RIP John Carey. This book changed my life, and I wouldn’t say that if it wasn’t true. 🙏

I was asked yesterday if I thought that English might benefit from a governing academy, like French, and noted that a language that, to date, supports dreamed and dreamt, dove and dived, and pleaded and pled, is not a language you can govern. (And I wouldn't want to.)

Massive (but typical) failure of the publishing industry to recognize the demand for queer books and for PHYSICAL PRINT COPIES of books. #BookHistoryLive

Funny you should mention that arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/w...

Nothing better than finding an amazing book in your own collection. When I did my deep dive on Richard Geis (aka Peggy Swenson) a few months ago, I forgot I owned this. College lesbian corruption is one of my favorite subgenres of queer pulp.

Holiday spirit has evaporated. Trying to stay positive. 1 like = 1 attempt to summarize a classic Mythos story in a single skeet

She’s finally here, part one of my glorious descent into hell. open.substack.com/pub/nympholi...

She’s finally here, part one of my glorious descent into hell. open.substack.com/pub/nympholi...

“The keeping of records remains itself a kind of warfare. The keepers, whether they wish to or not, cannot be neutral.” Currently reading Graham’s longer book about librarian spies, Book and Dagger, and can’t recommend it enough!! www.publicbooks.org/the-spy-who-...

kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders

I don’t have a lot of P.E.C. lesbian titles, but the ones I have live up to the promise of “The finest in adult reading.” I’ve been working hard on my Substack and you’ll see one of these soon!

Titles from P.E.C.’s French Line, the publisher’s gay imprint. One of the reasons I can’t find much about P.E.C. is that, unlike their competitors Greenleaf and Milton Luros’ Parliament empire, they weren’t involved in any legal battles that I can find.

Im trying to find more information about P.E.C. (Publisher’s Export Co.). It was a 60s/70s San Diego smut publisher founded by Donald Patrick but I’m really stuck trying to find out anything about him or the company. I know lots of you have P.E.C.s in your collections but does anyone know more?

Boys don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses and conduct sacrificial blood rites. #DailyPaperback

This whole novella is stunning but this passage stopped my heart for a second with its raging truth. #BookStdies #Disability

I am speechless—bodiless—with wonder over @danchaon.bsky.social’s One of Us. The highest compliment I can pay it is a place on the shelf with the greatest books about carnivals of all time. It’s a very close 3rd—just a hair—behind Geek Love and Nightmare Alley & I will read it again many times.

Thurston wishes you a happy spooky season 🐈‍⬛ 🎃 🍁

Requiring Book Sellers to Rate Content of Books Unconstitutional, Per Federal Judge 📚 bookriot.com/texas-reader...

Typophiles, Doug Wilson has digitized more industrial and other movies of old about typecasting and typesetting! realdougwilson.com/writing/new-...

Incredible title, incredible cover. Might have to read this one. #DailyPaperback #Gothtober

COVER REVEAL AND RELEASE WE WILL SPEAK AGAIN OF THE RED TOWER is a tribute anthology of stories inspired by Thomas Ligotti’s “The Red Tower” and it’s out NOW: dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b

If you aren't happy single, you won't be happy taken. Happiness comes from Star Trek, not relationships.

Perfect television, 10/10, no notes.

nympholibrarian.substack.com/p/the-devil-... The long-awaited conclusion of The Devil is Gay is finally posted, with detours into Star Whores and How to Write a Porno for Fun and Profit What’s next on the Nympho Librarian’s desk? What could possibly follow The Devil is Gay but Satan Was a Lesbian!

In 1983 Philip Morris bought three Candlelight Romances from Dell to promote Belair cigarettes. These “Compliments of Belair” editions were promotional items for customers.

This will not stand, man! #StarTrek #StarTrekMemes #StarTrekTNG

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A day late for the old beast’s birthday but not too late to be a #Gothtober #DailyPaperback

I love book gimmicks so much I once curated an exhibition called “Death By Gimmick!” so of course I had to order this mayonnaise-sponsored stinky tome. I will follow up with an assessment when I get it.

Let’s get back to the #DailyPaperback and celebrate #Gothtober, starting with this paperback cut into the shape of a tombstone.

October

A new entry for my folder of pictures of Columbo holding books

I am so honored to be interviewing my friend and new Harlequin author @isabellepopp.bsky.social tonight and showing off some old school romance. First romance novel I’ve been thanked in 😭 It’s a fantastic cozy fall read featuring a fmc with heart and bite—I highly recommend!

Challenging myself to stop buying duplicate books just because they have Elaine Duillo covers (just kidding I will never stop doing this). #DailyPaperback

I started a newsletter, friends. this-not-that.ghost.io

New stickers! willburrows.art/shop

I’m sorry but this is the best product name I have ever seen

nympholibrarian.substack.com/p/the-devil-... I have been horrifically busy at work and also got way more obsessed with Richard Geis than I planned. The penultimate entry on The Devil is Gay is here, and the final part should follow soon if I can make myself stop reading one more thing!

I never thought to do this. If my only additions to human knowledge relate to a Mary Shelley story and a quack medical device I am fine with that

His name is Columbo. I found him under a bush in the rain.

VERY excited to say that I've put up the first of next year's Romancing the Gothic talks and we're diving into the history of GAY GOTHIC PULP with Justin Tate! Check it out! Online, March 21st 2026, 4pm and 9pm GMT 4 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1715374694... 9 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1715525245...

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

BOTD: Peter 😍 Fucking 🔥 Falk 💦

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

I’m very excited to share this. My first time co-writing with a student who won a year-long fellowship to help compile the data. Many thanks owed to those who read, edited, and supported along the way. Please share widely!!

Bess Lovejoy explores the treatment and mistreatment of Julia Pastrana, one of the most famous “human curiosities” of the 19th century, who was only laid to rest in 2013, 153 years after her passing: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/julia-pastrana-a-monster-to-the-whole-world

Showgirl in Florida relaxing with Weird Tales — Alan Grant, 1947

An excellent summary of the attack on higher education in Indiana againstthecurrent.org/atc238/india...