Long T Bui + FOLLOW
Long T. Bui is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global & International Studies Department at the University of California, Irvine. He teaches classes on refugees and global Asia. He is the author of Returns of War: South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory (New York University Press 2018).
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Natasha Gilmore, Idlewild Books and Open Borders Books, NYC
: This book contains two novellas and some short stories set around Colombia (and occasionally Miami). The narration is often low-affect, sharply cynical, and wryly observed. There’s a cutting honesty in the voice throughout the book that feels totally absent from so much literature now. It reminded me of the feeling of encountering something truly when I was a teenager. But then there’s just the crushing reality of coming into sexuality as a teen, colorism and racism in Colombia, the restlessness wrought by capitalism and the desire to flee yourself and the accidents of your birth that ultimately coalesce into something so universally resonant, that will make any reader feel seen and connected. Truly an author worthy of attention.
Marketing and Publicity Manager Opening at
Monthly Review
Monthly Review Press, an independent socialist publisher founded in 1952, is seeking a full-time marketing and publicity manager.
Key responsibilities include:
Developing creative solutions to generate publicity and attention in emerging publicity outlets, including social media platforms, bloggers, websites, podcasts, and other social networks; facilitating and hosting virtual book launches and author seminars and discussions.
Generating and maintaining content for 10–12 new titles over the course of the year. This includes:
Working with authors to write catalog copy;
Soliciting blurbs prior to publication;
Writing and publishing press releases for website and mailing lists;
Compiling reviewer lists, setting up interviews, book reviews, podcasts, and eblasts after publication;
by Tracy Neumann
Tracy Neumann is an Associate Professor of History at Wayne State University. She specializes in transnational and global approaches to twentieth-century U.S. history, with an emphasis on cities and the built environment. She is the author of Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) and of essays on urban history and public policy.
Diamond, Andrew J. and Thomas J. Sugrue, eds.
Reviewed by Tracy Neumann
Compared to their urbanist counterparts in other disciplines, urban historians or at least Americanists have been slow to grapple with neoliberalism. Some avoid the terminology because very few historical actors self-identify as neoliberals, while others worry that neoliberalism is used to describe too many things in too many places, and still others view the term as little more than an epithet thrown around by the Left to describe anything its ranks object to. This means that n
Hanukkah lockdown? Grab a hold of good reads for all ages
Hanukkah lockdown? Grab a hold of good reads for all ages
From a school assignment to a family Holocaust saga to advice on coping with real life, take time to read this holiday.
(December 1, 2020 / JNS) As Jews are often referred to as people of the book, it’s no wonder readers top the Hanukkah gift list. Luckily, a whole host of new and recent books have been released from authors with decidedly Jewish stories to tell.
This list represents just a snapshot of some of the newer releases.
ADULT FICTION: