Sonya Bonczek
@sonyabonczek.bsky.social
Director of Publicity and Communications at UNC Press 📚📣
Currently reading: Thy Will Be Done by John Garrison Marks (forthcoming April ‘26) and Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Currently reading: Thy Will Be Done by John Garrison Marks (forthcoming April ‘26) and Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
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📣 Our new @uncpress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalog is HERE ✨
This season showcases a wide-ranging list of books that dig into history, culture, politics, identity, environment, etc. to make sense of who/where we are now. A few highlights 🧵👇 uncpress.org/spring-summe...
This season showcases a wide-ranging list of books that dig into history, culture, politics, identity, environment, etc. to make sense of who/where we are now. A few highlights 🧵👇 uncpress.org/spring-summe...
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Me: “maybe I won’t read so much”
@uncpress.bsky.social: THE HELL YOU SAY
Six new books arrived yesterday to review for the podcast. Better get cracking.
@princetonupress.bsky.social - wassup
@uncpress.bsky.social: THE HELL YOU SAY
Six new books arrived yesterday to review for the podcast. Better get cracking.
@princetonupress.bsky.social - wassup
November 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Me: “maybe I won’t read so much”
@uncpress.bsky.social: THE HELL YOU SAY
Six new books arrived yesterday to review for the podcast. Better get cracking.
@princetonupress.bsky.social - wassup
@uncpress.bsky.social: THE HELL YOU SAY
Six new books arrived yesterday to review for the podcast. Better get cracking.
@princetonupress.bsky.social - wassup
@cwmonitor.bsky.social's roundup of this year’s best Civil War books includes several from @uncpress.bsky.social because, prove me wrong, UNCP remains the GOAT of Civil War scholarship 🐐 www.civilwarmonitor.com/article/the-...
The Best Civil War Books of 2025
What were the best Civil War history books published in 2025? A panel of historians offers their picks.
www.civilwarmonitor.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
@cwmonitor.bsky.social's roundup of this year’s best Civil War books includes several from @uncpress.bsky.social because, prove me wrong, UNCP remains the GOAT of Civil War scholarship 🐐 www.civilwarmonitor.com/article/the-...
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How do university presses #TeamUP to advance knowledge? A baker’s dozen inspiring examples in the #UPWeek Gallery include work by @ucpress.bsky.social, @dukepress.bsky.social, @mitpress.bsky.social, @uofupress.bsky.social, @uncpress.bsky.social & @ualbertapress.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/43CrodY
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
How do university presses #TeamUP to advance knowledge? A baker’s dozen inspiring examples in the #UPWeek Gallery include work by @ucpress.bsky.social, @dukepress.bsky.social, @mitpress.bsky.social, @uofupress.bsky.social, @uncpress.bsky.social & @ualbertapress.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/43CrodY
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Check out my latest in @newrepublic.com - a double review of two incisive new books (AIDS IN THE HEARTLAND and FROM VICE TO NICE, both @uncpress.bsky.social) chronicling the histories of HIV/AIDS far from NYC or SF - in places like Kansas and Minneapolis. newrepublic.com/article/2004...
How the Heartland Responded to AIDS and Shaped Queer Politics
Histories of the epidemic tend to focus on coastal cities, but the response was very different in the middle of the country.
newrepublic.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Check out my latest in @newrepublic.com - a double review of two incisive new books (AIDS IN THE HEARTLAND and FROM VICE TO NICE, both @uncpress.bsky.social) chronicling the histories of HIV/AIDS far from NYC or SF - in places like Kansas and Minneapolis. newrepublic.com/article/2004...
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The #ChasingBandits (@uncpress.bsky.social) book tour continues with a home game at Nichols College at 3 p.m. Nov. 19 in the Conant Library. Open to all. Come get some snacks and a book!
November 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The #ChasingBandits (@uncpress.bsky.social) book tour continues with a home game at Nichols College at 3 p.m. Nov. 19 in the Conant Library. Open to all. Come get some snacks and a book!
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I'm thrilled to announce that my book is now available for pre-order from UNC Press 🎉 Woohoo!
Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%!
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
@uncpress
Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%!
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
@uncpress
Waging Sovereignty
www.uncpress.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I'm thrilled to announce that my book is now available for pre-order from UNC Press 🎉 Woohoo!
Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%!
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
@uncpress
Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%!
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
@uncpress
Exactly what I imagine would greet me at the gates of hell
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Exactly what I imagine would greet me at the gates of hell
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Ok I may be biased but Jesse's forthcoming @uncpress.bsky.social book--on the white Appalachian migrant arm of Fred Hampton's Rainbow Coalition--is so good, with urgent lessons for anti-racist working class organizing today. John Sayles thinks so too. uncpress.org/978146969396...
It Is Not Enough to Survive
Formed in the late 1960s, the Young Patriots Organization was a Chicago-based radical group made up of young white migrants from Appalachia and the South who...
uncpress.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Ok I may be biased but Jesse's forthcoming @uncpress.bsky.social book--on the white Appalachian migrant arm of Fred Hampton's Rainbow Coalition--is so good, with urgent lessons for anti-racist working class organizing today. John Sayles thinks so too. uncpress.org/978146969396...
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
Pressed play on Rosalía and immediately left the mortal realm
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Pressed play on Rosalía and immediately left the mortal realm
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I'm very excited to sign a new contract for my next book with @uncpress.bsky.social. 🥂
My working title comes from Doug Rossinow's Politics of Authenticity. That title will almost certainly change. I'm deep in the clarifying stage, so maybe don't ask me for an elevator pitch at the moment....
My working title comes from Doug Rossinow's Politics of Authenticity. That title will almost certainly change. I'm deep in the clarifying stage, so maybe don't ask me for an elevator pitch at the moment....
November 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I'm very excited to sign a new contract for my next book with @uncpress.bsky.social. 🥂
My working title comes from Doug Rossinow's Politics of Authenticity. That title will almost certainly change. I'm deep in the clarifying stage, so maybe don't ask me for an elevator pitch at the moment....
My working title comes from Doug Rossinow's Politics of Authenticity. That title will almost certainly change. I'm deep in the clarifying stage, so maybe don't ask me for an elevator pitch at the moment....
📣 Our new @uncpress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalog is HERE ✨
This season showcases a wide-ranging list of books that dig into history, culture, politics, identity, environment, etc. to make sense of who/where we are now. A few highlights 🧵👇 uncpress.org/spring-summe...
This season showcases a wide-ranging list of books that dig into history, culture, politics, identity, environment, etc. to make sense of who/where we are now. A few highlights 🧵👇 uncpress.org/spring-summe...
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
📣 Our new @uncpress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalog is HERE ✨
This season showcases a wide-ranging list of books that dig into history, culture, politics, identity, environment, etc. to make sense of who/where we are now. A few highlights 🧵👇 uncpress.org/spring-summe...
This season showcases a wide-ranging list of books that dig into history, culture, politics, identity, environment, etc. to make sense of who/where we are now. A few highlights 🧵👇 uncpress.org/spring-summe...
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ICYMI: @aravensgrace.bsky.social was on @wunc.org Due South talking about fungi and her new book FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival
Listen here 👇🎧
www.wunc.org/show/due-sou...
Listen here 👇🎧
www.wunc.org/show/due-sou...
Fungus among us: new book explores the human connections of fungi. Plus, an analysis of Durham election results.
What happened in the municipal elections? We get morning after analysis on races in Durham – and turn our ears to Greensboro, Fayetteville, and a referendum in Charlotte. Plus, a new book on fungi, an...
www.wunc.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
ICYMI: @aravensgrace.bsky.social was on @wunc.org Due South talking about fungi and her new book FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival
Listen here 👇🎧
www.wunc.org/show/due-sou...
Listen here 👇🎧
www.wunc.org/show/due-sou...
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Read an excerpt from
@amyefarrell.bsky.social’s “Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA.” @uncpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/intr...
@amyefarrell.bsky.social’s “Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA.” @uncpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/intr...
Complicit in the Business of Indoctrination and Incarceration
By 1943, the Girl Scouts had a presence in every Japanese American internment camp.
www.hnn.us
November 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Read an excerpt from
@amyefarrell.bsky.social’s “Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA.” @uncpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/intr...
@amyefarrell.bsky.social’s “Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA.” @uncpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/intr...
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It's Timeeeeee 🗣️
Our Holiday Sale is here! Find the perfect gift for everyone on your list with 30% + FREE US shipping on orders over $75 🙌
Start shopping 👉 uncpress.org/holiday-sale/
Our Holiday Sale is here! Find the perfect gift for everyone on your list with 30% + FREE US shipping on orders over $75 🙌
Start shopping 👉 uncpress.org/holiday-sale/
November 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
It's Timeeeeee 🗣️
Our Holiday Sale is here! Find the perfect gift for everyone on your list with 30% + FREE US shipping on orders over $75 🙌
Start shopping 👉 uncpress.org/holiday-sale/
Our Holiday Sale is here! Find the perfect gift for everyone on your list with 30% + FREE US shipping on orders over $75 🙌
Start shopping 👉 uncpress.org/holiday-sale/
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Pub day 👑 Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore is officially here! @pantheonbooks.bsky.social
A decade-long labor of love, of unearthing an archive said to be lost, building relationships with her family, interviewing those who knew her, and
A decade-long labor of love, of unearthing an archive said to be lost, building relationships with her family, interviewing those who knew her, and
November 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Pub day 👑 Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore is officially here! @pantheonbooks.bsky.social
A decade-long labor of love, of unearthing an archive said to be lost, building relationships with her family, interviewing those who knew her, and
A decade-long labor of love, of unearthing an archive said to be lost, building relationships with her family, interviewing those who knew her, and
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My alma mater published a nice interview with me in their magazine where I talk about my book and experience as an undergrad. magazine.lynchburg.edu/article/hist...
History alum’s forthcoming book examines Washington’s complicated legacy
Dr. John Garrison Marks ’10 says he “learned how to be a historian” at Lynchburg.
magazine.lynchburg.edu
November 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
My alma mater published a nice interview with me in their magazine where I talk about my book and experience as an undergrad. magazine.lynchburg.edu/article/hist...
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This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
We are honored to receive the @rooseveltinstitute.org's 2025 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression, and to be among a stellar class of laureates including @wck.org, @cvt.org, and more. Details: tnvge.co/ZMIUg7v
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
Terrific review of @jlepler.bsky.social's "eloquent history of Nicaragua’s canal proposals during the 1820s."
The quest to link oceans has driven Central America to distraction. Read our latest review: Canal Dreamers @lepler @UNC_Press #Nicaragua #CentralAmerica #infrastructure #PanamaCanal #imperialism latamrob.substack.com/p/blurred-vi...
Blurred visions
The quest to link oceans has driven Central America to distraction. Review: Canal Dreamers, Jessica M Lepler, by Gavin O'Toole
latamrob.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Terrific review of @jlepler.bsky.social's "eloquent history of Nicaragua’s canal proposals during the 1820s."
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 6:23 PM
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 🌟
"What’s the cost of an entangled life?" Read an excerpt from Maria Pinto's FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS today in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/on-zombie-an...
On Zombie Ants, Parasitic Fungus, and the Violent Legacy of Anti-Blackness
“To be a person is to be worried that you might not be one.” –Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology * “Coherence is when the parts of an object weirdly overlap so that they become the “sam…
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October 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"What’s the cost of an entangled life?" Read an excerpt from Maria Pinto's FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS today in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/on-zombie-an...
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Excited for this UNC press/Proia/carceral double header in my course today
October 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Excited for this UNC press/Proia/carceral double header in my course today
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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...
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Scheduling at historical institutions is a temperature taking, and tertiary to the main issues. I'm reading this morning that most SNAP benefits will expire by November 4th, including ones subsidized by state governments. It'll affect - get ready - forty million Americans. 40,000,000.
October 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Scheduling at historical institutions is a temperature taking, and tertiary to the main issues. I'm reading this morning that most SNAP benefits will expire by November 4th, including ones subsidized by state governments. It'll affect - get ready - forty million Americans. 40,000,000.