Wonderful @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Spike Bucklow about his new @reaktionbooks.bsky.social release, The Year: An #Ecology of the #Zodiac. It defies genre, maybe even summation. Loved it. #BookSky📚💙 #anthropology #folklore #astrology #Skystorians newbooksnetwork.com/year

Oh, this was fun! The marvelous Philip Carr-Gomm and I chatted on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about his @reaktionbooks.bsky.social 2010 A Brief History of Nakedness. Listen, read, and check out the photos! #BookSky 📚💙 #Religion #Druidry #Nudity #WitchSky newbooksnetwork.com/a-brief-hist...

Check out this quick and fun @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat with David de Boer about The #EarlyModern #Dutch Press in the Age of Religious Persecution" @oxunipress.bsky.social #skystorians #Netherlands #Reformation #AcademicSky #Press #BookSky📚💙 #AcademicSky newbooksnetwork.com/the-early-mo...

And now for some good storytelling. Matt Sparks and Olivia Sizemore talk about Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #Folklore #Appalachia #GhostStories #hauntings #Folktales #Kentucky newbooksnetwork.com/haint-country

Smart and delightful book, equally enjoyable @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview. @domford.bsky.social Mytholudics: Games and Myth @degruyterbrill.bsky.social #GameTheory#Folklore #Myth #PopularCulture newbooksnetwork.com/mytholudics

Spoke to one of my academic heroes for this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview! Samuel Kline Cohn, Popular Protest and Ideals of #Democracy in Late #Renaissance #Italy @oxunipress.bsky.social #skystorians #EarlyModern #politicalhistory newbooksnetwork.com/popular-prot...

Back from holidays and ready to catch up. Check out this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social beauty with with Michael Green about @inekehuysman.bsky.social Private Life and Privacy in the #EarlyModern #LowCountries @brepols.net #Netherlands #Skystorians #Renaissance newbooksnetwork.com/private-life...

Check out my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview about The #Witch Studies Reader edited by @gentlemanjane.bsky.social and Soma Chaudhuri @dukepress.bsky.social #GenderStudies #FeministStudies #decolonial #WomensHistory #postcolonial #witchcraft newbooksnetwork.com/the-witch-st...

This one was fun! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with #ArtHistory Andrea Beyer to talk about Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist @reaktionbooks.bsky.social #ArtHistory #skystorians #EarlyModern #Renaissance newbooksnetwork.com/benvenuto-ce...

Give a listen to my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Enrique Fernandez and Darlene Abreu-Ferreira about Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. #HistoryofDeath #GenderStudies #skystorians #EarlyModern #BookSky 📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/death-and-ge...

New @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with David de Boer and Geert Janssen over @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social Refugee Politics in #EarlyModern Europe. #skystorians #BookSky📚💙 #EarlyModernist #Refugee #Migration #Renaissance #WarsofReligion newbooksnetwork.com/refugee-poli...

New @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Kathleen Miller Doctrine and Disease in the British and Spanish Colonial World @psupress.bsky.social #skystorians #EarlyModern #ColonialLatinAmerica #HistoryofDisease #BookSky📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/doctrine-and...

Wouldn't it be awesome if @nytimes.com weren't pandering assholes and instead had a speck, a mite, a midge, a pinch, an iota, a scintilla of journalistic integrity? Too much to ask from the $&^#$ paper of record in the USA.

Nice @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat with Camilla Annerfeldt about @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social Clothing and Identity in #EarlyModern #Rome. #skystorians #FashionHistory #BookSky 📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/clothing-and...

Hurray @nytimes.com @nytgames.bsky.social New York Times Connections Puzzle!!!

Super fun @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talk with Kirsten Macfarlane about @oupprimary.bsky.social Lay Learning and the #Bible in the 17th C #AtlanticWorld #skystorians #EarlyModern #Christianity #HistoryofChristianity #ColonialHistory #BookSky 📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/lay-learning...

#Dutchhistory #Netherlands #hondenslager #HistoryofChristianity #KHDHaley

#Folklore fans: check out my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talk with Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir about Ghosts, Trolls, and Hidden People @reaktionbooks.bsky.social #Iceland #skystorians #ghoststories #booksky 📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/ghosts-troll...

Had a great time talking to Emily Colbert Cairns and Nieves Romero-Diaz on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about #EarlyModern Maternities in the #Iberian Atlantic #skystorians #earlymodernist #gender #IberianHistory @amsterdamupress.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/early-modern...

Wonderful talk with @annawainwright.bsky.social about Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance #skystorians #history #genderstudies #Renaissance #EarlyModernist #ItalianLit newbooksnetwork.com/widow-city

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

When does the Eras Tour start again?

Inside of you there are two swifts. One is Jonathan Swift, the other is Taylor Swift. You are a new survey course attempting to save the English major.

Had such a great time talking to Marc Jaffré of @rug.nl about The Courtiers & Court of Louis XIII. #skystorians #earlymodernists #history #FrenchHistory @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-courtier...

No, university administrations and edtech and AI pushers in academia working in conjunction with OpenAI, Microsoft and more have unraveled the academic project. But, otherwise yes.

Most important interview. Worst hand. Every time. Please commiserate with your archival nightmares. #skystorians #earlymodernist #paleography

#skystorians, #papacy nerds, #conclave afficionados, #Earlymodern lovers, check this out! Great chat with Miles Pattenden @sistosesto.bsky.social over Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, due out in paper very soon. #BookSky 📚💙 #medievalists #medievalsky newbooksnetwork.com/electing-the...

I love history. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

#skystorians 🗃️

Another awesome @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview. Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social talks Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature. @uchicagopress.bsky.social #skystorians #trans #EnglishLit #EarlyModern #Milton #donne #TransHistory newbooksnetwork.com/glorious-bod...

And now for something different: @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with @sarahstang.bsky.social of @brocku.bsky.social about Monstrosity in Games and Play @amsterdamupress.bsky.social #gamestudies #monstertheory newbooksnetwork.com/monstrosity-...

PIRATES! Check out my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with John Coakley about Coakley, Nathan Kwan and @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social The Problem of Piracy in the Early Modern World @amsterdamupress.bsky.social #Skystorians #earlymodern #history #piracy newbooksnetwork.com/the-problem-...

Hello #medievalsky! Enjoy my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social conversation with Caroline Dunn @scmedievalist.bsky.social about her Ladies-in-Waiting in Medieval England. @cambridgeup.bsky.social #skystorians #medieval #BookSky📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/ladies-in-wa...

“America has your back.” We’re starting to see what that means.

I loved this book! I think you'll love my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talk with Ellen Arnold @medievalpenguin.bsky.social about her @cambridgeup.bsky.social release Medieval Riverscapes. #medievalsky #skystorians #envhist #envhum #bookSky📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/medieval-riv...

I'm a one-issue voter, and this is that issue. I want to lose $100k every month on something called Groincoin or $hart, and I don't want the fucking GOVERNMENT telling me I can't. Also I have injured 100% of my body in interactions with hot dog rollers at 7/11. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/b...

This is Alice. On this day in 2016 she landed in our life. After a really rough start in Missouri she came to us in Iowa, and then with us to Amsterdam where she lives her best life zooming around in her bike. Best thing that ever happened. #bassethound

Stopped into a brown bar for a coffee near Waterlooplein today. And then I made a friend.

Great @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat with Megan Moran about #Gender and #Family Networks in #EarlyModern Italy @amsterdamupress.bsky.social #skystorians #Italy #BookSky📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/gender-and-f...

Trying out a new style in a new place: portrait of a scribe, probably by Venetian painter Gentile Bellini while visiting Constantinople in 1480. Today is his day.

Wide-ranging talk with Pamela Allen Brown for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage. @oxunipress.bsky.social #skystorians #history #theaterhistory #Shakespeare #EarlyModern #ItalianHistory newbooksnetwork.com/the-divas-gi...

Loving this meme’s evolving narrative 😂😂😂

Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken theonion.com/heroic-...

In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview I talk with Noa Shashar over The Marital Knot: Agunot in the #Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850 @brandeispress.bsky.social #EarlyModern #Skystorians #JewishHistory newbooksnetwork.com/the-marital-...

Hear me wildly mispronounce Norwegian! Great @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talk with @audun-kjus.bsky.social over Adventures in the Play Ritual Continuum @upcolorado.bsky.social #folklore newbooksnetwork.com/adventures-i...

Hey #Venetianists, check out my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talk with Kathryn Taylor about Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in #EarlyModern #Venice #skystorians #BookSky📚💙 #ethnography #Renaissance #history newbooksnetwork.com/ordering-cus...

Hey #medievalists -- here's two ladies talking about Lordship! Thanks Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social for this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talk about your @oxunipress.bsky.social release #medieval #skystorians #EuropeanHistory #BookSky📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/lordship-and...

People, possum every hour is the only thing that is keeping me from absolute despair.

An old favorite: Roses are red Gender’s performative Valentine’s Day Is heteronormative.

@samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social I would like to talk to you about The Emperor and the Elephant. Message !