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We invite you to join the American Writers Museum in Chicago for a special event featuring "Assembling Religion" author Kati Curts. Part of the "American Prophets," this event on March 5th will also be livestreamed:
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"You had to see the city from their perspective."
Axios Detroit features Nicole Trujillo-Pagán's "Detroit Never Left," examining race, place, and who Detroit's revitalization really serves. Out next week, March 3.
Read it here:
In celebration of its forthcoming publication, we hope you will join NYSEAN for the book launch of "Enduring Otherwise" by Ferdiansyah Thajib on March 18th!
In-person and Virtual attendance are both available.
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I’m also very much looking forward to visiting the @uvmvermont.bsky.social next week for a book talk on "Martyrs and Migrants" @nyupress.bsky.social.
Here are the details:
Date: Tuesday, March 3
Time: 3:30–5:00 PM
Location: Lafayette 210
If you are in the area, I’d love to see you there.
📷Happy to announce Letters That Breathe Fire by Margaret Randall is officially released!
Described as “a passionate and volcanic record of an era that patiently waits to reemerge from the memory of the world" by poet and artist Leandro Katz.
Order through @nyupress.bsky.social here: bit.ly/3OzqmuL
In this exciting new release,"No Restraint: Disabled Children and Institutionalized Violence in America's Schools," author Charles Bell exposes the widespread and harmful use of restraint and seclusion against disabled students in U.S. public schools.
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"Letters That Breathe Fire" features letters to the editor published in the bilingual literary magazine El Corno Emplumado including from writer, poet and educator, Kathleen Fraser.
Read more when the book comes out this Feb 24th!
Pre-order through @nyupress.bsky.social here: bit.ly/4aDjBzk
Join Full Circle Bookstore for a book-signing event featuring Melinda Chen on Tuesday, April 7th.
Discover her insightful book, "Killing Radicalism," which explores government-regulated victim advocacy.
Event details: buff.ly/7bDD4pu
Writer Richard Modiano declares, "[Letters That Breathe Fire] is a living archive of how literature once moved through the world—slowly, stubbornly, and with moral urgency."
Pre-order your own copy of Letters That Breathe Fire through @nyupress.bsky.social here: bit.ly/4aDjBzk
We invite you to join this upcoming book launch of "Enduring Otherwise: Muslim Queer and Trans Worldmaking in Indonesia" by Ferdiansyah Thajib on March 18th.
Many thanks to the organizers, @nysean.bsky.social, co=sponsors@sunycunyseac.bsky.social and NYU MAIR Program!
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Five years after Winter Storm Uri, Disabled Power by Angela Frederick asks who gets left behind when the grid fails—and why that question is only becoming more urgent.
From a new interview with @climateconnections.bsky.social:
We're excited to share that Kyla Wazana Tomkins has been awarded the 2025 Alan Bray Memorial Prize for her book, "Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot."
Congratulations to all the honorees!
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We're thrilled to see Andrew Guthrie Ferguson featured on the Direct Connection program with host Jeff Salkin earlier this month!
You can find this episode on @pbs.org now!
Check out the latest on @myhnn.bsky.social: an excerpt from Kelley Kreitz's Work, "Printing Nueva York."
Kreitz explores early 1900s letters-to-the-editor, highlighting Arturo Schomburg's view of newspapers as defenses against white supremacy in the Americas.
Congratulations to all the awardees, and we're grateful for the continued support and recognition from the @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social.
You can find the full press release here: buff.ly/OHfxoUi
We're thrilled to share that "Jews in the Soviet Union: A History: Revolution, Civil War, and New Ways of Life, 1917–1930, Volume 1" by Elissa Bemporad has been recognized as the Winner of the 75th National Jewish Book Award in the category of History!
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Row of books on a pink background, with speaker photos. Text reads: Publishing in a Series for Your First Book, March 2, 1-2 pm, part of the Ideas on Fire First Book Publishing Series
We’ve got some great speakers at our Publishing in a Series for Your First Book webinar on March 2! Hear directly from series editors and authors from @nyupress.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social and @dukepress.bsky.social to better understand the book series process.
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Uncover the hidden federal regulation of assisted reproductive technology and reproductive genetic innovation in this exciting new release, "Regulating Conception: Science, Politics, and Reproductive Genetic Innovation" by Myrisha S. Lewis.
Learn more: buff.ly/d9vA9Yd
It's here! My book, Regulating Conception: Science, Politics, and Reproductive Genetic Innovation, was published today! You can buy a copy through Amazon, @nyupress.bsky.social , or other online retailers. Links below!
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Including interviews with over 200 people, this is a fascinating look into a rarely seen world that successfully locates the necropolitical within the queer and the queer within the necropolitical.
@nyupress.bsky.social
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Announcement of the winners of the GLQ caucus prizes for 2025. Deviant Matter won best book in Queer Studies! Thank you to the queers, you like me you really like me.
My monograph Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot has won the 2025 Alan Bray memorial Prize for best book in Queer Studies from @americanstudiesbu.bsky.social and @modernlanguage.bsky.social — thank you GLQ caucus! And thanks to @nyupress.bsky.social for always supporting my work.
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How do we come to terms with being surveilled in a democracy? How do we limit the risk that our data will be used against us? Andrew Guthrie Ferguson discusses how smart devices could be weaponized in criminal cases on the blog.
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We're happy to announce this new release: "Civility Unbound: Contesting a Democratic Value"
edited by Michael DiNiscia and Ellyn M. Toscano. This book provides a critical examination of civility’s paradoxes and offers a path forward for dialogue and compromise.
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We're ending this week with an exciting new release: "Complex Innocence: Decriminalizing Black, Brown, and Indigenous Victims of Police Killings" by Lisa Marie Cacho, who examines how U.S. law and culture criminalize victims of state violence while shielding officers.
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Please join the Detroit Public Library on April 19th for a discussion with the author of "The Projects: A New History of Public Housing," Howard Husock, and Jarrett Skorup.
The program will also be accessible through Zoom.
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Explore the global landscape of abortion law reform in this latest release: "Accessing Abortion: Global and Comparative Perspectives," edited by Rachel Rebouché and Mindy Jane Roseman.
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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson joins the American Campus Podcast to discuss his forthcoming title, "Your Data Will Be Used Against You."
With a focus on higher education, he dives into how colleges harvest and monetize data.
Listen on your favorite podcasting app or directly here:
Ralina Joseph, author of "Racial Exhaustion: How to Move Through Racism in the Wake of DEI," will be speaking at the Annenberg School for Communication on March 26th.
With her extensive experience in inclusion in higher education, we hope to see you there.
RSVP: buff.ly/cd6p7jo
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We're thrilled to see "Organize or Burn" by Fabian Holt featured in Jacobin!
Reviewer David Duhalde, who was interviewed for the book, calls it "the best book on the new Democratic Socialists of America yet."
