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Casey Brienza @caseybrienza.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Routledge's reissue edition of 'Global Manga' features a cover image with Japan removed. Evidently? Maybe for some editions but not others? I've never actually seen one in real life, though. Does anyone actually own a copy with a cover like the image on the right? Inquiring minds want to know!

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Casey Brienza @caseybrienza.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Watching nature from my window. Literally. Such a privilege to see a Carolina mantis. Look at her! A miniature monster--simply glorious.

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Casey Brienza @caseybrienza.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

One of my all-time favorite book covers. (The photo was taken by author Nick Jans himself!)

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Casey Brienza @caseybrienza.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you will not put your name to your evaluation--positive OR negative--of your fellow academic's work when speaking to journalists, your words are less than worthless.

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Casey Brienza @caseybrienza.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Pioneering comics scholar John A. Lent passed away earlier this year. We never met, but he wrote a generous review of my book 'Manga in America' for CHOICE--gave it the highest recommendation. R.I.P.

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Casey Brienza @caseybrienza.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A decade after its publication, one of my books has become the basis for the Wikipedia entry, "Global manga." I'm staggered by this. Just staggered. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_...

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Casey Brienza @caseybrienza.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams #Bestof2025 Gripping and fantastically written story of what happens when ordinarily venal people are given extraordinary power.

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Casey Brienza @caseybrienza.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong #Bestof2025 A quirky yet exquisitely readable story that makes “the other” emphatically one of us.

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Casey Brienza @caseybrienza.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Inequalities of Platform Publishing by Claire Parnell #Bestof2025 If the findings at times seemed predetermined, well, the story Parnell tells is no less urgent.

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Casey Brienza @caseybrienza.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

What We Can Know by Ian McEwan #Bestof2025 Critics who say it's his best book in years aren't lying. Gorgeous, layered, reminiscent of the best parts of Atonement.

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Casey Brienza @caseybrienza.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

No More Tears by Gardiner Harris #Bestof2025 Cautionary tale of what happens when the state fails to regulate capitalist greed in lifesaving industries. Feels personal to someone living in New Jersey.

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Casey Brienza @caseybrienza.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett #Bestof2025 Second installment of a murder mystery series in a fabulously built fantasy world. Oddly appropriate callbacks to Star Wars.

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Casey Brienza @caseybrienza.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Is this comment on a NYT op-ed for real, or just trolling?! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

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Casey Brienza @caseybrienza.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This book review written by John A. Lent (formerly of Temple University), world-renowned comics scholar, was among the most glowing 'Manga in America' ever received.

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Casey Brienza @caseybrienza.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Recently reviewed for CHOICE: 'The Tale of Genji' through Contemporary Manga by Lynne K. Miyake.

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Casey Brienza @caseybrienza.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

In his new book, Karl Andersson says he met Sharon Kinsella for the first time at a shota-only event in Japan, where she encouraged him to apply for a PhD under her supervision at the University of Manchester. I'd been wondering about that.

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