iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So many UNC Press authors at Raleigh Wide Open this Saturday!

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Sonya Bonczek @sonyabonczek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

⭐STARRED REVIEW from @ala-booklist.bsky.social for @rachelshelden.bsky.social's THE POLITICAL SUPREME COURT⭐️ “An essential addition to any political or historical collection.” If you're following today's SCOTUS debates, you need to read this book. www.booklistonline.com/products/982...

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Booklist Online: Leading Book Discovery

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Are you writing a book about food justice and race? Learn more about our Black Food Justice series with series editor Ashanté Reese and @lucaschurch.bsky.social next week at this online lunch and learn👇 utexas.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Scholars, goofy good humor is an entirely appropriate tone when promoting your new book, if that's what works for you.

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

hey everyone! I dropped the ball on posting an announcement for our next book club meeting, but as a reminder for folks signed up—or maybe for folks who have already read it and would like to join?—we're meeting tomorrow, 10/1 at noon ET to discuss MIDDLEMEN, by Laura McGrath. looking forward to it!

my hand holding a copy of MIDDLEMEN: LITERARY AGENTS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN FICTION, by Laura McGrath, in front of some bookshelves

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One last pub day for September! Meet our four newest releases: uncpress.org/hot-off-the-press

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Who's going to Alice Gerrard's book event and performance at Raleigh Wide Open Music Festival this Saturday? 🎤 🎶 raleighwideopen.com/2026-lineup/

Screenshot from Raleigh Wide Open Music Festival lineup page detailing Alice Gerrard events on Saturday October 3rd, with a photo and biography of Alice

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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

just finished Save a Seat for Me, by @markanthonyneal.bsky.social. it’s variously poignant, funny, and disarmingly frank. while it’s very much a book about Black fatherhood and Black family in the US, it contains many insights into the relationships and generational dynamics that define any family.

the first hardcover edition of Save a Seat for Me, sitting on a dark wooden surface. the cover is a bright yellow, with a small line drawing of two chairs facing each other.

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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

so far I’ve read _Jack of Spades_ and _Pursuit_, both of which are well-written but grim to the point of being almost unpleasant to read. and if *I* think a book is too grim…hoo boy, that’s a downer of a book! might have to shift over and read one of her “literary fiction” novels

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Helen Kyriakoudes @hkyria.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did you know Nina Simone and Langston Hughes first met in Asheville? Check out this excerpt from DON'T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD: Nina Simone, Langston Hughes, and the Birth of Black Power by @wjasonmiller.bsky.social (out next week 9/29) in @indyweek.bsky.social 🎶 indyweek.com/news/culture...

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The Day the Priestess and the Poet Met in Asheville

Langston Hughes first met Nina Simone in 1949, when he visited her high school NAACP chapter. Their friendship would go on to make history.

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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

long-term goal: think of a way to dismantle white supremacists' capitalization of "White" as a term describing race/identity. by all other standards of orthographic consistency and interpretive logic, if we cap "Black" as a way of recognizing it as a distinct identity, we also should cap "white."

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Our ASALH booth is ready for you! Stop by to view our titles on display or chat with editors, @dawnd.bsky.social and Andrew Winters 🙌 #ASALH2026 @asalh-bhm.bsky.social

UNC Press ASALH booth featuring an L shaped table with multiple rows of books face out and two chairs in the booth

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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

late to the party, I know, but I just finished Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. safe to say it’s one of the most powerful books I’ve ever read

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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

an Edgar Allan Poe–type story about an editor who slowly goes crazy from resentment over the Copilot key on all contemporary keyboards

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Sonya Bonczek @sonyabonczek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@johngmarks.com "has produced the kind of book that everyone should read before visiting Mount Vernon or Philadelphia." @johnfea1.bsky.social www.christianitytoday.com/2026/09/the-...

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The Founding Father Most Americans Couldn’t Name - Christianity Today

Three biographies of America’s founders.

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Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Congratulations to Kathryn Benjamin Golden! THIS INSURGENT GROUND: Black Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp is out in the world! This is a tremendously well-written and insightful history of Black women’s fugitive world making.

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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

added a second “library card” to my Libby account; doing so almost broke my brain. now I’m looking up titles and trying to figure out whether I’m placing a hold on a title at one or both libraries, and my brain is still almost breaking

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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

that little frisson when you start removing stray hard returns and the manuscript's page count starts to shrink

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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

am I being too fussy in suggesting that authors give the section that outlines their book's chapters a more lively heading than "Book Structure"?

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Sonya Bonczek @sonyabonczek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

ICYMI

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Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A reminder to authors: When posting about your book, please tag your publisher so they can boost you!

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Sonya Bonczek @sonyabonczek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Here’s another example of a great author website 😍 The book is front and center, great blurbs, a clear link to buy/learn more, and then there’s additional content for anyone who wants to keep exploring, including an interactive timeline and an excerpt!

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Thomas G. Andrews

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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

and emails. the kingdom also has emails

a medieval-style illustration of a woman, next to which is text reading, “There is no joy in this kingdom, there is only Microsoft
Teams” in faux handwritten calligraphy

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Look, if authors seem a little punchy it's because everything about this process has been confusing, exploitative, and seemingly designed to demoralize anyone who values the written word. Just a total shitshow, from start to finish.

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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

good news, everyone! I did the dialect questionnaire thingy and it confirmed that I in fact DO sound like someone from New York!

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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

**tweakin' out** (editing catalog copy)

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Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

People may or may not know, but UNC Press is probably the best academic press in terms of Civil War titles. Civil War America is the major series but there's also a newer one called Littlefield History of the Civil War Era. Might do a thread of some of the cooler titles, and why they're neat?

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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

reading a few of Joyce Carol Oates’s recent-ish short thriller novels by way of making up for having not yet read anything of hers

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

NC Reads is voting on their 2027 picks! Vote for EATING ON A MOUNTAIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Zackary Vernon & TIGHT LINES & TALL TALES by Neil Norman 🙌 Survey closes September 10th 2026!

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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I have embedded the image below in a sticky note to make sure I don't forget to look at the note later. #ProductivityHacks

still from the end of the movie There Will Be Blood, showing Daniel Plainfield sitting in the middle of a bowling lane with a dead body to his left.

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Raise your hand if your weeknd plans include reading 🙋

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Academic author tip: if Reader 2 says your monograph needs more images, they are wrong, and you should ignore that suggestion.

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"It is such a strange animal, so different from us, but its consciousness is not entirely foreign to our own." Richard Schweid on how accurate modern book and movie depictions are of the octopus and more in this interview with Foreword Reviews 🐙 www.forewordreviews.com/articles/art...

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Interview with Richard Schweid, Author of LIFE ON THE OCTOPUS FARM

From mussels to halibut, abalone to crawfish, Osetra caviar to glass eels, many hundreds of species of seafood are raised on fresh and salt water farms all over the world—which is fantastic because 94...

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's pub day for BLACK FARM BOYS: The Untold Story of the New Farmers of America by Bobby J. Smith II 🎉 uncpress.org/978146969693...

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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

dealing with a flat tire this morning, so I will channel my frustration into editing the shit out of this piece of cover copy

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

that's it, let's go back to the mid-90s and start over

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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

as an editor who does a lot of copyediting, I don’t “correct” people’s speech in my mind but I do often find myself wishing I could edit written directions

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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

DRAFTING THE PAST is expanding! Together, @katecarp.bsky.social and @mkn.bsky.social are creating a website and newsletter devoted to nonfiction history books. You'll find book reviews, craft essays, author interviews, publishing news, and more--plus the podcast you already know and love. 🗃️ 1/

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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🚨editor achievement unlocked: I invoked the subjunctive mood and explained to an author why a clause had to be constructed using it

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We love a pub day 📚 These books are now available wherever books are sold 🙌 Check out what else comes out this month: uncpress.org/hot-off-the-...

Book cover for Life on the Octopus Farm by Richard Schweid

Book cover for Abolition and the Rise of US Environmentalism by James S. Finley

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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

after some investigation I have determined, much to my consternation, that the AC is failing in my office but working everywhere else in the building

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Katherine Wiley @goldenrod-ed.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Have questions about scholarly book publishing? Stressed out by it? Want tools to help you navigate it with confidence? Here's a free workshop! I draw on my experience of working on 50 book manuscripts. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #AcWri #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #PhDSky

More visual form of the main text noting the free book workshop on Navigating Scholarly Book Publishing 101: Ten Essential Tips. It's on Tuesday August 18 from 2 to 3 p.m. Eastern on Zoom

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