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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of our forthcoming The Rockford Anthology, we have city anthologies on sale for the rest of October! www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · 2d

Our conversation with @sonyahuber.bsky.social about Love and Industry is live on the site. A short read, but one that's bursting with heart and thoughtfulness. beltpublishing.com/pages/conver...

Conversation with Sonya Huber

Belt talks to Sonya Huber, author of Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook You chose to write about a gritty industrial place with a great deal of lyricism. Tell me about that. Growing up in the Ru...

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh, ooh we have a verrrrrry good author interview coming your way later this week.

Hint: her book was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay...

Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · 6d

Have you pre-ordered The Great Black Swamp yet? It's funny, we swear!
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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · 7d

Are you signed up for our newsletter? It'll keep your inbox awash with good news. beltpublishing.com/pages/newsle...

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Keep up with the latest updates, sales, and events (plus the occasional meme) from Belt Publishing by signing up for our newsletter. It’s only once a week—no cluttering up your inbox. We never share y...

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · 10d

Lammys Day is coming up this weekend, and Belt's Darius Stewart is being interviewed at 11 ET. Get those tickets!
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Lammys Day and the 37th Annual Lambda Literary Awards

Join us for a day of panels, readings, and interviews featuring this year's finalists, all leading up to the 2025 Lammys virtual ceremony.

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donnasinkarch.bsky.social @donnasinkarch.bsky.social · 18d

I’m really enjoying Sonya Huber‘s Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook, from Belt Publishing, which I bought at Lit Fest a couple weeks ago. This is an excellent architectural description. @beltpublishing.bsky.social

A photograph of a book page with the highlighted text “Across the gravel lot, Pizza Hut seemed to glower like a criminal outpost or maybe a strip club. Its windows were small, triangular cut outs, and the roof looked like it was a hat pulled on too tight, so it seemed to me as a kid that something vaguely shady must have been happening inside.

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · 22d

NEW interview on Columbus in 50 Maps, coming in October. Read the full conversation at our site. beltpublishing.com/pages/conver...

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · 24d

"A charming, idiosyncratic love letter to his native Ohio."
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The Great Black Swamp: Toxic Algae, Toxic Relationships, and the Most Interesting Place Nobody’s Ever Heard of by Patrick Wensink

Novelist Wensink (Broken Piano for President) presents a charming, idiosyncratic love letter to his native Ohio. He hails from t...

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · 27d

This is a good one. beltpublishing.com/pages/conver...

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · 28d

Pre-order the book at a discount until December. beltpublishing.com/products/cin...

Cincinnati in 50 Maps

Edited by Nick Swartsell with cartography by Andy Woodruff Publication date: December 2, 2025 There are as many versions of Greater Cincinnati as there are residents of the region. That’s roughly tw...

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · 28d

New author interview live! This one's with Nick Swartsell and Andy Woodruff, the editor and cartographer of Belt's forthcoming Cincinnati in 50 Maps. @awoodruff.bsky.social beltpublishing.com/pages/conver...

Conversation with Andy Woodruff and Nick Swartsell

Belt talks to Andy Woodruff, cartographer, and Nick Swartsell, editor of Cincinnati in 50 Maps Nick, you edited this book, and Andy, you created the maps. Tell me about the process of collaborating ...

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · 28d

"Jack's sports reporting was always fair, honest, and straightforward. He tells his own story in the same exact way." —Cris Collinsworth, NBC Sunday Night Football

FOOTBALL SISSY is available now. www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/978...

Football Sissy

"Jack's sports reporting was always fair, honest, and straightforward. He tells his own story in the same exact way." —Cris Collinsworth, NBC Sunday Night Football In Jack Brennan’s decades-long caree...

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · 28d

Wonderful Amelia Bloomer review!

Sara Catterall @scatterall.bsky.social · 29d

Wow! Thank you so much @hottycouture.bsky.social . Couldn't ask for a better review, and from someone with your expertise! @beltpublishing.bsky.social

Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 29d

"The 'feminist killjoy' stereotype is as timely—and misleading—now as it was then."

A review of Sara Catterall's new biography of Amelia Bloomer by @hottycouture.bsky.social

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Jack Brennan on his secret life as a cross-dresser working in the world of sports

Jack Brennan worked for decades in Cincinnati as a sports reporter and then as a public relations director for the Bengals. But he had a secret.

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · Sep 9

It's FOOTBALL SISSY publication day!!! Congratulations to Jack Brennan and welcome to this wonderful memoir. www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/978...

Football Sissy

"Jack's sports reporting was always fair, honest, and straightforward. He tells his own story in the same exact way." —Cris Collinsworth, NBC Sunday Night Football In Jack Brennan’s decades-long caree...

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · Sep 8

Football Sissy launches tomorrow! Come out, Cincinnati 👠

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · Sep 8

Pre-order the book today! beltpublishing.com/products/col...

Columbus in 50 Maps

Edited by Brent Warren with cartography by Vicky Johnson-DahlDecember 2, 2025 This full-color book of maps, one of Belt Publishing's 50 Maps Series, presents the capital and biggest city in Ohio like ...

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · Sep 8

NEW author and cartographer interview on Belt's site! Vicky and Brent talk mapping Columbus ahead of the winter publication of Columbus in 50 Maps.
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Conversation with Vicky Johnson-Dahl and Brent Warren

Belt talks to Vicky Johnson-Dahl, cartographer, and Brent Warren, editor of Columbus in 50 Maps Brent, you edited this book, and Vicky, you created the maps. Making a book like this requires a collabo...

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Dave Coulter @osage2024.bsky.social · Sep 6

Pretty good haul today at the
@beltpublishing.bsky.social tent 😎👍📚

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · Sep 5

Only four authors have ever won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice. One of them is Booth Tarkington, whose second award was for Alice Adams. Pre-order our forthcoming reissue of this astounding novel to get it on your doorstep in late September! beltpublishing.com/products/ali...

Alice Adams

By Booth TarkingtonWith an introduction by Allison Lynn September 22, 2025 Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize–winning 1921 novel about a young woman's close encounter with achieving her social-striving...

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · Sep 4

Football Sissy comes out next week! Read an excerpt online now --> www.queerty.com/he-had-a-wif...

He had a wife, three kids, an NFL career, & a closeted secret... that he's finally ready to share - Queerty

The following is an excerpt from "Football Sissy" by Jack Brennan, available now from Belt Publishing.

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · Sep 4

"[Football Sissy] is unique both because of Brennan’s time spent in the super-masculine, conformist world of football... and because of his particular LGBTQ+ identity." www.cincinnatimagazine.com/article/jack...

Jack Brennan Reflects on Expressing Queerness in the NFL in New Book - Cincinnati Magazine

The former Bengals exec came out as a cross-dresser in 2021, but his new memoir tells the rest of the story.

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · Sep 4

Listen to Jack Brennan on NPR! Football Sissy is out September 9.
www.wvxu.org/show/cincinn...

Jack Brennan on his secret life as a cross-dresser working in the world of sports

Jack Brennan worked for decades in Cincinnati as a sports reporter and then as a public relations director for the Bengals. But he had a secret.

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Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · Sep 4

Cincinnati in 50 Maps, by Nick Swartsell and me, is off to the printer, so you can get your pre-orders in now for the December launch! beltpublishing.com/products/cin...

Get this, folks: I counted and there are 125 individual maps. That's 75 extra maps for free!

Cincinnati in 50 Maps

Edited by Nick Swartsell with cartography by Andy Woodruff Publication date: December 2, 2025 There are as many versions of Greater Cincinnati as there are residents of the region. That’s roughly tw...

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