Philip Leventhal
@philipleventhal.bsky.social
Editor at Columbia University Press. I acquire in Film and Media Studies, Journalism, and Literary Studies. Opinions my own.
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Ever wonder how bookstores decide what books to stock out of the "Fifty thousand new books a year [published] in the United States"*? A bookstore buyer explains:
* 50k is just traditionally published books
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* 50k is just traditionally published books
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Interview: Fisher the Bookseller Explains How Bookstores Decide Which Books to Sell
The ins and outs of how books are bought and sold in bookstores
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November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Ever wonder how bookstores decide what books to stock out of the "Fifty thousand new books a year [published] in the United States"*? A bookstore buyer explains:
* 50k is just traditionally published books
countercraft.substack.com/p/interview-...
* 50k is just traditionally published books
countercraft.substack.com/p/interview-...
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"The administration ballooned, and inside the administration the financial technocrats took over. There was less and less sympathy with Columbia as a place of thought. It was more about Columbia as an enterprise..."
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www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
Mahmood Mamdani Doesn’t Want to Talk About Zohran
The Columbia scholar, and father of the mayor-elect, on politics, academe, and antisemitism.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
"The administration ballooned, and inside the administration the financial technocrats took over. There was less and less sympathy with Columbia as a place of thought. It was more about Columbia as an enterprise..."
www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
@columbiaup.bsky.social is currently hiring two editorial assistants. One to work w/ me and my colleague, who acquires in theory, philosophy, and religion. The other to work with the sociology/Black Studies editor and the editorial director/editor for Asian humanities. bit.ly/4nHDLMY
Editorial Assistant - Other NYC Locations, New York, United States
Job Type: Support Staff - Non-Union
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Salary Range: $46,400.00-$46,400.00
The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, includi...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
@columbiaup.bsky.social is currently hiring two editorial assistants. One to work w/ me and my colleague, who acquires in theory, philosophy, and religion. The other to work with the sociology/Black Studies editor and the editorial director/editor for Asian humanities. bit.ly/4nHDLMY
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For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Kelly Reichardt's THE MASTERMIND, and what her riff on the heist film has to say about labor, art, and entitlement lareviewofbooks.org/article/rebe...
Rebel Without a Clue | Los Angeles Review of Books
Elizabeth Alsop picks up the trail of Kelly Reichardt’s alienated art thief in “The Mastermind.”
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November 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Kelly Reichardt's THE MASTERMIND, and what her riff on the heist film has to say about labor, art, and entitlement lareviewofbooks.org/article/rebe...
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Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
On November 20th at 6:15, join Thomas Colley and Martin Moore for the launch of their new book, DICTATING REALITY: THE GLOBAL BATTLE TO CONTROL THE NEWS at King's College. bit.ly/43hRFhK @martinjemoore.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News (Book Launch) | King's College London
Martin Moore and Thomas Colley will discuss their new book, 'Dictating Reality', published with Columbia University Press, which focuses on how states are battling to control and shape the news in ord...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
On November 20th at 6:15, join Thomas Colley and Martin Moore for the launch of their new book, DICTATING REALITY: THE GLOBAL BATTLE TO CONTROL THE NEWS at King's College. bit.ly/43hRFhK @martinjemoore.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Seems like a good day for big ideas.
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production
Let CUNY socialize EdTech for all of us.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Seems like a good day for big ideas.
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Podcast on #DictatingReality with the excellent Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social speaking to Tom & I on everything from Orban's counterfeit public sphere to India's Godi media newbooksnetwork.com/dictating-re...
Martin Moore and Thomas Colley, "Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News" (Columbia UP, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Podcast on #DictatingReality with the excellent Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social speaking to Tom & I on everything from Orban's counterfeit public sphere to India's Godi media newbooksnetwork.com/dictating-re...
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A new generation of journalists emerges from the Amazon rainforest, just in time for COP30. Read Adriana Carranca. www.cjr.org/feature/repo...
A new generation of journalists emerges from the Amazon, just in time for COP30.
A new generation of journalists emerges from the rainforest, just in time for COP30.
www.cjr.org
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A new generation of journalists emerges from the Amazon rainforest, just in time for COP30. Read Adriana Carranca. www.cjr.org/feature/repo...
"[A]uthoritarian regimes are reinventing 'news' as a weapon to oppress opposition...This book is the ultimate guide to this brave *news* world."--Peter Pomerantsev
DICTATING REALITY, by Martin Moore and ThomasColley. bit.ly/3Xbzab9 @martinjemoore.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
DICTATING REALITY, by Martin Moore and ThomasColley. bit.ly/3Xbzab9 @martinjemoore.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"[A]uthoritarian regimes are reinventing 'news' as a weapon to oppress opposition...This book is the ultimate guide to this brave *news* world."--Peter Pomerantsev
DICTATING REALITY, by Martin Moore and ThomasColley. bit.ly/3Xbzab9 @martinjemoore.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
DICTATING REALITY, by Martin Moore and ThomasColley. bit.ly/3Xbzab9 @martinjemoore.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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"A rip-roaring tribute to a canonical work."
David Trotter on THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY, by Edward Mendelson. bit.ly/3Jvanf8 @lrb.co.uk @columbiaup.bsky.social
David Trotter on THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY, by Edward Mendelson. bit.ly/3Jvanf8 @lrb.co.uk @columbiaup.bsky.social
David Trotter · Unconditional Looking: Mrs Dalloway’s Demons
Virginia Woolf admired Jane Austen above all for her ability to grasp the exceptional moment – ‘in which all the...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"A rip-roaring tribute to a canonical work."
David Trotter on THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY, by Edward Mendelson. bit.ly/3Jvanf8 @lrb.co.uk @columbiaup.bsky.social
David Trotter on THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY, by Edward Mendelson. bit.ly/3Jvanf8 @lrb.co.uk @columbiaup.bsky.social
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The ICE detention of Sami Hamdi closely follows the deportation of Mario Guevara. Read @aidaalami.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...
Twin assaults on press freedom.
The ICE detention of Sami Hamdi closely follows the deportation of Mario Guevara.
www.cjr.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The ICE detention of Sami Hamdi closely follows the deportation of Mario Guevara. Read @aidaalami.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...
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Legacy Papers Have Been Weird and Hostile Toward Zohran Mamdani. The New York City mayoral candidate promises radical change that editorial boards don’t want, even if voters do. Read @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/leg...
Legacy Papers Have Been Weird and Hostile Toward Zohran Mamdani
The New York City mayoral candidate promises radical change that editorial boards don’t want, even if voters do.
www.cjr.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Legacy Papers Have Been Weird and Hostile Toward Zohran Mamdani. The New York City mayoral candidate promises radical change that editorial boards don’t want, even if voters do. Read @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/leg...
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Today is the official publication day for POETRY IN GENERAL: How a Literary From Became Public.
✨ Now available wherever books are sold ✨
Use CUP20 for a discount from the press
cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...
✨ Now available wherever books are sold ✨
Use CUP20 for a discount from the press
cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...
November 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Today is the official publication day for POETRY IN GENERAL: How a Literary From Became Public.
✨ Now available wherever books are sold ✨
Use CUP20 for a discount from the press
cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...
✨ Now available wherever books are sold ✨
Use CUP20 for a discount from the press
cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...
"[A] striking example of the power that cultural history can lend to narrative studies, and vice-versa."
Congrats to Alexander Manshel, whose book, WRITING BACKWARDS, was awarded the 2026 Perkins Prize. bit.ly/4oqeqbQ @manshel.bsky.social #LiteratureNow @columbiaup.bsky.social
Congrats to Alexander Manshel, whose book, WRITING BACKWARDS, was awarded the 2026 Perkins Prize. bit.ly/4oqeqbQ @manshel.bsky.social #LiteratureNow @columbiaup.bsky.social
Professor Manshel's 'Writing Backwards' was awarded the 2026 Perkins Prize!
The Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize is awarded to 'Writing Backwards', Professor Manshel's recent book! Established in 1994, the Perkins Prize honors Barbara Perkins and George Perkins, the f...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
"[A] striking example of the power that cultural history can lend to narrative studies, and vice-versa."
Congrats to Alexander Manshel, whose book, WRITING BACKWARDS, was awarded the 2026 Perkins Prize. bit.ly/4oqeqbQ @manshel.bsky.social #LiteratureNow @columbiaup.bsky.social
Congrats to Alexander Manshel, whose book, WRITING BACKWARDS, was awarded the 2026 Perkins Prize. bit.ly/4oqeqbQ @manshel.bsky.social #LiteratureNow @columbiaup.bsky.social
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“At every turn, ‘Dawn of the Dead’ invites us to consider whether the real zombies are the undead desperate to enter the mall or the living humans equally desperate to keep the mall to themselves,” the horror scholar Adam Lowenstein writes.
Opinion | The Last Days of a Zombie Mall (With Zombies)
What does it mean when a cultural epicenter is poised to be little more than a dearly departed corpse?
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November 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
“At every turn, ‘Dawn of the Dead’ invites us to consider whether the real zombies are the undead desperate to enter the mall or the living humans equally desperate to keep the mall to themselves,” the horror scholar Adam Lowenstein writes.
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How news is being used by states to create parallel realities - by me and Tom Colley for KCL www.kcl.ac.uk/how-news-is-...
How news is being used to dictate reality
In an age where state directed media and tightly managed information are enabling world leaders to determine their own narratives, it is harder than ever for global citizens to share the same…
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October 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM
How news is being used by states to create parallel realities - by me and Tom Colley for KCL www.kcl.ac.uk/how-news-is-...
Tonight at 5 pm, join Jennifer Scappettone as she presents her new book, POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES AND RESISTANCD TO FASCISM at the Organism for Poetic Research in NYC. tinyurl.com/3r8643mm @xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Tonight at 5 pm, join Jennifer Scappettone as she presents her new book, POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES AND RESISTANCD TO FASCISM at the Organism for Poetic Research in NYC. tinyurl.com/3r8643mm @xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
"[S]hows how to escape from oubliettes established by both disruptors and traditional educators." -- Nick Montfort
Now available: THE CLASSROOM & THE CROWD: POETRY & THE PROMISE OF DIGITAL COMMUNITY, by Al Filreis tinyurl.com/3ypn4h5w @afilreis.bsky.social @modpo.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
Now available: THE CLASSROOM & THE CROWD: POETRY & THE PROMISE OF DIGITAL COMMUNITY, by Al Filreis tinyurl.com/3ypn4h5w @afilreis.bsky.social @modpo.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
The Classroom and the Crowd | Columbia University Press
For more than a decade, Al Filreis has taught a free online course about experimental poetry, known as “ModPo,” that has drawn some 435,000 students from... | CUP
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October 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
"[S]hows how to escape from oubliettes established by both disruptors and traditional educators." -- Nick Montfort
Now available: THE CLASSROOM & THE CROWD: POETRY & THE PROMISE OF DIGITAL COMMUNITY, by Al Filreis tinyurl.com/3ypn4h5w @afilreis.bsky.social @modpo.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
Now available: THE CLASSROOM & THE CROWD: POETRY & THE PROMISE OF DIGITAL COMMUNITY, by Al Filreis tinyurl.com/3ypn4h5w @afilreis.bsky.social @modpo.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Just learned that WRITING BACKWARDS has won Narrative's 2026 Perkins Prize, "awarded to the book making the most significant contribution to the study of narrative in a given year." A true honor, especially given the prize's past recipients!
www.thenarrativesociety.org/barbara-and-...
www.thenarrativesociety.org/barbara-and-...
October 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Just learned that WRITING BACKWARDS has won Narrative's 2026 Perkins Prize, "awarded to the book making the most significant contribution to the study of narrative in a given year." A true honor, especially given the prize's past recipients!
www.thenarrativesociety.org/barbara-and-...
www.thenarrativesociety.org/barbara-and-...
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Disappointed I didn't get a chance to meet @afilreis.bsky.social during my recent visit to Penn, but very excited about his book, forthcoming from @columbiaup.bsky.social.
October 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Disappointed I didn't get a chance to meet @afilreis.bsky.social during my recent visit to Penn, but very excited about his book, forthcoming from @columbiaup.bsky.social.
"[A] smart and well-written take on a really original and influential professional of moving images." -- Jussi Parikka
HARUN FAROCKI: FORMS OF INTELLIGENCE, by Nora Alter, reviewed in *Leonardo.* tinyurl.com/54ukm9y6 @columbiaup.bsky.social
HARUN FAROCKI: FORMS OF INTELLIGENCE, by Nora Alter, reviewed in *Leonardo.* tinyurl.com/54ukm9y6 @columbiaup.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"[A] smart and well-written take on a really original and influential professional of moving images." -- Jussi Parikka
HARUN FAROCKI: FORMS OF INTELLIGENCE, by Nora Alter, reviewed in *Leonardo.* tinyurl.com/54ukm9y6 @columbiaup.bsky.social
HARUN FAROCKI: FORMS OF INTELLIGENCE, by Nora Alter, reviewed in *Leonardo.* tinyurl.com/54ukm9y6 @columbiaup.bsky.social
Tonight! At 6:30 at NYU's Casa Italiana, Jennifer Scappettone will be talking about her extraordinary new book, POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES & RESISTANCE TO FASCISM tinyurl.com/mwc9ua4m @xenoglossic.bsky.social #LiteratureNow @columbiaup.bsky.social
Poetry After Barbarism | Casa Italiana Zerilli—Marimò at NYU
Explore hundreds of free public events throughout the academic year related to Italian culture, produced and hosted by Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU.
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October 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Tonight! At 6:30 at NYU's Casa Italiana, Jennifer Scappettone will be talking about her extraordinary new book, POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES & RESISTANCE TO FASCISM tinyurl.com/mwc9ua4m @xenoglossic.bsky.social #LiteratureNow @columbiaup.bsky.social
"Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the discursive short circuits and contradictions that plagued the Soviet project of modernity."--Klara Kemp-Welch
REORIENTALISM, by Nariman Skakov. Use the code CUP20 and save 20%. bit.ly/4qbtj39 #ModernistLatitudes @columbiaup.bsky.social
REORIENTALISM, by Nariman Skakov. Use the code CUP20 and save 20%. bit.ly/4qbtj39 #ModernistLatitudes @columbiaup.bsky.social
Reorientalism | Columbia University Press
It is commonly believed that Stalinism ended a vibrant period in Soviet avant-garde art and literature. The triumph of socialist realism, in this view, curta... | CUP
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October 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
"Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the discursive short circuits and contradictions that plagued the Soviet project of modernity."--Klara Kemp-Welch
REORIENTALISM, by Nariman Skakov. Use the code CUP20 and save 20%. bit.ly/4qbtj39 #ModernistLatitudes @columbiaup.bsky.social
REORIENTALISM, by Nariman Skakov. Use the code CUP20 and save 20%. bit.ly/4qbtj39 #ModernistLatitudes @columbiaup.bsky.social