Brian Halley
@brianbhalley.bsky.social
Executive Editor at University of Massachusetts Press, based at UMass Boston. Views here don’t reflect them. Feminist, progressive, 🏳️🌈, into books, dogs, ocean, print culture, lit studies, environmental studies/climate justice, and more.
Just finished Such Times, a ‘90s AIDS novel by Christopher Coe, just published anew by @archwayeditions.bsky.social. It’s a sweet, tragic story and worth a read. I continue to be interested in the book history of AIDS and nyc publishing. Who were these editors taking a chance on such stories?
October 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Just finished Such Times, a ‘90s AIDS novel by Christopher Coe, just published anew by @archwayeditions.bsky.social. It’s a sweet, tragic story and worth a read. I continue to be interested in the book history of AIDS and nyc publishing. Who were these editors taking a chance on such stories?
I may be late to this particular title, but I’m so glad I found it anyways, and I urge anyone who hasn’t to read it. Immediately. @aaknopf.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I may be late to this particular title, but I’m so glad I found it anyways, and I urge anyone who hasn’t to read it. Immediately. @aaknopf.bsky.social
Just watched this #BroadCity episode and laughed hysterically at this moment but also is this how we all kinda feel rn? Like we made it as a society let’s gooooo BAM oh god no.
August 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Just watched this #BroadCity episode and laughed hysterically at this moment but also is this how we all kinda feel rn? Like we made it as a society let’s gooooo BAM oh god no.
Whoa. Also, srsly.
April 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Whoa. Also, srsly.
April 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Give me a mayor not afraid to bring their baby right up on stage as they talk mitigating global warming across the city, like real, on-the-ground policy. Good talk, @mayorwu.boston.gov, here at UMass Boston.
March 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Give me a mayor not afraid to bring their baby right up on stage as they talk mitigating global warming across the city, like real, on-the-ground policy. Good talk, @mayorwu.boston.gov, here at UMass Boston.
March 4, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Looking forward to not buying anything from corporations tomorrow (Fri, 2/28) and when going to small businesses, only using cash! Please join the movement! (Image courtesy of @rbreich.bsky.social substack)
February 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Looking forward to not buying anything from corporations tomorrow (Fri, 2/28) and when going to small businesses, only using cash! Please join the movement! (Image courtesy of @rbreich.bsky.social substack)
Great event for UMass Boston Prof Joseph Cooper’s new @rutgersupress.bsky.social book, Black Sporting Resistance. He is now editing a brand new @umasspress.bsky.social series, Sport for Social Change, just getting started. Send inquiries!
February 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Great event for UMass Boston Prof Joseph Cooper’s new @rutgersupress.bsky.social book, Black Sporting Resistance. He is now editing a brand new @umasspress.bsky.social series, Sport for Social Change, just getting started. Send inquiries!
RIP Marianne Faithfull
January 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
RIP Marianne Faithfull
Impossible that it’s now been five weeks plus without this perfect little being 💔
January 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Impossible that it’s now been five weeks plus without this perfect little being 💔
Said goodbye to this beautiful boy / old man earlier in the week and my heart is truly broken. Melville, you little rascal. 2011-2024 💔
December 27, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Said goodbye to this beautiful boy / old man earlier in the week and my heart is truly broken. Melville, you little rascal. 2011-2024 💔
October 26, 2024 at 5:29 PM
I’m ending 2023 strong here at UMass Press… 😊
December 13, 2023 at 5:53 PM
I’m ending 2023 strong here at UMass Press… 😊
See you this Wednesday, Amherst College! I’m looking forward to this convo!
October 16, 2023 at 3:47 PM
See you this Wednesday, Amherst College! I’m looking forward to this convo!
“The Other Black Girl” on Hulu, a show set in a modern day NYC book publishing office, wherein a new black employee mentions location of her previous job at a lit mag and gets this reaction.
September 14, 2023 at 2:58 AM
“The Other Black Girl” on Hulu, a show set in a modern day NYC book publishing office, wherein a new black employee mentions location of her previous job at a lit mag and gets this reaction.