Loved this profile of the women who run Hagfish Books, another amazing company devoted to reissuing forgotten and overlooked titles.

nysfocus.com/2025/10/08/b... #bannedbooksweek

There's a mini genre of publisher memoirs--Calasso, Korda, going back Doubleday, etc. Is there a publisher memoir written by a woman?

You can volunteer to be a citizen historian at the Smithsonian.

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

a thread about the economics of DIY publishing and indie creators from my project manager (and friend) Glenn F.

Brilliant!

Student + early career journalists in Appalachia (or young folks who want to write): pitch 100 Days! Looking for stories w/ angles on young people, related to education & what's happening on campuses, politics, life & identity, & more. Rates start at $150 for opinion, $200-$400 for reporting.

My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women. It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

TODAY: @mariabustillos.com visits the new headquarters of Internet Archive Europe and chats with Brewster Kahle. “Let’s go! Move forward with a game of many winners, and put it within our own value system.” flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...

I just read an EXCELLENT book — The Savage City by TJ English which (among other things) detailed how FBI operatives infiltrated the Black Panthers and started the rift between Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver that led to the Panthers downfall.

#Philadelphia #Philadelphiastories #SchuylkillRiver @tursulowepress.bsky.social @templeunivpress.bsky.social #novel #memoir #Philadelphiaphotography

I do not believe there is such a thing as a book that can somehow damage you by reading it too early. I reject the premise. worst case scenario you pick up ayn rand by mistake and become a proper wanker for a while, but the cure for that is actually more reading

The wealthiest people in Philly have hijacked a local civic org and has effectively turned it into a funnel for money to fight roadway safety citywide. 😡

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Delaware Governor Matt Meyer is expected to sign House Bill 119, known as the Freedom to Read Act, which would set statewide standards for how public and school libraries manage book challenges and protect access to library materials.

From Botticelli to Blake to Doré, a tour through seven centuries of illustrations for the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri who passed away #onthisday in 1321... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dante-divine-comedy-in-art

#OTD in 1756 German writer Benedikte Naubert was born. She "anonymously published more than 50 historical novels and is considered a pioneer of the genre in the 1780s." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedik... Books by Naubert at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #literature

@bethkephart.bsky.social meditates on the art of constructing fiction from facts.

Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD

😡 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Thanks to the nudge from @prisonculture.bsky.social, I am now a supporting member of @hammerandhope.bsky.social. Won't you join me in furthering their (and our) work to make a better world? hammerandhope.org/membership

A lovely Peter Dobrin piece today:

Need a book? Bookseller Crow excellent indie bookshop proprietor Jonathan is gravely ill and they need all the business they can get. booksellercrow.co.uk They’re on bookshop.org too.

#Philly #art aux: #Lost sketchbook #found 8/29 near 7th+Race (old police roundhouse). Last artwork dated 8/15. Does it look familiar? Feels like it’s important to someone. If you can give details of other content (especially what’s on page 1) we can work on getting it back to you. Pls share/repost!

folks, if you’re interested in prisons, I’d love your eyes on this: 2 writers in prison in TX/WA are publishing a book on why we should ban solitary confinement — & their own experiences with it They’ve agreed to answer questions we’d collect on why+how they wrote this That’s where you come in!

Banning books. Silencing teachers. Defunding schools. It’s starting to feel like some folks want public education to fail. Here’s how we fight back: Run for school board and city council. Run to protect our kids. We’ll help you start 👉 runforwhat.net

Philly friends: its the Bookstore Crawl!

If any of your books are in this database of works stolen by Libgen theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/ You can fill out this form to receive updates on the ongoing class action lawsuit www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/ (my agent said yes, do this)

"What began as a modest effort by a few members of a small congregation to reach out to migrants would evolve into a deep experiment in solidarity..." our new issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is out! today I want to highlight this article by Benji Hart hammerandhope.org/article/chic...

Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.

“We stole billions of dollars worth of material, but don’t make us pay it back or it would ruin us.”

New #WriterBeware blog post: a new & aggressive marketing scam from overseas. Many of you will already be familiar with the highly personalized solicitations typical of this scam; these also illustrate how essential generative AI has become to publishing fraudsters writerbeware.blog/2025/08/01/r...

Philly friends! Take a look!

'From a window at night.' (1896) Towards the end of her life, Maria Yakunchikova wrote that her work from the late 1890s attempted to convey the fleeting preoccupations of other lives - 'the flashes of another world, the perception of which is blended into the landscape.'

Here’s a great thread for readers.

Emmett Till would be 84 today. Not 114. Not 104. 84. He would be my uncle. Not great-great or great uncle. One of my parents' siblings. This is why we remember.

PA friends and neighbors. Pass this on.

PA friends and neighbors. Important.

I'm collecting gently used and new books to support Bluestockings in keeping its doors open.

So very grateful to Foreword Reviews for these words about the forthcoming picture book, The Land of Faraway #childrensbooks #picturebooks #picturebooksforadults #OlgaDugina

This is a laundry list of rhetorical strategies to defend the adoption of a given technology for the purposes of advancing an ideology & economic regime: inevitability, unquestioning praise of “innovation,” buy-in from concerned stakeholders, assurances that partnership is not capitulation. 1/n

I’ve been looking at runaway slave ads from the American Revolutionary War and it’s been a humbling experience. If you have some time, I invite you to read some of their names in the thread below. 🗃️🧵 A man named Bone from New Hampshire.

Philly readers! Hold onto your books! These will be ruined in the rain! (Solidarity, DC33!!!)

Some day when the world is much brighter.

Writers! Note that AI translation (under the guise of "global access") is being seen/used as the weak point to get AI into publishing (possible bc Eng lang publishing is weak on translation). Stand with translators & for more human translation, fairly paid!

Throughout 2024, a group of folks focused on reading what we called "Wafer-thin Books": under 150 pages long. Though the group is finished, our material remains online at WaferThinBooks.com. Check out the rich variety of suggestions you'll find there.

This is a spectacular thread if you want to understand exactly how ignorant that NYT hit piece from yesterday is.