Alan Thomas
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Editorial Director @UChicagoPress. On book publishing, literature, and photography.
Chicago
Joined March 2010
I am now on BlueSky (, and you can also find me on Instagram (
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RT @UChicagoPress: Farid Matuk's MOON MIRRORED INDIVISIBLE was reviewed in @PublishersWkly: "...Matuk (The Real Horse) weaves a rich tapest…
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RT @UChicagoPress: Congratulations to Jesse McCarthy, author of THE BLUE PERIOD, which has been longlisted for the National Books Critics C…
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RT @UChicagoPress: Congratulations to Julie Park (@JulieLong18thC), awarded an honorable mention for the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize!…
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Cover reveal — Allison Carruth’s “Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech” unmasks the tech industry’s quasi-religious faith in environmental engineering. Forthcoming in January. Preorder now with code UCPNEW for 30% off: @UChicagoPress
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John Guillory’s “On Close Reading” is here! See also Scott Newstok’s companion website, Close Reading Archive: Orders placed directly with @UChicagoPress are shipping now (30% off with promo code UCPNEW):
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RT @chloeahmann: 📣 As a @UChicagoPress featured book at #2024AAATampa, Futures after Progress is 30% off – with free shipping – now throug…
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RT @CriticalInquiry: "It was when I started reading Charles Bernstein more than fifty years ago that I began believing in reincarnation."…
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New this fall, the 11th and 12th books in Chicago’s #ThinkingLiterature series: Julia Jarcho’s “Throw Yourself Away: Writing & Masochism” and Leah Middlebrook’s “Amphion: Lyre, Poetry, & Politics in Modernity.” @UChicagoPress
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On the gargantuan concrete bunkers housing those seemingly incorporeal AI bots. Terrific story, complete with a primer on concrete (green and otherwise) by @TedCFishman @IEEESpectrum #concrete #AI
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Huge congrats to @PDabashi, whose "dazzlingly original and sophisticated" Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel is co-winner of the MSA First Book Prize! @msatweet @UChicagoPress
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Job opening in the @UChicagoPress books division: I'm hiring a Senior Editorial Associate and Acquisitions Department Coordinator to work out of our office in Hyde Park (hybrid OK). Please email with any questions. Details at link:
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RT @katelyneknox: And my amazing @UChicagoPress co-author, @AllisonVanDev is co-leading this workshop, too! If you're wondering what a "boo…
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“This is one of the most gripping accounts of a milieu it would bore me rigid to inhabit myself.” @TheTLS on @NateSilver538’s “On the Edge #classicblurb
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RT @lydia_moland: I'll use my paperback birthday to suggest humbly that Child is perfect for our moment.She fought tirelessly for racial ju…
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RT @PublicBooks: “Close reading allows us to make truth claims and to have disagreements about these claims. We can’t have disagreements if…
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