Samara Rafert
@rafertess.bsky.social
University press publicist (Mad Creek Books), pottery class enthusiast. Columbus, Ohio.
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Samara Rafert
@rafertess.bsky.social
· Jun 13
The Ohio State University Press: Fall 2025 Catalog
The Fall 2025 catalog of the Ohio State University Press, with new titles in creative nonfiction, critical adoption studies, cultural studies, rhetoric and communication, and more.
bit.ly
Feels weird to announce in the midst of … everything, but Ohio State Press's fall catalog is up—two great story collections, feminist essays about class and labor by a woman truck driver, and suuuper timely scholarly stuff. I have ARCs! Highlights in🧵 bit.ly/s_F25 #essays #fiction #booksky #ReadUP
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The kids aren't alright. Marina Fedosik considers Damien (THE OMEN), Esther (ORPHAN), Dren (SPLICE), and that grown-ass test tube baby from EMBRYO in her new book about adopted and created children of cinema. "Kinflix" is new from @ohiostatepress.bsky.social.
ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
November 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The kids aren't alright. Marina Fedosik considers Damien (THE OMEN), Esther (ORPHAN), Dren (SPLICE), and that grown-ass test tube baby from EMBRYO in her new book about adopted and created children of cinema. "Kinflix" is new from @ohiostatepress.bsky.social.
ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
Enjoying the frat boy conversation one table over about the pros and cons of dating lesbians: "I don't know, dude, I feel like she might cheat on me"
October 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Enjoying the frat boy conversation one table over about the pros and cons of dating lesbians: "I don't know, dude, I feel like she might cheat on me"
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sounds like someone justifying spanking their kids
Johnson: "Russ does this reluctantly. He takes no pleasure in this. Russ has to sit down and decide which policies, personnel, & programs are essential & which are not. That's not a fun task and he's not enjoying that responsibility...if they keep the govt closed, it's gonna get more & more painful"
October 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
sounds like someone justifying spanking their kids
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October is #BatAppreciationMonth! Here they are being fully appreciated in plate 67 from Ernst Haeckel’s dazzling Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature), published in 1904. More about the image, including details of the line-up, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/e...
October 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
October is #BatAppreciationMonth! Here they are being fully appreciated in plate 67 from Ernst Haeckel’s dazzling Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature), published in 1904. More about the image, including details of the line-up, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/e...
"Why would you want to own a cool Victorian house but make it look like a McMansion inside? What's even the point?" —My aesthetically particular 14-year-old, who just discovered Zillow. I have not yet introduced her to @katewagner.wehwalt.net yet but it's in the pipeline.
September 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"Why would you want to own a cool Victorian house but make it look like a McMansion inside? What's even the point?" —My aesthetically particular 14-year-old, who just discovered Zillow. I have not yet introduced her to @katewagner.wehwalt.net yet but it's in the pipeline.
The two I mess up routinely are people ("poeple") and cigarettes ("cigarrette")
Even after doing my PhD in it, teaching it for 15 years, and publishing three books with it in their titles, I still often misspell “Renaissance”
Spelling is really hard! You can be a great writer and still suck at it! That’s normal!
Spelling is really hard! You can be a great writer and still suck at it! That’s normal!
I'm a professional writer and cannot type 'lightning' correctly. Even just then it took three goes. Unfortunate that my new book Household Lore (available to pre-order, don't you know) is all about tips on how to protect your home from lightning strikes...
September 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The two I mess up routinely are people ("poeple") and cigarettes ("cigarrette")
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so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
Once you start noticing "unflinching" in reviews and blurbs, it's everywhere. (I started seeing it about three years ago, when an author pointed out that it appeared in two blurbs (if you count "doesn't flinch") and the description for her book.)
When You Listen to This Song (trans. Lauren Elkin) received a starred review from Kirkus:
"Unflinching in her observations...and in her questions... a poignant historiography of Anne Frank’s writing.”
"Unflinching in her observations...and in her questions... a poignant historiography of Anne Frank’s writing.”
WHEN YOU LISTEN TO THIS SONG | Kirkus Reviews
A writer reflects on Anne Frank’s diary, attentive to its ongoing significance for the world.
www.kirkusreviews.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Once you start noticing "unflinching" in reviews and blurbs, it's everywhere. (I started seeing it about three years ago, when an author pointed out that it appeared in two blurbs (if you count "doesn't flinch") and the description for her book.)
These remind me of my sister's work: www.kyla-zoe.com/collections/...
September 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
These remind me of my sister's work: www.kyla-zoe.com/collections/...
I just now realized the Sundance film festival was named after the Sundance Kid
‘Hey Butch, it’s just me, Sundance’: Irish biographer on Robert Redford’s Dublin days
‘Hey Butch, it’s just me, Sundance’: Irish biographer on Robert Redford’s Dublin days
Michael Feeney Callan’s biography took 14 years to finish and involved the Hollywood star’s times in Ireland
www.irishtimes.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I just now realized the Sundance film festival was named after the Sundance Kid
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Very cool piece from Jed Kudrick and @sdileonardi.bsky.social on the history of translation in the US literary scene!
New at PB: Jed Kudrick & @sdileonardi.bsky.social use data from the NYT bestseller list to map 3 popular waves of literature in translation in the US: the postwar popularity of European titles, the "Latin American boom," & the more recent explosion of Nordic noir.
How Translations Sell: Three U.S. Eras of International Bestsellers
A translation renaissance in US publishing just ended. And you probably missed it.
www.publicbooks.org
September 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Very cool piece from Jed Kudrick and @sdileonardi.bsky.social on the history of translation in the US literary scene!
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Details on the CXC fest. It's a great show. Held at the Billy at Ohio State Thurs & Fri, then at the main library in downtown Columbus on Sat & Sun. It's free!
Guests this year: Charles Burns, Ann Telnaes, Carol Tyler, Mimi Pond, Dan Nadel, many more.
cartooncrossroadscolumbus.org?fbclid=IwY2x...
Guests this year: Charles Burns, Ann Telnaes, Carol Tyler, Mimi Pond, Dan Nadel, many more.
cartooncrossroadscolumbus.org?fbclid=IwY2x...
Home - Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC)
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) A free comics art & animation festival based in Columbus, Ohio CXC 2025 Programming posted! (And more to come..) CXC 2025 September 18th – 21st
cartooncrossroadscolumbus.org
September 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Details on the CXC fest. It's a great show. Held at the Billy at Ohio State Thurs & Fri, then at the main library in downtown Columbus on Sat & Sun. It's free!
Guests this year: Charles Burns, Ann Telnaes, Carol Tyler, Mimi Pond, Dan Nadel, many more.
cartooncrossroadscolumbus.org?fbclid=IwY2x...
Guests this year: Charles Burns, Ann Telnaes, Carol Tyler, Mimi Pond, Dan Nadel, many more.
cartooncrossroadscolumbus.org?fbclid=IwY2x...
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Amused at all the tributes that are basically like here lies Robert Redford, who was hot
September 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Amused at all the tributes that are basically like here lies Robert Redford, who was hot
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enormous thanks to @debutiful.bsky.social for having me as a part of their "self-interview" series today!
i got to ask myself (& answer) a handful of questions about MY PRISONER AND OTHER STORIES, & hopefully got a little bit further away from the beaten path in terms of talking about the book.
i got to ask myself (& answer) a handful of questions about MY PRISONER AND OTHER STORIES, & hopefully got a little bit further away from the beaten path in terms of talking about the book.
Tyler McAndrew interviews Tyler McAndrew in our latest self-interview!
debutiful.net/2025/09/09/t... @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
debutiful.net/2025/09/09/t... @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
enormous thanks to @debutiful.bsky.social for having me as a part of their "self-interview" series today!
i got to ask myself (& answer) a handful of questions about MY PRISONER AND OTHER STORIES, & hopefully got a little bit further away from the beaten path in terms of talking about the book.
i got to ask myself (& answer) a handful of questions about MY PRISONER AND OTHER STORIES, & hopefully got a little bit further away from the beaten path in terms of talking about the book.
Having recently used up all my "LA tourist time" on the tar pits when I was there for AWP, I love the haunting last lines in this flash piece by my friend Jane
gooseberry-pie.com/la-brea-tar-...
gooseberry-pie.com/la-brea-tar-...
La Brea Tar Pits - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Imleedh Ali on Unsplash by Jane Yager I’m the one who wanted to come here, but now I sit in the car while everyone else goes into the museum, because as we pulled into the parking lot, Dad le...
gooseberry-pie.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Having recently used up all my "LA tourist time" on the tar pits when I was there for AWP, I love the haunting last lines in this flash piece by my friend Jane
gooseberry-pie.com/la-brea-tar-...
gooseberry-pie.com/la-brea-tar-...
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Whether it’s Republican politicians joking about the murder of Melissa Hortman or Democratic politicians expressing their condolences after the murder of Charlie Kirk, both parties have a extreme rhetoric problem.
September 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Whether it’s Republican politicians joking about the murder of Melissa Hortman or Democratic politicians expressing their condolences after the murder of Charlie Kirk, both parties have a extreme rhetoric problem.
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“Uh-oh, overflow, population ‘common food, but it’ll do’, save yourself, serve yourself, world serves its own needs—listen to your heart bleed, dummy with the raptured and the revered and the right, right”
And let it be said I’m of the lets eat grandma school of punctuation, so
And let it be said I’m of the lets eat grandma school of punctuation, so
September 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“Uh-oh, overflow, population ‘common food, but it’ll do’, save yourself, serve yourself, world serves its own needs—listen to your heart bleed, dummy with the raptured and the revered and the right, right”
And let it be said I’m of the lets eat grandma school of punctuation, so
And let it be said I’m of the lets eat grandma school of punctuation, so
I've loved working with Lesley Bannatyne on her utterly absorbing and fun and sensitive novel-in-stories, excerpted here—nothing beats the pleasure of seeing the way these different narrative ping back and forth to each other. Available wherever books etc.
A new mom discovers unsuspected strengths when she returns to the town where her foremothers lived.
The Strange Lady Will Not Hand Back Her Baby - Electric Literature
“The Final Girl” from LAKE SONG by Lesley Pratt Bannatyne, recommended by Daphne Kalotay
buff.ly
September 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I've loved working with Lesley Bannatyne on her utterly absorbing and fun and sensitive novel-in-stories, excerpted here—nothing beats the pleasure of seeing the way these different narrative ping back and forth to each other. Available wherever books etc.
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Any other lyrics— don’t even try chronic town murmur or reckoning btw— just form vowels and syllables, and mean it
September 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Any other lyrics— don’t even try chronic town murmur or reckoning btw— just form vowels and syllables, and mean it
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The true purpose of Bluesky has been revealed and it's Michael Stipe telling us the lyrics to It's The End Of The World As We Know It
Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.
September 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The true purpose of Bluesky has been revealed and it's Michael Stipe telling us the lyrics to It's The End Of The World As We Know It
I just got bitten by a North American short-tailed shrew, which are the continent's only venemous mammal
September 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I just got bitten by a North American short-tailed shrew, which are the continent's only venemous mammal
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Four decades after dozens of culturally significant objects were stolen from the Santa Ana Pueblo in New Mexico, a team of Tribal investigators has pledged to bring the missing items back home.
Decades After “Heartbreaking” Thefts, Santa Ana Pueblo Recovers Stolen Artifacts
The repatriation effort is significant not just for the amount of time that has elapsed, but also because it is completely organized and funded by the Pueblo itself.
hyperallergic.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Four decades after dozens of culturally significant objects were stolen from the Santa Ana Pueblo in New Mexico, a team of Tribal investigators has pledged to bring the missing items back home.
LAKE SONG (Sept. 1), selected by @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social for the AWP Grace Paley prize, is so so good. Get a taste at @electricliterature.com! electricliterature.com/the-final-gi... @kristener.bsky.social @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
The Strange Lady Will Not Hand Back Her Baby - Electric Literature
“The Final Girl” from LAKE SONG by Lesley Pratt Bannatyne, recommended by Daphne Kalotay
electricliterature.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
LAKE SONG (Sept. 1), selected by @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social for the AWP Grace Paley prize, is so so good. Get a taste at @electricliterature.com! electricliterature.com/the-final-gi... @kristener.bsky.social @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
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EXCITING NEWS: The Translator’s Daughter is nominated for the 2024 Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction! I’m so honored and humbled to be a finalist for this award. Winners will be announced at the ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 6 at the San Francisco Public Library. 🥹🙏🏽
August 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
EXCITING NEWS: The Translator’s Daughter is nominated for the 2024 Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction! I’m so honored and humbled to be a finalist for this award. Winners will be announced at the ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 6 at the San Francisco Public Library. 🥹🙏🏽
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northeast vacation locale class war drama is one of my favorite kinds of drama
The Influencer Driving Nantucket Crazy This Summer
Kylie Swanson arrived on the island and launched a $3,600, four-day camp for her followers. She promptly became the subject of gossip and scorn.
www.wsj.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
northeast vacation locale class war drama is one of my favorite kinds of drama