Very exciting to see Jie Li's CINEMATIC GUERRILLAS longlisted for the 2024 Moving Image Book Award from Kraszna-Krausz . bit.ly/4bzSSCH Christine Dunbar Columbia Univ Press

Paul Cronin, author of A TIME TO STIR: COLUMBIA '68, discusses the book, his documentary on the uprising, and the parallels between the campus protests in 1968 and 2024 on the Pure Nonfiction podcast. bit.ly/3UJ3W9E Columbia Univ Press

'A Time to Stir' is a 10-part oral history film focusing on the Columbia University student strike of 1968.

Filmmaker Paul Cronin interviewed hundreds of participants to bring multiple fresh perspectives that still resonate today. wnyc.org/story/a-time-t…

Before writing on Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, and the forthcoming Columbia Univ Press book on George Cukor, Joseph McBride wrote the screenplay for the Ramones vehicle *Rock 'N' Roll High School,* featured in the The New York Times list of Roger Corman's best movies. nyti.ms/4bhJ8gL

We are pleased to announce that Mingwei Song's FEAR OF SEEING is the Winner of the 2023 SFRA Book Award from the Science Fiction Research Association. buff.ly/4aN51nI SFRA

So grateful to Luke Robinson for such a careful and generous review of my book, and to The China Quarterly for publishing it!

The story of how conglomeration has reshaped the publishing industry & the books we read is a fascinating & cautionary tale that continues to be written to this day. Learn more from yesterday's #booktalk with BIG FICTION author, Dan Sinykin ⤵️
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Amazing to see Scattered and Fugitive Things find its readers – thank you Dr. Laura Hartmann-Villalta! Anyone else who wants a copy: it's still 20% off with code CUP20 from Columbia Univ Press

Laura Helton Columbia Univ Press 'there are many scattered and fugitive things,' 'priceless information…lying around in odd corners of the world,' from which 'gleaners… have gathered…'
— #AubreyBowser , 'A Negro Documentarian,' 1930, on #AlexanderGumby , discussed in Laura Helton's A+ book books.google.com/books?id=UTroE…

A terrific explanation of why K-12 superintendents managed their congressional hearings so much better than college presidents did.

Via Daarel

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Excited to share my podcast with Professor Lilie Chouliaraki about her new book 'Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood'. It was an honour - thank you for your time and insights Lilie Chouliaraki. #victimhood #MediaMarrative #power
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Great to see this first podcast on “Wronged” out in the world touching on all things victimhood, power, the far-right and toxic masculinity Dr Ayesha Jehangir 🙏

Columbia University Press (@columbiaUP) is hiring an assistant editor to work with our Science and Business editors. bit.ly/3URUvWU

'[E]ssential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between non-fiction and political change, inside and outside China.' via a review of REVOLUTIONARY BECOMINGS: DOCUMENTARY MEDIA IN 20TH-CENTURY CHINA, by Ying Qian (Ying Qian) bit.ly/3ymhfoW Columbia Univ Press

'In her new book Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History, Laura E. Helton lays out a clear vision of Black public bibliophilia in the first half of the 20th century.'—Dorothy Berry, Los Angeles Review of Books
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You still have time to register for today's book talk with author Dan Sinykin & @tedunderwood.me 🦋, co-sponsored by Authors Alliance! Reserve your seat now ⤵️ eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-bi…

Grateful to The Nation for giving me a chance to write about my day job (reading the Iliad with first-years) and my other day job (campus activism) thenation.com/article/societ…

Deeply disappointed and ashamed of UMass Amherst in how they've handled peaceful protest on our campus. This is deeply inconsistent with how I understand our values. Chancellor Javier Reyes, this is not the university I want to teach at.

‘The camp was a rebuke to the notion of doing business as usual when brutality is being perpetrated on an enormous scale against human beings whose displacement, torture, unlawful detention and murder is bankrolled by the US.’

Anahid Nersessian at UCLA:
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With host @JoshuaHersh on this week’s Kicker: jelani cobb was enmeshed in Columbia University’s efforts to grapple with a protest movement on campus over the war in Gaza – one that culminated in the takeover of a building, and finally, a police raid.
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