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#Gettysburg wasn't just fought on the battlefield. "From Blood to Ink" shows how the press transformed the Civil War's most famous battle into a lasting legend. 📰 New release from @ugapress.bsky.social! bit.ly/4sidPf9

A fresh perspective on urban modernity in India: in "Housing Modern India" Abigail McGowan uncovers how the ideal home became a powerful force in shaping Bombay's growth, and the social, political and cultural future of the nation. #SouthAsia #UrbanHistory @upittpress.bsky.social buff.ly/JEImwci

Andrew David Jackson's SPRING IN MY HOMETOWN, the inaugural volume of the Cinemas of Asia series, is now available! This volume offers a fresh perspective on South Korean director Lee Kwang-mo's 1998 film. Start reading: buff.ly/GMSH28U

We were thrilled to see Anne Carson win the #Nobel Prize in Literature earlier this month. Helena Van Praet and Christine Wiesenthal's excellent new edited collection "Anne Carson and the Unknown" explores the creative and intellectual power of uncertainty... @uofmpress.bsky.social buff.ly/ppZtr9q

From the 1967 #Detroit Rebellion to citywide organizing, "Black Power Praxis" reveals how ideas, leadership, and community action reshaped Black political consciousness in Detroit>>> Out today! bit.ly/47F0R1d @uofmpress.bsky.social

🎞️ Discover the story behind Lee Kwang-mo’s acclaimed "Spring in My Hometown"(아름다운 시절) and its place in a South Korean film industry on the cusp of change. The first volume in the Cinemas of Asia series: bit.ly/4z1cU4I #FilmStudies #KCinema @leverpress.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social

🗣️ Out today! Discover "Youth Activism in Asia" A timely look at the energy and creativity of Asia’s youth movements, this collection examines the activists challenging authoritarianism and advancing new visions of democracy, equality, and freedom. ✊️ bit.ly/4rN5CiM @uofmpress.bsky.social

Check out this essay in The American Scholar by David Chanoff, author of Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist! https://loom.ly/Px-0U18

💊 Food, poison, sacred object, remedy: "Global Lives of Medicines" traces the rich and changing lives of medicinal substances across Asia, showing how their meanings were constantly reinvented. @uwapress.uw.edu bit.ly/4z39i2h

What happened when the dead remained unburied in #Qing China? "The Unburied" by Joohee Suh, out today, reveals how families, officials, and communities adapted to bodies suspended between death and burial, reshaping ritual and social life. @uwapress.uw.edu Discover now: bit.ly/4yiL5F2

🤔 How did ideas of the “mind” help sustain modern capitalism? "Inner Worlds" traces how concepts of consciousness, spirit, and collective psychology were used to explain social crises in modern Japan, obscuring the inequalities of the system itself. @uofmpress.bsky.social bit.ly/4hMhwG4

Good morning, Frankfurt! 👋 Stop by the IPG stand #J7 in Hall 4.2 to chat with Ellen Appleton and Anna Champion about Liverpool Rights Services and the presses they represent. @rutgersupress.bsky.social @uofmpress.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social @independentpublishersguild.com

What happens when people are traded for coal? Daniele Valisena's compelling history uncovers the stories of Italian migrants, Belgian mining communities, and the environmental legacy they left behind. @upittpress.bsky.social bit.ly/47mXKLa #EnvironmentalHistory

☣️ New this month: "Toxic Fear" reveals how toxic pollution and environmental anxiety became defining features of 1980s America, exposing the human consequences of deregulation and the rise of neoliberalism. @ugapress.bsky.social More from the 'Since 1970' series here >> bit.ly/4dzZKTY

🚨 Out today! We're pleased to present the untold story of Clyde Stubblefield, James Brown’s “Funky Drummer,” whose beats became the foundation of hip-hop and made him the most sampled drummer in history. 🥁 @ugapress.bsky.social Find more in the 'Music of the American South' series: bit.ly/4AEpB7l

🏺An important moment for the legacy of David Drake: two ceramics created by the enslaved artist have been returned to his descendants. His remarkable story, creativity, and resilience are explored in "Praise Songs for Dave the Potter": bit.ly/4xUSM3h @ugapress.bsky.social bit.ly/4xXSb0S

Rounding off both the month and our Pitt #Poetry series spotlight: "Capricorn in Flux"🐐 Elton Glaser's 11th collection: still precise, witty, crackling with verve, but now shadowed by late age. Amid loss, he finds resilience in art, love, the seasons. 🖋️ @upittpress.bsky.social bit.ly/4gj6035

We are pleased to announce Kasey Peters as the winner of the 2026 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction!🎊 Their collection Stop If You Want To was selected by series editor Lori Ostlund and will be published in the fall 2027. Read the announcement on our blog: https://loom.ly/QRrttuI #fiction

🎷 In "Jackson Street After Hours", dive into the jazz-soaked world of Seattle’s Jackson Street, where legends like Ray Charles and Quincy Jones got their start amid all-night clubs, jam sessions, and a thriving Black music scene. Out next week! bit.ly/4hdtqbP #Jazz #MusicStudies @uwapress.uw.edu

⏬️ How did Russian Symbolists reinvent #Tolstoy and #Dostoevsky for the modern age? This new reader brings landmark essays into English, revealing debates that reshaped literary criticism across the twentieth century. @michiganpublishing.bsky.social bit.ly/4A1W475

This week in our Pitt #Poetry series spotlight: "Desire Path" Elegy, ode & fable woven together: thieves, widows, dreamers, gravediggers, inheritors. Music from Bi Kidude & Kanda Bongo Man threads through poems of eros, memory & endurance. ✨ Out next month: bit.ly/4id36zl @upittpress.bsky.social

From Yunnan’s mines to Southeast Asia and beyond, tin linked migrants, merchants, and Qing officials in a world of expanding trade. "The Tin Centuries" uncovers the metal that helped transform empire, governance, and global commerce. @uwapress.uw.edu bit.ly/4dmxowf

"Travels with Mina Loy" follows Loy across continents, artistic movements, and creative worlds, from #Futurism and #Dada to the streets of New York and museums of Paris. With newly discovered and overlooked works. bit.ly/4ywpAk0 @leverpress.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social #MinaLoy

Next in our Pitt #Poetry series spotlight: "Rupture Anthem" Hera Naguib traces a speaker's journey across severance and belonging: her father's migration to #Jeddah's oil boom, girlhood under #Saudi law, a thwarted #Lahore homecoming, and diasporic America. bit.ly/4i7NtJo @upittpress.bsky.social

🔍️ Why did Brittany Perham's estranged father name her executor of his estate weeks before he died? "Executrix" braids foreclosure notices and tax audits with fragmented memory, asking what it means to write a true story and settle an unsettled family. #Memoir bit.ly/4cMt09V @ugapress.bsky.social

"Modernity in Motion" by David J. Carlson is a bold study of #Anishinaabe writer Gerald Vizenor, tracing his idea of "transmotion" across White Earth, occupied Paris & post-Hiroshima Japan to rethink Indigenous sovereignty on a global scale. From #MSUP #IndigenousStudies #NativeLit bit.ly/3ThEzz7

New in October: "The Sound of Burning" by Kristi D. Osorio. At 15, her mother murdered her grandmother down the hall. Part memoir, part critique of America's true crime obsession. Osorio asks what these stories cost the real people inside them. bit.ly/4xwyDRI @ugapress.bsky.social

🌍️Beckian Fritz Goldberg's first collection in a decade: "The Blue Eye of Earth." Luminous, meditative poems on the distance between person and cosmos, memory and desire: birdwatching, watching the moon, inhabiting a mortal body on a threatened planet. 🌙 @upittpress.bsky.social bit.ly/4bJ4PbT

#Confucianism said stay home. #Buddhism said go on pilgrimage. In late imperial China, women did both, and reshaped gender in the process. "Boundaries and Bodhisattvas" explores how temples, altars & even the female body became sacred, subversive spaces. bit.ly/4x5guJG @uwapress.uw.edu

Something new from Bridwell Press: "Erasurism" traces erasure as a creative force, from ancient cave marks to biopoetry, uncovering the politics and poetics beneath avant-garde and modernist practices, and challenging what we know about authorship. bit.ly/4zz4By8 @michiganpublishing.bsky.social

📢🥳 Excerpt of #TransformingNight from @uwapress.uw.edu now out in @literaryhub.bsky.social 🎉 🌌💡🌃🛰️ #ArtificialLight #ALAN #LightPollution #Night #Darkness #LightJustice lithub.com/what-the-wor...

New short fiction this week: The Submerged Ten devastating stories of longing and exile, from a Sicilian barber's refugee apprentice to a Wisconsin town fractured by violence. Will Boast asks what we'll do when it's time to leave everything behind... @ugapress.bsky.social bit.ly/4hZ06Xv

This week's Pitt Poetry Series feature: "The Decadent Movement" Time runs backward in this book-length poem sequence that unspools from a year after childbirth, through birth itself, back to the nine months before—ending at "Minus Time," death's mirror-twin. bit.ly/4wVs3nC @upittpress.bsky.social

We're thrilled to present "Those Who Vanish", winner of the 2026 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. King's eight stories set during Guatemala's civil war trace martyrs, exiles, and rebels, asking what remains when all is lost. bit.ly/4ia5tTC @patriciagraceking.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social

Discover how local businesses fight, fuel, or fall to gentrification in Steven Tuttle's "Storefront", an ethnographic study of two #Chicago neighbourhoods, Logan Square and Pilsen. Tuttle explores what streetscape change costs communities' sense of belonging.🏙️ bit.ly/4g44VMe @ugapress.bsky.social

The second title from our Pitt #Poetry series spotlight: "Abider" Melissa Crowe traces a lover-speaker who can't leave anything behind—girlhood, marriage, harm—until a closing sonnet sequence turns toward the self. 🌸 @melissacrowe.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social bit.ly/3U72lhi

Earlier this month, Stephen J. Pyne's "Undying Fire" was referenced in this article from The New Yorker on Europe's wildfire history. Discover Stephen's vital and timely entry into the climate sciences and find more from the same series: bit.ly/4c7gzVH bit.ly/45LAea8 @uwapress.uw.edu

⭐️ "Their System, Our Game" explores how #Pathfinder's open design ethos fuels TTRPG homebrew. Discover interviews, two free campaign downloads, and a celebration of player creativity at the table. 🎲📖 Out now!: bit.ly/4g13dg2 @uofmpress.bsky.social @scottdejong.bsky.social @marclaj.bsky.social

🪡 Over the next few weeks we’ll spotlight new releases from UPP’s Pitt Poetry Series, starting with "retrovirology". Bonani resurrects Queer elders, weaving AIDS history with a rural childhood. bit.ly/3TGTJhp @upittpress.bsky.social @bananascallops.bsky.social

🧳 Our director of Sales & Marketing has recently been up in #Michigan during a trip to the US and spotted some of our client press titles in the wild! She might now know all there is to know about The Great Lakes State... @uofmpress.bsky.social 🚣‍♂️ #MSUP

📖 OUT TODAY: "Black Radical Thought in Japan" Onishi traces how Japanese writers & activists engaged C.L.R. James, Du Bois, Paul Robeson & Black Left feminists via translation as radical practice, forging Afro-Asian solidarity across the Pacific. 🌏✊ buff.ly/k6jGoPz @uwapress.uw.edu

We're excited at this month's publication of "Human* Being". Devon Proctor explores the '#Otherkin'—a community who identify as other-than-human online—questioning what body, Self & humanity even mean. 🦊 🔓️ Open Access! --> bit.ly/3RXghKf @devinproctor.bsky.social @leverpress.bsky.social

📖 Some of the fiercest feminist organising of the 20th century happened... in cookbooks. "Contradictory Cookbooks" traces how American women used community cookbook fundraisers to fund movements & bridge divided lives in the civil rights era.🥘 @ugapress.bsky.social bit.ly/3TGHsJR