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Sonya Bonczek
@sonyabonczek.bsky.social
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Director of Publicity and Communications at UNC Press 📚📣

Currently reading: Thy Will Be Done by John Garrison Marks (forthcoming April ‘26) and Buckeye by Patrick Ryan
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Watching the Ken Burns doc and yelling out every historian whose book I’ve worked on before their name hits the screen 🤓
Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at a tv screen
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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LUX, but make it U N C P — featuring our religion titles draped around our printing press.

And yes, that's a @uncpress.bsky.social tote bag on Stacy's head 😭
UNC Press employee re-creates Rosalía's iconic LUX album cover, while colleagues stage a dramatic Berghain music video scene around a real printing press covered in religion books, lolllllllll
November 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Exactly what I imagine would greet me at the gates of hell
Ross Douthat interviewing Helen Andrews and Leah Libresco Sargeant
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Pressed play on Rosalía and immediately left the mortal realm
Spongebob listening to RosalÍa's LUX
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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📣 Our new @uncpress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalog is HERE ✨

This season showcases a wide-ranging list of books that dig into history, culture, politics, identity, environment, etc. to make sense of who/where we are now. A few highlights 🧵👇 uncpress.org/spring-summe...
The University of North Carolina Press Spring/Summer 2026 Brand new catalog
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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My job is cooler than your job because I get to go to a @flyleafbooks.bsky.social book launch for Alice Gerrard's memoir at the mofo @catscradlenc.bsky.social
flyleafbooks.com/event/offsit...
Alice Gerrard with musical guests: Tuesday, December 2 at 6pm, Cat's Cradle back room, celebrating the publication of her memoir CUSTOM MADE WOMAN: A LIFE IN TRADITIONAL MUSIC (UNC Press, out Dec 2).
October 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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@hkyria.bsky.social: “The sunlight hit your skirt just right and turned your office pink!” 💖
Me: 🤩
Sunlight reflecting off a pink skirt and turning the office the same color
October 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Team @uncpress.bsky.social took a field trip to the NC Botanical Garden this morning for a behind-the-scenes tour, complete with giant bottle gourds and a front-row seat to carpenter bees escaping from a carnivorous tropical pitcher plant! 🌿🐝
Team UNC Press Publicity holding up some bottle gourds in the herb drying cabin at NC Botanical Garden Carpenter bees trying to escape from a tropical pitcher plant
October 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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✨ An inspiring evening at the NC State Archives with @unchistory.bsky.social profs Fitzhugh Brundage, @kathleenduval.bsky.social, and Joseph Glatthaar to celebrate the publication of Foundations of American Democracy.

Now available to all North Carolinians via a free digital edition on NC LIVE! 📚
Editors & UNC-Chapel Hill Historians Miguel La Serna, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Kathleen DuVal with copies of Foundations of American Democracy: A Critical Documents Reader. Panel moderated by Dr. Darin Waters, Deputy Secretary, Office of Archives & History
October 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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INTREPID GIRLS by @amyefarrell.bsky.social are here! The cover looks hand-stitched 😍😍😍
3 copies of Amy Erdman Farrell’s new book, Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA Amy Erdman Farrell’s new book, Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA Amy Erdman Farrell’s new book, Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA, open to Chapter 10, “An Active Education in Forgetting” Close up of the front cover, to show the stitch-like quality of the title/badges.
September 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Iconic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qONE...
Rhiannon holding up a copy of her and Kristina Gaddy's new book, Go Back and Fetch it (UNC Press)
September 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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New @uncpress.bsky.social books (that are in conversation with each other) alert! 🚨 📕 📗
Copies of new UNC Press books (AIDS in the Heartland by Katie Batza and From Nice to Vice by René Esparza)
September 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Latest nonfiction book haul from @princetonupress.bsky.social
Copies of: What’s on Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life by Allison Daminger AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
September 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Hot off the press! 📘

Out next month (timed to the 63rd anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis), @renatakeller.bsky.social THE FATE OF THE AMERICAS reframes the story, spotlighting how Latin America experienced & shaped the world’s closest brush with nuclear war.
Fate of the Americas:The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War by Renata Keller (UNC Press/October 2025)
September 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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i don't love it here
September 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Good morning from Carolina Beach ☕️ 🌊
August 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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It’s out in paperback now but here’s my vintage hc. Might reread
Katrina: A History, 1915-2015 by Andy Horowitz.
August 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Say hello to the @uncpress.bsky.social publicity dream team! Na'dayah Pugh officially joined us on Monday as our new Publicity Assistant and @hkyria.bsky.social and I couldn't be more thrilled!
Photo of the UNC Press publicity team outside of the Brooks Hall office on campus: Helen, Na'dayah, and Sonya :)
August 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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The only part I was interested in @evandaltonsmith.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Katie Batza’s AIDS IN THE HEARTLAND: HOW UNLIKELY COALITIONS CREATED A BLUEPRINT FOR LGBTQ POLITICS shows how Midwest nuns, church ladies & crop dusters built a lifesaving HIV response from scratch. Required reading as the Trump admin guts PEPFAR. JFC.
Cover of AIDS in the Heartland: How Unlikely Coalitions Created a Blueprint for LGBTQ Politics by Katie Batza (out in October)
July 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Very glad to see @llassabe.bsky.social's RESISTANCE FROM THE RIGHT included in this list of eight books that explain the university crisis
Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America, by Lauren Lassabe Shepherd Thanks to a nearly century-long campaign by right-leaning pundits, writers, commentators, and media celebrities, the phrase “campus activism” is almost exclusively associated with the political left. Shepherd shows that this is only part of the story: Her book examines how in the late 1960s, at the height of radical campus politics and the backlash against them, conservatives created student groups and movements of their own, backed by wealthy funders and organizations such as the Mont Pelerin Society and the Foundation for Economic Education. This campus organizing, she argues, not only produced many of the conservative leaders and intellectuals who would go on to shape the 20th and 21st centuries (including Karl Rove and Pat Buchanan); it also set the template for the right’s approach to universities today. The now-familiar conservative move in which occasional examples of left-wing student excess are intensely spotlighted in order “to create suspicion around campus antiwar and civil rights initiatives,” as Shepherd writes, was pioneered more than 50 years ago.
July 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Thought this was too niche but we’ve gone mini viral on TikTok 😂
Paid actors:
-the Cool Town poster - first book we published in our Ferris & Ferris imprint 😎
-Canal Dreamers by
@jlepler.bsky.social (officially pubs next month! 💙)
-the chewing gum
-Savor the South series, specifically: Catfish
July 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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One of the best and most original things I have read in a long time.
🍄‍🟫 🐜 💀 🍃 🍄
Advance Readers Copy of: Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival by Maria Pinto, publishing October 28, 2025, from UNC Press.
July 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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What was supposed to be a love note from my 6yo is haunting me 😱
I love you mom. Your [sic] the best mom that I now. I hoped that you could stay with me if I was older. So I hope you have a asowm life wen I’m not here. from Seby to mommy (drawing of two stick figures below)
June 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Advance Review Copies of @amyefarrell.bsky.social’s Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of The Girl Scouts of the USA are here!

Who needs a copy?
June 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM