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We publish in a wide range of scholarly and cultural fields for general readers, scholars, and students. Home of the Pitt Poetry Series.

https://upittpress.org/

NOT the official account of the university.
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University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · Mar 7
To our many new followers: we are a publisher of scholarly books and poetry. We also publish regional studies of Western PA.

We are not, notably, the official Blusky account of the University of Pittsburgh.
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📐 Architecture of the Japanese empire, medieval European coin trials and eighteenth-century Haitian revolutionary buildings; Architectural history books from University of Pittsburgh Press offer a fascinating scope of scholarship.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Give the gift of reading on this Cyber Monday!

Use promo code "29GIFT25" for 25% OFF on our website checkout until December 12, 2025. Available for US orders only. Free domestic shipping included.

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December 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls August Wilson's American Century "a richly detailed portrait of how the playwright’s relationship to his home—as both native son and outsider—shaped the settings and thematic preoccupations of his plays."

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August Wilson’s American Century: Life as Art by Laurence A Glasco
Historian Glasco (coauthor of August Wilson) meticulously chronicles the life of 20th-century playwright August Wilson through t...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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🖌️ Julia Warhola, Andy Warhol’s mother, shaped his art and life. From her Carpatho-Rusyn roots to NYC, her creativity and sacrifices come alive in this first full portrait, "Andy Warhol's Mother".

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November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Catch praise for Lara Egger's "Flop Era" in the Dec 1st issue of The New Yorker!
Egger's collection "render[s] a surreal world that interrogates existential questions about desire and grief," and is available now:
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews
Short reviews of recent releases.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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“All of this talk about 'my time' and 'your time' is so odd, anyway, when you think about it—as if any time is ours," host Maggie Smith shares in episode 1399 of The Slowdown.

Read "Alarm Clock" by Jennifer Maier: bit.ly/481NQ1N

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Text graphic featuring a portion of Jennifer Maier's poem. It reads: each second breaks like a salt wave at your feet and returns to the sea, which is only ever the now—alive and infinite. This is what time tells you: the fact I whisper 60 times per minute but that you will not hear. You and the others, roused to waking only by my screams. Photograph of poet Jennifer Maier. She has shoulder-length light brown hair and wears cat-eye-rimmed glasses.
November 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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🪶 Winner of The Athenaeum of Philadelphia 2024 Literary Award for Nonfiction: "William Bartram's Visual Wonders" uncovers the strange, living drawings at the heart of Bartram’s vision, where art and nature meet.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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August Wilson's America Century at the top of the list!

On sale 2/10/26: upittpress.org/books/978082...
November 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Check out Kristin Brig-Ortiz's review of Carolin Mezes, Sven Opitz & Andrea Wiegeshoff's "Ecologies of Disease Control: Spaces of Health Security in Historical Perspective," published in 2025 by @upittpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
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November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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The Denver Public Library's Fall Book Buzz features No Longer at This Address by @andrewhemmert.bsky.social!

(around the 17min mark, right before Mark Danielewski!)

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November 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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“betraying / their own brothers and stepping in front / of trains that have come loose / from their tracks and instead of brakes / have two sad faced women / waving kerchiefs” — @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social, “Two Lovers” @southernreview.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social
TWO LOVERS. In one story we are two lovers scrambling up the banks of the Rhine a river I’ve never been to that I’ve read stories about in the way working class people read stories of the affluent vacationing and fucking and betraying their own brothers and stepping in front of trains that have come loose from their tracks and instead of brakes have two sad faced women waving kerchiefs from the railing of an old caboose. The thing with rivers is they crook and bend sometimes they are tidal and I have spent a lot of time writing about them. I thought our lives would crook and bend but mostly they are just the day to day which you excel at and I am bad at. A woman wants to meet me in Chicago. A train is waiting for me. I chase it down the tracks use my kerchief to catch the railing of the caboose to hoist myself onto the little balcony. The woman is already there disappointed in me. My son my daughter two sad faces in the caboose’s back windows. Say we are climbing the banks of the Rhine. This poem a spiral, repetition with progress. I hand you a glass of chilled beer make apologies for things I can’t control. Next time, I whisper, I will be a naked beauty a face carved in a rocky cliff the answer to a question you haven’t asked yet. Rebecca Lehmann
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Happy University Press Week! Join us in celebrating how authors, university press publishing professionals & so many others #TeamUP to advance knowledge. Explore this @bookshop.org collection of university press books to find your next thought-provoking read: https://bit.ly/4nhTQcc. #ReadUP
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November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Thrilled to have three of our Fall 25 poetry titles included in this stellar list! Congrats to Sharon Olds, Bobby Elliott, and Samyak Shertok!

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November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Visiting the Portland Book Festival today? Swing by Booth #30 at the book fair to say hi and take a look at these Firecracker Award–winning books and magazines! @upittpress.bsky.social @revelliterary.bsky.social @circumferencemag.bsky.social @fonografeditions.bsky.social
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November 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Read Joan Naviyuk Kane’s DARK TRAFFIC (@upittpress.bsky.social) this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth!

This poetry collection “creates landmarks through language, by which its speakers begin to describe traumas in order to survive and move through them.”
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Dark Traffic - University of Pittsburgh Press
|9780822966623|Poems| Finalist, 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Dark Traffic creates landmarks through language, by which its speakers begin to describe traumas in order to survive and move through…
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November 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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All set up at the Allegheny Sport and Outdoor Summit Expo! Find us in between Steel City Squash and Yinz Run Club. 11-6pm at Rockwell Park, free entry!

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November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Thanks to @foreignaffairs.com for this thoughtful review of The Art of Freedom: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Making of Modern India by Nico Slate!

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The Art of Freedom: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Making of Modern India
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was one of the founders of modern India, and Nico Slate chronicles her remarkable life in this evocative book.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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No Longer at This Address is out today! Buy it from your local bookstore, or directly from @upittpress.bsky.social press. I truly loved writing this book, and I hope you enjoy reading it.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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New book review:
Cornish on Rose, Edwin D.: _Reading the World: British Practice of Natural History, 1760-1820_. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech.
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Rose, Edwin D.. Reading the World: British Practice of Natural History, 1760-1820. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025. xii + 395 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780822948513.$45.00 (paper), ISBN 9780822967705. Reviewed by Nathan Cornish (University of Southampton, Exeter University, Kew Gardens) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (October, 2025) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)
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October 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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A celebration of Ed Ochester’s life and legacy reveals how a poet from Queens transformed Pittsburgh’s literary scene. By @kcollins1974.bsky.social.

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King Cool: Ed Ochester and The Pittsburgh School of Poetry - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Only a handful of Saturdays ago I found myself in the awkward and somewhat surreal position of being at a crowded party and having to squeeze through a
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October 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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The speakers of QUERIDA navigate “memory frayed by the generational trauma of migration, coloniality, and the exploitative labor of late-stage capitalism.”

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Querida - University of Pittsburgh Press
|9780822948377|Poems| Winner, 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize | Finalist, 2025 California Book Awards | Finalist, 2025 Norma Faber First Book Award Querida offers a place-based lyrical…
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October 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Thanks to @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social for this wonderful review of A Place in the World by Bill Gaythwaite!

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The 2025 Drue Heinz Literature Award - Pittsburgh Review of Books
When you read a writer who slowly and precisely loves his characters into being, the love that fuels the story gets transferred to you; this is why reading a
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October 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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It was a pleasure to review this wonderful collection for the latest issue of Technology and Culture. Thanks to all the authors for their contributions and to @finnarne.me @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social for drawing such an interesting group of scholars together!

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October 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM