I often see engagement when I’m critical of a publisher’s bad decisions, which I worry feeds anger at publishing—a field managing disinvestment, precarity, technolibertarian ideology, and other familiar villains. Support publishing and Bookworld overall; encourage good decisions.

7 Translations & 7 Interviews in Memory of Elias Khoury, 1948-2024 arablit.org/2024/09/15/7-t…

Germanist here. It’s ok to call them Nazis.

🎣 ALTARS OF SPINE AND FRACTION is officially published ✨today ✨🎣 thanks to the team at Northwestern University Press + the many others who made this a reality. eager to see which lips this book snags out in the world. if you’d like a signed copy, I can make that happen! dm me!

In translation, Can Xue has only been published by small presses and university presses, so you should probably order your books now-ish. Stuff’s gonna sell out instantly when she wins the Nobel in three weeks

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When Alexander Pope complained about bad poetry by writing, “And ten low words oft creep in one dull line,” every single bad poet died immediately. Absolute bloodbath

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NAR contributor Perry Janes's debut FIND ME WHEN YOU'RE READY from Northwestern University Press is out!! Myth -making & myth-correcting, set in L.A. & Detroit ✨✨✨ nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147645/… #poetry #bookbirthday

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I'm so glad Literary Hub picked up this essential piece by a Doubleday editor that started out as an Instagram post. lithub.com/between-the-li…

Three Northwestern University Press authors walk into a bar... Had a blast reading with laura chow reeve and C. Russell Price in front of a great group of students.

I think it's less about some great turn away from UPs and more that there are just *more* academics than ever, and so there are more books published at both UPs and trade (and indie) nonfic presses than ever. I have a lot of other thoughts too that conflict, but it's early.

We could demand more regulation of oil and gas companies, but sure, why not just make books shorter?

I'm just going to go full booster and say it: the monograph is doing GREAT. I am also in a unique position where, acquiring in 800 fields, I get to see its full scope. But there is SO MUCH great work being produced despite crappy conditions, often for both authors & publishers.

Rebecca Colesworthy My own gut feeling is that it's easy to say the monograph is in decline when you look at academia through the lens of social media, because the most well-publicized things here are not traditional scholarly monographs.

benjamin aldes wurgaft Absolutely! There's also the phenomenon of what dominates discussion--eg in lit studies "method wars" when those wars are, like, 5 bks from 3 presses (which I love but it's not a *field* dominant). There's also disciplinary bias--speaking from one's corner abt books writ large.

A little anxious, a lot excited, and entirely honored to continue working with Marisa Siegel, Megan Stielstra, and parneshia jones, making exemplary books by extraordinary authors with an amazing team.