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Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · Feb 3

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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Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 10h

"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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LSU Press @lsupress.bsky.social · 16h

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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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · 16h

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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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 19h

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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University of Oklahoma Press @oupress.bsky.social · 20h

Out Now! "Projecting America: The Epic Western and National Mythmaking in 1920s Hollywood" by Patrick Adamson. www.oupress.com/978080619607...

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 21h

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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University of Oklahoma Press @oupress.bsky.social · 20h

Out Now! "Making Each Other Laugh: Contemporary Arapaho Storytelling" by Andrew Cowell. www.oupress.com/978080619600...

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Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 1d

"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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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 1d

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 1d

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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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 2d

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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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 1d

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

Over 300 embedded images

Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 2d

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

Copyedit this in Adobe.

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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 2d

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

Copyedit this in Adobe.

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 2d

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

She burned their letters.

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Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 2d

Reading these books are like eating popcorn

Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 2d

"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

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Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 3d

"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"

Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 3d

Good to hear I am not alone!

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Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 3d

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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Dead To The Core @grateful4dead.bsky.social · 3d

Today In 1977: The Grateful Dead Live At Lloyd Noble Center, University Of Oklahoma (~);} archive.org/details/gd77... @marigold420.bsky.social

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Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 4d

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."

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Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 4d

You mean, that reports are sometimes glowing, or that peer reviewers finally got around to submitting their reviews?

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Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 4d

Feels good sending glowing reader reports to authors late Friday afternoon.

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University of Oklahoma Press @oupress.bsky.social · 4d

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/

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Dr. Michael Phillips @drmphillipsut.bsky.social · 4d

During our talk at UT Arlington about our new book, “The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas,” the wonderful staff at the UTA library put together a small exhibit on E.E. Davis, the eugenicist leader of the college that became UTA from 1925-1946. @oupress.bsky.social

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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 4d

Adding our support to this statement. The Compact simultaneously tramples academic freedom and denigrates the humanities, both of which are essential to the work of our members and their authors.

American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) @aacu.org · 11d

AAC&U Statement on the Trump Administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” https://bit.ly/3VOEJvx

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Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 5d

"The dog snapped suspiciously at all uniformed toilers—mailmen, milkmen, Good Humor men on bicycles, streetcar conductors and anyone carrying a lunch bucket—everyone, indeed, who didn't smell of beer and unemployment."

—Nelson Algren, "The Man with a Golden Arm"

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 5d

i wrote a book about a small press getting cursed with an unsolicited manuscript submission. it's very scary. you should read it.

buy a signed & personalized copy here: ghoulish.rip/product/i-be...

the jacket art for i believe in mister bones

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