Jeremy Wang-Iverson
@jwi.bsky.social
Publicist (Vesto PR) | Book Work on Substack 📪 jeremy@vestopr.com 📚 http://www.vestopr.com ✍️ https://derekkrissoff.substack.com/
He Was One of America’s Most Important — and Most Divisive — Scientists www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/b...
Book Review: ‘Albert Sabin,’ by Karen Torghele
The first serious biography of Albert Sabin recounts the pivotal role he played in the development of a polio vaccine.
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We can have good things in this country if you fight for it.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2w ago"Brazilian democracy has many flaws, and far-right sectors remain very much active. Yet Bolsonaro’s fate — and with it, the fate of democracy — was shaped by...a practical reversal of the U.S. model..." Cristina Buarque de Hollanda for @sunsentinel.bsky.social www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/07/09/l...
Important story in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the gambling scourge in baseball www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
FanDuel sent a personal message from Phillies star Bryce Harper to a customer with a gambling addiction
Terry Thompson lost $1.5 million on bets he placed with FanDuel. The company gave him VIP treatment — including a personalized video message from the Phillies' All-Star first baseman.
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"Beatley has proven herself both an artist and an activist, and I’d be hard pressed to find a reader that would be able to come away from this book without an entirely different view on collective action and the power of the human spirit.” TY @literaryhub.bsky.social ! @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
Natasha Chalal on the early games of the World Cup in LRB @lrb.co.uk – www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
One of the unreservedly good things of 2026 is @schuneke.bsky.social new book on lesbian women in Nazi Germany. I Will Not Abandon You is a tremendous work of history, deeply researched, original, modest, and refreshing. A 🧵
Interesting conversation on Rukeyser courtesy of @cornellupress.bsky.social soundcloud.com/1869thecuppo...
1869, Ep. 142 w/ Eric Keenaghan & Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, editors of The Muriel Rukeyser Era
Learn about the new book here (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771750/the-muriel-rukeyser-era/#bookTabs=1 Read the transcript here: https://ott
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KILL DICK is coming to Barcelona on May 15: Luke Goebel & Josh Denslow at Backstory —> www.backstorybookshop.com/event-detail... @redhenpress.bsky.social @joshdenslow.bsky.social
Backstory Talk: Luke Goebel in conversation with Josh Denslow | Backstory Bookshop
Come celebrate the release of KILL DICK
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KILL DICK is coming to Barcelona on May 15: Luke Goebel & Josh Denslow at Backstory —> www.backstorybookshop.com/event-detail... @redhenpress.bsky.social @joshdenslow.bsky.social
Backstory Talk: Luke Goebel in conversation with Josh Denslow | Backstory Bookshop
Come celebrate the release of KILL DICK
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Really pleased with this new review in Times Literary Supplement @TheTLS of my book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" published by @HurstPublishers. "A genuinely engrossing book on the subject" www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social visited Barcelona for the Global Progressive Mobilisation last weekend . His book is out soon with FSG
Today is Independent Bookstore Day! Head to indiebound.org/independent-bookstore-day/map for a searchable map of indie bookstores participating in this national one-day celebration.
My new article for The Madrid Review on an interesting political gathering held in Barcelona this past weekend: themadridreview.com/f/defiant-le... - I linked to all the coverage I could find but @owenjones.bsky.social, who spoke at the plenary, also has a great column in the guardian about it ⬇️
Great story by Monte Burke in the New York Times Book Review (and edited by John Maher) to mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of "A River Runs Through It," one of the legendary feats of university press publishing @uchicagopress.bsky.social 👏👏 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...
Could ‘A River Runs Through It’ Have Been a Hit Today?
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Great meeting with Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey to explore new ground together. Spain is doubling down on its partnership with the US — and Massachusetts in particular — to deliver for our communities in uncertain times.
@isabellamweber.bsky.social & @carloscuerpo.bsky.social on green industrial policy beyond neoliberalism panel at Global Progressive Mobilisation in Barcelona.
“Antifascist economics is not only about becoming green, it is about defending democracy”—@isabellamweber.bsky.social #gpm26
Veerayooth Kanchoochat (Deputy Leader of the People's Party in Thailand), second from right, at #globalprogressivemobilisation @mazzucatom.bsky.social
Magdalena Andersson, former prime minister of Sweden, at Global Progressive Mobilisation: “The EU must be force for global trade and democracy” @magdalenaandersson.socialdemokraterna.se
The great @isabellamweber.bsky.social at Global Progressive Mobilisation in Barcelona: “We are living in a moment of overlapping emergencies”
"...I wanted this list to capture something else — something deliberately accessible. Something glossy. Something you’d hear leaking from a car window at night. Something catchy enough to carry a body." Luke Goebel shared a playlist for his novel Kill Dick largeheartedboy.com/2026/04/14/l...
Reviewers! Any of y'all wanna review my novella FES IS A MIRROR? It has no serious reviews. Sad face. Tiny press life. I long for it to have some reach. Hit me up if you write reviews of fiction (with practice doing so) & want to write & publish one!
University press titles on display @macba.cat’s exhibit “Project a Black Planet” which closes tomorrow. @dukepress.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @uchicagopress.bsky.social @harvardpress.bsky.social
Sam Huneke talks about his new book “I Will Not Abandon You” – out next month – on In Bed with the Right . Link below. 🙏 @moiradonegan.bsky.social & @adriandaub.bsky.social @schuneke.bsky.social
Sam Huneke talks about his new book “I Will Not Abandon You” – out next month – on In Bed with the Right . Link below. 🙏 @moiradonegan.bsky.social & @adriandaub.bsky.social @schuneke.bsky.social
Translation is a form of creation. The translator has to make decisions about preserving style over direct content, about cultural equivalence, about how to preserve a sense of pun or sentence structure from one language to the next. People who assume an LLM can do it are not understanding the task.