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Amy Martin

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Cat mom, book lover & academic book editor. Disappointed USian.

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Amy Martin @amymartin13.bsky.social · Jul 7

Took a holiday & missed some stellar news: congrats to @genni.bsky.social and all the contributors for winning this year’s Locus Award for Non-fiction!

www.youtube.com/live/OHC4BKH... (timestamp 29:08)

#AcademicWriting
#AcademicPublishing
#BookAwards
#LocusAwards

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Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing @bloomsburylit.bsky.social · 1d

"The hardest times to live through are the hardest times to write about."

Read an excerpt of 'Writing the Hard Stuff' by @nikwalk.bsky.social ⤵️

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Imagining the Truth

Nicole Walker expands the boundaries of creative nonfiction when facts can’t tell the whole story.

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Amy Martin @amymartin13.bsky.social · 2d

Honk if you are not on the Epstein list!

Amy Martin @amymartin13.bsky.social · 2d

There was a lively showing & a lovely day for #NoKings 2 here in our small town of Florence, OR!

A crowd standing on either side of the sidewalk, holding signs and flags. The sky is blue & cloudless.

A person in a blowup zebra costume holds a sign that reads, “I’m a frog at heart”.

People in costumes (a chipmunk & a Lorax) stand on the side of the street, with other people holding signs.

A woman holds a sign that reads, “Honk if you are not on the Epstein list.”

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Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing @bloomsburylit.bsky.social · 14d

📖 Also of interest during #BannedBooksWeek: The Rhetoric of Manipulation by Robert Harvey

Explore how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.

🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/rhetoric-of-...

Book cover for "The Rhetoric of Manipulation"

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 7d

Woop! My next book, HOT TYPE, a cultural history of the Linotype and the arc of mass media, is available for preorder & 25% off at Waterstones, for my UK friends. (I'm still editing it!) It's a fascinating & epic tale. Preorders are much-appreciated: www.waterstones.com/book/hot-typ...

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Amy Martin @amymartin13.bsky.social · 6d

The book that just keeps winning! Congrats to @genni.bsky.social for yet another well deserved accolade. 🎉🥳👏🏼

Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing @bloomsburylit.bsky.social · 6d

'Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction' is the winner of the @theignyteawards.bsky.social award for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction! 🙌🎉

Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social and the contributors!

🏆 ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
📕 www.bloomsbury.com/afrocentered...

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · Sep 17

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.

Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.

Collective boycott.

Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · Sep 17

Hey look, a dead canary.

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Amy Martin @amymartin13.bsky.social · Sep 18

Jeff Jarvis willing to speak the uncomfortable truths. Bravo.

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Chris Brockett @chrisbrockett.bsky.social · Sep 17

Next up: multistate organizations to mirror the functions of the former NIH, CDC, and FDA that can review newly developed vaccines and treatments.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Sep 17

Important: Gavin Newsom just announced that California, Oregon, Hawaii and Washington State released unified west coast vaccine recommendations expressly designed to counterprogram Trump/RFK's destruction of our public health system.

This will gain momentum in blue states (see thread below).

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · Sep 18

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Sep 10

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Sep 10

This study is one of the most important developments in extreme weather attribution science over the last two decades: deaths from Swiss heat waves traced back to specific firms like Exxon and Saudi Aramco. Don't miss Table S7 - it's going to change the way we fight fossil fuel companies.

Rupert Stuart-Smith @rupertstuartsmith.bsky.social · Sep 10

And you can read it open-access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Refining methods for attributing health impacts to climate change: a heat-mortality case study in Zürich - Climatic Change

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Sep 10

Frost: We need housing not handcuffs. We have a housing crisis in this country. Every time the rent goes up $100, homelessness goes up 9%… We shouldn’t be criminalizing homeless people for the failures of government

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Aug 26

Start of the week reminder that the biggest public health story in America is that we’re building concentration camps

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Aug 25

Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.

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Amy Martin @amymartin13.bsky.social · Aug 19

Looks like @openletterbooks.bsky.social is also having a sale on books written or translated by women! Love a good sale as much as a good book in translation!

Amy Martin @amymartin13.bsky.social · Aug 19

So cool to have Suzanne Jill Levine featured on the 3% pod during #WomenInTranslation month!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Three Percent Podcast #201: Suzanne Jill Levine's

Podcast Episode · Three Percent Podcast · 08/18/2025 · 54m

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Aug 12

#ReleaseTheCuomoList

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · Aug 7

In this essay from 2015, Suzanne Jill Levine recalls a series of meetings with Pablo Neruda. Read it for #WITMonth, and don’t forget to pick up your copy of Levine’s book UNFAITHFUL: A TRANSLATOR’S MEMOIR: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

Ode to the Mango: My Dinners with Neruda
By Suzanne Jill Levine
“But the challenge par excellence was dessert: a whole mango, served with a little knife.”
WOMEN IN TRANSLATION MONTH

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Amy Martin @amymartin13.bsky.social · Aug 8

I read the author’s note & as I’m reading the novel, I think I can see the parts she has written with the contemporary reader in mind.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · Aug 5

It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations

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Amy Martin @amymartin13.bsky.social · Aug 4

So a whole team of economists, then?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 4

if you want to have a nice and relaxing sunday, do not watch the new Hulu documentary on Hurricane Katrina. if you want to shake with rage and anger over the total failure of this nation's government and media establishment, watch the Hulu documentary on Katrina (this is a recommendation)

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Amy Martin @amymartin13.bsky.social · Aug 4

I’m reading the 2024 version of Someone to Watch Over Me. I think it’s my first Lisa Kleypas, since I’m new to reading romance.