The highly regarded academic press affiliated with the private liberal arts college in San Antonio is closing, Trinity University confirmed Wednesday. bit.ly/46rvC91

Last year, amid an intense heat wave, Amazon India came under fire as warehouse workers were allegedly made to 'pledge' they would take no breaks until targets were met, even as many fell sick. A year on, a survey indicates not much has changed. My report independent.co.uk/asia/india/ama…

Another Squirrel Hill milestone achieved: Was mistaken by a small octogenarian for her husband (“you look like him”) in the lobby of the Manor Theater while waiting for the matinee showing of “Clemente.” I have found my people, and fit in.

For a long time people on social media said—incorrectly—that lots of university presses were closing. Now that nobody’s around to talk about it anymore, they really are. tpr.org/arts-culture/2…

Easy to imagine that the challenges faced by authors, books, and publishing are somehow new, but in a Rachel Carson documentary they just said that her first book, from Simon & Schuster, sold fewer than 2K copies.

new scholarship to study rusyn 👊

More phone calls, fewer zoom calls

A scragglier fall than usual in Pittsburgh, but the Frick Park entrance at Reynolds and Homewood never disappoints.

One thing that always makes me feel good to read in a press colleague's trip report: what books in our exhibit drew the attention of the conference hotel staff.

Imagining a happier world where most tweets were about bagels or New Zealand indie rock pioneers the Clean.

BREAKING: Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle Prime deception allegations reut.rs/3WdUjAV

Photographer Andrew Borowiec has been sharing some amazing photos on his Instagram account of Cairo, Illinois in the 1990s. Nearly every building in these photos has been torn down since.

they realise they completely fumbled marketing this to normal people so they've instead resorted to begging freaks like us to see it 6 times

RIP Kaleb Horton. This is one of the best Portis pieces ever. It is so pointed and beautiful and moving and funny that I was astonished to learn from him that he wrote it on the spot after Portis’s death. That’s how good he was. Everything he wrote is worth your time.

I know the story’s a lot more complicated, but sometimes it feels like so much was figured out—small publishers! engaged authors! robust social-media networks! indie bookstores!—and everyone just let it go.

This is tremendously important and suppressed in all sorts of ways. Many people will be reading this at universities where there have been staff suicides that are virtually unknown due to reputation management. The stories will break your heart, and they will out eventually.

Banned Books Week starts Sunday—and as the event’s popularity continues to grow, I find it a distraction, on balance, from more pressing questions about resources. Here’s a snippet from my recent essay (available in its entirety at Book Work, linked from my profile).

PSA: the full TOC for THE CAMPUS CRISIS TOOLKIT: STRATEGIES ANF SOLIDARITY FOR THE REST OF US, edited by Lisa Di Bartolomeo ☮️🇺🇦🌈 and Kevin Gannon, is now on the SUNY P website—w/ sections on WVU, fighting political/fiscal interference, shared governance, & more! sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Ca…

it's october, genius

Shoutout to my university-press colleagues who insisted on continuing to do print catalogs in the face of criticism that they were fusty and unnecessary. Amazon is catching up.