Bethany Wasik

Blue and beautiful with gin, Lillet, blue Curaçao, lemon, and a dash of absinthe.

A coupe cocktail glass on a bartop half-filled with blue liquid and garnished with a lemon twist.

A stressful start to the week but,
An end with new friends and neighbors and treats and a Corpse Reviver No. Blue.
Cheers, team.
You're the best and we did another Week.

Cover of book on bookshelf.

Thrilled to find I am thanked in the acknowledgements of my friend and colleague Sarah Griswold's terrific new book "Resurrecting the Past."

If you want to know about the Louve's connections to early 20th century Syria, be sure to pick up a copy!

@cornellupress.bsky.social

WITCHCRAFT IN THE MIDDLE AGES, by Jeffrey Burton Russell.

OLD NORSE FOLKLORE: MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, AND CHARMS IN MEDIEVAL SCANDINAVIA, by Stephen A. Mitchel.

BAD CHRISTIANS AND HANGING TOADS, by Rochelle Rojas.

🧙‍♀️Today seems like a good day to share three amazing books about the history of #witchcraft ✨✨🔮 💙📚

Check out more: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book-listing...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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YouTube video by The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute (The Proctor Institute) Turning Your Dissertation into a Book

FYI1: The superb webinar "Turning your Dissertation into a Book" is up!

FYI2: It's the 1st for "Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series" co-sponsored by @aupresses.bsky.social (HT, Faculty Outreach Committee) and hosted by Rutgers CMSI. #ReadUP #PublishUP

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A spread of roasted pumpkin seeds.

'Tis the season.

Big news: our longtime director is retiring and we're on the hunt for a successor (never a replacement!). Pros: we're a small, collegial team dedicated to publishing important regional and scholarly work; Oregon is a great place to live. Con: some might consider my interest in goats excessive.

About | Literary Arts Fund The Literary Arts Fund advances support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.

Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/

Fall 2025 ASEEES First Book Subvention Winners  | Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies ASEEES congratulates the recipients of the Fall 2025 First Book Subventions!

ASEEES congratulates Cornell University Press, recipient of the Fall 2025 First Book Subventions for Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums by Marisa Karyl Franz.
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“Orchestrating Power makes an original, deeply researched historical contribution to the field of American political development.” - Professor Elisabeth Clemens, author of ‘Civic Gifts’

(pre-order 40% discount: 09FORTY)

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

I’ve been regularly volunteering at a food bank for about a year and please, if you want to help, consider donating cash.

For $3, they can provide 15 meals and what they can do with the money you might spend on a few cans can be converted to vastly more in fresh fruit, vegetables, dairy, or meat.

The Soldier's Choice by edited by Hayden Pelliccia, Charles Brittain, and Harvey Yunis. foreword by Jeffrey Rusten | Hardcover | Cornell University Press In the pitch of battle, according to Pericles, the Athenian citizen-soldier chooses to die rather than leave undefended the democratic principles that Athens embodies: this defines The Soldier's Choice....

⚔️ In the pitch of battle, according to Pericles, the Athenian citizen-soldier chooses to die rather than leave undefended the democratic principles that Athens embodies: this defines THE SOLDIER’S CHOICE.

Edited by Hayden Pelliccia, Charles Brittain, and Harvey Yunis.

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Let's be friends.

If I do all my chores, I can go to the book sale...

Correction: rye brings more than a tiny bit of joy.

A coupe cocktail glass on a bartop half-filled with amber liquid and garnished with a lemon twist.

Friday.
Exhausted.
Found a tiny bit of remaining energy to make a Scofflaw.
A tiny bit of joy from rye, dry vermouth, lemon, grenadine, and Peychaud's.
Cheers, team.

A haunted house for academics but it is just flashes of all the times you've said "oh I'll catch up next week!"

If you like talking up books, @oupress.bsky.social has a job opening for a publicity manager!

We have an extraordinary backlist plus superb forthcoming titles in the pipeline.

Maybe YOU could help sell the sizzle of these steaks?

Job details and how to apply here:

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Good morning.

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Intrigued? More insight and praise for his book at the @cornellupress.bsky.social page: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse Joseph Kellner proposes an insightful interpretation of the immense popularity of bizarre theories and new spiritual movements that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Great praise for Joseph Kellner's "The Spirit of Socialism" in @foreignaffairs.com, that he provides "an insightful interpretation of the immense popularity of bizarre theories and new spiritual movements that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union." 1/2
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Can't tear down the books.

Solidarity.

I view them as a snapshot of how well the book is organized - at a glance, can a book browser understand the book journey? Are chapter titles too long or too succinct? Are the chapters unbalanced in length? Are there funky interludes or too many parts? Is there a Choose Your Own Adventure section?

...Did not think we would reach the wine and chocolate and hide in bed with books point so early in the week but what a happy surprise, team, here we are...

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Great news, #AncientBlueSky, #ClassicsBlueSky, &
@cornellupress.bsky.social book fans - "The Soldier's Choice" ed. by Hayden Pelliccia, Charles Brittain, and Harvey Yunis with foreword by Jeffrey Rusten, is now 💥officially💥 published: cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501783487/the-soldiers-choice/

Today was pretty maybe close to good after a while.

While not an exploding box (you'll have to read the book ;-)), something equally exciting was waiting for me on my doorstep today. My advance copies for Civil Blood arrived! A hearfelt thanks to my wonderful editor at @cornellupress.bsky.social @bethanywasik.bsky.social for making this day possible!