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Brandeis University Press @brandeispress.bsky.social · Dec 9
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Happening tomorrow!💫

Join Kareem Khubchandani at Harvard Book Store to discuss his new book, LESSONS IN DRAG, in conversation with Durba Mitra. This event is free.

#AuthorEvent #BookTalk #Harvard #Brandeis #LessonsInDrag #GetYourCopyNow #BookishEvent
Promotional graphic for an author event featuring Kareem Khubchandani at Harvard Book Store. The center shows two overlapping copies of the book Lessons in Drag, with a close-up cover image of a drag performer wearing dramatic pink and purple makeup, large lashes, and jeweled accessories. A pink starburst on the right reads “Joined in conversation by Durba Mitra” At the top, bold yellow text says “Kareem Khubchandani at Harvard Book Store.” Event details at the bottom read: “November 21 at 7 PM, Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138.” The background is a gradient of warm pink and orange tones.
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Happening tonight! 🥛
Join Kirk Kardashian at the Mini Ilsley Library at 6:00pm to discuss his book, MILK MONEY. Books will be available for purchase and signing!

#BrandeisPress #MilkMoney #cashcow #dairyfarms #authorevent #vermont #middlebury #library
A promotional poster for an author event. At the top, large text reads “Kirk Kardashian at the Mini Ilsley Library.” In the center is a photo of a stack of the book Milk Money, with one copy standing upright showing a cow on the cover. To the left of the books is a blue starburst shape with the text, “Books will be available for purchase and signing!” At the bottom, event details state: “November 18 at 6:00 pm, Mini Ilsley Library, 30 Main Street, Middlebury, VT 05753.” The background features soft, translucent images of milk bottle caps.
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Excited to share Thomas Blubacher's feature in the @laist.com ! Check it out here: laist.com/news/la-hist....

#ThomasBlubacher #LAist #PacificPalisades #Weimar #GermanExiles #Feature #BrandeisUniversityPress
When German exiles found a home in the Pacific Palisades
Seeking refuge
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November 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Proud to join the #UPWeek Gallery and #TeamUP on Gender & LGBTQIA Studies! "Lessons in Drag" showcases university presses’ commitment to the latest scholarship.

Get your copy: brandeisuniversitypress.com/title/lesson...

#UniversityPressWeek #ReadUP #LessonsInDrag  #BrandeisUniversityPress
Square graphic for University Press Week, November 10–14, 2025. On the right is the colorful book cover of Lessons in Drag by Kareem Khubchandani with LaWhore Vagistan, showing a drag performer with bold makeup, jeweled accessories, and a confident pose. The title text is in gradient shades of pink, orange, yellow, and green. On the left, white text on a blue background reads: “Witty, bold, and deeply personal, Lessons in Drag is both an invitation to explore drag as a practice and a celebration of its transformative potential.” The bottom of the graphic includes hashtags: #TEAMUP #READUP #UPWEEK.
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Interested in reading more? Get your copy of “Lessons in Drag” now from brandeisuniversitypress.com/title/lesson...!
November 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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We celebrate university presses every day, but especially during University Press Week! ⭐️

This #UniversityPressWeek, #TeamUP with us to celebrate the incredible global community of publishing professionals that makes knowledge possible.

#BrandeisUniversityPress
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November 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Available now: ENACTing Change 📖

This book offers instructors recommendations for developing and teaching courses that engage in state-level policy advocacy.

#ENACTingChange #NewBook #BrandeisPress #CivicEngagement #Leadership #SocialChange #Democracy
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November 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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💫 Available now: LESSONS IN DRAG: A QUEER MANUAL FOR ACADEMICS, ARTISTS, AND AUNTIES by Kareem Khubchandani with LaWhore Vagistan 💫
Book publication announcement for Lessons in Drag: A Queer Manual for Academics, Artists, and Aunties by Kareem Khubchandani with LaWhore Vagistan. The cover features a drag performer with bold pink and white makeup, voluminous dark hair, and jeweled accessories. The text “AVAILABLE NOW” appears above the book cover on a gray background with pink and purple lighting accents.
October 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Don't miss las week's newsletter! Princeton UP Sale and On BS | Alternative Angles: Memory | Peter Rutland on George Orwell | Meet the Press: Brandeis University Press

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October 27, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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🎊 Exciting news!

Brandeis University Press is featured in the latest New Books Network newsletter: "Meet Us at the On BS Book Talk.” A huge thank you to New Books Network for the spotlight! 🌟
October 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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🌴 Available now: WEIMAR UNDER THE PALMS: PACIFIC PALISADES, GERMAN EXILES, AND THE INVENTION OF HOLLYWOOD by Thomas Blubacher, translated by Elizabeth Lauffer 🌴
Promotional image for the book Weimar Under the Palms by Thomas Blubacher, translated by Elisabeth Lauffer. The cover features a vintage illustration of a house with palm trees and a coastal landscape. Text at the top reads 'AVAILABLE NOW' and the subtitle of the book is 'Pacific Palisades, German Exiles, and the Invention of Hollywood.' A promotional graphic titled “Author Events” features three upcoming appearances. The first event is The Boston Book Festival at Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02116, on October 25 from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. The second is at NYU Deutsches Haus, 42 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003, on October 27 from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. The third is a Panel Discussion at Brandeis University in Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Brandeis Library, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, on October 28 from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm. The background shows palm trees against a blue sky with clouds. A promotional graphic titled “Author Events” lists two upcoming appearances. The first is a Lecture at Brown University, 190 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02912, on October 30 from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. The second is an event at The Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, 520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272, on November 5 from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. The background features palm trees against a partly cloudy blue sky, creating a warm, tropical aesthetic.
October 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Join John Gennari, Neil Leonard, and Rachel Ambaye for an evening of conversation and jazz at the Ford Hall Forum THIS Thursday, October 23, in the Modern Theater (Boston) at 6:00pm. 🎷
Promotional poster for an event titled “An Evening of Conversation and Jazz with John Gennari, Neil Leonard, and Rachel Ambaye.” The top features circular photos of the three speakers. Below is the book cover for The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life by John Gennari. At the bottom, event details read: “FORD HALL FORUM, Modern Theater, Boston, MA 02111,” with a gold location pin icon above the text.
October 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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We're so excited to see WEIMAR UNDER THE PALMS featured in Jewish Journal today. Preorder your copy now, out October 22!
Promotional image with a recent review for book called “WEIMAR UNDER THE PALMS.” Review is by “JEWISH JOURNAL.” Background image shows palm trees. Book cover shows Pacific Palisades coast.
October 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Join John Gennari at The Lenox Library THIS Saturday, October 18th, for the launch of THE JAZZ BARN 🎷

Books will be available for purchase at the launch and, as always, are available at our website!

#BookEvent #JazzMusic #MeetTheAuthor #BuyNow #LenoxLibrary #TheJazzBarn #Calendar #BookLaunch
Poster for a book launch event featuring The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life by John Gennari. The book cover shows a black-and-white photo of a man holding a saxophone on a wooded path. Large vertical text on the left reads “Book Launch.” Event details in a dark text box read: “October 18th at 2:00pm, The Lenox Library, 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA 01240.” The background consists of blurred bookshelves.
October 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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We’re delighted to see THE JAZZ BARN by John Gennari featured in All About Jazz today.
Graphic promoting The Jazz Barn by John Gennari. At the top, the All About Jazz logo appears with text reading, “on The Jazz Barn.” Below it, a review quote says: “The Jazz Barn is engrossing and essential reading for those interested in developments in jazz in the 1950s and beyond.” At the bottom, the book cover of The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life is shown, featuring a black-and-white image of a man holding a saxophone under a tree-lined road. The background shows a faded photo of a saxophonist in grayscale
October 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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We are thrilled to share that THE JAZZ BARN by John Gennari was reviewed by @berkshireeagle.com last week.
October 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Please join us on 10/27 at 6 PM for a reading by Thomas Blubacher from his book "Weimar Under the Palms: Pacific Palisades, German Exiles, and the Invention of Hollywood" (@brandeisuniversity.bsky.social 2025) and a conversation with Sabine von Mering. RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/weimar-und...
October 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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🎺 Now available: THE JAZZ BARN: MUSIC INN, THE BERKSHIRES, AND THE PLACE OF JAZZ IN AMERICAN LIFE by John Gennari 🎺
October 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Check out @wamcradio.bsky.social's Book Picks — featuring a special shoutout for John Gennari's THE JAZZ BARN: www.wamc.org/podcast/the-...

#BrandeisPress #booksky #newbook #universitypress #bookrecommendation #newengland #jazzhistory #jazz #musicbook #history #jazzstudies #massachusetts
Book Picks - The Bookstore in Lenox and Rough Draft Bar & Books
This week's Book Picks comes from Matt Tannenbaum from The Bookstore in Lenox, MA and Drew Broussard from Rough Draft Bar & Books in Kingston, NY.
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October 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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A special exhibition has opened at the New Bedford Whaling Museum featuring carvings from David Badger's collection of coquilla nut snuff boxes and bottles—as seen in PORTRAITS IN A NUTSHELL. brandeisuniversitypress.com/title/portra...
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Portraits in a Nutshell
The unique, intricately carved miniature objects featured in this book were created between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries as utilitarian and decorative containers for powdered snuff....
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September 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Lynn Greenky, author of WHEN FREEDOM SPEAKS, was invited by the @todayshow.com to comment on #JimmyKimmelLive's recent suspension.
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Jimmy Kimmel Suspension Ignites New Debate Over Free Speech
After ABC’s announcement that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” would be indefinitely sidelined after his comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination, many in support of the late-night host are now sounding the al...
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September 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Thrilled to see LESSONS IN DRAG in this @hyperallergic.com
list of art books not to be missed this fall!
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#artbooks #dragqueen #drag #academicbooks #NewBook #lessonsindrag #BrandeisPress #universitypress #lawhorevagistan #kareemkhubchandani @aupresses.bsky.social
12 Art Books to Read This Fall
A Louise Bourgeois biography, Joe Sacco’s latest graphic investigation, a Wifredo Lam catalog, a study of diasporic Nigerian women artists, and more.
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September 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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On #ConstitutionDay, we celebrate more than just a document—we celebrate the living, breathing principles that shape our democracy.
Add WHEN FREEDOM SPEAKS to your reading list to learn about exercising and protecting your constitutional right to the #freedomofspeech.
#FirstAmendment #booksky
Book cover of 'When Freedom Speaks' by Lynn Greenky, subtitled 'The Boundaries and Boundlessness of our First Amendment Right,' displayed against an American flag backdrop with blue sky. The cover features large typography with quotation marks crossed out in red.
September 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Out today! Two new editions expose the economic and environmental forces reshaping our communities.

🐄Milk Money: tinyurl.com/bdz77rnc
🌊Village of the Dammed: tinyurl.com/27nn2pjz

#agriculture #connecticut #vermont #dairyfarming #eminentdomain #conservation #environmentaljustice #booksky #newbooks
"Two book covers displayed against light blue background with 'New Editions' and 'Out Today' text overlays. Left: 'Milk Money: Cash, Cows, and the Death of the American Dairy Farm' by Kirk Kardashian with foreword by Senator Bernie Sanders, featuring close-up photo of black and white dairy cow. Right: 'Village of the Dammed: The Fight for Open Space and the Flooding of a Connecticut Town' by James Lomuscio, showing flooded wooded area with bare trees."
September 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I am in awe of the scope and level of detail that the authors have included in this new edition. The site profiles make for very interesting reading all in themselves. @brandeispress.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social #birding #Booksky

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Birdwatching in New York City and on Long Island (Second Edition)
For those birdwatchers living in or visiting the Big Apple, Brandeis University Press has recently published an updated second edition of "Birdwatching in New York City and on Long Island" by Deborah ...
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September 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM