editor, Joanna Russ’s ON STRIKE AGAINST GOD, @feministpress. words in @yalereview, @LAReviewofBooks, @parisreview. PhD @cornell, prof @lemoyne. Alec with a “c”
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IT’S HAPPENING! Pre-order my deluxe critical edition of Joanna Russ’s “On Strike Against God,” complete with archival materials & incredible essays by @mamohanraj & @TruckLesbian, from @buffstreetbooks! & check out @FeministPress’s website for some incredible words of praise 🥰
“Angry, funny, sharp, and intense, ON STRIKE AGAINST GOD captures the feel of the feminist revolution of the 1970s with unusual brilliance” —Kim Stanley Robinson on Joanna Russ's feminist masterwork
Preorder from @buffstreetbooks tinyurl.com/4dya4jsd
Signed by @AlecPollak 💫
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Congratulations are in order for assistant professor of astronomy here at Caltech, Kareem El-Badry! 🎉
🥳 Meet the 2025 MacArthur Fellows!
These 22 exceptionally creative individuals expand the boundaries of knowledge, artistry, and human understanding. #MacFellow
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let’s hear it for new beginnings! and the incredible, humbling luck of the draw. I’m so excited and so lucky to be beginning my next chapter in the English department at @LeMoyne College.
I got my PhD in English yesterday!!! 😭🥳🎊
401 pages printed ✅
dissertation defended ✅
Dr. Pollak ✅
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My article is out, in the Fall/Winter issue of African American Review! It's about Ann Petry's "The Street" & the Beacon Press Black Women Writers series. Here! muse-jhu-edu.proxy.library.c…
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A quandary on literary legacies and literary estates: What if the author is silent on what to do with the manuscripts they leave behind? And: Does a diary qualify as a literary manuscript? @AlecPollak nytimes.com/2025/02/05/books…
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😤 BUY MY BOOK! It’s really Joanna Russ’s book, so you know it’s good. feministpress.org/books-a-m/…
Are you sick of hearing from me yet!
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Readers and booksellers share their favorite LGBTQ titles of 2024, featuring Joanna Russ's ON STRIKE AGAINST GOD (ed. by @AlecPollak) tinyurl.com/2n42zfb6
Buy her if ya haven’t yet 🥰
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"In this edition [of Joanna Russ's ON STRIKE AGAINST GOD], editor @AlecPollak approaches contextualizing a controversial, difficult, crucial period of lesbian feminist history with deep generosity and seriousness"—Ira Beare, Bookends in Florence tinyurl.com/2n42zfb6
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in 2025 you need to be memorizing poetry. you need to be spending sizable chunks of time committing sizable chunks of text to memory. you need to be running out of flash cards.
So psyched that Joanna Russ's "On Strike Against God" (ed. by yours truly & pub. @FeministPress) made it onto this list of favorite LGBTQ titles of 2024! Thank you @_bookends_ for this *lovely* praise. Buy her if you haven't yet (from an indie bookstore)🥰shorturl.at/nZC84
.@NBCNews asked booksellers across the country about their favorite LGBTQ books of 2024.
Here’s a selection of what they mentioned: nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-pop-…
relatable... In this edition, editor Alec Pollak"—c'est moi!!!!—"approaches contextualizing a controversial, difficult, crucial period of lesbian feminist history with deep generosity and seriousness."
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2024! We published 11 incredible new books this year plus 2 fab new issues of WSQ. Shoutout to the amazing authors, translators, illustrators, and READERS LIKE YOU who make this work possible!
This will be our last post of the year, but we'll be back in 2025! See you soon 🥰
