Season's Greetings books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

Season's Greetings books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

Once more, with feeling Ad Reinhardt 1913–1967 | Tate share.google/RQwdZIbv5kAv...

A few more recently popular ngrams, gleaned from this morning's Star Tribune: do the right thing, feel equipped to. people and businesses need, plain old, watch your mouth, we really want to make sure, what the data actually says. For context see z.umn.edu/Ngrams.

Gehry's Weisman Art Museum speaks to the corrugated limestone cliff below. @weismanart.bsky.social

Gehry's Weisman Art Museum speaks to the corrugated limestone cliff below.

The word of the day is pre-order.

“ . . . from Los Angeles to Bilbao,” with Minneapolis in between: Weisman Art Museum (1993), before Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (1997). hga.com/john-cook-lo...

close reading, critical thinking books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

U Minnesota Press's Spring 26 catalog, listing our new Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities (in Debates in DH series), eds. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, @jamessmithies.bsky.social): z.umn.edu/spring26. Table of contents: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social

Footprints in Minneapolis

“The new forms cannot fully substitute for the actual physical objects in which those earlier texts were embodied at particular times in the past.” Thirty years old and ever more timely, regarding primary records: www.mla.org/content/down... @modernlanguage.bsky.social @paulakrebs.bsky.social

It's #blackfriday here at the ILT: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (2nd Dublin edn.) Two single-sided black pages face each other at pp. 56-57. "The ‘blackness’ is printed on both sides of the leaf with what appears to be a solid woodblock." The Laurence Sterne Trust

"Painting, turkey cock, by Mansur, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, Mughal, ca. 1612." Victoria and Albert Museum, IM.135-1921. collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O17088/...

"Texts are inevitably affected by the physical means of their transmission; the physical features of the artifacts conveying texts therefore play an integral role in the attempt to comprehend those texts.

New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...

If you live in Minnesota you have access (no login required) to thousands of journals and ebooks, the full text of the NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Star Tribune (all the way back to the 80s), and much more. All thanks to eLibrary Minnesota. Libraries rule! 2/4 elibrarymn.org

Despite the recent banner, not actually on sale yet: Macaulay and English in India (Routledge: March 2026). www.routledge.com/Macaulay-and....

Scribe ready to transcribe what Homer says. Detail of Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus, engraving after Raphael by Marcantonio Raimondi; c. 1517–20. Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Well antedates the OED for jaywalk ("1957 C. Brooke-Rose"). More at books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

Hjeriñ sind begriffen vier Bücher von menschlichen Proportion durch Albrechten Dürer von Nürenberg erfunden und beschriben (Nürenberg: Jeronymum Formschneyder, 1528). primo.lib.umn.edu/permalink/01...

Dictionaries 46:2 (2025) is now available (open access!) on @projectmuse.bsky.social Read here about: Arabic in China, Wittgenstein & Austrian German, etymology, Georgian learner-lexicography, antedating & linguistics pedagogy + Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary review muse.jhu.edu/issue/55471

"It's an ill wind," etc.: "Before the introduction of the zebra mussel, visibility of only 10 to 15 feet (3.0 to 4.6 m) was usual, slightly decreasing as the years passed. Water clarity improved markedly in the mid-1990s with the arrival of zebra mussels, which feed on algae."

A terrific opportunity to be at the forefront of periodicals' research (and to develop editorial chops!). Don't miss out.

A fine G&S weekend: Last night, Iolanthe by The Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company, Twin Cities. Tonight, via Vimeo, last year's Pirates of Penzance by The Lamplighters Music Theatre, San Francisco. This afternoon Pirates finished a 5-performance run in Cambridge, MA--a perennial favorite.

Members of the Dictionary Society of North America and other subscribers should receive their paper copies soon, if not already. Library digital access via @projectmuse.bsky.social is expected within a week.

Dictionaries 46:2 (2025), @projectmuse.bsky.social, edited by @lynneguist.bsky.social. Topics: Arabic in China, Wittgenstein and Austrian German, historical dictionaries, Georgian dictionaries and corpora, antedating and linguistics pedagogy, The Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary.

Wonderful tribute to a teacher: young Sofonisba Anguissola paints herself being created by Bernardino Campi -- yet at same time, she is of course creating him! Today is her day.

important new resource on #art, #books, #printing Charles Hart, Lithography: Its Theory and Practice, ed. Georgia B. Barnhill life in a C19 New York printing company, including observations about the lithographic process & commercial printers & artists www.oakknoll.com/pag...

thought-provoking books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

"There are between 500,000 and 750,000 books published annually, plus an estimated 170 million already in print."

"you often just want to name each thing" Details at doi.org/10.1525/rep....

Good morning, kids and people, today in book, we have a cover: (Preorder this jawn at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555914... and use the Bookshop link if you can!)

Autumn Leaves

Congratulations to @katnuernberger.bsky.social

Hopkins's "Spring and Fall" brings to mind the melancholy atmsphere of Millais's "#Autumn Leaves" ("Margaret, are you grieving/Over Goldengrove unleaving?... Ah! as the heart grows older/It will come to such sights colder...") victorianweb.org/authors/hopk...

We're excited that the MLA's archives have found such a perfect home! Thanks to @jhu.edu for ensuring these historic materials about the profession will be preserved and made available to researchers.

"Learning from LibriVox" bloomsburymusicandsound.com/encyclopedia...

Autumn has arrived. 🍂 Listen to Robert Frost’s "Gathering Leaves" — a quiet meditation on raking, repetition, and the season’s small joys. 🍁 For more, hear Frost’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, read by LibriVox volunteers. 🎧 archive.org/details/newh... #poetry

Congrats to Prof @katnuernberger.bsky.social, who today publishes her third essay collection! Held: Essays in Belonging focuses on symbiotic mutualisms, mutual aid, and ways of being together in a time of climate crisis. @sarabandebooks.bsky.social

Ceci n'est pas une pipe?

oed.com is tracking you now

A century of (academic) creative writing. books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

All roads lead to Rome. itiner-e.org

A landmark moment. Supervisor Connie Chan led a unanimous San Francisco Board of Supervisors resolution honoring the #InternetArchive & establishing Internet Archive Day. archive.org/embed/establ... 🧵 More ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/03/s... #Wayback1T

Unfortunately (or not) it's true (as AI says) that AI still fails this basic Turing test.

Gathering Leaves www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148658...

The deadline (15 November) is fast approaching for our annual Peterson Fellowships! Peterson Fellowships support one researcher for four, full-time months of work on a project related to #19thC periodicals. Application guidelines and more can be found on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/peter...

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