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Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 8h

The 11th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium will be hosted by Duke University's Department of English, February 20-21, 2026! Check out the CFP (post45.org/graduate/202...) and please share with anyone who might be interested.

Abstracts are due November 14.

Abstract submission form QR code for the Post45 graduate symposium at Duke, February 20-21, 2026. The form is also accessible at https://tinyurl.com/2e2dr4wv.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 9h

Fuck yes, a thousand times.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 10h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 10h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 13h

Does anyone still make coursepacks for students?

Super common when I was in college & grad school, but I imagine putting PDFs on the LMS has mostly (entirely?) replaced it. Anyone just printing out everything for them?

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Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social · 1d

Can anyone recommend an academic audiobook that was well done? Looking for a good example of how to handle citations, footnotes, bibliography, etc. in audiobook format. Ideally an academic monograph. Please only recommend if you've read the audiobook and thought it was well done.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 1d

"woman," Ted?

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

it's national taco day! stellar mexicanist ignacio sanchez prado has a new book right on time!

TACO, in the bloomsbury object lessons series.

chicago, go celebrate with a taco and support our neighbors in little village, pilsen, logan, everywhere

www.bloomsbury.com/us/taco-9798...

Taco

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1975375120123478491
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

cornell alums sign and share and fight and then some docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Alumni in Support of Cornell’s Independence, Democracy, and Academic Freedom

Please add your name below if you agree to be a signatory of the following message to be delivered to the Cornell Board of Trustees: Dear Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees, Ongoing attacks on A...

docs.google.com

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 1d

signed!

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Caroline Levine @carolinelevine.bsky.social · 1d

Cornell alums!
Cornell continues to be pressured by the current administration in DC to reach a deal to restore federal research funding.
Please consider signing this petition!
Please also share widely with any Cornell graduates you know!

Alumni in Support of Cornell’s Independence, Democracy, and Academic Freedom

Please add your name below if you agree to be a signatory of the following message to be delivered to the Cornell Board of Trustees: Dear Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees, Ongoing attacks on A...

docs.google.com

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · Aug 11

I wrote about Damion Searls’s new translation of The Third Reich of Dreams for @parapraxismag.bsky.social

I 1st learned about this book in an announcement for a poetry workshop. It’s a strange & surprising testament to the creativity of ordinary people.

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/cli...

Cling to that Strangeness — Parapraxis

On The Third Reich of Dreams Sarah Dowling

www.parapraxismagazine.com

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

Distribution is THE under-reported story in book publishing (outside of the trade publications) and losing B&T is going to have untold ripple effects on the industry, small presses, and authors.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

seems very bad www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down

At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 1d

Wow I can't believe that Baker & Taylor is going under. Fully agree that book distribution is a huge and often overlooked part of publishing and libraries.

We wrote a bit about B&T's history and relationship to public libraries in our recent FAccT paper: dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

Distribution is THE under-reported story in book publishing (outside of the trade publications) and losing B&T is going to have untold ripple effects on the industry, small presses, and authors.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

seems very bad www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 1d

That's an amazing story!

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

this is actually a good idea because controlling the chains of distribution is one small step away from owning the means of production

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 1d

Just attuning him to the fact (that I just learned) that you looked into distro for your diss—because Nick has become, I think it's fair to say, somewhat obsessed with distro and it's eventual relation to form

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 1d

@nicksturm.bsky.social

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Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 1d

I got curious about the distribution side of things bc when I was trying to understand systems of canonization & how poets got to be mainstream vs outsider during my PhD, I was told, it's not just publishing, it's distribution. (This was in Ireland: all the distribution was centralized in London)

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Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 1d

I worked at SPD on the warehouse side for a year when I was getting started in Bay Area publishing, first as a volunteer, then as temp staff, and my reflections on it all now within the larger sphere of trade networks and logistics are probably too big for this microblogging format but I can try.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

Instead of "Smoked Fish Czar," what about "Liege Lord of the Lox"?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: Saul Zabar, who over seven decades made the Upper West Side food emporium Zabar’s a New York institution, is dead at 97. nyti.ms/42qGl2n

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 1d

We're hiring. It's a real needle-in-a-haystack search for an experienced teacher who can help reimagine our flagship (i.e., huge) intro course for a new era. 3/3 load. Convenient to Hollywood and Holbox.

usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at USC

usccareers.usc.edu

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 1d

Super interesting. I guess my thought's that if someone were to fund a small press distributor as a nonprofit, that could allow the scale without having to take too large a cut—because nonprofit. A Mackenzie Bezos, say. You don't think that could be useful?

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