Listen In! This installment of Between the Lines, explores three teaching moves from @geekypedagogy.bsky.social's book "SNAFU Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom". www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLZT...

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A fabulous dinner after my #SnafuEdu book talk at @olemiss.bsky.social! Huge thank you to the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, @josheyler.bsky.social, @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social & @liznorell.bsky.social for inviting me & to everyone who attended the event.

📣🌟 Come work with us! We're looking for a highly organized individual with strong communication skills and an enthusiastic mindset to serve as our next Publicity Manager! Learn more here ➡️ ou.taleo.net/careersectio...

Interesting observation from @derekkrissoff.bsky.social about #book #publishers and the persistence of the catalogue: “In a digital world where everything’s available to shuffle and remix, the great strength of the catalog is that it’s linear. It’s a story.” So true open.substack.com/pub/derekkri...

I’ve long argued that university libraries (esp pub ones) can and should offer *free* institutional borrowing privileges for those at museums, galleries, theaters, and other artistic, performing arts, & cultural orgs. folks in power at my current library don’t have the will to make it happen.

One easy way to support your local bookstore WITHOUT SPENDING ANY $$$ is to nominate their booksellers for a James Patterson holiday bonus www.bookweb.org/james-patter...

Ever since @derekkrissoff.bsky.social's blog about #BannedBooks week, I've been thinking about the need to highlight books that are not technically banned, especially now now when bans are less explicit, but exist all the same. So I'll have recs every day this week (bc reading widely is resistance!)

Excited to hear Kent State University Press’s director, @tottencs.bsky.social, on the American Campus Podcast, where she talks with @llassabe.bsky.social about the meaning and value of university-press publishing.

Out Now! "Empowered: A Woman Faculty of Color's Guide to Teaching and Thriving" by Chavella T. Pittman. www.oupress.com/978080619565...

In this episode of Community of Praxis, Brenna Clarke Gray interviews Cate Denial about her essay-turned-book, A Pedagogy of Kindness. Listen on our website or your favourite podcast provider. www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...

USC Press seeks a full-time Marketing, Sales, and Publicity Director! Are you a collaborative team leader? Do you enjoy developing creative sales strategies? Then we can't wait to hear from you! Apply here: uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194... #publishingjob #hiring @uofscprovost.bsky.social

I started reading the list of Bucknell English dept faculty. I don't think I know any irl or on here but every single bio lists a current book project or a/many published book/s--expected, presumably, for tenure. Will Bucknell--upon closing Bucknell UP--stop expecting their own fac to publish books?

This Labor Day Weekend, take a Rust Belt Roadtrip with @gmoult.bsky.social, who recommends three books about Cleveland’s extraordinary sacred architecture from Kent State University Press: kentstatebooks.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/m...

This was a cathartic read, I say as someone who cannot help but see any glossy Banned Books Week display of titles from the Big 5 through the lens of cratering library sales. New from @derekkrissoff.bsky.social, "My problem with Banned Books Week: The Unbought Book vs. the Challenged One."

One of my favorite blogs is Book Work by @derekkrissoff.bsky.social Today’s piece on the hype over Banned Books Week and how much is actually obscures about the publishing industry is 📣📣📣

This is awful news for many reasons. I so appreciate seeing this solidarity. I have many questions and mixed feelings about alarmism. We should be sounding the alarm about our mutual conditions and threats—though the latter also well exceed the current admin. www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

NEW: A major AI copyright legal showdown just took a huge twist today. Facing a class action on behalf of book authors that could've seen it pay over a TRILLION in damages for alleged piracy, Anthropic has agreed to settle instead: www.wired.com/story/anthro...

I’ve been around Pittsburgh for a while (though I didn’t exist in '62) but had never heard of this early-60s plan to basically roof Panther Hollow and turn it into a nuclear-powered research hub. Thankfully we have @chrisbriem.bsky.social to unearth such moments www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-h...

Grateful to @publicsource.org for sharing a first look at @chrisbriem.bsky.social's book “Beyond Steel: Pittsburgh and the Economics of Transformation.”

🗃️ Variation of this: I gave students one of my chapters w/no footnotes, asked where they thought footnotes should go: What type of source was used? What makes you think that? They have to consider how writing shows evidence vs. context vs. author’s voice. They liked it a lot and had great questions!

It says a lot when Times Higher Education (@timeshighered.bsky.social) casually cites a book as a relevant authority— So I appreciate the nod here to "The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI" by Tricia Bertram Gallant & David Rettinger from @oupress.bsky.social!

Grateful to @postindustrial.bsky.social for this short piece anticipating @chrisbriem.bsky.social's book "Beyond Steel: Pittsburgh and the Economics of Transformation," coming from KSUP this winter. postindustrial.com/stories/post...

A GREAT read. Everyone need to check out this review

Gear Up for Great Reads! Our Fall/Winter 2025 Catalog is LIVE and waiting for you! Explore what’s new from OU Press. www.oupress.com/catalogs/

Do you have opinions about book covers? (I know you do. ;-)) Could you please spare a few minutes to help our @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social student @oliviagw.bsky.social with her dissertation research by answering her survey? (Please share, too!)

What can Cleveland and Pittsburgh learn from each other? What would the two cities gain by teaming up as Cleveburgh? In a new podcast, @chrisbriem.bsky.social—author of our forthcoming book “Beyond Steel”—considers the relationship between two iconic Rust Belt cities: megaphone.link/CC6470937745

I’m enjoying newly published book season!!! What’s on my desk now? It’s @geekypedagogy.bsky.social Snafu Edu. The book is rich with practical suggestions and skillful integration of teaching and learning scholarship. Congratulations, Jessamyn!

IT HAS A COVER! Pleased to announce that _The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity For the Rest of Us_ is coming from @sunypress.bsky.social in Feb. With 25 chapters from over 40 contributors, the book tackles everything from anti-DEI laws to consultants and cuts to campus violence (1/2)

I’m just going to keep quote-skeeting this endlessly—in this case to note that the book includes a section devoted to WVU / by Mountaineers. I’m just so grateful to Kevin, Lisa, & ALL the contributors for entrusting us w/ their stories and lessons. And huge thanks to @derekkrissoff.bsky.social too.

Hey JHUP authors, check your email. They are adding your work to AI unless you request and sign an addendum to your contract by the end of August.

huzzah! Can't wait to dig in to a book which is sure to be full of incisive insights, delightfully snarky prose, and deep research. Because that is how @geekypedagogy.bsky.social does it.

My former institution did this, and now has roomfulls of out-of-date computers that it lacks the funds to update, instead of books that still work perfectly well

I second this defense of edited volumes by @derekkrissoff.bsky.social at Book Work. Tip: if you want to edit a volume, loop in an acquisitions editor early on! They can advise on avoiding mistakes and help make the project into something greater than the sum of its parts.

“I truly felt like someone backed up a truck to my imagination and stole everything that I’ve created.” —David Baldacci The Authors Guild asked Baldacci to stand before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, and he delivered a powerful testimony. Read about it! authorsguild.org/news/david-b...

Yes! Jennifer Frey on the threat to liberal education: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

Ooh! Look what just dropped from @oupress.bsky.social by @geekypedagogy.bsky.social. It's #SnafuEdu, about how to handle when things go wrong in the classroom. Get your copy today, friends. www.oupress.com/978080619546... Got a book idea for our series? I'm on the board, so DM me & let's talk.

Out Now! "Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom" by @geekypedagogy.bsky.social is like a preparedness kit and gives teachers an educational “go-bag” of insights and strategies to have at the ready when things go sideways. www.oupress.com/978080619546...

@cmu.edu students prepare for a visit from President Donald #Trump to their campus on July 15 for an "Energy & AI Summit" organized by Republican Pennsylvania Senator David McCormick that includes tech and fossil fuel execs. Numerous #protests are scheduled to occur nearby throughout the day.

Thank you so much, @bonni208.bsky.social, for the opportunity to be on the @tihe.bsky.social & talk about my new book, Snafu Edu! @oupress.bsky.social @claudiach.bsky.social @liznorell.bsky.social @johnkane.bsky.social @cyberthread.bsky.social teachinginhighered.com/podcast/teac...

Grateful to Cleveland Magazine (@clevelandmag.bsky.social) for including KSU Press in this writeup of book publishing in Northeast Ohio—and pleased to see more attention for “Light Enters the Grove”!

In a poetic coincidence today, I now have a book cover. Not available yet, but you can pre-order, and I promised my editor everyone following here will want to preorder! But if you have landed here because of the Nippon Steel/US Steel news, you will want to read this:

As instructors grapple with the rise of AI in the classroom, it is heartening to see journalists turning to authors in the @oupress.bsky.social series "Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed" for expertise. @tbertramgallant.bsky.social, coauthor of "The Opposite of Cheating," weighs in here.

Really good advice here by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social, with a mention to @derekkrissoff.bsky.social: “universities should celebrate the success of their faculty’s books as much as any big research award or sports championship.” www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

New blog post on ACRLog, "AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide." Got a lot of comments during a recent presentation that people hadn't heard of the concept of AI refusal, so here's some places to start. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...

Hachette will start distributing for independent presses, offering a chance for smaller shops to get in the door of a Big 5 house. I write about that development & @asterismbooks.bsky.social on Book Work —> 🔗

Books take years to write. Peer review makes the process even longer. So it is uncanny how often university presses publish books that are so timely—like the forthcoming "The Hard Work of Hope" from @cornellupress.bsky.social Here is an interview with Michael Ansara by @derekkrissoff.bsky.social

At this point, I would suggest as a general rule that the greater the embrace of this kind of approach to generative AI, the less invested the institution is in students actually learning something or having genuinely meaningful experiences. Students beware. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

Great to see Kent State University Press alongside our friends at @upittpress.bsky.social, @uakronpress.bsky.social, and Cleveland State University Poetry Center in this writeup of poetry publishing in the Rust Belt!