Special event for University Press Week:
Jeremy Wang-Iverson
Jeremy Wang-Iverson
@jwi.bsky.social
Publicist (Vesto PR) | Book Work on Substack 📪 jeremy@vestopr.com 📚 http://www.vestopr.com ✍️ https://derekkrissoff.substack.com/
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Adding our community's congratulations to Anne Carson! Here's a quick university press reading list of works by and about her bookshop.org/lists/anne-c...
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
Thanks @smnvzqz.bsky.social for organizing a great event last week: new piece for Book Work on the podcast panel at READ Barcelona @versolibros.com @versobooks.bsky.social @readbarcelona.bsky.social derekkrissoff.substack.com/p/on-the-dig...
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Michael Lowenthal's Place Envy featured in Word of the Day! @merriam-webster.com @jwi.bsky.social urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Thanks to @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social for sharing my Rain Taxi article on Muriel Rukeyser www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/08/08/w... @cornellupress.bsky.social
He Was One of America’s Most Important — and Most Divisive — Scientists www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/b...
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We can have good things in this country if you fight for it.
"Brazilian democracy has many flaws, and far-right sectors remain very much active. Yet Bolsonaro’s fate — and with it, the fate of democracy — was shaped by...a practical reversal of the U.S. model..." Cristina Buarque de Hollanda for @sunsentinel.bsky.social www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/07/09/l...
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Important story in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the gambling scourge in baseball www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
"Beatley has proven herself both an artist and an activist, and I’d be hard pressed to find a reader that would be able to come away from this book without an entirely different view on collective action and the power of the human spirit.” TY @literaryhub.bsky.social ! @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
Natasha Chalal on the early games of the World Cup in LRB @lrb.co.uk – www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
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One of the unreservedly good things of 2026 is @schuneke.bsky.social new book on lesbian women in Nazi Germany. I Will Not Abandon You is a tremendous work of history, deeply researched, original, modest, and refreshing. A 🧵
Interesting conversation on Rukeyser courtesy of @cornellupress.bsky.social soundcloud.com/1869thecuppo...
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KILL DICK is coming to Barcelona on May 15: Luke Goebel & Josh Denslow at Backstory —> www.backstorybookshop.com/event-detail... @redhenpress.bsky.social @joshdenslow.bsky.social
KILL DICK is coming to Barcelona on May 15: Luke Goebel & Josh Denslow at Backstory —> www.backstorybookshop.com/event-detail... @redhenpress.bsky.social @joshdenslow.bsky.social
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Really pleased with this new review in Times Literary Supplement @TheTLS of my book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" published by @HurstPublishers. "A genuinely engrossing book on the subject" www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social visited Barcelona for the Global Progressive Mobilisation last weekend . His book is out soon with FSG
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Today is Independent Bookstore Day! Head to indiebound.org/independent-bookstore-day/map for a searchable map of indie bookstores participating in this national one-day celebration.
My new article for The Madrid Review on an interesting political gathering held in Barcelona this past weekend: themadridreview.com/f/defiant-le... - I linked to all the coverage I could find but @owenjones.bsky.social, who spoke at the plenary, also has a great column in the guardian about it ⬇️
Great story by Monte Burke in the New York Times Book Review (and edited by John Maher) to mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of "A River Runs Through It," one of the legendary feats of university press publishing @uchicagopress.bsky.social 👏👏 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...
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@isabellamweber.bsky.social & @carloscuerpo.bsky.social on green industrial policy beyond neoliberalism panel at Global Progressive Mobilisation in Barcelona.
Dutch politician @jesseklaver.groenlinkspvda.nl at #GPM26: “we are in this fight together.”
Veerayooth Kanchoochat (Deputy Leader of the People's Party in Thailand), second from right, at #globalprogressivemobilisation @mazzucatom.bsky.social
Magdalena Andersson, former prime minister of Sweden, at Global Progressive Mobilisation: “The EU must be force for global trade and democracy” @magdalenaandersson.socialdemokraterna.se
The great @isabellamweber.bsky.social at Global Progressive Mobilisation in Barcelona: “We are living in a moment of overlapping emergencies”
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"...I wanted this list to capture something else — something deliberately accessible. Something glossy. Something you’d hear leaking from a car window at night. Something catchy enough to carry a body." Luke Goebel shared a playlist for his novel Kill Dick largeheartedboy.com/2026/04/14/l...
University press titles on display @macba.cat’s exhibit “Project a Black Planet” which closes tomorrow. @dukepress.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @uchicagopress.bsky.social @harvardpress.bsky.social
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Sam Huneke talks about his new book “I Will Not Abandon You” – out next month – on In Bed with the Right . Link below. 🙏 @moiradonegan.bsky.social & @adriandaub.bsky.social @schuneke.bsky.social
Sam Huneke talks about his new book “I Will Not Abandon You” – out next month – on In Bed with the Right . Link below. 🙏 @moiradonegan.bsky.social & @adriandaub.bsky.social @schuneke.bsky.social
This month marks a year since “North Sun” was published and still going strong, winning an important prize last week ⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/derekkri... @deepvellum.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social
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Great to see Book Work featured on Arts & Letters Daily! @derekkrissoff.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
My photo with Arts and Letters Daily founder Denis Dutton & @colbertlateshow.bsky.social in 2009 (but at that time on Comedy Central).
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"The Wall Street Journal’s book review section has become an oasis for the kind of smart, general interest nonfiction that is the bread and butter of what we at university presses are publishing." Nice mention from U of Chicago Press's Carrie Olivia Adams: derekkrissoff.substack.com/p/the-state-...