A few notes on (ballooning) stationary: buttondown.com/emilydoucet/...

A (non-academic) friend asked me "why did you write a book" over dinner last week, I made an attempt (conceptually-speaking) at an answer in my newsletter this week:

I have the same questions about the one that goes: (artists) thought (painting) was (dead) (after) the (invention) of (photography). Working on something on this very idea right now...

Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries. Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.

Book poem/index

This is a very special little book 💗

Honoured to be in very good company here!

PSA: Your paragraphs are longer than you think. — Signed, someone who has been poring over their final page proofs.

My book has a cover! Inventing Nadar will be out in April 2026 from @dukepress.bsky.social.

A sign I need to start working on my Kodak infrastructure book again?