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Rachael Levay

@rlevay.bsky.social
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Senior editor of sociology and anthropology at Princeton University Press. Cofounder Paths in Publishing. Running, books, kids, somewhere out west.

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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 6h
But Richie is amazing, too.
A reddish gold curly haired dog looks up.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 6h
Our dog is very charasmatic and gets a lot of attention, but you should know that, during every meeting, Jack is just off-screen.
A laptop computer is on a table and just past it, in strong fall sunlight, is a magnificent gray and white cat on his back with his paws adorably folded on his chest, while a woman is in a Zoom meeting next to him.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nothing quite like looking up the schedule for a conference coming up and realizing they think I'll still be anywhere near a booth at 7:30 p.m. 😂
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dominique, I want to talk about all of this so bad. As someone whose kids are going to school in a voucher state and in a school district weighing a four-day school week, K-12 ed research is my new fulltime job.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely the only correct answer
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We were in NYC this summer and felt some sadness that it wasn’t much better than in Idaho!
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Not 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.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Dogs and books. A good life getting better. Happy Birthday!
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We 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.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Health insurance will also, almost always, pay for a titer test if you want to get your immunity tested!
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
more like a Rachael-trail-walked
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Losing 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.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Someones clearly decided "repertoires" is the scholarly word of the moment. It's suddenly everywhere, which I find fascinating.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hahahahaha I died laughing whilst living in IDAHO.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Alas, it’s Cormac McCarthy
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I do not lie when I say it’s possible for us to bike every dang place we’ve got to go. But maybe…this will break fossil fuels?? 🤞
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Seen in Idaho this September evening: regular gas at $5.29.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is so true. It’s so extra gross. And yet…I’m watching it, lol.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’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.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I truly thought he was dead! Alas.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Truly believed Giuliana had died and was somehow sharing opinions from hell.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Richie understands.
A weirdly human looking curly red-haired dog is resting on a blue pillow with a lot of side eye.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
welp, at least you know you can only blame yourself
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It is absolutely the only thing in the center of the political Venn diagram here in Idaho.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have never loved a statement so much in my life.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Starting tomorrow, me and seven of my closest middle-aged mom friends will play volleyball on various middle-school courts as The Notorious D.I.G. and I expect we’ll have a real good time.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Tomorrow 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.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Immediate tears around the lunchtable, regardless of age.
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
In 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...
Chasing Independence: Growing Old in the Shadow of an American Ideal by Guillermina Altomonte. How independence works as an unquestioned ideal for aging in America—and why it is never quite realized.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Yesss! But, to be clear, in the Sad Book about Sad People, it's also imperative that Not Very Much Happens. That's another key facet of a Rachael Book.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Everyone 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.
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Guillermina Altomonte @ghaltomo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Well hello there #ASA2026 @princetonupress.bsky.social
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The Hilton exhibit hall has water refills! I am abusing them regularly for my whole family.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Finding 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.
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Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It’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.edu
The New Old Style - Nebraska Press
The 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...
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Whew. But yeah, now every review portal in the universe is looking for you.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Oh my god, putting this energy out in the world. Brave.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This one might be useful! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Very Important People
A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Not just Idaho, but Raul Labrador! The Idaho of Idaho.
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Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Excited to share my new piece on Patricia Highsmith’s weirdly productive how-to writing manual, published today at New Literary History!
muse.jhu.edu
Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’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.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Wishing only the worst for the neighbor who set off many fireworks at 1 am and woke every living being in our house.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We just finished this episode and I’m trying so hard to be brave in the face of too much scary.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Most exciting news from the Levay house! The book is gorgeous inside and out!
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Book editor here who is soooo into the idea.
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
New 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.
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The “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.”
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
There are so many exciting books on my desk right now; it's such an honor to be entrusted with them!
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This is one of the only apps I regularly open correctly! or, perhaps, was, once my updates happens.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Get some popcorn.
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I definitely feel targeted by this
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