If you're looking for the perfect companion to the Jonathan Demme collection on @criterionchannl.bsky.social, check out THE CINEMA OF JONATHAN DEMME: CHAMPION OF THE SOUL, by Louis Black and Steve Fore, new from Wallflower's Directors' Cuts series. bit.ly/4gpYOmS @columbiaup.bsky.social

Hot off the press! THE EDGES OF CINEMA: ESSAYS ON TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY FILM CULTURE, by Erika Balsom. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%! bit.ly/4wWIGzg @erikaaaa.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Jennifer Scappettone discusses her new book POETRY AFTER BARBARISM and her work as a translator, poet, and critic in an interview with Il Manifesto. bit.ly/4x1CndJ @xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Coming this Fall! ALL THE WORLD IN THEE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF LGBTQ+ POETRY FROM HOMER TO HUGHES, edited by the dream team of Stephanie Burt, Drew Daniel, and Melissa E. Sanchez bit.ly/45G1ruH @notquitehydepark.bsky.social @drewdaniel.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Diane Zinna with book in hand in front of a Times Square billboard for LETTING GRIEF SPEAK! bit.ly/4pcZApc @dianezinna.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

"An intricate, nuanced and amazingly well-researched journey into the 20th-century origins of a belief in a structural liberal media bias" MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA, by @ajbauer.bsky.social reviewed in *The International Journal of Press/Politics.* bit.ly/4xnZeA7 @columbiaup.bsky.social

Congratulations to Jarvis McInnis, whose book AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION, published in the Black Lives in the Diaspora series, has been shortlisted for the MAAH Stone Book Award! bit.ly/45rezno @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Very exciting to see the THE MELVILLE EFFECT: A LITERARY AFTERLIFE ACROSS THE ARTS, by Joseph Boone, on display at Labyrinth Books in Princeton. The store is also selling the book at a great discount! bit.ly/4flGfjs @columbiaup.bsky.social

Tomorrow (7/26) at 5 pm, join Diane Zinna author of LETTING GRIEF SPEAK and contributors Marie Cloutier and Judy Bolton-Fasman at Porter Square Books for a workshop on writing about grief. bit.ly/4gTpBZK @dianezinna.bsky.social @portersqbooks.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Coming this November! THE NIGHT BEFORE: ESSAYS ON MUSIC, COMICS, AND CULTURE, by David Hajdu. Preoder now using the code CUP20 and save 20%! bit.ly/4vJtNPm @dhajdu.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Thx to BookPeople for hosting an event this weekend for Anita Varma, author of SOLIDARITY IN JOURNALISM: HOW ETHICAL REPORTING FIGHTS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE. Couldn't make the event? You can use the code CUP20 and save 20% on the book! bit.ly/4pwUEwF @anitawrites.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Join Anita Varma, author of SOLIDARITY IN JOURNALISM: HOW ETHICAL REPORTING FIGHTS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE at Bookpeople in Austin on Saturday, July 18th at 2 pm for their Local Author Spotlight! bit.ly/3RcsvOE @bookpeople.com @anitawrites.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

BAMS/MSA conference attendees: all books in the Modernist Latitudes series, including the 2025 Best Book winner, THE RISE OF PACIFIC LITERATURE, by Maebh Long & Matthew Hayward, are 20% of when you use the code CUP 20! bit.ly/4wjp8nQ @columbiaup.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social

Congratulations to Aarthi Vadde on the official publication date of her extraordinary new book, WE THE PLATFORM: HOW THE INTERNET CHANGED TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LITERATURE. Use the code CUP20 and save 20% bit.ly/44g6ZeG @aarthivadde.bsky.social #LiteratureNow @columbiaup.bsky.social

"[A] major entrée for documentary studies ... focusing both on films that understand themselves as documentaries and on documentary media." An excellent review of THE DOCUMENTARY AUDIT, by Pooja Rangan, in @filmquarterly.bsky.social. bit.ly/4vtULuO. @p8ja.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

"A brilliant diagnostic of the hypocrisies, ambivalences, and evasions of literary culture." -- Christopher Kempf Coming this fall: CROWD CONTROL, by Claire Grossman, Juliana Spahr, and Stephanie Young. tinyurl.com/36pd5bxh @columbiaup.bsky.social

"This captivating biography ... establishes McCall's pioneering and significant contribution to the film industry during the studio era." JAH on MARY C. McCALL JR: THE RISE & FALL OF HOLLYWOOD'S MOST POWERFUL SCREEN WRITER, by J.E. Smyth tinyurl.com/3xc4ayz5 @jesmyth.co.uk @columbiaup.bsky.social

Congratulations to Aparna Dharwadker, whose book COMSMO-MODERNISM & THEATER IN INDIA is a finalist for the Outstanding Book from the Association for Theater in Higher Education. tinyurl.com/2x8pe48j #ModernistLatitudes @columbiaup.bsky.social

Hot off the press! The much-anticipated WE THE PLATFORM: HOW THE INTERNET CHANGED 21ST-CENTURY LITERATURE, by Aarthi Vadde. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%! bit.ly/44g6ZeG @aarthivadde.bsky.social #LiteratureNow @columbiaup.bsky.social

"With narrative flair, rigorous research, and unwavering focus, Lindeperg fleshes out in detail the Allies’ decision process...in staging the Nuremberg Trials. An essential work." -- Ivone Margulies. Now available: STAGING NUREMBERG, by Sylvie Lindeperg. bit.ly/4fokeko @columbiaup.bsky.social

"This brilliant and often moving book models a revelatory methodology for talking about the work of Black archive-building." SCATTERED & FUGITIVE THINGS, by Laura Helton reviewed in the *African American Review.* bit.ly/43hcwkS @lehelton.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

"[A] timely, noteworthy, and engrossing addition to the corpus of work in Black feminist politics, African American literature, and US history." THE SISTERHOOD, by Courtney Thorsson reviewed by Delia Steverson in *African American Review.* bit.ly/43TFjfu @columbiaup.bsky.social

Hot off the press! The eagerly anticipated STAGING NUREMBERG: HOW THE UNITED STATES & THE SOVIET UNION FOUGHT OVER THE PORTRAYAL OF NAZI CRIMES, by Sylvie Lindeperg and translated by Claudia Gorbman. bit.ly/4fokeko #InvestigatingVisibleEvidence @columbiaup.bsky.social

"[A] major entrée for documentary studies ... focusing both on films that understand themselves as documentaries and on documentary media." An excellent review of THE DOCUMENTARY AUDIT Pooja Rangan in @filmquarterly.bsky.social. bit.ly/4vtULuO @p8ja.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

"Erudite and entertaining." MAN OF TASTE: THE EROTIC CINEMA OF RADLEY METZGER, by Rob King reviewed in *The Velvet Light Trap*! bit.ly/3RwctiB @columbiaup.bsky.social

"A bold contribution to the growing body of early cinema scholarship and feminist historiography." Great to see this excellent review of Maggie Hennefeld's DEATH BY LAUGHTER in *The Velvet Light Trap.* bit.ly/4x0shtT @hennefem.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Ainehi Edoro, author of FOREST IMAGINARIES: HOW AFRICAN NOVELS THINK, will be a keynote speaker at the African Literature Association annual meeting next week. tinyurl.com/37634753 @brittlepaper.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Coming this Fall!: THE PEOPLE'S PAPER: THE RISE & FALL OF THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, by Matthew Pressman. bit.ly/3OJPvn7 @columbiaup.bsky.social

"[A] book for any reader who fears that loss is untranslatable and who yearns to find an authentic voice for grief.” —Jehanne Dubrow Coming this summer: LETTING GRIEF SPEAK: WRITING PORTALS AFTER LOSS, by Diane Zinna. bit.ly/4tiEPd8 @dianezinna.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Coming this Fall! BIG AMERICAN WRITER: THE BILINGUAL JACK KEROUAC, by Jean-Christophe Cloutier. bit.ly/4tdkBl4 @columbiaup.bsky.social