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In a poetic coincidence today, I now have a book cover. Not available yet, but you can pre-order, and I promised my editor everyone following here will want to preorder! But if you have landed here because of the Nippon Steel/US Steel news, you will want to read this:

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As instructors grapple with the rise of AI in the classroom, it is heartening to see journalists turning to authors in the @oupress.bsky.social series "Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed" for expertise. @tbertramgallant.bsky.social, coauthor of "The Opposite of Cheating," weighs in here.

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Really good advice here by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social, with a mention to @derekkrissoff.bsky.social: “universities should celebrate the success of their faculty’s books as much as any big research award or sports championship.” www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

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New blog post on ACRLog, "AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide." Got a lot of comments during a recent presentation that people hadn't heard of the concept of AI refusal, so here's some places to start. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...

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Hachette will start distributing for independent presses, offering a chance for smaller shops to get in the door of a Big 5 house. I write about that development & @asterismbooks.bsky.social on Book Work —> 🔗

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Books take years to write. Peer review makes the process even longer. So it is uncanny how often university presses publish books that are so timely—like the forthcoming "The Hard Work of Hope" from @cornellupress.bsky.social Here is an interview with Michael Ansara by @derekkrissoff.bsky.social

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At this point, I would suggest as a general rule that the greater the embrace of this kind of approach to generative AI, the less invested the institution is in students actually learning something or having genuinely meaningful experiences. Students beware. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

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Great to see Kent State University Press alongside our friends at @upittpress.bsky.social, @uakronpress.bsky.social, and Cleveland State University Poetry Center in this writeup of poetry publishing in the Rust Belt!

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And we're back! My latest in the Chronicle is now live: "How to Promote Your Scholarly Book," ft Libra-coded advice such as "use social media" & "or don't use social media." No doubt other publishers will have lots of tidbits to add. Pls share/reach out for a PDF. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

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There's no doubt that editors for academic publishing need more help and support to keep things going. But my god, this isn't it. I've published in a number of OUP outlets. This would force me to reconsider. I suspect other #SkyStorians will, too.

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I'll always be grateful for all of the work that the talented people at Oxford did to make my 1st book a reality, but between management's anti-unionism and moves like this, it's likely my next book will be with a different press: www.alpsp.org/news-publica...

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When I say "please don't publish with the big British houses if you can help it, because they're going hard for LLM nonsense that disrespects everyone's labour and expertise," this is the kind of nonsense I mean (h/t @shannanclark.bsky.social): www.alpsp.org/news-publica...

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@derekkrissoff.bsky.social asking the important questions again. Book folks should give this a read.

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In which I tell @derekkrissoff.bsky.social: “Booksky has its moments but in general social media is now totally decentralized and it’s just harder” -- harder to connect, harder to discover, harder to (gulp) promote. GREAT piece by Derek, always a shrewd observer in and of the book world.

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"Twitter was good for books: Can other sites do some of the same useful work?" A must-read essay by @derekkrissoff.bsky.social on what a fractured social media environment means for title discoverability and the strength of the book community as a whole. derekkrissoff.substack.com/p/twitter-wa...

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I lost my phone recently (miraculously, the first I've ever lost). Today, I went to the Apple store to replace it. I asked for an iPhone 15, and the salesperson asked why I didn't want the new 16. I told them because I don't want the Apple AI. They sighed and said, "yeah, we're hearing that."

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Is it time for a thread of what sorts of books @beltpublishing.bsky.social is looking to sign up?

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Pre-Order 2 New Teaching Books from @oupress.bsky.social @geekypedagogy.bsky.social Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom www.oupress.com/978080619546... @Empower2Teach Empowered: A Woman Faculty of Color's Guide to Teaching www.oupress.com/978080619565...

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Proud to see @tbertramgallant.bsky.social, coauthor of "The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in Age of AI" from @oupress.bsky.social, weighing in here.

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This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

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In July, @oupress.bsky.social will publish the next book in the "Teaching, Engaging & Thriving in Higher Ed Series," @geekypedagogy.bsky.social's "Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the Classroom." (Reviewing a cover proof that includes kind words from @liznorell.bsky.social)

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pittsburgh friends, a reminder: the writers and editors at the post-gazette are on strike. have been for well over 2 yrs. even if ~certain editors~ insist they're not part of the union, posting PG links is driving clicks / revenue to the paper, therefore undermining the strike. don't be a scab.

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My latest for @pghcitypaper.com: how politics and bureaucracy put a local urban farm at risk. I love writing about plants, farms, and the like. Thanks to the editors, growers, neighbors, and all who read. 🍃

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Review essay from Derek Krissoff on his family & Chaim Grade’s novel “Sons and Daughters” out now from Knopf in Rose Waldman’s translation @derekkrissoff.bsky.social

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Yesterday, I ran into a bunch of students who were loading up on dictionaries and thesauruses that had been discarded by our campus library. I asked them about it and they said “because AI has made digital tools worthless”

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I wrote a post on @derekkrissoff.bsky.social ‘s substack about @maris.bsky.social ‘s new column for LitHub in response to the NEA cuts, with a menrion for a @nathanheller.bsky.social piece that has stayed in my mind! open.substack.com/pub/derekkri...

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Wondering what big outlet will pay me to do a small press books roundup every month or two because it seems like this is more necessary now than ever

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Whether you are a reader or writer, publisher or librarian, scholar or staff, or a mixture thereof, @derekkrissoff.bsky.social's "Book Work" is essential reading—especially the latest, thinking about the humanities, publishing, and the making of things. derekkrissoff.substack.com/p/making-thi...

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To draw out the labor elements of this: 50 staff gone since 2018--how many left publishing altogether? Genuinely curious 1/2 HUP staff are in the union HUP started hiring editors on 2-yr contracts--an awful extension of adjunctification into UP publishing www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Tea, anyone? #academicsky

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Join me for an informal "Zoom Party" with James Lang and Michelle Miller this Thursday, May 1 at 5pm ET! Register at retrievalpractice.org/party . It'll be a fun convo with tips on how to teach, how to write like you teach, and how to remember names. #EduSky #AcademicSky

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We now have five books in the @oupress.bsky.social "Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed" series, edited by James Lang & @michellemillerphd.bsky.social! Want to pitch a book idea? Reach out to press editor-at-large @derekkrissoff.bsky.social More info: www.oupress.com/search-resul...

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The authors called this "a guide for connecting to who students are and who they hope to be." It is for instructors in every field, not just writing teachers. Out now, "Making Writing Meaningful" by Michele Eodice, @anneellengeller.bsky.social & Neal Lerner. @meaningfulwriting.bsky.social

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You know, with Amzn and B&N trying to run sales over Independent Bookstore Day, this seems like a pretty good week to crow about the cool stuff we do here. We're proud of this stuff, so we should tell you about it. So here's a thread...

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NEW BOOK! Making Writing Meaningful from @OUPress is a gem. Learn how to engage students as writers, +AI-resistant activities, too. Thanks, Michele Eodice, Anne Ellen Geller, & Neal Lerner for a splendid new book. I'm on the editorial board: @ me your book idea! www.oupress.com/978080619534...

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Some quick updates on my at-large acquisitions work with Kent State and Oklahoma (and a reminder that I'm open to book proposals in Rust Belt studies for the former and higher education for the latter).

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Happening tomorrow (4/16) in Cleveland: Deborah Fleming, author of our new book "Ghosts of an Old Forest," in a @literarycleveland.bsky.social / @orionmagazine.bsky.social event with @alisonstine.bsky.social and Jon Wlasiuk.

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This is a smart @derekkrissoff.bsky.social essay on the life of books for a college undergraduate in 2025. It is a reminder of the subtle ways physical books can help create community and meaning in a world that needs those connections. derekkrissoff.substack.com/p/students-a...

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I promise to stop talking about this today (there are obviously far bigger things happening) but I did want to call out that these books are all from small/university presses. In a lit world where it’s really hard to break a collection out, I’m grateful for the attention to small-press books!

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My new PW article on Sexto Piso www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Tour news! Deborah Fleming will launch “Ghosts of an Old Forest”—the follow-up to her award-winning “Resurrection of the Wild”—with events in Cleveland, Canton, Columbus, Youngstown, and other cities. Get all the details at our calendar of author events: kentstatebooks.wordpress.com/2024/07/20/b...

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syllabus hole problem! a novel in english (from anywhere but originally written in english) from the 1990s short (≈250 pages) great (ideally funny rather than depressing) ????

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Stick at this work long enough and you'll see titles you acquired show up on lists for Book of the Day, Books of the Year, and hell, maybe Books of the Century. Congrats to Deesha Philyaw, whose "Secret Lives of Church Ladies" makes the Kirkus 21st Century list: www.kirkusreviews.com/fiction/best...

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well this was probably inevitable.

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