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Baltimore, MD: reminder! TOMORROW, 11/15, Bird in Hand will host the launch event for poet Bruce Snider's new collection, Blood Harmony; Bruce will be in conversation with James Arthur. 6 p.m. ET at The Ivy Bookshop, 11 East 33rd Street.

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Bruce Snider: Book Launch for BLOOD HARMONY (with James Arthur)
Eventbrite - The Ivy Bookshop presents Bruce Snider: Book Launch for BLOOD HARMONY (with James Arthur) - Saturday, November 15, 2025 at Bird in Hand Coffee & Books, Baltimore, MD. Find event and ticke...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Milwaukee: reminder! On November 18, Boswell Book Company will host will host Janet Burroway, in conversation with Kim Suhr, in celebration of Janet's new novel, Simone in Pieces! Learn more and RSVP (for free): boswellbooks.com/event/2025-1...
At top, text reads "Janet Burroway in conversation with Kim Suhr." Then there are photos of Janet Burroway and Kim Suhr on either side of a photo of the cover of Simone in Pieces. Then the event details: November 18, 2025 @ 6:30 PM, Boswell Book Company, 2559 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53211-4242
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Providence, RI: reminder! TOMORROW, November 14, Riffraff Bookstore will host the launch event for David O'Connell's new book of poetry, At Some Point! David will be in conversation with Julie Danho. Details: riffraffpvd.com/events/
At the top, text reads "launch event and signing: David O'Connell in conversation with Julie Danho, November 14, 2025, @ 6 p.m., Riffraff Bookstore in Providence, RI." At the bottom, a photo of the cover of At Some Point, which is mostly blue, looking into a window lit up with orange light, with a staircase visible
November 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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How do university presses #TeamUP to flip more backlist content to #OpenAccess? By collaborating on special projects like Big Ten Open Books! Learn more in today's blog post: press.umich.edu/Blog/2025/11... #UPWeek @bigtenacademic.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social
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November 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Chicago: reminder! Janet Burroway will launch her new novel, Simone in Pieces, tonight at Women & Children First, in conversation with Rosellen Brown! Details and (free) registration: womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/2025-1...
A graphic advertising the Women & Children First launch event for Janet Burroway's Simone in Pieces, in conversation with Rosellen Brown. The graphic includes a photo of the cover of Simone in Pieces and a photo of Janet Burroway, along with event details: Wednesday, November 12, 7 PM CT, 5233 N. Clark St in Chicago
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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For WORT FM, Sara Batkie interviews Emily Mitchell, author of the new story collection The Church of Divine Electricity: tinyurl.com/2wzsmv9x

Emily will be reading at Arts + Literature Laboratory in Madison this Saturday evening (November 15), along with Jenn Morea and Anthony Immergluck!
Emily Mitchell on the power of speculative fiction in strange times - WORT-FM 89.9
Author Emily Mitchell joins us to chat about her new short story collection, The Church of Divine Electricity.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Happy to #TeamUP with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social once again to celebrate #UPWeek: listen in on a podcast interview with AUPresses President @dlbookman.bsky.social, director @uwiscpress.bsky.social.

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November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Happy publication day to Lindsay Stuart Hill, whose new poetry collection WORLD OF DEW (winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry) is out today! Learn more about the book here: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/W/Worl...
At left, a photo of the cover of World of Dew. At top, text reads "available now" and at bottom "winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry." In between, two blurbs: “Hill’s poems ring with a lyrical clarity that invites us to embrace the mysteries of everyday life. These are poems to live in and to get lost in, and, if you are patient and lucky, to never quite find your way out of. Gentle, honest, and unstintingly truthful, this is a beautiful and life-affirming book.” — Ronald Wallace, judge, Brittingham Prize in Poetry “A tender and meditative collection, exploring joy, grief, loss, and wonder in sharp-eyed poems filled with grace. One can feel the poet’s wise gaze fall over these pages, lighting the natural landscape of Hill’s mind in all its enlightened awe.” — Safiya Sinclair At left, a photo of the cover of World of Dew. At top, text reads "more praise" and at bottom "winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry." In between, two blurbs: “In this remarkable collection, traveling can be an outward journey, an inner one, and sometimes both at the same time. The best poems here nourish the reader in deeply original ways. Reading them is like drinking the purest water from a hidden spring.” — Elizabeth Spires “What a marvelous debut! The sacred openness of each poem reveals a mind that thinks and feels with equal lucidity.” — Gregory Orr At top, a photo of the cover of World of Dew. Then, an excerpt from one of the poems: “We ended our tour on the bottom floor, in a large and empty hall, where there was a table bearing a tray of pumpkin muffins we weren’t allowed to eat. I imagined tearing one open, saw steam rising from the inside, and thought of how quickly a slip of butter would melt into the cake of it. We never had butter out for eating at home. It was always kept in the freezer, preserved until it was needed for baking. In that moment, I held the vanishing smear of it in my mind, and the imagined taste against the spices of the muffin was like the light from a match struck in the dark.” —Excerpt from “The Bahá’í School” At top, a photo of the cover of World of Dew and of the author, poet Lindsay Stuart Hill. Then, text reads "upcoming events with Lindsay Stuart Hill." Then, a list of events. Nov 11 Next Chapter Books in St Paul MN. Nov 20 The Atoria Bookshop in Queens NY with Emily Hockaday. Dec 1 Water Street Bookstore in Exeter NY with Diannely Antigua. April 14 Goucher College's The Kratz Center in Baltimore MD
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Happy publication day to David O'Connell, whose new poetry collection AT SOME POINT (winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry) is out today! Learn more here: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/A/At-S...
At top, a photo of the cover of At Some Point and the words "available now!" At the bottom, "winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry." In between, three blurbs: “Plain-spoken, warm, and affectionate poems give way to deeper observation as O’Connell turns a wry eye on finitude and mortality. These poems never leave us behind, embracing a world in which even a ‘lummox’ (like us) can be ‘gobsmacked’ by ‘so many choices’ that ‘the whole universe seemed possible.’ This is a capacious and big-hearted book.” — Ronald Wallace, judge, Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry “Marvelous. Delicate, durable, intimate in feeling, and sweeping in view, At Some Point rewards belief in an American poetry that wants to ravel language, that’s keen to the mesmeric, that recognizes awe can be located in the everyday. Poems like these are what happens when grace and intelligence decide to take a walk.” — Colin Channer, Rhode Island Poet Laureate “Consistently spare, precise, and thoughtful, these poems are, above all, intimate. Subjects are not merely observed but experienced and meditated upon until loneliness, joy, and grief are, as O’Connell writes, ‘observed as passing clouds, an innate meteorology.’” — Gary Fincke At top, a photo of the cover of At Some Point. Then, an excerpt from one of the poems: “Unable to carry // their overloaded backpacks, my daughter / and her friends wheel them to school / like battered airline luggage, struggling // to pull them along their shortcut / through the cemetery. As they cross, / she tells me, they’ll each, out loud, say // I'm sorry, though she’s not sure who / started this, and, pressed, rolls her eyes, / embarrassed to admit the reasons they do.” —Excerpt from “Intervale Cemetery”
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Happy publication date to Bruce Snider, whose latest poetry collection BLOOD HARMONY (winner of the Four Lakes Prize in Poetry) is out today! Learn more here: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/B/Bloo...
At left, a photo of the cover of Blood Harmony. At top, text reads "available now" and at bottom text reads "winner of the Four Lakes Prize in Poetry." To the right, two blurbs: “There is a mythic precision in Blood Harmony, a collection of the limits of recovery and language (‘There was always need in the needle’); heartbreaking elegy; and always Indiana, a place of ice and kerosene but also ‘unmown grass, sweetness, rain.’ No American poet is as empathetic as Bruce Snider.” — Randall Mann “In Blood Harmony, ‘the truck stop / is the ghost of a truck stop’ and songs of George Strait strike lightning. Snider’s devastating love poems for a ‘brother of Indiana tattooed on his calf’ show the body alive in itself, in this battle of desire and blood’s machinery.” — Jan Beatty At top, a photo of the cover of Blood Harmony. Then, an excerpt from one of the poems: “When I looked at him across the table, I wanted to lean over, crying out for what was lost. He sat there talking, talking. And our mother wanted to believe his new story. And our father wanted to remove the bolt from their bedroom door. I drove to a bar and ordered a whiskey then another and another until I felt the warm stupor wash over me Wasn’t I my brother now? Hadn’t we been interchangeable all along?” —Excerpt from Blood Harmony
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Reminder: Today's the last day to submit to the Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation, judged by Daniel Borzutzky! Learn more here: wicw.submittable.com/submit
On the left size, a red background with the University of Wisconsin press logo in white at the bottom and the text "Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation, judged by Daniel Borzutzky, submit by November 8 at wicw.submittable.com. On the left, a photo of judge Daniel Borzutzky and thumbnail images of the covers of What Sex Is Death? and The Roof of the Whale Poems
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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The @texasbookfest.bsky.social takes place this weekend in Austin and @elsaulhernandez.bsky.social, award-winning author of the poetry collection HOW TO KILL A GOAT & OTHER MONSTERS, will be on panels and signing copies of his book! If you're in the area, we hope you'll stop by!
A graphic created by the Texas Book Festival including a photo of Saul Hernandez and information on the festival itself (Nov 8-9 in downtown ATX), and in the upper right-hand corner a photo of the cover of HOW TO KILL A GOAT AND OTHER MONSTERS
November 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Washington, DC: reminder! Emily Mitchell will launch her new book of short stories, The Church of Divine Electricity, at Lost City Books TONIGHT, Nov. 6, at 7 PM, with Tania James!

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The Church of Divine Electricity by Emily Mitchell — Lost City Bookstore
A reading and conversation with author Emily Mitchell, moderated by Tania James. RSVP here About the book: Delightfully blending literary fiction with speculative genres, the stories in The...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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"Like my stories, the songs are pulled from a lot of different genres and time periods."

Emily Mitchell shared a playlist for her story collection The Church of Divine Electricity at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/11/04/e...
November 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Thanks so much to @gpgottlieb.bsky.social for interviewing Janet Burroway about her newest novel, Simone in Pieces! Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/simone-in-pi...
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Simone is 9 years old when she escapes from Belgium, her father shot by Nazis. Told from different perspectives, Simone in Pieces is a stunning historical novel that spans her life as a refugee, a student, a divorcee, an academic, and someone capable of love. newbooksnetwork.com/simone-in-pi...
November 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Today in @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social: Patrick T. Reardon reviews Janet Burroway's new novel, Simone in Pieces!

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Review: The Fracturedness of a Life, <em>Simone in Pieces</em> by Janet Burroway | Third Coast Review
Nearly six decades earlier, in 1940, out of the deep blackness of the shore of German-occupied Belgium, Simone walked...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Happy publication date to Janet Burroway, whose new novel SIMONE IN PIECES is out today!

Learn more here: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/S/Simo...
At left, a photo of the cover of SIMONE IN PIECES. At top, text reads "available now!" Then, two review quotes: “[This] novel might also be thought of as a guide to writing fiction, putting on display a wide array of techniques for portraying a character and unfolding a story. As Simone creates collages from fragments of photographs, this novel delivers similar aesthetic surprise and satisfaction.” — Kirkus Reviews “A well-crafted tale of a war orphan’s decades-spanning journey of self-discovery. . . . Burroway alternates Simone’s narration with evocative snippets from other characters’ points of view.” — Publishers Weekly At top, text reads "more praise for..." followed by a photo of the cover of SIMONE IN PIECES. Then, two review quotes and two blurbs: “A compelling story of love, loss, and the coincidences that make a life. . . . Readers will find themselves contemplating the trajectory of their own lives while following Simone on her long, winding road to a happy-ish ending.” — Library Journal “In the absorbing novel Simone in Pieces, a young refugee’s mutable identity diverts and sustains the course of her life.” — Foreword Reviews “Brilliant in conception and dazzlingly adept in its technical execution, Simone in Pieces proves once again that Burroway is a national treasure. She is at the height of her prodigious powers, exploring the great and enduring theme of literary art: the yearning for a self, for an identity, for a place in the universe. This is a must read.” — Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. "Austere and haunting. . . a must-read."--Adam Johnson At left, a photo of the cover of SIMONE IN PIECES. At top, text reads "more praise." Then, two blurbs: “In this brilliantly structured novel, Burroway presents the life of her heroine through the eyes of characters who come irresistibly to life and in turn bring Simone to life. Burroway writes with virtuosic authority about a life spanning more than sixty years; the result is both compelling and deeply satisfying. I would have followed Simone anywhere.” — Margot Livesey, author of The Road from Belhaven “I love this book. Each time the story baton is handed forward here, it’s with a precision and grace and élan that only Burroway has. Her instinct for what to do in the next line feels so natural, so right.” — Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times best-selling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter At top, a photo of the cover of SIMONE IN PIECES and text reading "additional praise." Then, three blurbs: “A capacious novel. For more than sixty years, Simone navigates her career and relationships, working through traumas and fragmented memory, and strives for self-realization during a precarious time for a woman academic. Moving, courageous, and thought provoking, Simone’s quest is both a love story and a triumph over her childhood tragedies.” — Yang Huang, author of My Good Son. “If there were such a thing as a cubist novel, Simone in Pieces would define the genre. Every chapter captures the woman at its center from a different angle, each a dazzling surprise. Burroway has found a brilliant way to portray a woman in search of herself and her dire history, lost and found many times over.” — Rosellen Brown, author of Before and After. “This book is stupendous. I loved it so, so much. An assemblage, fragments that bring vividly to life a woman, an era, a world—or rather many worlds—this book is a marvel and a delight.” — Ayelet Waldman, author of Love and Treasure
November 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Happy publication date to Emily Mitchell, whose new story collection THE CHURCH OF DIVINE ELECTRICITY is out today! Learn more: tinyurl.com/4jwdxnex

Emily has upcoming events in Washington, D.C.; Madison, WI; Richmond, VA; Columbia, MD; and Cleveland, OH!
At left, a photo of the cover of THE CHURCH OF DIVINE ELECTRICITY. At right, text reads "available now!" and then there are two blurbs: “Mitchell’s prose is crystal clear—there’s no hiding the ball. It’s thoughtful, perceptive, vivid—and can steam up a mirror! This is excellent work, flawlessly executed.” — Michelle Latiolais, author of She and Widow “These eerie fables of societies gone amok are almost too realistic to bear. Mitchell has written a fitting epitaph for our species: a darkly glittering gem of a book.” — Dan Chaon, author of One of Us At top, text reads "additional praise" and then there's a photo of the cover of THE CHURCH OF DIVINE ELECTRICITY. then a blurb: “Mitchell is one of our most astute chroniclers of the way we live now. These diabolically inventive stories, often wickedly funny, vary thrillingly in tonal register and form. They ask all the big questions, including: Are we humans gone awry worth saving? Together, they whisper yes.” — Maud Casey, author of City of Incurable Women At top, photos of the cover of THE CHURCH OF DIVINE ELECTRICITY and author Emily Mitchell. Then text reads "Upcoming Events with Emily Mitchell." Nov 6 Lost City Books in DC with Tania James, Nov 15 Watershed Reading Series at Art Lit Lab in Madison WI. Nov 20 Flying South Reading Series in Richmond VA. Dec 9 Wilde Readings at Queen Takes Book in Columbia MD. Jan 15 Loganberry Books in Cleveland OH with Dan Chaon
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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In @adroitjournal.bsky.social, Allison Wyss interviews Emily Mitchell, whose new story collection The Church of Divine Electricity publishes tomorrow: theadroitjournal.org/2025/11/03/a...
A Conversation with Emily Mitchell
Emily Mitchell is the author of The Last Summer of the World (W. W. Norton), a novel, and two collections of short stories: Viral (W. W. Norton, 2015); and The Church of Divine Electricity, winner …
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November 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Many thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social & @poetmorgan.bsky.social for including Bruce Snider's Blood Harmony in this month's recommended poetry collections!

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Ancient Algorithms, Hauntings, and Sweet Repetitions: This November in Poetry
In the month’s poetry round-up, repetition reigns as poets push at its boundaries through acts of translation and transformation. Katrine Øgaard Jensen throws a translation party full of corruptive…
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November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Today in @electricliterature.com: "My Brothers and I Could Not Be More Different," an excerpt adapted from @600mildollarman.bsky.social Steve Majors's new memoir, Man Made: electricliterature.com/my-brothers-...
My Brothers and I Could Not Be More Different - Electric Literature
Rick believes I am an outsider in our Black family. Even I must concede that
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October 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Mark your calendars: on November 3, Portage County Public Library's Stevens Point Branch will host Anthony Bukoski, author of the story collection The Thief of Words! www.pocolibrary.org/all-library-...
In the middle, photos of Anthony Bukoski and of the cover of his most recent book, The Thief of Words. Text at the top and bottom of the graphic reads: Anthony Bukoski, reading from his short story collection. Portage County Public Library, Stevens Point Branch, November 3, 2025, 6:30 PM
October 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Congratulations to Steve Majors @600mildollarman.bsky.social, whose new memoir Man Made: In Search of Dads, Daddies, Father Figures, and Fatherhood is out today! Learn more about the book: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/M/Man-...
At top, text reads "available now!" and on the left side there's a small photo of the cover of MAN MADE. To the right, two blurbs: “With moving, honest, and incisive prose, Majors unravels his lifelong search for father figures, family, and allies, as he comes of age as a gay, Gen X, multiracial Black man—and eventually becomes a father himself—in a wounded and closeted world.” — Anne Liu Kellor, author of Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging “A quest of self-discovery told with aching tenderness and layered insights, Majors’s Man Made captivates while providing context for a rethink of one’s own notions of maleness.” — Jeffrey Dale Lofton, author of Red Clay Suzie At top, a small photo of the cover of MAN MADE and the words "more praise..." and then two blurbs: “An honest look at trying and failing and yearning and learning and sometimes succeeding to carve out one’s own shifting gay identity amid the storm of toxic masculinity we all must wade through since birth. These vividly rendered snapshots of childhood and family and lush encounters with a variety of men, though brief, are impactful. Majors is an incredibly wise, artful storyteller, and Man Made is a generous offering.” — Christopher Gonzalez, author of I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat “Steve Majors writes from experience with a clear eye and a steady hand. I trust him: he is blunt about his mistakes and open about his loves. This book is a glorious reminder that life has no instruction manual—you figure it out as you go.” — James Whorton Jr., author of Angela Sloan At top, the words "additional praise for" and then a small photo of the cover of MAN MADE. Then two blurbs: “Much more than a ‘memoir in essays,’ Man Made takes us along the arc of Majors’s life with candor, poignancy, and at times piercing wisdom. Its meditations on gayness, masculinity norms, parenting, and racial identity are deeply resonant with our times, and there were moments when, as a gay man, I found the book all too relatable. Majors’s prose flies off the page and pierces the heart.” — Michael Sadowski, author of Men I’ve Never Been “In its frankness and willingness to say what is hardly ever said about Black gay experience, Man Made does what all good books do—shows its readers how much they are not alone. In our community, manhood is a field of contradictions riddled with land mines. Yet Majors depicts this complexity with the wide-eyed clarity of a hopeful, innocent, and put-upon child.” — Ricky Tucker, author of And the Category Is . . .
October 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Thanks so much to @wibookfestival.bsky.social for hosting @blemer.bsky.social, author of The Lonely Veteran's Guide to Companionship, at the #wibookfest Fall Celebration!

There's a weekend full of events, so if you're out and about in Madison, check out the schedule: www.wisconsinbookfestival.org
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October 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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It's the last day of the #afsam25 in-person exhibit; we hope you'll stop by to check out recent titles and chat with acquisitions editor @kilravockrose.bsky.social!

If you're not here in person, you can browse our exhibit online with the discount code (AFS25UWISC): uwpress.wisc.edu/About/Exhibi...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM