Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Not for nothing, but I sure wish like hell there was a place near me that required masking. How amazing to not feel like the last souls on earth doing so. 140
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We got both kids Covid vaccines (littlest kid yesterday!) and I thought it might not happen this year. Pediatricians won’t carry it (ironically I was told they don’t bc parents should choose), nor does public health. Kroger proved the only option and I suspect it’s partly because of this. 093
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Losing Annie Dillard really is a devastating loss. The Living is an overlooked piece of classic American literature that I think about more often than I can explain. Maybe growing up in those dense forests made my love for the book inevitable, but I don't really think so. 1102
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Someones clearly decided "repertoires" is the scholarly word of the moment. It's suddenly everywhere, which I find fascinating. 010
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Seen in Idaho this September evening: regular gas at $5.29. 120
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I’m watching The Ultimatum and keep thinking about this lil “crisis of masculinity” we have going on. Every man is looking for what they genuinely describe as a “submissive woman” to cook and clean oh and she has be insanely fit. Maybe, MAYBE, it is, as my daughter says, an issYOU and not an issME. 340
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Truly believed Giuliana had died and was somehow sharing opinions from hell. 120
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Tomorrow is the start of my local rec center’s women’s volleyball league and, for the first time, I’ve organized a team. I loved playing volleyball as a girl and over the past few years, volleyball has become my own amazing daughter‘s entire world, my inspiration. She rubbed off on me. 180
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Immediate tears around the lunchtable, regardless of age. 050
Reposted by Rachael LevayPrinceton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 16/08/2026In Chasing Independence, @ghaltomo.bsky.social asks what happens when independence becomes the yardstick by which we measure the quality of old age. Out now! Explore a free preview here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... 021
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Everyone who knows me, knows that my favorite genre is Sad Book About Sad People, in which little happens. I've just gotten Paul Yoon's Etna, which is a Sad Book About a Sad Dog and I'm genuinely so scared to start it. The sadder the world gets, the harder it is to read the sad things. 140
Reposted by Rachael LevayGuillermina Altomonte @ghaltomo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Well hello there #ASA2026 @princetonupress.bsky.social 1223
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Finding kid vaccine news and, eventually, the vaccines themselves, was my other full time job from 2020-2022. Finally getting those vaccines into my children, especially my two-year old whose whole life had been covid at that point, was the first time I took a real, deep breath of air. 0174
Reposted by Rachael LevayMatthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 01/08/2026It’s been available for a little while now, but today is the official publication day for THE NEW OLD STYLE: ANACHRONISM IN CONTEMPORARY COMICS! I’m proud of this book, and hope you’ll consider purchasing it or recommending it to your local or campus library.nebraskapress.unl.eduThe New Old Style - Nebraska PressThe New Old Style explores how the deliberate use of cartooning styles that mimic those of the early twentieth century has paradoxically become one of the mo... 2238
Reposted by Rachael LevayMatthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Excited to share my new piece on Patricia Highsmith’s weirdly productive how-to writing manual, published today at New Literary History!muse.jhu.eduProject MUSE -- Verification required! 0144
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I’m at a college volleyball camp for preteens and wowza are the 90s back, musically. Mariah, Usher, Destiny’s Child. Not gonna lie: I love it. 010
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Wishing only the worst for the neighbor who set off many fireworks at 1 am and woke every living being in our house. 070
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Most exciting news from the Levay house! The book is gorgeous inside and out! 090
Reposted by Rachael LevayPublic Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026New at PB: Founding editor Caitlin Zaloom interviews author and scholar @ninabandelj.bsky.social about her new book “Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting” (@princetonupress.bsky.social), the latest installment in our partnership with @casbsstanford.bsky.social.publicbooks.orgThe “Emotional Economy” of Parenting: A Conversation with Nina Bandelj - Public Books“I am an observer of how intellectual ideas travel and enter into everyday life, or how they come to be performed by families in ways that give those ideas a reality of their own.” 0118
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 15/06/2026There are so many exciting books on my desk right now; it's such an honor to be entrusted with them! 0101
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I waited patiently all day for these boo’s and NYC did not let me down. Thanks, guys. 050
Reposted by Rachael LevayLaura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social · 04/06/2026A beautiful day to wake up to find this review of MIDDLEMEN in the New York Review of Books!nybooks.comCall My Agent | Michael GorraWith their blend of taste and market savvy, literary agents have been both invisible and necessary in contemporary American fiction. 1377
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Exciting breaking news! I am incredibly excited to share this project and collaborating with @philipncohen.com has already been a delight! 1154
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Once I saw a dad get kicked out of a JV middle school girls basketball game. You can’t unsee something like that. 131
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 28/05/2026As someone who lives in a red state, lemme tell ya. It's real hard to fly internationally without flying from a red state THROUGH a blue state. And otherwise, you're driving like six hours each way to fly from another airport. 020
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 26/05/2026It's officially summertime, I just booked an ASA hotel 020
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Definitely wasn’t picturing Doug Judy at Princeton, for sure, cool cool cool 130
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Guys, squeeze in: I found the magical middle of the political Venn diagram. It's...AI data centers. We all hate them. A developer brought a plan for an AI data center to Pocatello's city council. Hundreds flooded in, the farthest right, the farthest left, united in hate. The plan got rejected. 3259
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I swear, I'm an evangelist for every dang thing @tressiemcphd.bsky.social writes. Just time after time, I'm out here gobbling it up. 150
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Richie is concerned that, despite great exhaustion and a warm, sunny day, work was worked today. 0292
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 30/04/2026A book club that I once attended read JAMES and had a long convo about abolition that lead to a long convo about enslavement and several people felt strongly that the country should have done something to better manage that time. Only one other person had even heard of Reconstruction. 240
Reposted by Rachael LevayPrinceton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Next week, 7 May at 4:00 pm BST, please join the London School of Economics and Political Science in welcoming @jbrownsaracino.bsky.social for a discussion of her book, The Death and Life of Gentrification. Register here for this in-person event: buff.ly/izYB8Ny 071
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 28/04/2026I read the focus group, against my better judgement, and I know there are bigger things I should focuse on but I can't move past the idea that we should stop paying property taxes once we've paid off our houses. What. I mean. Does one stop using roads, sewers, fire stations, street lamps, schools 150
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 23/04/2026The number of people who have never had to confront the reality of a four-day K-12 school week. Just a bunch of lucky ducks. 030
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Richie graduated (WITH HONORS) from his third and final obedience class. This sweet little goofball has made us all so happy and somehow he manages to look both like a doofus and also like he’s so proud?! 2180
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Despair at tomorrow being Monday again, but surely this week can’t be worse than last. Even if it is, though, this little guy is still gonna give it his best. 151
Reposted by Rachael LevayPrinceton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Julia Sonnevend, author of Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics (now out in paperback!), offers her thoughts on how Péter Magyar defeated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Her book features a chapter on Orbán for those who’d like to learn more. Read her piece:ms.nowOpinion | How Péter Magyar brought down Trump’s favorite European strongmanJulia Sonnevend: Viktor Orbán’s loss proves even autocrats can be defeated — with the right strategy 043
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 14/04/2026It’s true, days are hard right now but he’s such a good boy. 140
Reposted by Rachael LevayCatherine Cocks @catherinefte.bsky.social · 08/04/2026sorry, yes, we still have to talk about AI. Here's what #feedingtheelephant's contributors @jasminemulliken.bsky.social @alanpharvey.bsky.social @rlevay.bsky.social @emily-elliott.bsky.social Marissa Mercurio and Courtney Smotherman are thinking a year later: networks.h-net.org/group/discus...networks.h-net.orgWhere are we now with AI? | H-NetA post from 022
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Imagine the NYT wanting to know what me and my pals think about stuff. 042