Sonya Bonczek
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Director of Publicity @UNC_Press 📚📣 Currently reading Race Traffic by Gunther Peck (Dec '24) 📧: sonya.bonczek @uncpress .org
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Been running into dads of my 3yo’s classmates and asking for their emails for his birthday party and so far 3 out of 3 dads have proceeded to give me their wives’ emails instead. This is now a social experiment.
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I love dissertation-to-first-book projects so much and will champion those authors, always. Everyone has to start somewhere. Support emerging scholars!
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Did y'all know that
@UNC_Press
is publishing a second edition of Barbara Ransby's *Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement,* the definitive bio of one of the most important civil rights activists? It's got a new preface by BR and a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley.
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A NEW HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH 🤩🤩🤩 Hot off the press. Had to show off the front, spine, and back trifecta 📚
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OMFG Washington Post just reviewed
@drewmckevitt
's GUN COUNTRY and critic calls it ONE OF THE BEST WORKS OF NONFICTION THIS YEAR
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What if I told you
@UNC_Press
has a book coming out in Fall 2025 with Kristina Gaddy and Rhiannon Giddens on early Black Atlantic banjo music? 👀🤩
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Here is your chance to download a free copy of Robin D. G. Kelley's HAMMER AND HOE, a critical work that details how Black laborers & sharecroppers in the 1930s took on Alabama’s repressive, racist police state. Make sure to share with anyone you know in Florida, too.
Congratulations
@HammerandHope
: A MAGAZINE OF BLACK POLITICS AND CULTURE on the publication of your inaugural issue 👏🏾
The inspiration for the name HAMMER & HOPE👉🏾Robin D. G. Kelley's acclaimed HAMMER AND HOE, available for FREE download through 3/22!🔗👇🏾
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Required reading if you’re an elder millennial like me interested in understanding how D.A.R.E. pushed forward the state’s carceral approach to the problem of drugs.
#DareToSayYesToPreOrderingYourCopyToday
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Galleys of *A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs* by
@profcsanders
are HERE!
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The funny thing about tweeting about a few dads who didn't want to give me their emails is that I'm now stuck deleting lots of message requests from dudes sending me their emails
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Get yourself a copy of Emily Owens' CONSENT IN THE PRESENCE OF FORCE (out next week). Necessary reading. Emily uncovers the legal architecture that made sexual violence a central feature of antebellum slaveholding & illuminates the strategies enslaved women used to survive. 10/10
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I was only joking about a social experiment! But y'all went ahead and got the whole thing into the paper of record. Here, a real sociologist weighs in on the larger issue at hand
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📣Hey y'all, please join Team
@UNC_Press
Publicity in congratulating
@hkyriakoudes
on her well (extremely well) deserved promotion to Associate Publicist! Helen is brilliant and
@wirechairs
+ I (and everyone at UNC) are so lucky to work with her.
Congratulations, Helen! 🎉🎉🎉
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Feeling very lucky to be working with the nicest authors around. UNC Press seems to attract those! And here's a pro tip: if you are nice to your book publicist, your book publicist will walk on hot coals to get you and your book the coverage it deserves.
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Some personal news: I have decided to stop getting stressed out by emails. Excited to take this next step in my career, thanks for all the support 🙏
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The bad news is my 3yo is in the hospital for a second degree burn after pulling down a brewing coffee pot 😢 the better news is he has a popsicle, a car, and the best nurses of all time taking good care of him 🙏
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Oh no I tripped and all of these
@UNC_Press
galleys fell out of my tote, are there any readers who can help me, please!!
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How postwar consumer culture helps explain America's gun boom:
@drewmckevitt
's interview on
@WPR
's Central Time
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"In Myers's skillful hands, the previously unknown story of Julia Chinn comes to life. This book powerfully illuminates the complexities of race, gender, and politics in American history." —
@KeishaBlain
And don't miss what
@ProfMSinha
@dem8z
@CurwoodA
@HilaryGreen77
have to say
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Team
@UNC_Press
is HERE
@2022SHA
@TheSouthernSHA
and we are very excited to talk books books books 📚🎙🥰
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Y’all���she’s in paperback now!! And just in time for Netflix’s SHIRLEY 🤩
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On Jan 25, 1972, Shirley Chisholm--one of the most consequential Black women of the 20th century--formally announced her presidential bid. To celebrate, I have the LAST two galleys of
@CurwoodA
's glorious biography. RT and like for a chance to win a copy!
#UnboughtandUnbossed
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Colleague. Mentor. Confidante. Friend. Now, officially my (interim)
@UNC_Press
Editorial Director. One of the very best things about my job is working with the one & only
@DGershenowitz
. Hats off to you, Debbie - can't wait to toast to you next week in NYC! 🥂🙌🎉
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@JessGrose
Sometimes your articles feel like you've been spying on my conversations with friends and spouse. This hit me hard: "we’re still too occupied by child care for additional crises."
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If I was an author with a book coming out next year:
-I'd share the cover as soon as it was finalized on social media
-I'd drop the pre-order link once it was live, too
-I'd email my family, friends, colleagues to let them know why pre-orders matter
But I'm not, so I won't :)
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@buttpraxis
Every single morning to my 4 (FOUR) yo: ok I know you couldn’t possibly get your shoes on by yourself so give me a minute to help you, only 6yos (his brother) can put their shoes on all by themselves.
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So I've been reading an early mss of Amy Erdman Farrell's forthcoming
@UNC_Press
book currently titled GIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICA: RACE, FEMINISM, AND THE AMERICAN EMPIRE and ready to call it: one of the best works of nonfiction for 2025. There, I said it.
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Full color galleys for
@katemasur
& Liz Clarke’s breathtaking graphic history of Reconstruction, commissioned by
@The_OAH
and
@NatlParkService
, are here and just…WOW
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Beginning my 40th trip around the sun and have never felt this much gratitude for the people in my life. This one goes out to you, my Deborah, I love you so much ❤️
Pls wish the best publicist in the
@aupresses
world - nay, on the planet - the happiest of bdays today.
@SonyaBonczek
, we’re all indebted to you for being our fiercest advocate. I am *so* to have you as my
@UNC_Press
work wife and cherished friend. ❤️ you!
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I've gotten a few "follow me on IG instead of here" messages from pals & that's interesting to me. I quit IG over a year ago because it was super unhealthy for me -- made me depressed and anxious - & also terrible for my shopping habits, lol. There's no good social media site.
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First
@UNC_Press
galley of the Fall 24 season has arrived (*Tangled Journeys: One Family’s Story and the Making of American History* by Lori Ginzberg), so I did my best to match the cover 🍃 🍂
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Quite possibly the greatest book pic I have ever taken?
@BartElmore
’s COUNTRY CAPITALISM has descended from the heavens to a bookstore near you. Hurry!
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I'm sorry, but the old Sonya can't come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, 'cause she's eating her weight in pasteis de nada
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Yeah I don’t think I’ll be leaving this site for bluer pastures? Appreciate everyone who is ordering this book, adding to syllabi, and spreading the word! 💯
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"A superb corrective to the debate over America's gun problem and what to do about it. This is a fresh and timely history." —
@DrKyleBurke
on
@drewmckevitt
's GUN COUNTRY
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Sitting next to a couple w/ their newborn and they tried to give me a goody bag! Lord did I give the entire airplane an earful about how their baby is allowed to be on this flight and they are allowed to make noise and eat and do what babies do: cry. Might ask to hold the baby
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What a review by
@robgreeneII
! “No work of intellectual history has offered more to think about when reconsidering An American Dilemma than
@MaribelMorey1
’s White Philanthropy
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Not ok after reading this, not ok with how these survivors are "the lucky ones," not ok with guns and mass shootings in this country, not ok with the punch in the gut reminder that Uvalde police waited 77 minutes before entering the school, just not ok
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As promised: this is Sonya Bonczek, reporting live, from the
@UNC_Press
holiday party after party 🎉 I’m here with my marketing colleagues
@wirechairs
and
@brock_schnoke
who are going to tell us about their top reads of 2022 📚
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BACK TO (GALLEY) PRINT! for
@CurwoodA
's Shirley Chisholm bio...pictured here is the last remaining ARC, in the wild, until our next batch arrives. Don't sleep on this one, y'all!
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An honor to attend
@GilmoreGlenda
’s presidential address at
#2022SHA
. A highlight of my year has been getting to work with her and getting to know her (to know her is to love her)❤️
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🙋♀️Oh heyyy
@chriscooperwcu
! Galleys of *Anatomy of a Purple State: A North Carolina Politics Primer* are here! 💜🕺
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Because of
@kathleen_belew
, I see lone wolf and immediately think probably NOT and also wonder if she single-handedly got the NYT to put that in quotations
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After five years of collaboration and friendship, an author (the GOAT) and her (always) publicist FINALLY meet IRL 🥰
#OAH23
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If you are a
@UNC_Press
author at
#2022SHA
, please know that I will wrangle you into taking a photo because there is simply nothing better than a photo of an author holding their book.
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C'mon, how cute is this photo of
@BartElmore
at
#ASEH
? Nothing better than an author excited to see their book (in this case, ARC) at a conference 🥰 COUNTRY CAPITALISM drops May 2!
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Good afternoon
@TheSouthernSHA
#2022SHA
!
@UNC_Press
editor extraordinaire
@AndrewJWinters
joins me with an important book recommendation you won’t want to miss—don’t touch that dial 📺
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The older I get, the more I appreciate vanilla ice cream. This isn't a metaphor for anything. Just saying that really good vanilla ice cream slaps and I didn't realize it until my late 30s.
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The first pre-pub review for A NEW HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH is in, and it's a 🌟!
@KirkusReviews
(online next week) says "the book’s contributors brilliantly integrate the contents of their separate chapters, each on a distinct era, into a taut, analytical narrative."
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Feeling real fucked up this morning. No end in sight to the suffering and murder of Palestinians.
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🔥🔥🔥🔥the conversation between powerhouses
@tressiemcphd
and
@pwilliamsforson
was 💥💥💥💥lucky to have been in the room where it happened
@UNCSouth
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@annie_hartnett
Then ink pooling and spilling off the desk is giving me heart palpitations but she is so cute and pure and you will laugh so hard so soon
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#SBRL
🎙️(Sonya Bonczek Reporting Live) I’m here with non-fitness fitness expert Ava Purkiss, whose brilliant book FIT CITIZENS - the first historical study of Black women's exercise - officially drops April 11. Don’t miss this interview!
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Good morning from Amelia Island⛅️
Fun fact: I met my husband here 16 years ago, the last day of my spring break senior year of college. Now we’re back on a very different kind of spring break with our 2 kids 😅
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@notcapnamerica
And the corresponding audio “You’re big but some of these guys in here are wayyy bigger” 🫠🫠🫠
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“A sobering and rigorous work of history, one with significant ramifications for the present…
@llassabe
’s account is a powerful corrective, a compelling narrative, and a frankly frightening parable.”—
@ScottWStern
for
@jacobin
RESISTANCE FROM THE RIGHT pubs tomorrow!
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Should I attempt a "Sonya Bonczek reporting live" from the
@UNC_Press
holiday party tonight? Looking to interview colleagues who make the whole place ✨shimmer ✨
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Have you met our new Assistant Editorial Director? Her name is Debbie Gershenowitz and SHE IS THE REAL DEAL! Congratulations, Debbie--you make logging into work everyday a joy!
UNC Press is delighted to announce that effective October 1, Debbie Gershenowitz
@DGershenowitz
has been promoted into the new role of assistant editorial director. Congratulations Debbie! 🎉
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My name is Sonya Bonczek. I’m your favorite book publicist’s favorite book publicist
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Taking a deep breath before posting a thread about all of the SP24 books I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT
📚 Spring 2024 UNC Press frontlist catalog is here —featuring new books (all now available for preorder) by
@EvanDaltonSmith
@steep_smith
@DrShardeDavis
Robert Brunk
@BrunkAuctions
@chrisholaday
@mfkantor
@WaterPotential
@DGMartinNC
, and many more!
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Last night in Amelia Island 🏝️ back at the Falcon’s Nest, where my friends and I snuck into a private party on St Patrick’s Day 2007. I bumped into a tall guy and the rest is history.
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These are galleys - uncorrected proofs - mostly for media, but I wasn't kidding about who wants one b/c we're doing it up for this big important book that will change the way we understand and study the south. Preorder the hardcover in all its glory here:
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I am from New England and all I've ever heard about is NE fall foliage but excuse me? Are we sure fall in NC doesn't rival? This is my neighborhood? I'm not even in the Blue Ridge Mountains??
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What a review of A NEW HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH by
@ScottWStern
👏 cc:
@pharvey61
@HstyMattersSyd
@profblmkelley
@marthasjones_
@nelsonhist
@katemasur
@HistoryCounts
A new history cuts against stereotypes, to show a region constantly changing—and whose future is up for grabs. From
@scottwstern
:
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Nothing better than a little reading on your front porch before the work day officially begins (and: galleys for
@CurwoodA
’s bio of Shirley Chisholm are HERE!)
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Truly love authors who just say "thank you!" when you bring them some good news about book coverage rather than using it as an opp to ask "and what about x or y?" I promise your publicist is on it. If you want to follow up, of course, just wait a beat! Let's enjoy the moment 🤩
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Advances from the printer of
@paulmrenfro
’s *The Life and Death of Ryan White* have arrived, and they look 💯
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I can't tell you how refreshing it was to speak with
@JessGrose
and read her piece this morning after a week of 🌠wild🌠 comments that missed the bigger issues at hand
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Sneak peek of
@UNC_Press
’s brand new, barely hot off the press Fall/Winter 2023 catalog! These southern apples (from the gorgeous cover of a new book from
@FoggyRidgeCider
) have traveled with me from North Carolina to the big Apple for sales conference and media calls 🍎 📞 🗞️
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