Andrew Berzanskis
@aberzanskis.bsky.social
Book worker, University of Oklahoma Press. Personal account. andrewb@ou.edu
One reason I love staffing the @oupress.bsky.social booth at exhibits:
You can witness a passerby 30 feet away stop, pivot, point, and say, "I LOVED THAT BOOK."
Proud to be showing off the "Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed" series at #POD25!
You can witness a passerby 30 feet away stop, pivot, point, and say, "I LOVED THAT BOOK."
Proud to be showing off the "Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed" series at #POD25!
November 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
One reason I love staffing the @oupress.bsky.social booth at exhibits:
You can witness a passerby 30 feet away stop, pivot, point, and say, "I LOVED THAT BOOK."
Proud to be showing off the "Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed" series at #POD25!
You can witness a passerby 30 feet away stop, pivot, point, and say, "I LOVED THAT BOOK."
Proud to be showing off the "Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed" series at #POD25!
One of the most compelling books I have read recently: Craig Garnett's "Uvalde's Darkest Hour." Garnett deftly balances individual stories and community history, and events that inspire rage with those that offer hope. He writes with wisdom and grace.
(Good work, @tamupress.bsky.social.)
(Good work, @tamupress.bsky.social.)
November 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
One of the most compelling books I have read recently: Craig Garnett's "Uvalde's Darkest Hour." Garnett deftly balances individual stories and community history, and events that inspire rage with those that offer hope. He writes with wisdom and grace.
(Good work, @tamupress.bsky.social.)
(Good work, @tamupress.bsky.social.)
Clara Luper National Sit-In Plaza, Oklahoma City.
November 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Clara Luper National Sit-In Plaza, Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City, as seen from the patio of O Bar, a rooftop bar in Midtown.
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Oklahoma City, as seen from the patio of O Bar, a rooftop bar in Midtown.
Amazing how the mere definition of a scientific term can send a chill up your spine. From Daniel H. Wilson's novel "Hole in the Sky."
November 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Amazing how the mere definition of a scientific term can send a chill up your spine. From Daniel H. Wilson's novel "Hole in the Sky."
Even Zoom is getting very deep into Halloween.
October 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Even Zoom is getting very deep into Halloween.
Saw the title, had to buy it.
October 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Saw the title, had to buy it.
Downtown Books, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
October 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Downtown Books, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
October 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Folks at #WHA2025 are not the only ones doing the work of the historian at the Albuquerque Convention Center; in one sky bridge, there is also an artist with a brush and palette painting a magnificent fresco of New Mexico wine history.
October 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Folks at #WHA2025 are not the only ones doing the work of the historian at the Albuquerque Convention Center; in one sky bridge, there is also an artist with a brush and palette painting a magnificent fresco of New Mexico wine history.
Next year!
And the Colorado booth looks great!
And the Colorado booth looks great!
October 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Next year!
And the Colorado booth looks great!
And the Colorado booth looks great!
October 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
October 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Sometimes you are excited to read a book but cannot imagine a single other person in the world being interested in reading it, too.
October 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Sometimes you are excited to read a book but cannot imagine a single other person in the world being interested in reading it, too.
Thrilled to open the latest New Yorker and see an @oupress.bsky.social author. The press published José A. Rodríguez's exquisite memoir "House Built on Ashes."
October 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Thrilled to open the latest New Yorker and see an @oupress.bsky.social author. The press published José A. Rodríguez's exquisite memoir "House Built on Ashes."
Play the new Matt Moran and the Palaminos (Altus, Oklahoma) record "The Ba'ar" loud. Play it on repeat. Give your sterile suburban home that magic ambience of a dive bar, with its smoky moments of clarity, its ragged joy and redemptive pain.
September 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Play the new Matt Moran and the Palaminos (Altus, Oklahoma) record "The Ba'ar" loud. Play it on repeat. Give your sterile suburban home that magic ambience of a dive bar, with its smoky moments of clarity, its ragged joy and redemptive pain.
If you are at Colorado State University—I am going to join some savvy university press editors - @bridgetrbarry.bsky.social, @mickodopolous.bsky.social, @mallums.bsky.social, and Nicole Solano - for a day of publishing panels and 1-on-1 author/editor sessions this Thursday, 9/18.
Link below w/info!
Link below w/info!
September 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
If you are at Colorado State University—I am going to join some savvy university press editors - @bridgetrbarry.bsky.social, @mickodopolous.bsky.social, @mallums.bsky.social, and Nicole Solano - for a day of publishing panels and 1-on-1 author/editor sessions this Thursday, 9/18.
Link below w/info!
Link below w/info!
Many characters in the Peter Biles short story collection "Last November" get stuck inside their own heads. They find catharsis by risking the terrifying uncertainty that taking action may bring. My favorite story: the spooky and life-affirming "Polaroids from Tomorrow."
September 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Many characters in the Peter Biles short story collection "Last November" get stuck inside their own heads. They find catharsis by risking the terrifying uncertainty that taking action may bring. My favorite story: the spooky and life-affirming "Polaroids from Tomorrow."
I just preordered @kfrydl.bsky.social's new book "Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation." This sounds fascinating.
More about the book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
More about the book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
August 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I just preordered @kfrydl.bsky.social's new book "Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation." This sounds fascinating.
More about the book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
More about the book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
From Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings."
August 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
From Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings."
There is a lot of conversation about the decline of book reviewing.
So it seems worth celebrating venues that carry on—like World Literature Today (@worldlittoday.bsky.social), based in Norman at the University of Oklahoma, which includes robust book coverage. Here, the reviews in a recent issue.
So it seems worth celebrating venues that carry on—like World Literature Today (@worldlittoday.bsky.social), based in Norman at the University of Oklahoma, which includes robust book coverage. Here, the reviews in a recent issue.
August 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
There is a lot of conversation about the decline of book reviewing.
So it seems worth celebrating venues that carry on—like World Literature Today (@worldlittoday.bsky.social), based in Norman at the University of Oklahoma, which includes robust book coverage. Here, the reviews in a recent issue.
So it seems worth celebrating venues that carry on—like World Literature Today (@worldlittoday.bsky.social), based in Norman at the University of Oklahoma, which includes robust book coverage. Here, the reviews in a recent issue.
Hayden Pedigo at Resonant Head in OKC was an all-time top ten show for me.
I love that his new album "I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away" is also released on "Oklahoma Sky Blue" vinyl.
I love that his new album "I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away" is also released on "Oklahoma Sky Blue" vinyl.
July 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Hayden Pedigo at Resonant Head in OKC was an all-time top ten show for me.
I love that his new album "I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away" is also released on "Oklahoma Sky Blue" vinyl.
I love that his new album "I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away" is also released on "Oklahoma Sky Blue" vinyl.
Amy Von Lintel's "Art at the Crossroads: The Surprising Aesthetics of the Texas Panhandle" is superb art history. I grew up in the Panhandle, and this is the kind of book that makes you proud to be from a place.
(And Texas Tech University Press did a wonderful job making it a beautiful book!)
(And Texas Tech University Press did a wonderful job making it a beautiful book!)
July 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Amy Von Lintel's "Art at the Crossroads: The Surprising Aesthetics of the Texas Panhandle" is superb art history. I grew up in the Panhandle, and this is the kind of book that makes you proud to be from a place.
(And Texas Tech University Press did a wonderful job making it a beautiful book!)
(And Texas Tech University Press did a wonderful job making it a beautiful book!)
That's 1920s film star Bill Pickett on the cover. When I was at the University of Tulsa last month I happened to see this giant poster for his movie "The Bull-Dogger" on display at McFarlin Library.
July 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
That's 1920s film star Bill Pickett on the cover. When I was at the University of Tulsa last month I happened to see this giant poster for his movie "The Bull-Dogger" on display at McFarlin Library.
Sara Gallagher was wrapping up revisions for "Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture" when Beyoncé dropped a country album.
"Cowboy Carter" made a perfect epilogue for her new @oupress.bsky.social book about Black writers and artists remaking ideas of the US West.
Available now!
"Cowboy Carter" made a perfect epilogue for her new @oupress.bsky.social book about Black writers and artists remaking ideas of the US West.
Available now!
July 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Sara Gallagher was wrapping up revisions for "Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture" when Beyoncé dropped a country album.
"Cowboy Carter" made a perfect epilogue for her new @oupress.bsky.social book about Black writers and artists remaking ideas of the US West.
Available now!
"Cowboy Carter" made a perfect epilogue for her new @oupress.bsky.social book about Black writers and artists remaking ideas of the US West.
Available now!