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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Don't miss Salma Hussain's interview of Sima Qadeer re: Brown Girls, Grown Up (pub. @nupress.bsky.social) in Issue 36! ...I’m a pantser. I didn’t write by an outline or a structure. My process was to sit down, try to treat it as a nine-to-five... www.thetemzreview.com/hussain-qade...

The cover of Brown Girls, Grown Up, by Sima Qadeer. The background is a reddish-orange. There are two large, abstract circles with pink and purple tinges taking up most of the space. The title and author's name are in yellow

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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEW IN STOCK - Theater company Fake Friends' first publication features their absurd, serious internet plays: Circle Jerk (Pulitzer-shortlisted) and This American Wife. 📚️ buff.ly/a0ndxRV @nupress.bsky.social

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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Happy to share that 'Nonaligned Imagination,' published by @nupress.bsky.social received an Honorable Mention for the 2026 University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies, awarded by ASEEES, The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

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Luiza Flynn-Goodlett @luizagurley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Absolutely beautiful afternoon at the Northern California Book Awards ceremony—such an honor to be a finalist for MUD IN OUR MOUTHS @nupress.bsky.social alongside such an incredible group of poets and huge congrats to Mia Ayumi Malhotra for her win for her luminous collection MOTHERSALT! 🙌🏻✨

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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I am so excited to be in conversation with Ankur Thakkar, whose debut novel BLOW YOURSELF UP is already long-listed for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel prize… 🧵 citylitbooks.com/events/58244...

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Printers Row Lit Fest may be over, but you can still get 40% off now through the end of September. Just use discount code BOOKFEST at checkout, and enjoy your newest fall reads. nupress.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

With September already in motion, we're diving into our fall reading list! From the phenomenology of religion, to culture and education in Argentina and Chile, to the materialist strain in Novalis, to German Realism, and beyond, we think we might just learn a thing or two.

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Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

📣Sept’s Bocas Book Bulletin is here! New Caribbean releases, upcoming events & Aug’s bestsellers at @paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social! trinidadexpress.com/features/loc... #bocas2026 @ayendy.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social @nupress.bsky.social @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social

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Hill Nadell Literary Agency @hillnadell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“This is the rare campus novel with as much heart as intellect.” Read the @ala-booklist.bsky.social starred review of LIBERAL ARTS by David McGlynn now! Coming in October from @nupress.bsky.social / TriQuarterly. www.booklistonline.com/products/982...

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

BLOW YOURSELF UP, Ankur Thakkar's novel about love in the time of infinite scroll and what we sacrifice to be seen, is nearly here! Grab your copy to see why R.O. Kwon calls this "a propulsive, capacious debut". Out September 15.

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 31/08/2026

HOW WE SEE THE GRAY by by Rachel León (Curbstone Press/@nupress.bsky.social). Reviewed by @emilyannwebber.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/how-...

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Luiza Flynn-Goodlett @luizagurley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So honored and excited that MUD IN OUR MOUTHS @nupress.bsky.social is shortlisted for the 2026 Northern California Book Awards—wish me luck on September 19th! poetryflash.org/programs/?p=...

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We love that VOGUE ADRIA chose Rachel Feder's THE TURN as a recent read for its unsettling Gothic atmosphere. As summer turns (ha) to fall, we can't think of a better read. “A smart, controlled, and highly effective piece of storytelling.” —Bloody Flicks

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Northwestern University’s Poetry and Poetics Colloquium and Northwestern University Press are pleased to announce that Elizabeth Kim has won the 2025 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize for her collection HOW TO BE HER DAUGHTER.

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"There was no doubting that Papi was this pigeon. Maybe he was all the pigeons in the world, or only the ones in Brooklyn. Maybe when we die, we all reincarnate as pigeons, the details of our personality visible in the particular hues of their wings, their beaded feet for Catholics." 1/

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We're pleased to announce that Daniel Majchrowicz and David Boyk are the winners of the 2026-27 Humanities in Translation (HiT) Prize for THE AJEEB SOCIETY, a collection of Urdu short stories by acclaimed writer Qazi Abdul Ghaffar.

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Cortney Lamar Charleston @bardsbesidebars.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The first image presented here is the penultimate page of my most recent full-length poetry collection, IT'S IMPORTANT I REMEMBER, published earlier this year by @nupress.bsky.social.

On January 20, in the year of our Lord 2025, they will head to the Capitol wearing their hallmark red hats: by train, plane, automobile and foot. They will ignite into cheers when he steps through the double doors and descends the platform steps, flanked by dignitaries who worship and fear him how no mortal should be worshipped or feared. In the antithesis of poetry, a man referred to as the chief justice will lead him through a sacred oath—right hand to God, left on the Bible—and he will assume the office of the presidency once again. Thereafter, he will proceed to make the oath meaningless. He will keep only the promises he made behind closed doors. He will reign rather than preside and, I envision, doves will fall dead from the sky, silver bullets still inside their bodies.

Announcing the Winner of the 2026 Chad Walsh Chapbook Series:

Cortney Lamar Charleston for his collection, A Republic, If

Cortney Lamar Charleston is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Telepathologies (Saturnalia Books, 2017), selected by D.A. Powell for the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize; Doppelgangbanger (Haymarket Books, 2021), named a best book of 2021 by the New York Public Library and The Boston Globe; and It’s Important I Remember (Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press, 2026). He was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and he has also received fellowships from Cave Canem and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Winner of a Pushcart Prize, his poems have appeared in POETRY, The Nation, The Atlantic, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review and many other periodicals and anthologies. Charleston currently serves on the Haymarket Books Poetry Advisory Board.

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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 10/08/2026

"I can't imagine feeling less, or caring less. That's not the heart I have," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's encore episode. Read "Pardon My Heart" by Marcus Jackson — from PARDON: POEMS — and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4wMKzOV 📖: @nupress.bsky.social

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

NUP has acquired New Studies in the Age of Goethe, the renowned book series sponsored by the Goethe Society of North America. The series publishes innovative research that contextualizes the “Age of Goethe,” whether within the fields of literature, history, philosophy, art, music, or politics.

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The 2026 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize is now open for submissions! Previous winners include current Chicago Poet Laureate Mayda Del Valle, Ama Codjoe, Jenny Xie, Nicole Sealey, and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. Prize closes 10/31/26.

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Join us in celebrating all things theatre and drama in recognition of ATHE's 2026 conference! Use code ATHE40 at checkout now through July 31 to enjoy 40% off.

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 21/07/2026

Thank you to @nupress.bsky.social for the care package of books ❤️‍🩹 screaming and crying over C. Russell Price and Elizabeth Crane 💙🩵💙

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The cover of Bisquick An American Seance by C. Russell Price

Cover of When the Messenger Is Hot by Elizabeth Crane

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

If you've spent your weekend thinking about the sound a bow makes when plucked, about duty to guests, divine or otherwise, and about stories that we tell and retell for thousands of years, we have the reading list for you.

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

HAR MAR by Hilal Isler is here! The women in HAR MAR are all on the verge of something—success, rebellion, revelation—and they want to disappear as much as they want to be seen. Moving back and forth between Turkey and the United States, these stories trace migrations both physical and emotional.

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

All we want is a nice crisp salad. Maybe some fresh berries. But I guess we can't have that. Here's what we're reading instead.

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🏠💀New review! 💀🏠 The Turn by @rachelfeder.bsky.social from @nupress.bsky.social "A short, sharp, deliciously written gothic potboiler that simmers along right up until the moment it explodes in your face"

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Review: The Turn by Rachel Feder | FanFiAddict

Synopsis When Baxter, a young writer and recent college graduate, accepts a live-in nanny position for an affluent professor’s family in the foothills of th ...

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Moo Dog Press @moodogpress.com · 13/07/2026

Hershel Parker. #MelvilleMonday bsky.app/profile/hest... "Something ever comes of all persistent inquiry; we are not so continually curious for nothing." —Chapter 5 of Book IV of Herman Melville’s Pierre bsky.app/profile/nupr...

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 09/07/2026

Just having a little cry reading this opening excerpt of a review of all three of my books by the amazing @erinvachon.bsky.social in the summer issue of The Missouri Review missourireview.com/article/the-...

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| The Alchemy of Wendy C. Ortiz

Discovering the best in fiction, essays, and poetry

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

We were saddened to hear of the recent passing of Hershel Parker, our friend, our author, and our partner with whom we had the joy and privilege of maintaining a decades long collaboration. Over the course of half a century, Parker shepherded The Writings of Herman Melville.

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Read Salma Hussain's review of Sima Qadeer's Brown Girls, Grown Up (pub. @nupress.bsky.social) in Issue 35! ...In the end, it is this underlying, pulsating message of self-love in Sima Qadeer’s debut ... that is the most taboo and radical of all. www.thetemzreview.com/hussain-qade...

The cover of Brown Girls, Grown Up, by Sima Qadeer. It's an abstract image in orangey-reds, pinks and purples. One large circle sits on top of another

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Grief is a rodeo filled with ghost clowns. In BISQUICK: AN AMERICAN SEANCE, poet C. Russell Price introduces us to Ghost Cowboy, Bisquick (a ghost horse), and more. Together, they try to answer the question: if the dead could talk, wouldn't they have something better to say? Out August 15, 2026.

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

As we head into the holiday weekend, we're thinking about the stories and people who make the United States what it is. These are the books we're reading for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Well, well, well. Look what we have here. If it isn't CIRCLE JERK AND THIS AMERICAN WIFE from Pulitzer nominated theater company Fake Friends. More than just a pair of plays, this book is a visual archive, a dramaturgical marvel, and an exploration of what it means to do art in the digital world.

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The storm hit our warehouse last night! While it's without power, you won't be able to order directly from our website, so this is an excellent excuse for you to support your favorite bookstore. With any luck, we'll be up and running again soon! Thank you for your patience in the meantime.

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

For some reason, we've been thinking about bears this afternoon. Wonder what that's about.

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

We're celebrating the centennial of Judith Malina's birth with the release of all four volumes of THE DIARIES OF JUDITH MALINA. These diaries showcase the most influential period of this radical theater director, actor, and activist's career. Use code MALINA for 40% off when ordering all four vols.

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Namrata Poddar 🧿🌀 @namratapoddar.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Honored to see “Border Less” featured here, in excellent company. Thank you @debutiful.bsky.social and @rachellayown.bsky.social for spotlighting polyphonic stories that take risks with form and voice. 🙏🏽🤎 For more on each 📕, visit: debutiful.net/2026/05/18/t... (Images reposted from @debutiful )

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Head over to the LA Review of Books to read this thoughtful and engaged review of EVOCATIONS OF ITALY by Pavel Pavlovich Muratov, translated by Lena M. Lencek with photographer Gideon Bosker. lareviewofbooks.org/article/evoc...

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This is tonight!!! We hope to see you @theunderstudychi.bsky.social to celebrate @rachellayown.bsky.social's debut novel!

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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Is it possible to devise a system of morality and ethics from math? From physics?? From the Laws of Thermodynamics??? @dmdalton.bsky.social says YES in his latest book from @nupress.bsky.social. Give a listen to our discussion on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-matter-o...

Book cover shows partial eclipse of the sun; title: THE MATTER OF EVIL: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism by Drew M. Dalton.

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

We’re thrilled for @rachellayown.bsky.social's debut novel HOW WE SEE THE GRAY forthcoming tomorrow (!!!) from @nupress.bsky.social. She’ll be in conversation at the @theunderstudychi.bsky.social w/ @meganstielstra.bsky.social on May 21 at 7:30pm—register below! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-conversa...

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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 13/05/2026

"We read and share poems in times of tragedy because they say something we need to say, or need to hear," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1514. Read "A Love Poem Will Not Save the World" by C. Russell Price (@nupress.bsky.social) and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4wn77Gl

graphic featuring a portion of C. Russell Price's poem, which can be found in full at the link in the post

photograph of poet C. Russell Price. they have blue hair and are wearing blue eyeshadow and cloud earrings

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