Matthew Somoroff
project editor at UNC Press; music studies PhD; lifetime jazzhead; Queens (NY) native, Durham (NC) resident
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- Reposted by Matthew Somoroff@publisherswkly.bsky.social on @drshabazz.bsky.social’s PRINCE’S MINNEAPOLIS (@uncpress.bsky.social) as a book that celebrates Black history: “Shabazz analyzes Prince’s life, career, and discography, showing how it was intrinsically shaped by Minneapolis, and shaped Minneapolis in turn.”
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- Reposted by Matthew SomoroffAs book coverage takes another devastating hit, I’m reminded how lucky we are to have Sarah and @indyweek.bsky.social championing stories that matter. Grateful for Sarah's care and vision and speed with this excerpt! Hope everyone clicks and reads and shares.
- Up now on @indyweek.bsky.social, an excerpt from this essential new @uncpress.bsky.social release. It tells the story of Wyatt Outlaw - a voting rights crusader and Graham’s first Black elected official. He was lynched in 1870. There are no public markers for his life yet, but now there’s a book.
- mutually reinforcing iterative quality control processes
- there cannot be any more snow storms this winter. this kid needs to be in school, busying his mind with something other than a plot to install Linux when he has not written a single line of code
- me: *trying to remember everything I need to mention in an email to a coworker* 12yo: “do you have a USB stick I could use as a recovery disk while I’m trying to get Linux to run on my Chromebook?” note: there’s no evidence he would know what to do with Linux if he installed it.
- <sincere question> do you ever use the exclamation point label on an email? and if so, please give an example of a situation that merited it
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- Reposted by Matthew SomoroffWhat a review!!
I usually review books on my bookstagram basicbookstagrammer, but will post this one here, too! a comprehensive & definitive history of how policing Black bodies shaped American law & society from colonial America through the twentieth century. (1/5) uncpress.org/978146969484...
- has anyone been seeing this phrasing? "[person] has overweight" as opposed to "[person] is overweight"
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- *trying to coax coworkers to create accounts here and join the Bsky hang*
- Reposted by Matthew SomoroffThe removal of the slavery exhibit from the President's House site might feel unprecedented, but nothing could be further from the truth. We've been fighting over slavery's place in George Washington's legacy for 250 years. I wrote about it for @time.com. Book info here time.com/7357382/geor...
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- inside you are two wolves: one, a habitual people pleaser; the other, an inveterate opinion-haver
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- Reposted by Matthew SomoroffThere's still time to enter the Goodreads giveaway for THE LEGEND OF WYATT OUTLAW: From Reconstruction through Black Lives Matter www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...
- Reposted by Matthew SomoroffBeen thinking a lot about Prince & Minneapolis (thanks to @drrashadshabazz.bsky.social's new book) and this piece puts so much of that into focus.
- “Prince once bragged that the Minnesota cold keeps the bad people out; the cold also brings the best out of the good.” Me in TNR today: newrepublic.com/article/2054...
- I am once again asking you not to make the final subhead of a chapter the word "Conclusion"
- Reposted by Matthew SomoroffSo these beauties just landed on my desk. If you need an ARC for review or feature, LMK! @gauthamrao.bsky.social
- I need an upgrade—like one of those mushrooms Mario can get
- You want this book. Trust me.
- I am pleased to learn that my forthcoming book is now listed on bookshop dot org, and there’s a nice little discount! Nice if you want to avoid the evil empire (the website not Man United) bookshop.org/p/books/whit...
- these look very familiar 😉
- Book mail via @uncpress.bsky.social
- Reposted by Matthew SomoroffThe full dust jacket design for my book! @uncpress.bsky.social is very good at this. What a great way to start the week. This thing is feeling real. (Pre-order link, if you're interested: a.co/d/f1EvQmH)
- they should invent a way to reduce the number of things people have to do
- clicking the checkboxes on items in my to-do list and manifesting that the tasks will be completed🧘
- Reposted by Matthew SomoroffTap to discover the sale: @esglaude.bsky.social @christinajcross.bsky.social
- Reposted by Matthew Somoroff"I made a conscious decision not to do chapters. . . . I wanted to feel like each hunt had finished, and we’d left the woodland with our baskets in between them." Check out this fascinating Q&A with @aravensgrace.bsky.social in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social 🍄 lareviewofbooks.org/article/mush...
- just found myself saying “might could” organically. guess I’ve acclimated to the South
- *chanting to myself* I’m waving not drowning
- Microsoft is going to retire the ability to add a Teams plan to an Outlook calendar, which means basically my entire project management workflow will be gone. why would they do this?
- live footage of my to-do list this week
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- proud to have been the project editor on this book and excited to see it out in the world soon!
- bringing a homemade lunch that contains raw onions and radishes into work today. might get arrested
- *notices an "onto" that needs to be "on to" in page proof*
- okay. it’s enough week. I’m tired already. let’s all take a nap.
- Reposted by Matthew SomoroffFor those trying to understand the horrific systems and human toll that shape immigration enforcement in the US, I have a book rec: Felicia Arriaga’s BEHIND CRIMMIGRATION. So much to reckon with but sharing a book is one small thing I can do uncpress.org/978146967323...
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- if you're a keyboard shortcut addict like me and wish there were more shortcuts for manipulating and moving windows on a Mac, I found this nifty free app that assigns very logical shortcuts:
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