Brian Halley
@brianbhalley.bsky.social
Executive Editor at University of Massachusetts Press, based at UMass Boston. Views here don’t reflect them. Feminist, progressive, 🏳️🌈, into books, dogs, ocean, print culture, lit studies, environmental studies/climate justice, and more.
NYTimes, in your daily email, why take cheap shots at academics and students? What an odd and outdated binary. Some profs and students can write clearly and with wit, too. Check out some university press books as proof!
January 16, 2026 at 3:26 PM
NYTimes, in your daily email, why take cheap shots at academics and students? What an odd and outdated binary. Some profs and students can write clearly and with wit, too. Check out some university press books as proof!
Said goodbye to this perfect pup exactly one year ago today. Almost 14 years with him. Still miss him everyday if I’m being honest.
December 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Said goodbye to this perfect pup exactly one year ago today. Almost 14 years with him. Still miss him everyday if I’m being honest.
Just finished Such Times, a ‘90s AIDS novel by Christopher Coe, just published anew by @archwayeditions.bsky.social. It’s a sweet, tragic story and worth a read. I continue to be interested in the book history of AIDS and nyc publishing. Who were these editors taking a chance on such stories?
October 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Just finished Such Times, a ‘90s AIDS novel by Christopher Coe, just published anew by @archwayeditions.bsky.social. It’s a sweet, tragic story and worth a read. I continue to be interested in the book history of AIDS and nyc publishing. Who were these editors taking a chance on such stories?
I may be late to this particular title, but I’m so glad I found it anyways, and I urge anyone who hasn’t to read it. Immediately. @aaknopf.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I may be late to this particular title, but I’m so glad I found it anyways, and I urge anyone who hasn’t to read it. Immediately. @aaknopf.bsky.social
Just watched this #BroadCity episode and laughed hysterically at this moment but also is this how we all kinda feel rn? Like we made it as a society let’s gooooo BAM oh god no.
August 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Just watched this #BroadCity episode and laughed hysterically at this moment but also is this how we all kinda feel rn? Like we made it as a society let’s gooooo BAM oh god no.
Whoa. Also, srsly.
April 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Whoa. Also, srsly.
April 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Give me a mayor not afraid to bring their baby right up on stage as they talk mitigating global warming across the city, like real, on-the-ground policy. Good talk, @mayorwu.boston.gov, here at UMass Boston.
March 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Give me a mayor not afraid to bring their baby right up on stage as they talk mitigating global warming across the city, like real, on-the-ground policy. Good talk, @mayorwu.boston.gov, here at UMass Boston.
March 4, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Looking forward to not buying anything from corporations tomorrow (Fri, 2/28) and when going to small businesses, only using cash! Please join the movement! (Image courtesy of @rbreich.bsky.social substack)
February 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Looking forward to not buying anything from corporations tomorrow (Fri, 2/28) and when going to small businesses, only using cash! Please join the movement! (Image courtesy of @rbreich.bsky.social substack)
Great event for UMass Boston Prof Joseph Cooper’s new @rutgersupress.bsky.social book, Black Sporting Resistance. He is now editing a brand new @umasspress.bsky.social series, Sport for Social Change, just getting started. Send inquiries!
February 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Great event for UMass Boston Prof Joseph Cooper’s new @rutgersupress.bsky.social book, Black Sporting Resistance. He is now editing a brand new @umasspress.bsky.social series, Sport for Social Change, just getting started. Send inquiries!
RIP Marianne Faithfull
January 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
RIP Marianne Faithfull
Impossible that it’s now been five weeks plus without this perfect little being 💔
January 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Impossible that it’s now been five weeks plus without this perfect little being 💔
Said goodbye to this beautiful boy / old man earlier in the week and my heart is truly broken. Melville, you little rascal. 2011-2024 💔
December 27, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Said goodbye to this beautiful boy / old man earlier in the week and my heart is truly broken. Melville, you little rascal. 2011-2024 💔
October 26, 2024 at 5:29 PM
I’m ending 2023 strong here at UMass Press… 😊
December 13, 2023 at 5:53 PM
I’m ending 2023 strong here at UMass Press… 😊
See you this Wednesday, Amherst College! I’m looking forward to this convo!
October 16, 2023 at 3:47 PM
See you this Wednesday, Amherst College! I’m looking forward to this convo!
“The Other Black Girl” on Hulu, a show set in a modern day NYC book publishing office, wherein a new black employee mentions location of her previous job at a lit mag and gets this reaction.
September 14, 2023 at 2:58 AM
“The Other Black Girl” on Hulu, a show set in a modern day NYC book publishing office, wherein a new black employee mentions location of her previous job at a lit mag and gets this reaction.