Anne Trubek

Do you assign it?

It puts all the others in better relief than so much of the reporting —aka “how was I to know?”

That Conroy cover!!!!!

This is a *great* story

Hope you are all prepared for this to turn into an Anna Brownell Jameson and Jane Johnston Schoolcraft stan account until my book comes out.

This is the best photo we have of Anna, taken around 1844 as she approached the peak of her fame.

She is marvelous! She needs to be seen!!!

Cover of the day

Oh I have not been! I went to room next to art institute. Gotta visit this, how cool

I was just there In Jan! is it that new?

The Pit: A Story of Chicago August 25, 2006  Financial ambition, a tortured marriage, and an American city on the rise are brilliantly depicted in Frank Norris’ 1903 masterpiece. Curtis Jadwin is obsessed with speculating on the...

me, shameless

The Pit: A Story of Chicago August 25, 2006  Financial ambition, a tortured marriage, and an American city on the rise are brilliantly depicted in Frank Norris’ 1903 masterpiece. Curtis Jadwin is obsessed with speculating on the...

This is the CHI one!

Frank Norris‘ The Pit! (Belt edition ;)

Omg I am so happy/relieved now

YES!!!! Thursday night at Checkerspot Brewery!!! I am hoping very few people show up (you, me, other cool Belt authors)!

thrilled to hear you say so!

Are you going to #AWP26 in Baltimore this week? Stop by the Belt Happy Hour on Thursday night at Checkerspot Brewing!

oooh maybe I get to see you through the fog?

Upper Penninsula! 1830s! Women writers! Untold history! This one has it all.

Literary Voyagers By Andrew WittkopOctober 13, 2026 A complicated friendship blooms during a fated meeting between two nineteenth-century women writers.  In the mid-1830s, the author Anna Brownell Jameson was called fr...

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ANOTHER cover reveal!!! (we all need cheering up!) We're so excited for this one, by @awestfell.bsky.social, coming next fall. From @beltpublishing.bsky.social with cover design by @downpourdw.bsky.social.

ladies like literature

Yes! What did these guys teach do you know? something more girly than Durkheim?

I spy a woman!

The pool of people who are interested in this debate is tiny and yet I remain undeterred!

I feel like everyone is misunderstanding this decision by the court not to review this case? Or else I’m missing something

that would be so fabulous! we're also planning to add contemporary illos/photos of the places described in our edition

me too!!!

Whet seems to be gone? Hopefully he'll be back. Cover design by @downpourdw.bsky.social

The Pit: A Story of Chicago August 25, 2006  Financial ambition, a tortured marriage, and an American city on the rise are brilliantly depicted in Frank Norris’ 1903 masterpiece. Curtis Jadwin is obsessed with speculating on the...

Cover reveal! Coming in August from @beltpublishing.bsky.social , with an introduction by Whet Moser. (Thanks to many of you here who encouraged we choose this title!)