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We publish in a wide range of scholarly and cultural fields for general readers, scholars, and students. Home of the Pitt Poetry Series.

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University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · Mar 7
To our many new followers: we are a publisher of scholarly books and poetry. We also publish regional studies of Western PA.

We are not, notably, the official Blusky account of the University of Pittsburgh.
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Congrats to Agnese Codebò, co-winner of the 2024 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for her study, The Slum and the City: Culture and Dissidence in the Villas Miseria of Buenos Aires!

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December 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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We proudly present *two* winners of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize: "Obligations to the Wounded" and "A Place in the World." Both use intimate, character-driven stories to show people confronting defining moments and discovering resilience.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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“At noon I teach my summer school class, / during which some significant Middle English poems / on the subject of mortality / are strenuously appreciated for one hour and fifty minutes” —George Bilgere, “Darkly Shifting Flux” @upittpress.bsky.social
DARKLY SHIFTING FLUX. At noon I teach my summer school class, during which some significant Middle English poems on the subject of mortality are strenuously appreciated for one hour and fifty minutes. After that I swim about half-a-mile under a series of cloudy metaphors at the public pool, and then I bike home. Now it’s 3 o’clock, and the next scheduled event of the summer is dinner at 6:30. I am in my house, my domestic setting, with my furniture. We exist together in the dining room for a moment, the breakfront, the table, the buffet, and I. How lucky we are to be here, so stable and serene, in the darkly shifting flux of the cosmos. And there in the backyard is my wife, kneeling amid her conflagration of perennials. My wyf. Clad in that fossil syllable, yet so vivid and alive under the sun. It is still 3 o’clock, and it seems like maybe the day is stuck; it’s bumped into something just below the surface, and there’s no way of getting from here to the next scheduled event except to call to her through the open window, and put my arms around her when she comes in, and taste the sweat on her neck, her inchoate saltiness, and then let one of us, or it could be both of us, lead the slow, breathing, animal bodies up the stairs to the cool darkness, and take off the tethers and harnesses, remove the reins and halters, and just let them gallop off into that green clearance for awhile. George Bilgere
December 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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📖 ❓ How does literacy shift when immigrants rely on “literacy brokers” to navigate borders and power?
And what does literacy as affinity reveal about the emotional labour sustaining communities?
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Immigrants, Brokers, and Literacy as Affinity | Home
Drawing on two years of ethnographic research mixed with archival work, Immigrants, Brokers, and Literacy as Affinity explores literacy’s entanglement in networks of economic and political forces. Ligia A. Mihut proposes and theorizes the figure of the literacy broker, embodied by those who help immigrants with reading and writing as they cross national, cultural, and linguistic borders. Whether these brokers use personal stories, language of empathy, or social connections, they collectively develop an emotional discourse repertoire that Mihut has coined as literacy as affinity. As such, literacy as affinity is explored in various locales where unequal power dynamics may emerge: local communities, schools, libraries, workplaces, or homes. Literacy brokers are intermediaries, advocating for those who, based on their economic, national, or political identity, find themselves reaching for the American dream.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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📐 Architecture of the Japanese empire, medieval European coin trials and eighteenth-century Haitian revolutionary buildings; Architectural history books from University of Pittsburgh Press offer a fascinating scope of scholarship.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Give the gift of reading on this Cyber Monday!

Use promo code "29GIFT25" for 25% OFF on our website checkout until December 12, 2025. Available for US orders only. Free domestic shipping included.

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December 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls August Wilson's American Century "a richly detailed portrait of how the playwright’s relationship to his home—as both native son and outsider—shaped the settings and thematic preoccupations of his plays."

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August Wilson’s American Century: Life as Art by Laurence A Glasco
Historian Glasco (coauthor of August Wilson) meticulously chronicles the life of 20th-century playwright August Wilson through t...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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🖌️ Julia Warhola, Andy Warhol’s mother, shaped his art and life. From her Carpatho-Rusyn roots to NYC, her creativity and sacrifices come alive in this first full portrait, "Andy Warhol's Mother".

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November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Catch praise for Lara Egger's "Flop Era" in the Dec 1st issue of The New Yorker!
Egger's collection "render[s] a surreal world that interrogates existential questions about desire and grief," and is available now:
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews
Short reviews of recent releases.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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“All of this talk about 'my time' and 'your time' is so odd, anyway, when you think about it—as if any time is ours," host Maggie Smith shares in episode 1399 of The Slowdown.

Read "Alarm Clock" by Jennifer Maier: bit.ly/481NQ1N

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Text graphic featuring a portion of Jennifer Maier's poem. It reads: each second breaks like a salt wave at your feet and returns to the sea, which is only ever the now—alive and infinite. This is what time tells you: the fact I whisper 60 times per minute but that you will not hear. You and the others, roused to waking only by my screams. Photograph of poet Jennifer Maier. She has shoulder-length light brown hair and wears cat-eye-rimmed glasses.
November 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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🪶 Winner of The Athenaeum of Philadelphia 2024 Literary Award for Nonfiction: "William Bartram's Visual Wonders" uncovers the strange, living drawings at the heart of Bartram’s vision, where art and nature meet.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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August Wilson's America Century at the top of the list!

On sale 2/10/26: upittpress.org/books/978082...
November 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Check out Kristin Brig-Ortiz's review of Carolin Mezes, Sven Opitz & Andrea Wiegeshoff's "Ecologies of Disease Control: Spaces of Health Security in Historical Perspective," published in 2025 by @upittpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
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November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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The Denver Public Library's Fall Book Buzz features No Longer at This Address by @andrewhemmert.bsky.social!

(around the 17min mark, right before Mark Danielewski!)

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November 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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“betraying / their own brothers and stepping in front / of trains that have come loose / from their tracks and instead of brakes / have two sad faced women / waving kerchiefs” — @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social, “Two Lovers” @southernreview.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social
TWO LOVERS. In one story we are two lovers scrambling up the banks of the Rhine a river I’ve never been to that I’ve read stories about in the way working class people read stories of the affluent vacationing and fucking and betraying their own brothers and stepping in front of trains that have come loose from their tracks and instead of brakes have two sad faced women waving kerchiefs from the railing of an old caboose. The thing with rivers is they crook and bend sometimes they are tidal and I have spent a lot of time writing about them. I thought our lives would crook and bend but mostly they are just the day to day which you excel at and I am bad at. A woman wants to meet me in Chicago. A train is waiting for me. I chase it down the tracks use my kerchief to catch the railing of the caboose to hoist myself onto the little balcony. The woman is already there disappointed in me. My son my daughter two sad faces in the caboose’s back windows. Say we are climbing the banks of the Rhine. This poem a spiral, repetition with progress. I hand you a glass of chilled beer make apologies for things I can’t control. Next time, I whisper, I will be a naked beauty a face carved in a rocky cliff the answer to a question you haven’t asked yet. Rebecca Lehmann
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Happy University Press Week! Join us in celebrating how authors, university press publishing professionals & so many others #TeamUP to advance knowledge. Explore this @bookshop.org collection of university press books to find your next thought-provoking read: https://bit.ly/4nhTQcc. #ReadUP
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November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Thrilled to have three of our Fall 25 poetry titles included in this stellar list! Congrats to Sharon Olds, Bobby Elliott, and Samyak Shertok!

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November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Visiting the Portland Book Festival today? Swing by Booth #30 at the book fair to say hi and take a look at these Firecracker Award–winning books and magazines! @upittpress.bsky.social @revelliterary.bsky.social @circumferencemag.bsky.social @fonografeditions.bsky.social
A photo of Programs Director Chelsea Kern arranging stickers at CLMP's booth at the Portland Book Festival. An up-close photo of CLMP's booth at the Portland Book Festival, featuring the 2025 Firecracker Award winners.
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Read Joan Naviyuk Kane’s DARK TRAFFIC (@upittpress.bsky.social) this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth!

This poetry collection “creates landmarks through language, by which its speakers begin to describe traumas in order to survive and move through them.”
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|9780822966623|Poems| Finalist, 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Dark Traffic creates landmarks through language, by which its speakers begin to describe traumas in order to survive and move through…
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November 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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All set up at the Allegheny Sport and Outdoor Summit Expo! Find us in between Steel City Squash and Yinz Run Club. 11-6pm at Rockwell Park, free entry!

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November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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🎉 🤝 University of Pittsburgh Press titles are now available to buy directly from the LUP website. Browse all UPP has to offer: buff.ly/RPObETh
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November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Thanks to @foreignaffairs.com for this thoughtful review of The Art of Freedom: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Making of Modern India by Nico Slate!

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The Art of Freedom: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Making of Modern India
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was one of the founders of modern India, and Nico Slate chronicles her remarkable life in this evocative book.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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No Longer at This Address is out today! Buy it from your local bookstore, or directly from @upittpress.bsky.social press. I truly loved writing this book, and I hope you enjoy reading it.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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New book review:
Cornish on Rose, Edwin D.: _Reading the World: British Practice of Natural History, 1760-1820_. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech.
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Rose, Edwin D.. Reading the World: British Practice of Natural History, 1760-1820. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025. xii + 395 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780822948513.$45.00 (paper), ISBN 9780822967705. Reviewed by Nathan Cornish (University of Southampton, Exeter University, Kew Gardens) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (October, 2025) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)
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October 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM