Mick Gusinde-Duffy

Also, this one unpacks the nostalgic misinformation mythology.

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Scotland.

"I'll have what they're having."

University of Pittsburgh Press at AAG - Mick Gusinde-Duffy Mick Gusinde-Duffy, Editor at Large for U Pitt Press will be available for book meetings throughout the conference. Bring your groundbreaking political geography projects for discussion.Learn more abo...

A reminder that @upittpress.bsky.social will be gracing the halls of #AAG2026 in Mick-spatial form (@mickodopolous.bsky.social). Let's book a time to talk about books:

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Armchair radicals of the World Unite!

It's becoming more @upittpress.bsky.social official; tell your book-writing friends.

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The Long War Nowhere has the U.S. military established more bases, lost more troops, or spent more money in the last thirty years than in the Middle East and Central Asia...

The more things change, yada, yada, yada . . .

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Political storm in Wyoming as far-right activist caught handing checks to lawmakers Photograph shows conservative activist handing slip to Darin McCann and Marlene Brady holding a similar paper

I'm sure Anti-Fraud Tsar, JD, is on the next flight out there . . .

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Tomato Tomahto, what does it matter, as long as he loves his plinth.

Vinícius, Mourinho and treating racism as reputational risk rather than a lived reality | Jonathan Liew The Brazilian has seen this before, football has seen this before, and yet why does it feel like nothing ever changes?

Not the way, José

"That’s why he’s “box office”. That’s why, a decade after he was objectively good, so many want him back in the Premier League."
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Thank you Lindsay!

Publishing job, ICYMI:

We are looking for an acquisitions coordinator at @oupress.bsky.social to support our authors and acquisitions editors!

It is a good entry point for a career in book publishing.

Job is on-site in Norman.

Questions? andrewb@ou.edu

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"You look like a bird who swallowed a plate."
---Edmund Blackadder

"Are you experiencing 'president envy'?"

Try Six Nations Rugby.

"Ogles" <snort>

University of Pittsburgh Press at AAG - Mick Gusinde-Duffy Mick Gusinde-Duffy, Editor at Large for U Pitt Press will be available for book meetings throughout the conference. Bring your groundbreaking political geography projects for discussion.

The ghost of editor @mickodopolous.bsky.social will be "floating" at #AAG2026. Cultivating book projects on behalf of @upittpress.bsky.social.

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to tell him your bookish thoughts.

Preparations for a *possible* grandchild visit . . .

Can't think of a published writing guide reference, but based on experience: Size (that is, length) matters?

If it's a discussion or digression of some consequence, it should likely be *in* the text. If not . . . does it even exist?

Counterpoint: Dave Eggers and T.S. Eliot; knock yourself out.

Only a Spurs fan could ask this question . . .

I was thinking "This is more of an insult than a question." (arf, arf' arf)

#acpublishinggoals ?

Blackrock, mostly. Walked from there to UCD many times. And saw all stops en route to Clontarf on one trip. Took a few trips further South to take the Bray to Greystones walk.

My youngest back there now, too.

Which station, do you know?

Some job news: In my newish role as a granddad, I changed a diaper/nappy for the first time in some 24 years.

The dude (doo) still has it. Like falling off a log.

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires.

I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

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Happy Black History Month! Today, let's celebrate the important work our authors have done to further Black scholarship, fiction, poetry, etc. May we all keep writing and #readingUP

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All in for London clubs tomorrow. Brentford, Fulham, and Spurs for the wins?

Bertrand Russell on our divided politics (in 1950!).

Also on the elusive art of writing for a popular audience. Take note, publishers.

Is this the darkest period of Donald Trump’s second term? The White House’s tone might be softening after outrage about the Minnesota ICE shootings, but there’s no reason to expect a policy shift

Well, let's see, what day is it? It's "Today," so, yes, this must be the darkest period (thus far) . . .
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Such a thoughtful book. Congratulations, George.