Anne Trubek

Ugh this sucks

Stocks are ⬇️ which means thrifting is ⬆️!

no fucking way!!!!

American Made: Stories of Work from the WPA July 14, 2026 What was it like to work in a factory when American manufacturing was all ‘onshore’?   As part of the New Deal’s Federal Writers Project (a subset of the Works Progress Administration) d...

ARCs are now available by request! Email publicity at beltpublishing dot com. Perfect for your (counter) America 250 coverage ;)

Starts next Monday--

A Day in the Life of a Publisher, Conference Interlude My mini book proposal course starts in one week!

I report on The Conferences

I always think there’s something wrong with me!

You: NYT chose my book as a buzz title!
Me: Illinois state legislature wrote a proclamation!

This kind of thing is the BEST part of my job. Just pure frigging pride

This is what we specialize in! 5x7 trim, about 40-60k. People love the size

Paper is expensive! And increasingly so. That’s why we specialize in short books!

It was Gary Stevenson’s The Trading Game

”I read a book” lol

I read a book that convinced me the market will always go up b/c rich people, so now I am excited when the market falls b/c I know they will stop doing whatever madness is causing the drop. Ergo: bombing will end by Monday

2/2 OMG, the books in that fantastic library are being destroyed! Tragedy in 17th-century Amsterdam as documented by Jan van der Heyden in his book about fire-fighting.

Who knew?!

There are 645 exhibitors

Depends! There are lots of college lit mags and very small pressss here, and I imagine it’s a sizable slice for them (plus travel costs etc). People dont buy much in my experience.

Registration rates

pay more and you get a better spot

Absolutely no one I mentioned this to (while chatting on the exhibit floor) thought it a good idea, damnit

There are *hundreds and hundreds* of people buying these. Last year I suggested we skip AWP for one year, and everyone use that money to buy books from exhibitors. It would absolutely mean a significant increase in revenue for many many presses.

Just go back to clicking the link, reading the (confusing) article, maybe asking a question. that’s the good stuff, on that we all agree

No one has ruled that a person who uses AI can’t copyright the work. This has not happened!

The Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art The highest court in the US declined to review a case about copyrighting artwork created with the help of AI.

only if “you” = AI company. Everyone I see misunderstanding this and not actually reading. And they are the vehemently anti-AI people!!

Ralph Ellison’s typescript from an oral interview he did in Harlem in 1938 for the US government, from the galley to my forthcoming book

The edge of the world - Chicago Reader Belt Publishing’s anthology On an Inland Sea collects 33 stories on the Great Lakes, with a focus on what the lakes mean to people now.

Getting my name in the @chicagoreader.com is a pretty major Chicago bucket list item for me: review of On an Inland Sea: Writing the Great Lakes

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We need better words! You know, the things we borrow from others to communicate…

@janefriedman.com AND @kathmschmidt.bsky.social? In this economy? [kermit flailing]