Elizabeth Graber
@elizabethgraber.bsky.social
Editor at Rutgers University Press
Proud of @johndownesangus.bsky.social always, but especially for finding the time to write such a thoughtful review of a pretty heady book on top of his day job teaching kids (and night job putting our toddler back to sleep).
Had a lot of fun writing this review of @tomcomitta.bsky.social’s strange, moving, and hilarious book. Gets us to think, as I argue here, about the value of an aesthetic education—something we all should aim for as we teach our kids.
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Unwanted Reading: A Review of Tom Comitta’s ‘People’s Choice Literature’
The Sunday before I taught Beloved last spring, I sat on my couch wondering how I was going to convince a room full of second semester seniors that, before they left high school that June, they sho…
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December 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Proud of @johndownesangus.bsky.social always, but especially for finding the time to write such a thoughtful review of a pretty heady book on top of his day job teaching kids (and night job putting our toddler back to sleep).
Thrilled to be working with @jonathansmucker.bsky.social on this book. He's the rare writer who can balance theoretical concepts, practical lessons, intimate storytelling, and a healthy dose of class rage.
Just announced in @publisherslunch.bsky.social: Rutgers University Press will publish @jonathansmucker.bsky.social's THE MANY VS. THE FEW: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO POPULISM, a vital conceptual roadmap for a path forward in the high-stakes, bottom-vs.-top contest already well underway in America.
December 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Thrilled to be working with @jonathansmucker.bsky.social on this book. He's the rare writer who can balance theoretical concepts, practical lessons, intimate storytelling, and a healthy dose of class rage.