Executive Editor at University of Massachusetts Press, based at UMass Boston. Views here don’t reflect them. Feminist, progressive, 🏳️🌈, into books, dogs, ocean, print culture, lit studies, environmental studies/climate justice, and more.
Brian Halley
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Hoping we see Delaney Hall in all the news tomorrow, sounds like very bad news as state police attack protesters in NJ.
RIP noted gay publisher/editor/writer Don Weise. Sad to hear news of his passing from earlier this year. #publishing #LGBTQ #books
Brian Halley
Brian Halley
Reading more about Bess Wohl's play #Liberation, which won at the #Tonys last night, first woman playwright to win in 40 years (wut?), and thinking of this @umasspress.bsky.social book on those consciousness raising feminist groups. #books #themoreyouknow
“The reading crisis is real. But we don’t need new inventions to build a reading city. Exempt books from sales taxes the way we exempt prescription medicine. Invest in library collections & reduce wait lists for books. Open nonprofit & hybrid bookstores when the market alone cannot sustain them.”
Sigh. Those to warrant further attention. #SCOTUS
Please note this wasn’t meant to be a #pride month post! Oops… (does it sound too pat to suggest I’m proud 12 months a year?)
Here to toast the very good news that the brilliant @gita2.bsky.social will be the new Executive Director at @columbiaup.bsky.social. What joy to read! Hope to get to toast her more at @aupresses.bsky.social meeting this weekend! #aup2026
Just a quick note to journalists, policymakers, and others commenting on what is happening in #NewEngland #politics - looking at you @bostonglobe.com amongst others - this @umasspress.bsky.social title fills in a lot of info that could help those discussions, fyi!
The great news about the first round of grants from the @literaryartsfund.bsky.social prompted me to think why, in a list of attendees with their locations, #Boston doesn't make an appearance. The answer is 1) no one's fault and 2) complicated. #books #publishing
Brian Halley
Love the voucher program in Italy, referenced by Brian Bannon, copied by France, Germany, & Spain; giving 18 year olds a €500 cultural voucher. Italy found 70% was used on #books.
