Four decades after dozens of culturally significant objects were stolen from the Santa Ana Pueblo in New Mexico, a team of Tribal investigators has pledged to bring the missing items back home.
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Four decades after dozens of culturally significant objects were stolen from the Santa Ana Pueblo in New Mexico, a team of Tribal investigators has pledged to bring the missing items back home.
Oh the irony!
(Re)watched Jaws and am trying to map it onto current politics. The best I can come up with, besides shark=Trumpism, is Quint maybe=working-class voters and Richard Dreyfuss is JB Pritzker ("Are you rich?" "Yes."). The mayor is the DNC or congressional Republicans but not sure about Chief Brody.
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LAKE SONG (Sept. 1), selected by @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social for the AWP Grace Paley prize, is so so good. Get a taste at @electricliterature.com! electricliterature.com/the-final-gi... @kristener.bsky.social @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
EXCITING NEWS: The Translator’s Daughter is nominated for the 2024 Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction! I’m so honored and humbled to be a finalist for this award. Winners will be announced at the ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 6 at the San Francisco Public Library. 🥹🙏🏽
northeast vacation locale class war drama is one of my favorite kinds of drama
Realizing last night that Curtis Sittenfeld has a new story collection pretty much made my year. Her deft balance of unerring social observation, empathetic skewering, and emotional heft is exactly what I need right now.
Full article: Y a-t-il une bande dessinée africaine ? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Un grand merci à Pedro Monaville pour ce compte-rendu nuancé de mon livre "On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power" @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
C. Palmer-Patel reviews Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces (eds. Bryan J. Carr & Meta G. Carstarphen) @ohiostatepress.bsky.social, a volume exploring the publication histories, character arcs & media battles of Marvel’s famous female heroes. fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...
This song just makes me happy. The kids and I listen to it whenever we drive to the pool. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOnq...
Today's Dispelling Fantasies post is about Chapter Three, Patriarchy. This one is pretty self-explanitory, but read this chapter for my explaination of "genre/gender bending" fantasy literature. I also threw in some queer joy and meniacal laughter in there for you all as well.
This, dear ones, is why I follow a sewer district’s account despite them being hundreds of miles from here 🤷♀️
“The suitcase was empty and its owner clear in our minds: a dainty-footed man striving via Spartan Races to compensate for his hemorrhoids and persistent dorsal pelt.” www.thecut.com/article/wher...
The evil that men do lives after them
I got purple first too today
But purple first!
When I met Ryan Coogler several years ago, we were standing in a group of people chatting, when a woman with visible hearing aids walked up, and he casually began to sign the whole conversation so she could participate. She mouthed “thank you”. He nodded and just kept doing his thing.
Thank you!
"It's my job to tell publishers their book is an ugly baby."
James Daunt of B&N says: "it is more likely that the Big Five and other publishers of comparative size will have “better books” than their smaller competitors." This is such a terrible and untrue thing to say! It's laughable, if it weren't such a terrible thing for every indie publisher to read.
This blows. Support indie presses. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... #publishingsky
Thank you, please do!
NOT ME
But potatoes
SO SATISFYING! Also replacing straight w/smart quotes
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University presses have many many excellent books for understanding immigration: digitaldigest.up.hcommons.org/2025/06/23/o...
Shark Week bills itself as pro science and conservation and says they don’t promote fear. One of these 2025 episode titles is real and I made up the rest. Guess which is real. 1 Great white assassins 2 Great white sex battle 3 Great white invasion 4 Florida’s death beach Lolz all real
“The biggest short term effect higher education institutions are seeing from S.B. 1 having a hard time attracting quality candidates — ranging from full-time faculty to graduate student positions.”
Okay that’s well done
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
I’ve played but no real tips except it’s fun!
We’re here at the airport as Mahmoud Khalil returns home after over 100 days of being unjustly detained for his advocacy for Palestinian rights. Welcome home, Mahmoud! ❤️
Cc @dangearino.bsky.social
Found in my browser history: my 11-year-old's intense and weirdly persistent sturgeon phobia/obsession, which started two years ago after she viewed some video about sturgeon on YouTube, apparently continues. www.fws.gov/story/mappin...
Sen. Murphy continues to regularly say the things that many of you complain that no prominent Democrat is saying.
Incomplete set of playing cards, made c. 1684. BM catalogue notes: 'The cards are accompanied by an envelope inscribed in pen and ink "These cards were used to play on the ice at Westminster when an ox was roasted in front of the Houses of Parliament"'. (British Museum)
hahaha Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival was an anti-war movement anthem & symbol of the counterculture's opposition to executive power grabs & solidarity with the soldiers fighting the Vietnam War. About the divide between the powerful & the powerless, especially in the context of war.
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“Meticulously researched and brilliantly imagined.” — @karlajstrand.com, Ms. ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
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Feels weird to announce in the midst of … everything, but Ohio State Press's fall catalog is up—two great story collections, feminist essays about class and labor by a woman truck driver, and suuuper timely scholarly stuff. I have ARCs! Highlights in🧵 bit.ly/s_F25 #essays #fiction #booksky #ReadUP
For #NationalPigeonDay, some very fancy pigeons courtesy of Emil Schachtzabel's Illustriertes Prachtwerk sämtlicher Taubenrassen (1906). More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/schachtzabel-pigeons
Marble fruit - two apples and a pear - right down to some overripe parts, late 16th century. These were used for decoration and also sometimes, apparently, mixed in with real fruit ... for the laugh. Hilarious. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
Both are good, honestly. Supporting local bookstores is crucially important. If a bookstore is stocking @dukepress.bsky.social & other university press books, buying them reinforces that. At the same time, the Press makes more $$ if you buy directly from us, but honestly, grateful for either.
"They were three months passing through the forest", an illustration (for Old French Fairy Tales, 1920) by Virginia Frances Sterrett who died of tuberculosis #onthisday in 1931, at the age of just 30. See more of her magical illustrations here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/o... #OTD
Did the IRA fail to build a political constituency in red states? A lot of people are saying "yes" but I think the answer is more nuanced. Here's a look at an example in my backyard in Ohio: insideclimatenews.org/news/0506202...
Somewhere a presidential historian is wheezing into a paper bag right now
Those ads! They are relentless! Also the skincare ads for mature skin
Lol!
"In a typical day in Europe, you wake up, eat lunch, go to a museum, and then hit the town. Nobody is stressed about their job. That’s the benefit of a strong welfare state. Everyone is young and has lots of free time."
Re-upping this great thread about the “worrisome situation for scholarly publishing” belatedly. I really appreciate Ken’s candor abt finances—how eg journals can help subsidize books/keep prices down. But we need to sell books. (SUNY P also pays overhead.) Do read & share if you haven’t.
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"Charmingly buoyant" and "vibrant"—great descriptors for FROM COCINAS TO LUCHA LIBRE RINGSIDES, out from @ohiostatepress.bsky.social Aug. 17th! @professorlatinx.bsky.social @angelamsanchez.bsky.social! #Comics #Latinx @crfricke.bsky.social @kristener.bsky.social www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
was literally just talking this morning with my mom about my Chinese-Canadian grandfather’s time working as an engineer for NASA’s jet propulsion lab after wwii and how much racism he faced…
̶G̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶m̶e̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶t̶i̶r̶e̶d̶,̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶p̶o̶o̶r̶,̶ ̶Y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶h̶u̶d̶d̶l̶e̶d̶ ̶m̶a̶s̶s̶e̶s̶ ̶y̶e̶a̶r̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶b̶r̶e̶a̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶f̶r̶e̶e̶,̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶w̶r̶e̶t̶c̶h̶e̶d̶ ̶r̶e̶f̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶t̶e̶e̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶r̶e̶.̶ ̶S̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶s̶e̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶h̶o̶m̶e̶l̶e̶s̶s̶,̶ ̶t̶e̶m̶p̶e̶s̶t̶-̶t̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶m̶e̶,̶ ̶I̶ ̶l̶i̶f̶t̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶l̶a̶m̶p̶ ̶b̶e̶s̶i̶d̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶g̶o̶l̶d̶e̶n̶ ̶d̶o̶o̶r̶!̶
Precisely what I'm worried about - we're getting used to Trump's lawless autocratic rule and it's becoming more mundane and bureaucratic in ways that weaken our defenses
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"Applying a Ukrainian lens to our American moment offers a rich history of resistance wisdom…" For more from @ohiostatepress.bsky.social author Sonya Bilocerkowycz, her beautiful essay collection ON OUR WAY HOME FROM THE REVOLUTION is a must-read on Ukraine. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Another reason so many authors on your feed are furious about that A.I. generated summer reading article, is that in a media landscape where coverage for books is shrinking absolutely everywhere… this is what we get.
So nice to see @gracelp.bsky.social's THE TRANSLATOR'S DAUGHTER on this @bookshop.org AAPI Heritage list! bookshop.org/lists/nonfic...
Midcentury? Cheever comparison? Marital intrigue? Set in my hometown! www.npr.org/2024/07/25/n...
This, too, is America.
Josephina shared this pic from the sweet potatoes in Merced County. Cutting and packing these young seedlings who roots will eventually become sweet potatoes is hard, intensive work. "My wrist and neck get tired from from being bent over all day to cut the plant." #WeFeedYou
seeing a lot of people doing the thing where they're posting a short story for every day of may (it's national short story month!). as a Short Story Appreciator, i'm gonna keep the good vibes flowing. may 1st: "what ever happened to glow stick girl?" by @emilylauracosta.bsky.social
Reaganomics Finally Trickles Down To Area Man theonion.com/reagano...
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And congratulations to Daniel Worden and INKS for these Comics Studies Society nods! comicsstudies.org/uncategorize... @kristener.bsky.social @etaylor.bsky.social
Congrats, Megan!
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This book is so so good. So glad to have Amy Lee Scott as a press-mate at @ohiostatepress.bsky.social .🥚And beautiful review by @alicestephens.bsky.social
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"By writing about her most harrowing moments, Scott seeks to make sense of a life that can hold so much pain and so much joy." Thank you, Alice, for such a thoughtful review of this gorgeous book.
I agree with that comment.
This looks great!
@dangearino.bsky.social, expert on clean energy and comic shops!
Better late than never
Exciting to be working on a book with cover art by the singular @mollycrabapple.bsky.social! ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
Assholes. You’re describing assholes.
My favorite REM song
This is a good occasion to mention THE PARADOX OF BLACKNESS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN VAMPIRE FICTION by Jerry Rafiki Jenkins (Ohio State Press, 2019) ohiostatepress.org/books/titles... @susanamorris.bsky.social @k8dee16.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social @kristener.bsky.social
This was such a great episode!
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“Sackey advocates that we should trouble rhetorics of invasiveness, resisting dichotomies of ‘native’ and ‘alien’ and, rather than focusing on animal and plant ’invaders‘ in isolation, foreground the sociobiological relationships and networks that produce ’invadable’ spaces.”
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This is so true. I get teary at school drop off and pickup on a regular basis because the kindness and dedication that staff and teachers show every student.
Pencils
Study Finds Cats Only Meow When They Want To Alert Owner Of Neighbor’s Murder They Witnessed Through Window theonion.com/study-f...
Check out Patricia Coral's article "Finding My People" where she talks about how she found family in the DMV writing community! Read the article at the link in our bio. @wirobooks.bsky.social @patriciacoral.bsky.social #DCArts #DCArtists #DCCreatives #DCLiteraryArts
(But seriously I have caught myself starting to tap on a word)