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Double bill for Clive Oppenheimer's MOUNTAINS OF FIRE in The Times and The Sunday Times this weekend - Saturday review and Sunday interview with the man himself 🌋thetimes.co.uk/article/mounta… thetimes.co.uk/article/when-w…

Here at last is A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous. Thanks for the kind words Jay Griffiths, David Rothenberg and Helen Jukes. The book is out from Granta Books (UK) in October and UChicagoPress (US) in November, with editions to come in Chinese, French, Italian, Spanish

Spotted some favorites in the (front table) wild at my local Artwords Books. The Private is Political by alice e. marwick and Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms by Alison Pouliot.

I do love coming to the office every day and being greeted by Hope 🐳 on my way to the herbarium 🌿🌻 Natural History Museum NHM Botany

Great to see both these gems reviewed in the latest issue of The New York Review of Books. Guess which review offers the praise “refreshingly strange”. (Hint: it’s not the one that mentions the “wood wide web”.) John Tinnell UChicagoPress Carrie Olivia Adams Michaela Luckey

My book has landed in THE NEW YORKER!! It's reviewed in the Sept. 11 issue and it's on their "Best Books" list this week... 🥹

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when your very kind UChicagoPress colleagues know you’re obsessing about one of your fall books and sneakily mail you an advance copy, gift wrapped… the *best* present. can’t wait for Mark Hauber’s BIRD DAY to publish this November w gorgeous illustrations by Tony Angell

Out in the USA today! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book… with deep gratitude to Joseph Calamia and his colleagues UChicagoPress

Alison Pouliot (MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MUSHROOMS) and fungi expert Lee Whitford enjoying some “car bonnet mycology” in Olympic National Park!

Went on a walk to my local Artwords Books with UChicagoPress’s international sales manager and great to spot a nice little stack of Mark E. Hauber’s BIRD DAY

The eyes have it: With her new book, photographer Felice Frankel hopes to make scientists and engineers better visual communicators. mitsha.re/QmBK50QkmEi

🐧 In his new book Journeys with Emperors, emeritus Scripps Oceanography researcher Gerald “Jerry” Kooyman provides a captivating firsthand account of over thirty years spent living with and studying the world's largest penguin — the iconic emperor. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…⬇️

WSJ review! wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

Many gardeners consider color blocking or limited palettes to be guiding principles. Maybe one day I'll agree, but at this stage of my gardening journey, I find that aesthetic a bit dull. I want *all* the colors, close together. ✨🌈Give me the full rainbow, baby!🌈✨ 🌻🌹🪻🏳️‍🌈

It's the day we've been waiting for! We're thrilled to share that a second, expanded edition of The Craft of Science Writing is now available for pre-order from the University of Chicago Press! Can you join us in “ooh”ing at this beautiful cover?!? 🧵

Congrats to Chicago author & Convening Science series editor Jane Maienschein, winner of the 2024 Sarton Medal! The most prestigious award of History of Science, it is presented to an outstanding historian of science to honor a lifetime of scholarly achievement. buff.ly/4d73VUB

""In her latest book, SOLVABLE, Solomon argues that we can learn from past environmental fights. Public awareness and consumer pressure can influence lawmakers, she says, and lead to positive change." Read the full Q&A now from NYT Climate: buff.ly/4f7KIEa

Yale university press does a gorgeous facsimile edition of The Voynich Manuscript, and I have tried to make it a staff pick at every bookstore I’ve worked at for the last 8 years. Nobody has ever let me do it. Now that I own a store, I did it, and sold it twice in 6 days.