Amy Sherman
@andcleverness
acquiring editor for environmental studies, food studies, and regional books at the University of Pittsburgh Press career in publishing resource doc: tinyurl.com/2jmmharu bluesky list of university and indie presses: tinyurl.com/3y829vxv
my beloved red pencil of choice is actually this double-ended red/gray pencil named "The Editor." it is no longer made, and now I wonder if it's better to keep using it, to embrace the ephemeral pleasures of our lives, or to set it aside never to be used again, to keep as a memento
to be honest, website, I'm not looking for "respectful" ads so much as "static ads that stay where they are so I can actually see what's on your site"
a little shop within walking distance of my home has started selling bagels from the best bagel place in Pittsburgh on Fridays and I didn't even have to wait in line, things are looking up
• Summer Lightning, P. G. Wodehouse 🎧📚 • An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears • The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith • Notes from a Regicide, Isaac Fellman
living that glamorous summer lifestyle we dream about all the rest of the year
most folks remember Sam Neill for Jurassic Park, and I do too, but Hunt for the Wilderpeople is a little gem
a canned cocktail over ice, a library book, and a window A/C unit. it's enough
• Something Fresh, P. G. Wodehouse 🎧📚 • Arcadia, Iain Pears • Take It from Me, Alia Hanna Habib • Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence, Pope Leo XIV Arcadia & Magnifica Humanitas both among my favorite I've read this year; TIfM also very good!
"At the root of these problems lies a technocratic and post-humanist mentality that tends to regard the human person as an object to be manipulated or a resource to be optimized, removing all safeguards against the unchecked pursuit of profit."
the best photo I have of the cat friend who lives in my apartment and I didn't even take it
4 years of book club! it's been such a pleasure getting to read all these books and then talk about them with other book enthusiasts. very grateful to anyone and everyone who has come to any of our meetings to make it such a great space.
finished reading for book club last night and the bf asked me what I thought of it so I had to pull out a bunch of other books from my shelf so I could talk about it
about halfway through Alia Hanna Habib's TAKE IT FROM ME ahead of book club next week feel free to join if you're looking for a chill hang with other book people to talk about publishing—even if you haven't read it, you're very welcome!
book mail! (published by Hopkins and Catholic U of America Press, respectively, but both distributed by Hopkins so I got to order them together)
• Joy in the Morning, P. G. Wodehouse 🎧📚 • Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival, Maria Pinto • The Mating Season, P. G. Wodehouse 🎧📚 • Out of This Furnace, Thomas Bell
join us for the next meeting of the PAGES book club June 25, noon ET! our pick: Take It from Me: An Agent's Guide to Building a Nonfiction Writing Career from Scratch, by Alia Hanna Habib PAGES is a book club for anyone interested in the writing, editing, & publishing of books—free and open to all
last call for this sale on books in our series Intersections: Histories of Environment, Science, and Technology in the Anthropocene 👇👇👇
some beautiful jackets and covers here, but my favorite might be the Edgar Allan Poe biography design.up.hcommons.org/2026-jacket-...
today's victory over technology: figuring out how to get rid of these error codes that pop up sometimes when I convert a Word doc to PDF
final form! turned out great recipe: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020...