraine and its position on Gaza other than it believes some people’s histories are worth more than others?

americans be normal about china challenge

This is the last week to apply for long-term fellowships at the APS's Library & Museum. Scholars who need to use the Society's collections for their research projects are eligible to apply by January 17: www.amphilsoc.org/grants/fello...

don’t be snooty when an exhibitor tells you they can’t sell you a book, it’s not me personally refusing to take your money

hi #MLA25 goers! if you’re a student or contingent scholar, please come by the Penn Press booth this morning for a free book!

Psssst ... Did you hear that @cornellupress.bsky.social is giving away its #MLA25 display copies to graduate students on Sunday? Visit the Cornell UP stand (#116) between 9:00 and noon!

If you're attending #mla25, come visit us in the book exhibit tomorrow, Sunday 1/12, where we'll be giving away our display copies to graduate students and contingent scholars between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. (limit one book per person)!

hi friends! if you’re at MLA, please come say hi!

i’m told you can get this for 30% off with the code 102277, brings it to like 20 bucks…

Anyone have a debut book coming out this spring? Tell me about it — it’d be nice to hear about something nice! Your first book only happens once, friend!

hi friends! if you’re at MLA, please come say hi!