In today's Tea for Teaching podcast, Flower Darby joins us to discuss her new book, The Joyful Online Teacher, which provides strategies for making online classes more joyful for students and faculty. teaforteaching.podbean.com/e/the-joyful... @cyberthread.bsky.social @flowerdarby.bsky.social
Book cover for *UDL at Scale: Whole-Campus Universal Design for Learning* by Thomas J. Tobin. Background image is the visible-light image of the Trifid Nebula, taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope.
NEW UDL BOOK Coming August 1!
Okay, friends, I'm excited. *UDL at Scale* has a cover & an August 2026 release date.
Watch for the @oupress.bsky.social pre-order web site to go live at the end of March.
Who wants one? And who wants me to visit or give a webinar?
A bookseller: "The most unpleasant part of his job was deciding which books were not going to sell and must be returned to the publishers for credit."
—John Grisham's bookstore novel, "Camino Island"
Up on the WLT Weekly, Rob Vollmar looks at how hi-tech musicians forged a new subculture out of being stubbornly analog, examining the renaissance of dungeon synth among tape collectors betting (and winning) on a postcapitalist future.
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"There should be a rule in publishing that debut novels are limited to three hundred pages."
—John Grisham's bookstore novel, "Camino Island"
A rare book collector: "First editions are great investments because they can't print any more of them."
—from John Grisham's novel of the bookstore underworld, "Camino Island"
It’s been an insanely busy week, but check out my reading chair in my new office! I’ll post more pics later of my new digs, but for now, please enjoy this cozy space.
And I’m really thrilled with this print called “The Winged Cat” by Malene T. Laugesen. As soon as I saw it I knew I had to have it.
"If a prospective clerk did not read at least two books per week, there was no job offer."
—from John Grisham's bookstore novel, "Camino Island"
An indie bookseller: "He hated returns and viewed each one as a failure, a missed opportunity."
—John Grisham, "Camino Island"
working on a genre of book that I call Y'allternative
Thank you for hanging out!
It's been a blast showing off books in the @oupress.bsky.social "Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed" series at the Transformative Learning Conference at UCO today.
Many thanks to @thetattooedprof.bsky.social for modeling with a complete set of books in the series so far!
It's a delight to come across a university bookstore like the University of Central Oklahoma's that still sells *actual* books.
Even better when they showcase books written by their faculty!
Want to learn how to craft a compelling op-ed?
Watch “Op-Ed Writing for Historians" with @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social, @jelaniya.bsky.social, @mauracunningham.bsky.social, @franhirsch.bsky.social, @brianros1.bsky.social, & moderator @lmansley.bsky.social. #AHAOnline 🗃️
Please join us in congratulating these recent OU Press authors as they have been selected as finalists for the Foreword INDIES Book Awards! View the complete list here ➡️ www.forewordreviews.com/articles/art...
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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"Greg Curtis was the editor of Texas Monthly for almost twenty years, from 1981 to 2000, until, as he once told me, 'I didn't have another Willie Nelson cover in me.'"
—Stephen Harrigan, "An Anchor in the Sea of Time"
Out Now! "After the Theft of the Sacred: Experiential Religion in Indigenous Writing" by Reginald Dyck shows how Native communities and characters use their lived religions to make sense of an increasingly fragmented and urban world. www.oupress.com/978080619651...
@emily-elliott.bsky.social shares the rewards and drawbacks of working on an edited volume, offering advice geared toward early career scholars and academic-adjacent workers considering whether to brave the process of editing a collection. #FeedingTheElephant @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social
"I didn't realize, until I embarked on a pandemic hobby, how satisfying it is to be bad at something and not care at all."
—Stephen Harrigan, "An Anchor in the Sea of Time"
Excited beyond words to see this making its way into the world, thanks to the amazing team @beltpublishing.bsky.social.
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The seabirds of Destruction Island off WA reveal impacts of climate change
Our own Eric Wagner has a new book coming out in March! Read an excerpt from 'Seabirds as Sentinels' in The Seattle Times.
The seabirds of Destruction Island off WA reveal impacts of climate change
www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...
"Sometimes there's nothing lonelier than living with another person."
—Harriet Lane, "Other People's Fun"
A teenage daughter: "All she knows is that there's something quite pointless about her mother. Something tragically out-dated, like fax machines or handwriting."
—Harriet Lane, "Other People's Fun"
"The sun is clear and strong, shadows falling sharp as knives on the pavement."
—Harriet Lane, "Other People's Fun"
Publishing pro tip: Some authors leave multiple people working on their books shaking their head and thinking "Why are people like this?" Don't be that author. It's easy, you KNOW how not to be that author.
The modern brain is no different than that of our distant Stone Age ancestors, but our environments have changed dramatically. With so many demands on our attention, we are simply overwhelmed.
Author Richard Cytowic explains how our Stone Age brains can cope in the age of screens:
Oh, cool! That's great to hear.
