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Executive editor @UNC_Press . Lit, social sciences, trade, CNF, App Studies. Writer. Recovering Appalachian. Book @Press53 . Opinions are hilarious. He/Him.
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My kid, on surveillance cam, eating fake cheese.
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My wife is currently sheltering in place in the UNC library stacks, my daughter is in lockdown again at her elementary school for the second time in two weeks, and I'm here, working from home, unable to do anything but sit and wait.
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I'm in Chapel Hill and this is my 8-year-old's first day at school and she's on lockdown because of an at-large shooter on UNC's campus. I am so, so fucking tired of this stupid nightmare country.
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What I'm saying is that you can be in your house 24/7, you can work from home, have groceries delivered, never see a movie or a concert, but this American gun insanity will touch you sooner than later.
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My mother died this morning. Here she is at 16, just before she had me. Even this young, she’d known a life of hardship and that people who are supposed to love you and protect you often don’t. Yet, in this photo, she smiles because she was strong.
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The rumors are true!
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You commission a book at 75k words, it comes back to you at 330k words. What do you do? Wrong but good answers only
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Everyone I know is behind, running ragged, totally burnt out. My authors, my peer reviewers, my colleagues, my friends and family. Can we collectively take, like, a dang week off? (PAID?) Okay, back to emails.
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Hey one of my books is profiled in the New Yorker so i'm taking the rest of the day off
Awesome piece centered around my book "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape" up now at the
@newyorker
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Just before she died, I learned my mother had an abortion not long after having me. She had to so we could be free of my father, who was not a good person at the time. She saved us both. Abortion saves lives.
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Unexpectedly hit with a grief wave. It’s my daughter’s birthday and my mom will not text, call, or visit ever again. Death is never over. I don’t have a box to nestle this in to make it make sense.
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Happy to share the news that my first book of short stories will be published next year by
@Press53
! Very excited to be working with such great folks. Please look out for my very good and not-at-all-sad book sometime next fall!
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Going through my mom’s things while she’s in hospice and found the most Southern thing ever
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Often an editor's labor is invisible, but it's still labor. Writers need to remember that.
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I owe her a lot. But the people who hurt her when she was young took away something from me too. I won’t ever forgive them for that. Mom, I wish people had loved you so you could have shown more love to those who needed you. I will miss you. I am glad you’re not hurting anymore.
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My father just called me, coughing from a hospital bed. He has COVID. He got both shots. Didn't have time to get the booster, being a junk seller on Social Security. He needed to work, pay those bills. We have failed ourselves, all of us, and we will all pay the price for it.
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I know there’s a lot going on right now but my mom’s cancer surgery was successful and I just got the second blurb for my forthcoming short story collection. Gonna go and be thankful for a while.
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A friendly reminder to all the fiction writers who do seasonal book round-ups for major media: University presses publish fantastic literary nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Moving your focus from NYC and Graywolf et al for your lists will pay off, I promise you.
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If taking a sick day to take your mother to her chemo appointment and returning to a barrage of emails about missed deadlines doesn't radicalize you nothing will
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We're hiring an acquisitions assistant! Tell your friends, neighbors, enemies, etc. Well, maybe not your enemies.
@PocPub
@UNC_Press
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It is a specific thing to be raised by a survivor of abuse. She protected us from what had happened to her, but in doing so had to withdraw, to not show vulnerability or demonstrate love like others might. She needed to be closed off, or she wouldn’t have survived childhood.
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Any of y'all just really fucking sad about the world right now? And are being made to feel crazy that we keep going to work and eating dinner and looking at our phones? And we're supposed to vote for one of these motherfuckers???
I'm no revolutionary but maybe...revolution?
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My daughter told me she knew Victoria’s Secret. I said “Oh?” not really sure what to expect. She leaned in and whispered, “She’s moving to Ohio.”
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Five books and a new series approved at the board meeting today gonna be a wild fall of 23 pray for me pls
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We spread some of my mother’s ashes here today. One of her favorite places, Thunder Hill Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Still processing it all.
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In case you need a dog in your timeline, here is a good boy.
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She died peacefully after living with cancer for two years. She never let on how much pain she felt, though I could see the relief in her face when the morphine kicked in. She was tough. She had to be. She didn’t talk about her pain or her emotions because of how she grew up.
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Hey y’all I just launched 18 books for publication this fall. Some real bangers, including
@Marcissist
,
@FoggyRidgeCider
,
@SarahMayorga
,
@LamotheDaphne
,
@boutelly
,
@jeannefirth
,
@B_Classic
and many, many more
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Grieving for someone still living is a fucking trip and I honestly can't tell if it is a gift or a goddamn curse
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My proposed tagline for a seashells guide, "What fresh shell is this?", was rejected. Going to go pour one out for a pun cut down in its prime.
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I had the worst year I’ve ever had in 2022. I hope—regardless of timeline, doomscroll, and very real and earned global anxieties—we all have a better, easier, and simpler year ahead of us.
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Damn I am working on some cool books. Can't wait to share them with y'all
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This is going to be the most fun book ever y'all. Cannot wait to hold this in my hands!
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She got the gig!!!
It's been a long and tough day, but in the midst of it all I wrote a glowing letter of recommendation for our acquisitions student assistant for a summer research gig, and that's really the point of all of this isn't it? To offer support to those that might not have it otherwise.
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Look at this absolute unit. A king, a landmark, a reference book you all need. Available now. (Quarter for reference)
#appstudies
@UNC_Press
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In a conversation with an author about peer review I said "Let's fuck around and find out" so that is where I'm at right now
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A year ago today my mom died. I don’t know what future anniversaries will hold but today is many currents, all pulling me into different places. Some of them good. Instead of a snapshot, let me give you a look at the deed of her house. You were ahead of your time, mom. Miss you.
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Over COVID, I have had exactly one type of author who is intolerant of how long it takes to edit their manuscript, how long peer review takes during a global pandemic, who doesn't hesitate to demand alacrity in a time of mass illness, and that author is always a white man over 60
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Thanks for all the notes, texts, and comments. They're very much appreciated! Dad is back home (he'd been in the hospital since the 25th). He sounds terrible, but I'm trying to arrange some help for him since he lives alone. Thanks again to the folks who reached out!
My father just called me, coughing from a hospital bed. He has COVID. He got both shots. Didn't have time to get the booster, being a junk seller on Social Security. He needed to work, pay those bills. We have failed ourselves, all of us, and we will all pay the price for it.
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I just had eight books and series approved by our faculty board can I go lie down now pls
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It’s been a rough and stressful week and it’s not gotten better. My 5 year old daughter drew a manatee at school, which is amazing. I don’t know if there’s a lesson here, so I’ll just say let’s all be the manatee we want to be.
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You can tell a lot about an author by the way they treat editorial assistants.
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I’m in Ohio! If you happen to be in Ohio too, please come say hello at the
@UNC_Press
booth! Proudly showing off our excellent App Studies books for App Studies ‘23!
#appalachia
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Today, grief feels not like a hole in the heart or any other kind of absence, but heavy winter coat I cannot take off, something that will always be there and make its presence known.
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Happy eighth little one. May all your days be the big Oreo
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Unexpectedly hearing your dead parent’s voice on the phone is a fucking gut punch on a Thursday afternoon let me tell you
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The surreal experience of finding a family member mentioned in a manuscript you're editing but being unable to call your mom to tell her
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I picked up my 1st grader from school yesterday, and because of Uvalde there was a cop stationed at the entrance. I can tell you that did not make me feel safer. It just made me angrier.
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my brain is toast after another day of meetings and emails so here is a little frog we found in our house earlier this summer. i think of him a lot
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I had to hide my quarantine buzzcut from the camera, but here's a brief video of me in lieu of attending
#ASA2020
. Reach out and let's talk about your book! Stay safe, wear that mask, and I hope to see y'all next year.
Although we can't gather together in person for the
#ASA2020
annual meeting this weekend, you can still browse our recent sociology titles, connect with editor
@Lucas_Church
, and more through our virtual exhibit:
@ASAnews
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First Christmas without mom. She never loved it, which makes this all feel more weird. She felt she couldn’t provide for us, hated how poverty grinds itself into your face at the worst moments. Maybe one day I’ll figure this all out.
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I should be the one thanking you, KB. Thank you for the amazing book and everything else.
Thank you to UNC Press and my editor extraordinaire
@Lucas_Church
for supporting Gone Home every step of the way. I am honored to have won the ASA Culture Section Mary Douglas Prize for best book.
@uncpressblog
@ASAnews
@ABSociologists
@ASACulture
@claytonchirping
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Love to see old folks on the plane. Reading paper newspapers, eating grapes they brought from home. Respect.
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Hey I wrote that...
"I move in with Uncle, who lives next to a trash heap. The heap is privately owned, not the country dump, not open to just anybody, and it's haloed with crows."
-Lucas Church, "Year of the Rat"
#NOR21
#fiction
@Lucas_Church
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It's been a long and tough day, but in the midst of it all I wrote a glowing letter of recommendation for our acquisitions student assistant for a summer research gig, and that's really the point of all of this isn't it? To offer support to those that might not have it otherwise.
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Glad to work for a press that supports its authors. Please get your copy of
@garrett_felber
's important book and support
@study__struggle
!
Read our statement written by editor
@brndnpr
in support of
@garrett_felber
, scholar-activist and UNCP author whose tenure-track professorship was recently terminated by the University of Mississippi.
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Don’t let work make your world too small for you to fit into
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@fewstein
Lol the absolute thinnest skins I've ever dealt with are white men over the age of 50
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My seven year old just had a school-stress meltdown because tech issues meant she wouldn't be able to complete a writing assignment. Full on meltdown. Little kids shouldn't be stressed about school. We're doing this all wrong.
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During my MFA defense, one of my professors called one of my stories "post-modernist horseshit." It was a series of re-imagined TV shows, more of a list than a traditional short story. A few months later,
@rgay
published it in PANK, so I think I won that one.
Tweet your favorite diss while in grad school.
Mine: I went to my mathematical logic professor for help understanding the proof of a complicated theorem. He replied: “Don’t feel bad, Scott. Even talented students have problems with this.”
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I wrote my mother's obituary. It's not a thing I thought I'd have to do for a very long time, but here we are.
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And just like that we are close to the finish line. Come grab some quality
@UNC_Press
books while they last. Grad discounts available! (We love you and you can have a free book.)
#MLA23
#MLA2023
Weather and booth shipment mishaps didn’t stop us—come stop by our exhibit and chat with Senior Editor
@Lucas_Church
at
#MLA2023
@MLAnews
!
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I wrote a flash story, and I'd be honored if y'all took a look. Big thanks to the crew at
@JellyfishReview
for taking a chance on a weird thing. (The story, not me.)
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Very happy to be working with
@drkyliesmith
on her next book, which looks at race and mental health in the Deep South. Read her latest in WaPo!
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Happy pub day to George Henderson—who is smartly not on the bird app! A fascinating look at the Very Complicated John Fahey and his writing and music. A must-read for anybody interested in whiteness, race, and American music.
@UNC_Press
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It was good to get back home, even if it was too short a visit.
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Me: Well, now I can spend more time with the family, read those manuscripts, do some yardwork, maybe build that shed I've been thinking about.
Also me: what lunch wine pairs best with off-brand Doritos
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Also this should tell you I am a "cool" editor and you should be my friend and also send me your proposals
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@RColesworthy
Love the thing in peer review discussions when journals, monographs, the humanities, the sciences, nonprofit university presses, and for-profit science publishers get lumped into one, unworkable problem. Super helpful!!!
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Hey lit folks!
@uncpressblog
is open for business at
#MLA2020
. Come by and let’s talk books. And even though it’s raining, remember to stay hydrated!
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Three months today since my mom died. Grief makes a joke of time. Some moments she’s still here. Others she’s always been a memory, never real. Always tripping back and forth.
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Author signing at
#AWP23
at the
@UNC_Press
table going on right now! The amazing Stephanie Elizondo Griest is signing copies of “All the Agents and Saints”! Booth 522! More exclamation points!!!
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Another reason you can’t approach “academic publishing” as if it’s a monolith. 👇
Some acquisitions editors have editorial assistants, some supervise assistant or associate editors, some work with acquisitions coordinators, some have no direct support, and all of this influences the types and number of manuscripts we can sign, nurture, champion, and yes, edit.
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So incredibly happy to be working with
@santamariapinto
on her new book with
@UNC_Press
and
@GreatCircleBks
!
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I am devastated to learn about David K. Jones' passing. I've been working with David on his new book on health inequities in the Delta. I just emailed him a day before he passed that we secured another peer reviewer. I'm just heartbroken.
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A bit of (personal) happiness during these times: my story “Taxonomies” is out now in the latest
@HotelAmerika
. It’s about failure, writing, and settling for what you can get. Hope you can check it out!
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Standing in solidarity with the Bessemer Amazon workers today. Grab a copy of "Hammer and Hoe" for free now!
#BAmazonUnion
#UnionYES
In the spirit of publishing scholarship on the southern organizing tradition, and with the author's full support, we are making Robin D. G. Kelley's "Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression" freely available:
#BAmazonUnion
#UnionYES
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Hey, Triangle peeps. I'm teaching a beginning fiction class in Chapel Hill. Please spread the word!
We asked
@Lucas_Church
, who will be teaching a Fiction I class for us
@epiloguebooksch
about writing rituals, recently read books, and the revision process. Read all about it on our blog!
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I have 18 books coming out this fall. Gonna be super annoying tweeting my absolute love of them so you might want to mute me now
@UNC_Press
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At home and found and old token for our little socialist bus system. “Appalcart is for everyone.” Love it.
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