Can AI be the answer to social isolation? Listen to Victoria Hetherington on the America Trends podcast discussing her book, THE FRIEND MACHINE: On the Trail of AI Companionship. bit.ly/4wSQUYR

Looking forward to the 9/3 publication of Witney Schneidman's THIS AFRICA IDEA: A Memoir of Discovery, Diplomacy, and Opportunity, via @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social. More info here: bit.ly/44ibZzq

Praise from Mark Wallace for Roger S. Gottlieb's NATURE SPIRITUALITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS: Embracing a Sacred, Wounded Earth, due from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social on 9/3. More info here: bit.ly/4oz8a2d

"Pretty much as soon as somebody invented glasses, somebody else denounced them as the work of the devil." David Dunaway discussing A FOUR-EYED WORLD: How Glasses Changed the Way We See on @ksqdfm.bsky.social's From the Bookshelf: bit.ly/4wHYW6u @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social @glassers.bsky.social

"We're doing it right when we have created a government system in which we can look around & say that we are all thriving." @hls.harvard.edu's @anatapoff.bsky.social on KLWN Radio's Lewis at Large discussing AMERICA UNFINISHED: 250 Years of Law and Governance. bit.ly/4wLnGeu @mitpress.bsky.social

"I grew up knowing that my mom was a Holocaust survivor. I heard her stories from the time I was very young. And my grandmother also survived the war." Listen to @psteinhorn.bsky.social on KLWN Radio's Lewis at Large discussing her book, DREAMING OF THE RIVER: bit.ly/4fgi8Bi

Save the date! Poet David Giannini (LAMP OF WHISPERS) and novelist Mark Farrington (LOSS OF LIFE) read at The Bookstore in Lenox, MA at 5 p.m. ET on 8/12. More info here: bit.ly/4bEhWe2 @mf-99.bsky.social

Listen to @susantonetta.bsky.social on Women, Life and Science discussing her book THE DEVIL'S CASTLE: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled History Reverberates Today. bit.ly/4eUDmG6 @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social @catapultbooks.bsky.social

Watch @hls.harvard.edu's @anatapoff.bsky.social and Guy Charles on @eddrickshow.bsky.social discussing AMERICA UNFINISHED, an opportunity "for each faculty member in their area of expertise to really think through the questions that they believe to be central." bit.ly/4h2cFAE @mitpress.bsky.social

"Africa was this vast continent that very few people knew anything about and I thought it was very important that people did know about it." Listen to Witney Schneidman on WDVR Radio's The World of Work discussing his memoir THIS AFRICA IDEA: bit.ly/4fs0hbT @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social

"They are 62 different essays, each one from an expert thinking about this moment in their area of expertise." Listen (at 20:10) to @anatapoff.bsky.social and Guy Charles on WWDB Radio's Brian and Lee Show discussing AMERICA UNFINISHED: bit.ly/3SEw6FL @hls.harvard.edu @mitpress.bsky.social

"We wanted to make it as accessible and as available to everyone as possible because the project of law and democracy is one that concerns all of us." Listen to Guy Charles and @anatapoff.bsky.social on WGTD Radio discussing AMERICA UNFINISHED: bit.ly/4y8sJHh @mitpress.bsky.social @hls.harvard.edu

"Initially, when the Germans first took Paris, it actually wasn't that scary, I think partially because they didn't know what was coming." Listen to @alexamorris.bsky.social on the Your Lot and Parcel podcast discussing the book she wrote with her father-in-law, THE COURTYARD: bit.ly/4aDvOVG

"This is a midterm election year. We want to do a political deepdive into what are the issues of the day. We have former First Lady Jill Biden coming, Senator Raphael Warnock, Maggie Haberman." Listen at 1:08:20 to Martha's Vineyard Author Series director Suellen Lazarus on WATD Radio bit.ly/4p1UJYN

"So many people have been slain throughout our American history—for voting rights, for civil rights, for social justice—& we benefit, regular people benefit from that, & we should at least know their names." Hear Gloria J. Browne-Marshall on WATD Radio (at 44:30) talking Martyrs Day: bit.ly/4eMym6o

"I had to give myself permission to write the book I wanted to write...which is fantasy as well as historical fiction." Listen to @laurencjohnson.bsky.social on Women, Life and Science discussing her debut novel, THE WEST FACADE: bit.ly/4pd2njm @sfwp.bsky.social

Listen to @marykeatingpoet.bsky.social on @903whpc.bsky.social's Rise discussing her memoir in verse, RECALIBRATING GRAVITY, and finding your balance when life turns upside down: bit.ly/4vN8i0X

"We have experts on corporate law & on the war powers & on climate change & on the Supreme Court. We all agree that we're in a crucial moment in American history." @anatapoff.bsky.social talks AMERICA UNFINISHED: 250 Yrs of Law & Governance on Speaking of Writers bit.ly/44Oqc7q @mitpress.bsky.social

Watch A PROTEST HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES author Gloria J. Browne-Marshall on The Optimal Life discussing Martyrs Day, which takes place for the first time this July 5th: bit.ly/4vcogAz @beaconpress.bsky.social

"The novel is one twin's fight to get her sister back." Watch Juliet Faithfull (at 24:18) discussing her debut book, LIAR'S DICE, on the Cowboy State Daily Show: bit.ly/44Fz8vT @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

A lovely endorsement from @standardbankza.bsky.social's Sim Tshabalala for Witney Schneidman's THIS AFRICA IDEA: A Memoir of Discovery, Diplomacy, and Opportunity, due from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social on 9/3. More info here: bit.ly/44ibZzq

A great endorsement from Morgan Shipley for Roger Gottlieb's NATURE SPIRITUALITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS: Embracing a Sacred, Wounded Earth, due from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social on 9/3. More info here: bit.ly/4oz8a2d

"What we as editors are gratified by is the intellectual diversity of this collection." Listen to Guy Charles on America Trends discussing the book he co-edited with @anatapoff.bsky.social, AMERICA UNFINISHED: 250 Years of Law and Governance. bit.ly/4eRG0v5 @mitpress.bsky.social @hls.harvard.edu

"We had well over a half a million words that came back to us in both written & oral interviews." Watch Eileen Isola on The Bookman's Corner discussing NECESSARY TURBULENCE: Fifty Years, One Unbreakable Sisterhood Forged in the Crucible of the Air Force Academy. bit.ly/4gH0cSM @milspeak.bsky.social

"Stories help us escape, and they also help us learn more about ourselves." Listen (at 1:14:35) to @psteinhorn.bsky.social on WATD Radio discussing her book DREAMING OF THE RIVER: A Mother and Daughter’s Fight for Survival During the Holocaust. bit.ly/4eCafHy

"I wanted the setting to be as authentic as possible, so I intentionally placed it in the environment that I grew up in—the crossroads, the rivers, the creeks, the lumber yard." Davis Enloe on Speaking of Writers discussing his debut novel INTO THE NIGHT WOODS: bit.ly/3QH8Juw @regalhouse.bsky.social

"They paid the ultimate price—for civil rights, for voting rights, for social justice. The least we could do is know their names." Listen to Martyrs Day founder Gloria J. Browne-Marshall on WWDB Radio's Brian and Lee Show (at 20:08): bit.ly/4vJ5ZvN @beaconpress.bsky.social

On July 5th, "remember those whose untimely deaths led to positive changes in this nation." Watch Gloria J. Browne-Marshall on POD TV's Online Dinner Party discussing Martyrs Day, which will take place for the first time this year in cities around the country: bit.ly/43Y8myM @beaconpress.bsky.social

"We need a culture that respects free inquiry." Listen to AMERICA UNFINISHED contributor @rtushnet.bsky.social on the How Our Constitution Works...And Why It Doesn't podcast discussing freedom of speech: bit.ly/4oShD4W @mitpress.bsky.social @hls.harvard.edu @wcooperbooks.bsky.social

Listen to Gloria J. Browne-Marshall on WICN Radio's The Public Eye discussing Martyrs Day, a new way to honor protesters and activists who died in the struggle for social justice here in the U.S. It takes place on July 5th. bit.ly/4f361sl @beaconpress.bsky.social