Andrew Berzanskis
@aberzanskis.bsky.social
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Book worker, University of Oklahoma Press. Personal account. [email protected]
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Even rockier times ahead for academia.

I hope that any scholar serving as a peer reviewer will recognize the headwinds facing writers of serious books right now & feel the urgency to use peer review as an opportunity for solidarity in building things up, not tearing them down.
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unmpress.bsky.social
We are setting up at #WHA2025 -- Acquisitions Editor Sonia Dickey is at the conference, with Call for Proposals information for two of our series: The West in Context and the New Century Gardens and Landscapes of the American Southwest.
We are setting up our booth at #WHA2025 and we can't wait to hob nob with you! Come visit UNM Press in Booth 2. While supplies last, we are giving away copies of Jack Rittenhouse's Guide Book to Highway 66! Acquisitions Editor Sonia Dickey is at the conference, with Call for Proposals information for two of our series: The West in Context and the New Century Gardens and Landscapes of the American Southwest. Welcome to Albuquerque, Western History Association!
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oupress.bsky.social
It's time for the Western History Association Conference!
Visit our booth and grab a bookmark, a voucher for a free audiobook (or two), and meet with our Acquisitions team. Can't attend in person? You can shop our booth sale and save 30% on select titles. www.oupress.com/wha-2025/
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michellechn.bsky.social
THIS. Also, check the publisher's website to make sure that they actually did publish said book (Amazon is not always a reliable source of metadata--shocker)
aberzanskis.bsky.social
AI-generated "books" are flooding Amazon and other online retailers.

Here is a regular reminder: Take note of who published the books you read or buy.

Presses are perhaps more important than ever in helping identify trustworthy resources in a failing information ecosystem.
aberzanskis.bsky.social
AI-generated "books" are flooding Amazon and other online retailers.

Here is a regular reminder: Take note of who published the books you read or buy.

Presses are perhaps more important than ever in helping identify trustworthy resources in a failing information ecosystem.
aberzanskis.bsky.social
"Any resemblances between this story and your life, dear reader, are purely intentional."

—from Rasa Askinyte's novel "The Easiest," translated by Jura Avizienis
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lsupress.bsky.social
Congratulations to Anthony Stanonis, whose LSU Press book "New Orleans Pralines" was the unanimous choice for the Gulf South Historical Association's Michael V.R. Thomason Book Award for the best work on Gulf South history! 🎊 https://bit.ly/nolapralines
New Orleans Pralines
Winner of the Gulf South Historical Association's Michael V.R. Thomason Book AwardThe Creole praline arrived in New Orleans with the migration of formerly en...
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uwapress.uw.edu
It's a literal beach read! THE BEACH CURE by historian of medicine Meghan Crnic explores how physicians, tourists, and families transformed the Northeastern US shoreline into a medical and cultural landscape in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Learn more: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Book cover for The Beach Cure: A History of Healing on Northeastern Shores by Meghan Crnic, with a foreword by Paul S. Sutter. The cover features a vintage photo of a crowded beach with people in early 20th-century swimwear wading in the ocean, set against a teal sky.
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jschiller.bsky.social
Not sure how I missed this post, but I did not miss the book in my mail. Cheers @jeffmanuel.bsky.social !!!
A book with a gas pump handle and hose spewing corn cobs, and sugar cane rising at the bottom on the cover. There is a bookshelf in the background of the photo. The cover reads "Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels," and the authors are Jeffrey T. Manuel and Thomas D. Rogers.
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oupress.bsky.social
Out Now! "Projecting America: The Epic Western and National Mythmaking in 1920s Hollywood" by Patrick Adamson. www.oupress.com/978080619607...
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jschiller.bsky.social
Headed to WHA in ABQ? You know what to do (Reach out and schedule a meeting! See us at the @oupress.bsky.social table! Let me personally sell you books! Okay I just told you what to do, didn't I)
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oupress.bsky.social
Out Now! "Making Each Other Laugh: Contemporary Arapaho Storytelling" by Andrew Cowell. www.oupress.com/978080619600...
aberzanskis.bsky.social
"When Larry King asked Garth what made him successful, he answered, 'God and SoundScan.'"

—from Stephen Deusner's 33 1/3 book, "Garth Brooks in . . . The Life of Chris Gaines"
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matthewsomoroff.bsky.social
rewritten during copyediting review
michellechn.bsky.social
In honor of Hallowe'en coming up, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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rlevay.bsky.social
In honor of Hallowe'en coming up, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

The reviews are split.
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michellechn.bsky.social
In honor of Hallowe'en coming up, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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rlevay.bsky.social
In honor of Hallowe'en coming up, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

The reviews are split.
elizdanjou.bsky.social
In honor of Hallowe'en coming up, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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rlevay.bsky.social
In honor of Hallowe'en coming up, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

The reviews are split.
elizdanjou.bsky.social
In honor of Hallowe'en coming up, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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jackiantonovich.bsky.social
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

She burned their letters.
aberzanskis.bsky.social
Reading these books are like eating popcorn
aberzanskis.bsky.social
"Another important number: $20. For most of the 1990s, that was the highest you would pay for a ticket to see a Garth Brooks concert. That low price allowed him to sell out multiple nights at bigger and bigger venues."

—Stephen Deusner's 33 1/3 book on Garth Brooks/Chris Gaines
aberzanskis.bsky.social
"In 1998, it was estimated that one in every 10 country albums sold was a Garth Brooks album."

—Stephen Deusner's 33 1/3 book, "Garth Brooks in . . . The Life of Chris Gaines"
aberzanskis.bsky.social
Sometimes you are excited to read a book but cannot imagine a single other person in the world being interested in reading it, too.
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grateful4dead.bsky.social
Today In 1977: The Grateful Dead Live At Lloyd Noble Center, University Of Oklahoma (~);} archive.org/details/gd77... @marigold420.bsky.social
Grateful Dead stealie
aberzanskis.bsky.social
Thrilled to open the latest New Yorker and see an @oupress.bsky.social author. The press published José A. Rodríguez's exquisite memoir "House Built on Ashes."
aberzanskis.bsky.social
You mean, that reports are sometimes glowing, or that peer reviewers finally got around to submitting their reviews?
aberzanskis.bsky.social
Feels good sending glowing reader reports to authors late Friday afternoon.
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oupress.bsky.social
Senior Acquisition Editor, Alessandra Jacobi-Tamulevich, is representing OU Press at the American Society for Ethnohistory conference in the prettiest conference location we've ever seen! Can't visit our booth in person? Shop the sale online and connect with us there! www.oupress.com/ase-2025/