Excited to hear Betsy Phillips discuss her new book tomorrow at the Tennessee State Museum! tnmuseum.org/calendar-of-ev…

RIP. 🤍

Very sad news to hear of James C Scott’s passing

If I had to sum up my thoughts on authorship, I might say, "You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?" and laugh: “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you!”

"A paradox of open-access policy is that it aims to break up the giants of journal publishing but has instead facilitated existing or emerging platform monopolies." chronicle.com/article/the-co…

Coauthors agreeing to write a “quick” and “simple” article that takes 5 years

Officially seeing Fran Lebowitz in Nashville this November. Excited to hear her tell me why my city sucks and why everything is bad.

I just explained my sure-fire way for telling a libertarian from a conservative to Steven P. Rodriguez: Put them in a room with me. If they get mad, they're conservative. If they get a sly grin, they're libertarians.

Here’s a conversation with the great Kate Linthicum at the Los Angeles Times about my critique of the US drug war narrative weaponized across the Rio Grande to justify the increasing militarization of Mexico. #DrugCartelsDoNotExist

Looking forward to returning to New Books Network 📚 later this month. I’ll be interviewing Leonard Cassuto about his new Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s book Academic Writing as if Readers Matter!

One of the funnier The New York Review of Books personal ads I’ve seen in a while. Also, such economy of language

Love that the Mayor reads Vanderbilt University Press books on the weekend. Come see us next week thanks to @Chapter16 and the Tennessee State Museum.

James C. Scott as defender of a petty bourgeois utopia. Lorenzo McClellan has done the best historical work on the origins of his ideas, and here is a taste. dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

#DigestibleGovernance is out! Gastrocracy is the appropriation of discourses and practices related to sourcing, preparation, distribution, and consumption of food for political purposes. Want to know more? Check out these fantastic essays! #foodstudies #España #gastronomia

I had the absolute pleasure of reading this fascinating collection filled with exciting new research. A must-have for you or your library! Congratulations again, Rebecca Ingram, Lara, and Eugenia—the future of Hispanic food studies is looking bright!

Great excerpt from Leonard Cassuto's new book: chronicle.com/article/write-…

I had a great time chatting with Leonard Cassuto on the New Books Network 📚. Check out our interview on academic writing here: newbooksnetwork.com/academic-writi…

This comes out in December, look what a great book Jennifer French has put together! I’m happy to be one of its contributors, among many amazing colleagues, with some of my findings on Lat Am women and botany 🌱 you can get you copy here: vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/9780826507457/…

I won two tickets to a concert at the Ryman in a radio giveaway. I've never won anything like this before. As it turns out, though, the concert has been canceled. My life is a satire.