Audra Wolfe
@audrajwolfe.bsky.social
I wrote two books on science & the Cold War, formerly @ColdWarScience. Developmental editor to the should-be stars. Mostly Philly, sometimes Indiana, always weaving.
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Audra Wolfe
@audrajwolfe.bsky.social
· Oct 14
My best advice to aspiring authors of scholarly books is to read other scholarly books recently published by your target press. This may seem obvious and yet is not!
Am so grateful for the friends who have permanently integrated us into their Thanksgiving, never more so than when I remember the spread of white vegetables prepared by my dearly beloved grandmother: boiled turnips, boiled parsnips, mashed potatoes, and canned hominy. Accompanied w/ oyster stuffing
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Am so grateful for the friends who have permanently integrated us into their Thanksgiving, never more so than when I remember the spread of white vegetables prepared by my dearly beloved grandmother: boiled turnips, boiled parsnips, mashed potatoes, and canned hominy. Accompanied w/ oyster stuffing
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Happy Thanksgiving!
I like this one (w/ native persimmons obv), steamed in a pressure cooker. It’s a little unorthodox—my grandma always baked hers flat, but it came out the color and texture of cat food. Tasted great! But I prefer something that also looks delicious. legacy.culinate.com/content/3639...
For steaming, you will need a bowl or pudding mold with a 6- to 8-cup capacity.
legacy.culinate.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I like this one (w/ native persimmons obv), steamed in a pressure cooker. It’s a little unorthodox—my grandma always baked hers flat, but it came out the color and texture of cat food. Tasted great! But I prefer something that also looks delicious. legacy.culinate.com/content/3639...
I retreat to inform you that persimmonpudding.com is no more but the Mitchell chamber of commerce is there to help with a decades worth of prize winning persimmon pudding recipes
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I retreat to inform you that persimmonpudding.com is no more but the Mitchell chamber of commerce is there to help with a decades worth of prize winning persimmon pudding recipes
Tis the day when, like all good ex-Hoosiers with access to a persimmon pulp, I google “persimmon pudding”
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Tis the day when, like all good ex-Hoosiers with access to a persimmon pulp, I google “persimmon pudding”
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Something people need to understand: There’s no code to crack in book publishing.
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Something people need to understand: There’s no code to crack in book publishing.
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Hello historians 🗃️! Planning on attending #AHA26 and have book ideas in mind?
Now is a good time to start thinking about contacting editors to meet with in Chicago. It's fun, it's easy, and you'll be chatting with people who love to chat about books! 👇
Now is a good time to start thinking about contacting editors to meet with in Chicago. It's fun, it's easy, and you'll be chatting with people who love to chat about books! 👇
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Hello historians 🗃️! Planning on attending #AHA26 and have book ideas in mind?
Now is a good time to start thinking about contacting editors to meet with in Chicago. It's fun, it's easy, and you'll be chatting with people who love to chat about books! 👇
Now is a good time to start thinking about contacting editors to meet with in Chicago. It's fun, it's easy, and you'll be chatting with people who love to chat about books! 👇
Is “stop emailing me” an appropriate holiday away subject line, y/n
November 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Is “stop emailing me” an appropriate holiday away subject line, y/n
It is a fundamental crisis that faculty performance is in part evaluated by UP editors’ ability to find readers and those readers’ ability to follow through. One reader ghosts, the other’s mother dies, and poof! No contract for 3rd yr review.
that list of four potential peer reviewers you gave your acquisitions editor? one of them is retired, another is chairing their department and simply can't, the third is on leave and has an autoreply up for months, and the fourth replied within 20 seconds to say "no."
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
It is a fundamental crisis that faculty performance is in part evaluated by UP editors’ ability to find readers and those readers’ ability to follow through. One reader ghosts, the other’s mother dies, and poof! No contract for 3rd yr review.
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Vahid Abedini has now been released.
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Vahid Abedini has now been released.
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I just spent FIVE hours doing a MAJOR reorganization of my book. And I hate to inform you, but having a strong thesis *does* in fact make your entire project more organized.
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I just spent FIVE hours doing a MAJOR reorganization of my book. And I hate to inform you, but having a strong thesis *does* in fact make your entire project more organized.
I just want to weave
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I just want to weave
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NEW: Judge Currie finds that Lindsay Halligan was UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED and dismisses the James Comey and Letitia James indictments without prejudice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
NEW: Judge Currie finds that Lindsay Halligan was UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED and dismisses the James Comey and Letitia James indictments without prejudice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
www.publicbooks.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
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Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
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well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
<whispers> is it possible she is sincerely having a personal crisis having realized she was in a cult?
November 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
<whispers> is it possible she is sincerely having a personal crisis having realized she was in a cult?
this is art
I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
this is art
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This is actually hilarious cuz the reason the supermajority GOP in Indiana isn't redistricting like Trump wants is cuz they already gerrymandered the state to force GOP wins and any other redrawing of lines risks losing them votes lmao
November 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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The most important thing an editor does is invisible: good editors stop bad things* from happening.
*fraud and rushed-reporting mistakes
*embarrassing memoirs
*AI slop (although even good editors can get fooled)
*biased language or assumptions (ableism, racism, sexism)
*so much more
*fraud and rushed-reporting mistakes
*embarrassing memoirs
*AI slop (although even good editors can get fooled)
*biased language or assumptions (ableism, racism, sexism)
*so much more
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The most important thing an editor does is invisible: good editors stop bad things* from happening.
*fraud and rushed-reporting mistakes
*embarrassing memoirs
*AI slop (although even good editors can get fooled)
*biased language or assumptions (ableism, racism, sexism)
*so much more
*fraud and rushed-reporting mistakes
*embarrassing memoirs
*AI slop (although even good editors can get fooled)
*biased language or assumptions (ableism, racism, sexism)
*so much more
As a science acquisitions editor, I would get these types of queries once a week. My colleague who acquired religion would get the ones proving the existence of God.
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
As a science acquisitions editor, I would get these types of queries once a week. My colleague who acquired religion would get the ones proving the existence of God.
What was Buzz Bissinger thinking? defector.com/john-fetterm...
John Fetterman's Memoir Is As Low-Effort As His Senate Tenure | Defector
John Fetterman’s just-released memoir, Unfettered, argues that he’s turned a corner and has everything under control. Fetterman was a “stubborn asshole” (his words), he was clinically depressed, he wa...
defector.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
What was Buzz Bissinger thinking? defector.com/john-fetterm...
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It seems to have gotten lost in the MeToo backlash but sexual harassment is in fact illegal
November 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
It seems to have gotten lost in the MeToo backlash but sexual harassment is in fact illegal
Ngl am a little surprised they’re going all in on “16 is fine”
November 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Ngl am a little surprised they’re going all in on “16 is fine”