Are you looking for an online global book history festival that features work on ancient through contemporary textual cultures? Look no further! Registration is open now! events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...

Full-on crying at this!

Proofreading is important before you proceed #letterpress

I’ve posted the text of my talk from today’s DH Day at Purdue: “Anemoia, AI, & Skeuomorphism” is part of a longer piece I’m working on that tries to theorize the current “Material Turn in Digital Humanities”—essentially: why are so many DH folks printing & making & crafting? #dhmakes

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Are you, too, interested in how rare books come to be valued and wondering why we keep honoring their collectors? Pay attention to @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and @christianalgar.bsky.social (among others). It's a key area of feminist bibliography and something we're interested in at PBSA

Today is National School Librarian Day. THANK YOU, school librarians & school library workers. We celebrate you. For so many library kids, the school library is the only place they have access to books. It is where they learn to believe that stories are for them. Thank you for your library joy 💛📚🥹🤟🏽

Making 🏳️‍⚧️ gradient on press:

This one semester, Book Arts position may be of interest to you or someone you know. 📚🎨 ☀️ www.scrippscollege.edu/hr/faculty/v...

REMINDER Help us build the SHARP 2025 Annual Bibliography! Submit citation information for titles you published/contributed to/edited (etc) in 2025 that are "book historical" (think broadly!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It’s leg day at work. Just printing up some promotional material…

Pretty cool thing in a Newcastle imprint from 1760: a paper tear repaired before printing

Q: what is the most Tragical TRAGEDY that was ever tragedized by any comical Company of Tragical TRAGEDIANS? A:

Just came across The Oyster; Where, How and When to Find, Breed, Cook and Eat (1861) in a dealer listing & am in love with the illustrations on the title page & frontispiece: archive.org/details/oyst....

It's all true, the prints are all up! If you want some (joyful | just | trans | critical tech | 🌈 ) art made by hand w/a big printing press & real technicolor inky inks, I'm saving funds to buy a decent home press, which will let me print more accessibly + do way more art for mutual aid & for free

This article is so good it quite literally led me to create a folder on my desktop titled "academic inspo"

Listening to MIKA during a book arts studio shift — is this #queerbibliography ?

Ever wondered how pressmen and compositors at the early-modern Plantin Press structured their careers? 📘🕰️ Join the University of Antwerp as a PhD fellow and dive into the rhythms of labour between 1580–1840 Apply by 1 July 2026 👇 #PhDPosition #EarlyModern #PlantinPress #PrintingHistory #Antwerp

Come think about Feminist Bibliography with me this summer! I’m teaching a one-week online course for @calrbs.bsky.social—I love this class and am excited to do it again. Description below; priority deadline April 15; all details at www.calrbs.org/feminist-bib...

Part of the "decline of reading" may have something to do with the forms of these readings we are (or are not) making available to possible readers

These are the same "book"

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks' - BL & UCL Dep of Information Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... Now open for student applications! Deadline: 14 April

Can’t wait!

The scream I screamed when Palencar agreed…

Here is a cool call for the #bookhistory communities: “Women Printing for Institutions in Early Modern Europe”, at the HAB Wolfenbüttel (and organized by Saskia Limbach) in November 2026. CFP: www.hab.de/wp-content/u...

1) letterpress vs other possible ways to make movable letter art 2) how to do yr 1st typeset+print w/a Vandercook 3-4) how to access or buy yr 1st type & press for free or least $? Emphasize physical+financial accessibility, why/how print under fascism (protest, infoshare, persuasion, joy, hope).+

Printing is political.

Never not going to be angry about the demolition of the Washington Post

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. The Psychology of Religious Experience 2. Virginia Woolf’s Novels 3. The History of the Sixties 4. Latin 5. Pretty, Witty, and Gay (20th century queer media)

One of my most cherished classes is my 18th century novels course where the primary learning objective is "learn how read long novels." We did a "couch to 5k" approach to attention span and note-taking.

#BookHistory #Publishing

Going for a walk.

The new-parent impulse to hold up a full bottle of pumped milk like men hold up fish in dating profiles

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

No email from a library system stirs the imagination like a notice my scan is ready to download through WORLDCAT. The great cat that surrounds the world? That nuzzles the roots of the world-scratching-tree? The great world cat who is and was and shall be? That cat???

This, by @adamwithbooks.bsky.social in the most recent HLQ, is really excellent. "Bibliography tends to drain out affect—­ but it needn’t."

LOVING THIS THREAD

And this is why my spouse and I won’t be crossing the border home for quite some time.

Hey hey, it’s now official on Concordia UP’s website, 20% discount code KENNEDY2026 at CUP (CAN) or Chicago (USD, link in next post) for Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400-1550! concordia.ca/press/illumi...

Motivational!

I‘m doing Noverwhelmedber

My book is now available open access on project muse, with OAPen launch coming soon. Hard copies should start going out this week (if they have not already): you can get yours for 50% off with code SAR50.

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

In ALA's recent RIF, ACRL lost Tory Ondrla, the amazing conference manager behind RBMS' conferences for so long. Add to this kudoboard to let Tory know how much we appreciate her.

Got a copy ordered for the SFU library! With how much my undergrads are struggling with a close reading-focused class, I’m looking forward to picking up some tips.

If you need cheering up and/or extreme office/life-choice jealousy, here’s a dreamy photo of Giovanni Mardersteig’s Officina Bodoni in Verona (From: www.tipoteca.it/en/evento/of...)

More dog content for your Sunday.