Matthew Somoroff
@matthewsomoroff.bsky.social
project editor at UNC Press; music studies PhD; lifetime jazzhead; Queens (NY) native, Durham (NC) resident
everybody talks about that fraught moment when you open Outlook and wait for your inbox to load, but what about the frisson of dread when you open author-reviewed files
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
everybody talks about that fraught moment when you open Outlook and wait for your inbox to load, but what about the frisson of dread when you open author-reviewed files
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November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Team, I have great news.
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Matthew and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Style Sheet from the Copyeditor
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Matthew and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Style Sheet from the Copyeditor
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Happy University Press Week! Have you told your university press how much you love them lately?? 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Happy University Press Week! Have you told your university press how much you love them lately?? 🥰
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If it didn't burst,
he's spared the wurst
he's spared the wurst
Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”
November 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
If it didn't burst,
he's spared the wurst
he's spared the wurst
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November 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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miraculously, I remembered to get up for like 2 minutes and do some very basic stretches in my office and now my body feels at least 35 percent better. remember to move and stretch a little!
November 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
miraculously, I remembered to get up for like 2 minutes and do some very basic stretches in my office and now my body feels at least 35 percent better. remember to move and stretch a little!
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The inimitable Ashley Howard talks about her new @uncpress.bsky.social book MIDWEST UNREST and her love of books generally in this feature from Iowa Now. Check out that bookish photo gallery! now.uiowa.edu/news/2025/10...
UI professor, first-time author Ashley Howard talks about books that inspire her
The history and African American Studies professor published her first book in June.
now.uiowa.edu
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The inimitable Ashley Howard talks about her new @uncpress.bsky.social book MIDWEST UNREST and her love of books generally in this feature from Iowa Now. Check out that bookish photo gallery! now.uiowa.edu/news/2025/10...
to feel something,* I'm going to begin a campaign of sending daily feedback messages to Microsoft telling them that I have no interest in Copilot and would like the option to completely hide all Copilot icons and buttons in my computer's interface.
* the frisson of pissing in the wind
* the frisson of pissing in the wind
November 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
to feel something,* I'm going to begin a campaign of sending daily feedback messages to Microsoft telling them that I have no interest in Copilot and would like the option to completely hide all Copilot icons and buttons in my computer's interface.
* the frisson of pissing in the wind
* the frisson of pissing in the wind
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A year ago you would not convince me that People magazine would be the last mainstream outlet left opposing fascism
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
A year ago you would not convince me that People magazine would be the last mainstream outlet left opposing fascism
weekends? never heard of em
November 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
weekends? never heard of em
it’s just wrong, man
November 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
it’s just wrong, man
A STARRED REVIEW FROM KIRKUS, Y'ALL
Great Circle Books is 2 for 2! Both of the first 2 titles in the series have earned starred reviews from Kirkus: Stephanie Smith’s EVERYWHERE THE UNDROWNED started us off and now Maria Pinto’s FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS earns that 🌟
FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS | Kirkus Reviews
Common mushrooms provide a springboard for wide-ranging essays.
www.kirkusreviews.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
A STARRED REVIEW FROM KIRKUS, Y'ALL
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How does one recover from and process a generational storm like Helene? For UNC Press author @shuffard.bsky.social and his friends, the answer was through music.
Learn about the making of their band Spell of Leaves and their new single Old Fort Loops ⤵️
uncpressblog.com/2025/10/30/o...
Learn about the making of their band Spell of Leaves and their new single Old Fort Loops ⤵️
uncpressblog.com/2025/10/30/o...
Old Fort Loops: A Soundtrack of Resilience After Hurricane Helene - UNC Press Blog
How does one recover from and process a generational storm like Helene? For UNC Press author Scott Huffard and his friends, the answer was through music. When Helene swept through the Banner Elk area ...
uncpressblog.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
How does one recover from and process a generational storm like Helene? For UNC Press author @shuffard.bsky.social and his friends, the answer was through music.
Learn about the making of their band Spell of Leaves and their new single Old Fort Loops ⤵️
uncpressblog.com/2025/10/30/o...
Learn about the making of their band Spell of Leaves and their new single Old Fort Loops ⤵️
uncpressblog.com/2025/10/30/o...
just said to a colleague, re: an orthography question,
it's all made up anyway. "standards" are such because at some point people decided what was standard and gradually consensus accumulated
it's all made up anyway. "standards" are such because at some point people decided what was standard and gradually consensus accumulated
October 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
just said to a colleague, re: an orthography question,
it's all made up anyway. "standards" are such because at some point people decided what was standard and gradually consensus accumulated
it's all made up anyway. "standards" are such because at some point people decided what was standard and gradually consensus accumulated
up ahead, on the horizon:
NEW YEAR. NEW YOU. NEW INSTRUCTIONS FROM YOUR MANUSCRIPT EDITORIAL TEAM.
STAY ALERT. DO SOME JUMPING JACKS. DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY.
NEW YEAR. NEW YOU. NEW INSTRUCTIONS FROM YOUR MANUSCRIPT EDITORIAL TEAM.
STAY ALERT. DO SOME JUMPING JACKS. DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY.
October 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
up ahead, on the horizon:
NEW YEAR. NEW YOU. NEW INSTRUCTIONS FROM YOUR MANUSCRIPT EDITORIAL TEAM.
STAY ALERT. DO SOME JUMPING JACKS. DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY.
NEW YEAR. NEW YOU. NEW INSTRUCTIONS FROM YOUR MANUSCRIPT EDITORIAL TEAM.
STAY ALERT. DO SOME JUMPING JACKS. DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY.
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Stop what you're doing and check out this @wsj.com review for HOUSE OF DIGGS by @marionorrauthor.bsky.social 😎
"A rewarding portrait of Diggs’s career as a civil-rights activist and legislator . . . "—David Garrow
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
"A rewarding portrait of Diggs’s career as a civil-rights activist and legislator . . . "—David Garrow
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
‘House of Diggs’ Review: A Political Legacy Stained
Rep. Charles Diggs was a dogged fighter of racial exclusion and discrimination, though his tenure in office would end in scandal.
www.wsj.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Stop what you're doing and check out this @wsj.com review for HOUSE OF DIGGS by @marionorrauthor.bsky.social 😎
"A rewarding portrait of Diggs’s career as a civil-rights activist and legislator . . . "—David Garrow
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
"A rewarding portrait of Diggs’s career as a civil-rights activist and legislator . . . "—David Garrow
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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And to be clear: a huge reason, maybe the reason, that presses like Graywolf, Coffee House, Copper Canyon, even Dalkey (now under Deep Vellum) are what they are today—that the nonprofit field is as it is today—is b/c of Mellon and Wallace in 91. 34 years ago. This fund can do big, big things.
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/
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.
literaryartsfund.org
October 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
And to be clear: a huge reason, maybe the reason, that presses like Graywolf, Coffee House, Copper Canyon, even Dalkey (now under Deep Vellum) are what they are today—that the nonprofit field is as it is today—is b/c of Mellon and Wallace in 91. 34 years ago. This fund can do big, big things.
proud and privileged to have done some developmental editing on this book
Congratulations to Darren Mueller, whose book "At the Vanguard of Vinyl" has been named the winner of the 2025 Award for Excellence in Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz, given by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. www.dukeupress.edu/at-the-vangu...
October 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
proud and privileged to have done some developmental editing on this book
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"Maria Pinto has somehow made fungi fun, engaging and understandable, even to a non-science person like me."
FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS by @aravensgrace.bsky.social included in @karlajstrand.com's October 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us in @msmagazine.com 👏
msmagazine.com/2025/10/07/b...
FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS by @aravensgrace.bsky.social included in @karlajstrand.com's October 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us in @msmagazine.com 👏
msmagazine.com/2025/10/07/b...
October 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in October 2025.
msmagazine.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Maria Pinto has somehow made fungi fun, engaging and understandable, even to a non-science person like me."
FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS by @aravensgrace.bsky.social included in @karlajstrand.com's October 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us in @msmagazine.com 👏
msmagazine.com/2025/10/07/b...
FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS by @aravensgrace.bsky.social included in @karlajstrand.com's October 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us in @msmagazine.com 👏
msmagazine.com/2025/10/07/b...
did you know you can place *multiple* reaction emojis on a single message in MS Teams??? I've not tested whether this is possible in other messaging platforms...
October 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
did you know you can place *multiple* reaction emojis on a single message in MS Teams??? I've not tested whether this is possible in other messaging platforms...
one project's files are past due but it's "fine" because I already am overwhelmed with the work I need to do on projects I have in hand
(I feel like this is relatable for anyone within publishing, but probably more universally?)
(I feel like this is relatable for anyone within publishing, but probably more universally?)
October 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
one project's files are past due but it's "fine" because I already am overwhelmed with the work I need to do on projects I have in hand
(I feel like this is relatable for anyone within publishing, but probably more universally?)
(I feel like this is relatable for anyone within publishing, but probably more universally?)
SOMETHING WILL HAVE TO BE DONE ABOUT THE NEGLECT THIS TWEET HAS RECEIVED
Something Will Have to Be Done (About the HVAC System)
—Lenin's little-known follow-up pamphlet
—Lenin's little-known follow-up pamphlet
October 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
SOMETHING WILL HAVE TO BE DONE ABOUT THE NEGLECT THIS TWEET HAS RECEIVED
it's now autumn and the heat in the building has started to come on intermittently, which means it's time to begin the great annual ritual of discussing how It's Too Hot in the Building
October 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
it's now autumn and the heat in the building has started to come on intermittently, which means it's time to begin the great annual ritual of discussing how It's Too Hot in the Building