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Linda Braus
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Senior Editor for Literature at Palgrave Macmillan, aka professional book nerd.
Otherwise: Midwesterner in NYC & proud owner of a dog named after a (very good) beer.
Opinions mine.
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The longer the coat the closer to god (workshopping this)
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Ok so uh how does one cite a Peloton ride?
November 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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It may not be Halloween anymore, but it's always Poe season if you ask me. I'm so proud to have POE SPACES, a fascinating collection of interdisciplinary work in spatial studies on Edgar Allan Poe on my books program, available now: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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November 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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How inclusive is academic book publishing? Our latest report explores gender representation among authors and editors, and highlights opportunities to foster global inclusion in publishing.

🔗 Explore the findings: spklr.io/63328BzSba
Springer Nature promotion for report on inclusive book publishing at Springer Nature, highlighting new gender representation findings among authors/editors. Includes a "Read our latest report" button with abstract geometric design.
November 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Daily Peanuts!
November 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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"The author of the project may be counting on [your peer review] for tenure or promotion and cannot move forward without your input."

THIS. Academia is already such an ecosystem of precarity, so for the sake of your fellow academics, please deliver peer reviews on time!
aupresses.bsky.social Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · Oct 29
What makes a good peer review? https://bit.ly/3XCiyZc

University press publishers answer frequently asked questions like this one on our #AskUP site.

Curious about how university press publishing works? #AskUP!
Ask UP logo, tagline: Authors seeking knowledge from university presses
October 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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“Dogs don’t actually like being hugged and cuddled”
maybe not all dogs but I have a bichon, trust me she will turn to dust if she does not get a hug
Photo of a white fluffy dog getting a hug
October 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Excited to see this cover image for the forthcoming volume Inflationary Modernities on the @springer.springernature.com website. It’s due out January 2026 and features a chapter @videotroph.bsky.social and I have co-authored on #TheGreatGatsby 🎉
Cover image for Inflationary Modernities Literature, Culture and Economy, edited by Wayne Stables and Kieran Brown, in the Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics series. The images features an image of a large balloon with a crowd of people in the foreground.
October 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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It’s a beautiful day to vote early in NYC!
October 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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"(...) narrative medicine can be applied beyond training medical practitioners to listen to their patients: it can also teach us how to advocate for ourselves and our loved ones in medical settings."
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Women's Health in Britain and America: Q&A with Dr April Patrick
Dr April Patrick, Associate Professor Department of English, Rowan University, discusses her work at the intersection of literature of women's health. This blog contributes to the SDG 3 Newsletter.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Thrilled to read this review of THE GERMAN HEROIC TRADITION IN VIDEO GAMES: PLAYING MASS MEDIEVALISM, which reinforces my belief that monographs can be fun. 😀
October 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Celebrating the forthcoming publication and Palgrave’s 25th anniversary! 👩‍🔬Miriamne Ara Krummel’s chapter reveals how Jewish women appeared in legal and civic records, offering a rare glimpse into their roles and identities. 🗃 Free to read this October: bit.ly/4oi19BM. #BookSky
Palgrave Macmillan's 25th anniversary! Free to read in October includes "Arabic Women's Medicine," "Jewish Women in Medieval English Records," "Kempe, Margery," and "Korean Kisaeng Sijo." The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages is featured.
October 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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thoughts on the mayoral debate last night:
-my vote is unchanged, surprise
-man, Curtis Sliwa is pretty funny though, not gonna lie
-Mamdani and Cuomo sharing the debate stage still evoking the first televised presidential debate between JFK and Nixon
October 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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#JustPublished in 'Studies in Childhood and Youth' - The Public Child: Media Power, Strategic Silencing, and Children's Rights in Australia, ed. by @camillanelson.bsky.social et al. Read, download or purchase the hardcopy or e-book here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #Sociology #Palgrave
Book cover titled The Public Child: Media Power, Strategic Silencing, and Children’s Rights in Australia, edited by Camilla Nelson, Denise Buiten, and Jodi Death. The cover is light blue with colored accents and includes the Studies in Childhood and Youth book series title as well as the Palgrave Macmillan logo.
October 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Always a pleasure to see a Palgrave book at the top of someone's TBR pile. 📚 Happy reading, @thevideogamelibrary.org!

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thevideogamelibrary.org The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · Oct 12
Digging into the bedside reading pile on another snowy morning ❄️ ☕️ 📚

“The Germanic Heroic Tradition in Video Games” is next

What are you reading❓

@midagesmodgames.bsky.social @lindabraus.bsky.social #GamingThePast #GTP #GameStudies
A stack of 4 books on a bedside table in front of a window where you can see snow outside.
October 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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The first textbook on dark comedy in ecological literature is now published, and I'm quite proud to have it on my books program:
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Exploring Dark Comedy in Ecological Literature
This textbook explores dark comedy in ecological literature to increase environmental consciousness and critique capitalist-induced ecological crises.
link.springer.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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what if we all stopped apologizing for how long it takes us to reply to emails and just recognized that everyone is doing the best they can
September 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Very please to announce the publication of "The Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Studies in Religion," edited by Melissa M. Wilcox

Check it out here:
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#PhilSky
September 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I have returned from a vacation where my phone mostly served as a camera/GPS as opposed to a communication device and I’m pleased to report that while semi-offline I saw many Cool Old Things, including—for the lit nerds (me)— the museum in the apartment where John Keats died.
book cases including Keats’ archive Painting of John Keats’ bedroom and plaque establishing the room as where he passed The antique bed modeled after the one Keats had in his room and passed away on Another angle of the museum and wooden bookcases
September 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Have you had to Google a niche grammatical question lately, or are you even an editor?
September 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Just published: THE GERMANIC HEROIC TRADITION IN VIDEO GAMES is the first book to explore such adaptions of its textual sources in medieval video games. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Cover for THE GERMANIC HEROIC TRADITION IN VIDEO GAMES features a video game controller with a blurred tv image in the background
September 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Age verification: my first MP3 player was a Zune, it was the one that was 30gb and shaped like a brick
robinjames.bsky.social Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · Sep 10
Age verification: I bought myself a pair of Doc Martens before most people knew who Nirvana were (at one of two stores in town that carried them)
cyborgapologist.bsky.social Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · Sep 10
Age verification: I was in high school the first time the internet screamed at me through the phone line.
September 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Astoria the Wild Turkey explores her favorite gardens in The Battery. Foraging opportunities abound now with insects, seeds, and other plant parts. 🦃 ❤️
September 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Anyway, is this a turkey hanging out next to the sea creature carousel in Battery Park, or did my eyes deceive me yesterday??
September 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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constantly feeling disconnected from the earth except for last weekend when I weeded and harvested produce at the community garden and made my garden bounty into Garden Pasta™️ this week, which fixed it for a moment
August 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM