Samara Rafert
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University press publicist (Mad Creek Books), pottery class enthusiast. Columbus, Ohio.
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Uh, catalog, not calendar
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Aaron Rupar
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it's the first day at standing school for Wright, Zeldin, and Burgum
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This is really sad. My sister went to Hampshire.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. đŠ
8 days ago
I for one think it's about time that marine mammals get the fearmongering media treatment once reserved for sharks
nypost.com/2026/04/06/s...
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Killer seals chowing down on dolphins â could humans be next?
Is their fate seal-ed?
https://nypost.com/2026/04/06/science/seal-on-dolphin-predation-sparks-fears-humans-could-be-next/
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Art Herstory
9 days ago
Solanum lycopersicum / Tomato, c. 1690-1730, by
#AlidaWithoos
(Dutch, c. 1661/2-1730). Held at Wageningen University & Research,
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#womenartists
#artherstory
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#FreshTomatoDay
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Aura is My Real Name
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Jacqueline Antonovich
15 days ago
When I think of radical left groups, I definitely think of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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Dr. Lisa Corrigan
17 days ago
Social movement scholar here again. So, why protest? Nihilists were out yesterday arguing that "protests don't do anything." A short đ§”:
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McSweeney's
17 days ago
"When I go into that voting booth, I think about three important things: What the man on the pamphlet looks like, what the name of the man on the pamphlet is, and whether or not that man is trapped in the pamphlet and needs help to get out."
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I Have No Object Permanence, and I Vote
âWith a brain thatâs permanently set to read-only, itâs easy for me to pick strong candidates who donât waste time planning ahead because âaheadâ is an illus...
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Jenny Yacovissi
28 days ago
My latest review, out today in
@wirobooks.bsky.social
: "who among us hasnât at some point gaped at our beloved and thought, âHow is it that Iâm even WITH you?â before once more remembering the how and the why." A thought-provoking memoir-in-essays from Lynette D'Amico.
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Timothy Snyder
29 days ago
This man did far more fighting for the US than anyone in the cabinet or the White House. And he died one day after being taken to an American concentration camp. One day.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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Afghan asylum-seeker dies in ICE custody, US advocacy group says
Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal is at least the 12th person to die âin ICE detention this year.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/afghan-asylum-seeker-dies-ice-custody-us-advocacy-group-says-2026-03-15/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=69b70413ca3bad00018f5d22&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Sometimes we paws our reading to watch the wind
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Lynette D'Amico (MEN I HATE out now from Mad Creek Books) in conversation with her husband P.Carl about his book and now hers, which shares her perspective on the transition he documented in BECOMING A MAN.
www.full-stop.net/2026/02/17/i...
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Lynette DâAmico and P. Carl
I feel at ease in male friendships and at ease in what some might consider male spaces. I hate men. I love men.
https://www.full-stop.net/2026/02/17/interviews/lynette-and-p-carl/p-carl/
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The Death Penalty Is Even More Horrifying Than You Think
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...
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Opinion | The Death Penalty Is Even More Horrifying Than You Think
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Congratulations to
@jsanchez-taylor.bsky.social
on DISPELLING FANTASIES (Ohio State UP) being shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association awards!
locusmag.com/2026/03/2025...
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2025 BSFA Awards Shortlist
The shortlist for the 2025 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards has been announced. Best Novel A Granite Silence, Nina Allan (Riverrun) Project Hanuman, Stewart Hotston (Angry Robot) WâŠ
https://locusmag.com/2026/03/2025-bsfa-awards-shortlist/
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âIf something weird happens to me, or I overhear a weird thing, or somebody says something weird to me and it disturbs me, that, to me, is a good opportunity for an essay." CITY OF TOYS out today from OSU Press! Thank you
@matternews.bsky.social
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matternews.org/culture/word...
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Lesley Jenike scrapes away the veneer with âCity of Toysâ â Matter News
In her new essay collection, out today (Monday, March 9), the Columbus author said she opens up âin a way I donât in my everyday life.â
https://matternews.org/culture/words/lesley-jenike-scrapes-away-the-veneer-with-city-of-toys/
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Catherine Cocks
about 1 month ago
want some context on that Times Higher Ed article on authors and publishers? Check out this thread linking to great
#FeedingtheElephant
posts:
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Michael Stipe
about 1 month ago
Glenwood Springs Co. July 1984. photo by Mark Williams. I was apparently working on a song that became Maps & Legends. Thanks Mark!!
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Krista Koeller
about 2 months ago
Have you ever seen a snake eat a mouse and thought how unpleasant it must taste? How their mouths mostly come into contact with fur and nothing delicious? Donât feel too bad for them. Most snakes barely have any taste receptors. Most donât even have the genes for tasting umami or sweetness.
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Simeon Berry
about 2 months ago
âA teacher of standing, a poet, tells her class, Never put stars in your poems, and some of the students write this down. And some stop writing after a year or two. And some get married or take jobs selling pharmaceuticals.â âStephen Kuusisto, âErasing Starsâ
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Congrats to my friend and colleague extraordinaire Elizabeth!
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Jeff Sharlet
about 2 months ago
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
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Every time I see Buttons the passenger pigeon at
@ohiohistory.bsky.social
I feel like I commune with him a little and feel so sad
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Seeing
@people.com
include Lynette D'Amico's exquisite, funny, cutting memoir, MEN I HATE, on its books page in the new issue is super cool and ⊠definitely one of the biggest surprises of my career! Book World may be gone but dammit, we still have People.
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Men I Hate: A Memoir in Essays
A memoir in essays that examines love, marriage, and identity in light of a spouseâs transition, asking what happens to us when the people we are closest to change.
https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814259696.html
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Benjamin Dreyer
about 2 months ago
Fetid Rivalry
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Jeremy Wang-Iverson
about 2 months ago
âSun Ra: Do the Impossibleâ debuts tonight on PBS. Great companion reading below from Michael Lowenthal
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@rafertess.bsky.social
"The possible has been tried and failed. Now itâs time to try the impossible." â Sun Ra
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Kate Tuttle
about 2 months ago
This is the point that I wish everyone could see more clearly. The problem is hed & dek, which are all most people see.
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"I also want authors to know that a book can still succeed in the absence of traditional reviews, and while the acknowledgment that comes with a review is fantastic, its impact is not certain."
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Alina Stefanescu
2 months ago
Iâd mix it up a bit. Cats are the gorgeous stoners who maintain a firm suspicion of the world and cuddle selectively. Dogs are the restless, tamed man-eaters who eat absolutely anything including books. One howls at the moon; the other admires it.
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"As the AI agents playedâ1,000 games per set of rulesâthe researchers tracked how the pieces moved. Then they compared the moves with the levels of wear on areas of the board, tracing which gameplay seemed to replicate grooves on the stone."
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Keith Harris
2 months ago
I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story:
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Dan Gearino
2 months ago
So I wrote this "don't panic quite so much about the data center boom" newsletter that turned out to have posted on the day of the endangerment finding rule change. Is this bad timing--although unintentional--on my part? Yes. Yes it is.
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Nicole Chung
2 months ago
"There are still plenty of places to read about literature, many of them excellent.... But they are produced for an audience that already knows it cares about literature. The books section of a newspaper plays an altogether different role. It does not cater to aficionados; it seeks new recruits."
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John Williams
2 months ago
I'm going to write one long thread over the next couple of days about the people I worked with at the Post. They deserve the extra time and attention. I'll start with someone you likely know well:
@roncharles.bsky.social
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Kristen Elias Rowley
2 months ago
A few weeks left to submit your story collection to the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction (which comes with $5,500 and publication from us, Mad Creek Books):
awpwriter.org/AWP/Contests...
. Submit your manuscript by the end of the month!
@ohiostatepress.bsky.social
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Great interview. It's always nice to get a peek at my work through an author's eyes: "[Mad Creek has] an amazing commitment to publishing creative nonfiction, with a focus on essays."
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 176: Michael Lowenthal
"The book recounts my journeys of dislocation and relocation, geographic as well as familial, artistic, sexual, and spiritual..."
https://memoirland.substack.com/p/the-memoir-land-author-questionnaire-f70
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Uh, catalog, not calendar
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Check out the Ohio State University Press spring 2026 calendar! Memoir, essays, poetry, comics studies, sci fi studies, rhetoric, classics, narrative ⊠email me at
[email protected]
for exam & review copies.
#academicsky
#comicsstudies
#teamrhetoric
bit.ly/3M0yBiJ_s
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The Ohio State University Press: Spring 2026 Catalog
The Spring 2026 catalog of the Ohio State University Press, with new titles in creative nonfiction, literary and cultural studies, rhetoric and communication, and more.
https://bit.ly/3M0yBiJ_s
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This is an incredible short piece.
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Apropos of nothing, I just learned that my great-great-uncle dated Gene Stratton Porter back when she was just Gene Stratton
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Maris Kreizman
2 months ago
I have thought long and hard about starting up a new books publication, given how much criticism has been cut across the board. The business model is really difficult. The return on investment is low. We used to be okay with some parts of media not growing rapidly year over year forever.
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Kristen Evans
2 months ago
i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.
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Nicole Chung
2 months ago
the Post news is gutting for many reasons, but I canât help focusing on the books sectionâhow great it was, and how essential. So many worthy books barely get reviewed. Iâve had authors reach out to thank me because mine was the only post-pub coverage they got. Just awful for readers & for writers.
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Maria Bustillos
2 months ago
Hello, looks like independent publishers should beef up our books coverage. If you're into the idea of joining the
@flaminghydra.com
collective and writing a book review each month (800-2000 word range), please send us your ideas and some clips to
[email protected]
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein đ
2 months ago
Democracy dies in broad daylight under billionaire ownership
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Kate Tuttle
2 months ago
All the smartest, best people I know are broke and losing their jobs, while the stupidest, meanest, most vicious and violent people are thriving. Itâs awful, and of course itâs just one part of the terrible times weâre in. If you feel as hopeless as I do, go read a story, poem, or essay today.
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John Williams
2 months ago
I'll say more before too long, but for now: Thanks to anyone who has ever read and supported the Post's books coverage.
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Shit. "Honestly, the worst aspect of this impoverishing, family-wrecking, confidence-crushing ordeal is that it will inspire David Brooks to write an essay about the hubris of American media."
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Lego Lost At Sea
2 months ago
Another Lego shark has been found! It was discovered on Sunday by Emma Fraser Trecurno at East Portholland beach in Cornwall. It's one of 51,800 Lego sharks that fell into the ocean on 13th February 1997. Picture credit: Emma Fraser Trecurno
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Brad Johnson
2 months ago
The judges, it seems, are fucking pissed. Itâs a nice thing to see.
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