Witnessed a first in my neighborhood this morning: a honk-off on opposing rooftops.

Witnessed a first in my neighborhood this morning: a honk-off on opposing rooftops.

I've been a fan of Jenny Lawson for over a decade, so it was truly amazing to be at this event last night! (Iggy also approves of the new book). 🩵

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

I was just eating lunch outside and a car drove by with the windows rolled down blasting a traditional rendition of "Wild Mountain Thyme."

All in all, not a terrible way to spend a Sunday night.

All in all, not a terrible way to spend a Sunday night.

Hell yeah. Hot Gaskell Summer!!

This little creature doesn't know anything about what's happening in the world, but he does know when I'm overwhelmed by it all and tries his best to help. 🖤

Guess who spectacularly wiped out on the ice this morning and had to get two stitches on her elbow? 🤕 At least Billie is a very good nurse!

Our main aim was to see the special exhibition "Paws on Parchment" before it closed, but there were plenty of other cats to love elsewhere in the collection too! 🐈‍⬛ thewalters.org/exhibitions/...

There's nothing like a museum excursion to cheer up a rainy weekend. Yesterday's destination was The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

CALL FOR PITCHES @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not. Details below!

Volunteer #librarians from around the world joined forces to build the Nancy Drew collection on Open Library—volunteering their time to organize series, verify editions, untangle authorship, and clean up metadata so anyone can discover these books. Learn more ➡️ blog.openlibrary.org/2026/01/30/a...

Billie staring directly into an explosion is a mood--probably this one.

Billie staring directly into an explosion is a mood--probably this one.

🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

I was a shy sophomore when I took a Black British Lit seminar & so intimidated by the brash prof & her high expectations that I nearly dropped after day 1. That class brought me out of my shell, introduced me to two of my fav contemp writers (Z. Smith & B. Evaristo), & Dr. Lima became a mentor. ❤️

Happy 250th birthday to Jane Austen! From helping to run an Austen symposium at work to rereading Northanger Abbey for the last Gothic book club meeting of the year (and partaking in themed baked goods), my December has been devoted to Jane!

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post: bsky.app/profile/nsou...

Look at this excellent handkerchief from 1769 at the V & A museum: a showcase for #18thc practices of remediation. Made to imitate a quodlibet/medley print, a genre that itself aims to simulate, in a trompe l'oeil idiom, a scatter of small printed papers. Imagine blowing your nose on that! #scraps

3 weekends, 3 spooky entertainments: Yesterday, I saw Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" performed by UD's Resident Ensemble Players. Last Sunday, I saw Guillermo Del Toro's amazing film "Frankenstein" on the big screen. Two Sundays ago, I saw First State Ballet's rendition of "Dracula."

Perverse, grotesque, sensuous, inimitable — our latest post gathers, in high resolution, a selection of 74 key works by the era-defining English illustrator Aubrey Beardsley (1872–98): publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... And prints in our shop here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-ar...

Junji Ito’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s #Frankenstein was published in English in 2018 and won an Eisner Award for “Best Adaptation from Another Medium.” It’s both a faithful & idiosyncratic adaptation, showcasing Ito's mastery of horror storytelling within the comics medium.1/8 #Frankenstein

Bright chrysanthemums decorate Theo Nieuwenhuis' otherwise monochromatic design for November 1896. Fall is in full swing, but winter is close behind! 🍂

It may be November, but it's not too late to enjoy Nieuwenhuis' moody blue grapes for October. 🍇

Happy Halloween! Here's a spooky little pop-up display that I put together in Special Collections this week, featuring ghosts, witches, vampires, and monsters of all varieties. 🧡🖤

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

Culture might seem a less consequential right than free assembly+ its infringement makes less spectacular news than repressive violence. But the repeal of the right to culture is grave. honored to be with @isanchezprado.bsky.social in @hyperallergic.com today! hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

Me learning that Emily Dickinson was a big Brontë fan and that she requested this poem be read at her funeral:

A butterfly from August's calendar page has fluttered over to September's, settling in among the tansy leaves. Theo Nieuwenhuis, Kalender voor 1896

A butterfly from August's calendar page has fluttered over to September's, settling in among the tansy leaves. Theo Nieuwenhuis, Kalender voor 1896

#Caturday bird-watching 🌻

#Caturday bird-watching 🌻

August is nearly over, and I just realized I never shared this month's Nieuwenhuis calendar page! Here are some delicate wood sorrel plants and butterflies all the way from 1896. ☘️

Also, lest the anniversary go unremarked, July 27 was Billie's 5th Gotcha Day! 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 From scraggly stray to pampered prince:

Happy #InternationalCatDay! 😻 Here are my two, Billie and Iggy.

I’m coveting Wallace & Gromit’s entire cheese-centric library 📚

I spend a lot of time looking at & teaching about parchment recycled in the early modern era, not just in bookbindings but any place where a piece of durable parchment might be of use, like this clothing pattern cut from a saga manuscript (Magnússon Institute 122 b fol.): handrit.is/manuscript/v...

July, what a concept. Please enjoy Nieuwenhuis' bouquet of lilies from 1896, with strange fish, plants, and possibly tentacles filling in the negative spaces.

July, what a concept. Please enjoy Nieuwenhuis' bouquet of lilies from 1896, with strange fish, plants, and possibly tentacles filling in the negative spaces.

I had a lovely time at the #RBMS25 conference and visiting Yale for the first time. As anticipated, it's a beautiful campus with amazing collections. Now, onward to Massachusetts!

I got up extra early today and it's already sweltering (both of which I hate), but I'm currently on the train headed to New Haven to attend #rbms25 in person for the first time and very excited about it! Looking forward to meeting/reconnecting with folks over the next few days. 📚

Billie has been my little shadow ever since we got back home. 🖤

Bonus post from Madrid: This lovely little sign was pasted on the wall above a cat cafe/shelter called La Gatoteca. 🐈‍⬛️🐈

Spain trip, day 11 & 12: June 17 was our last day in Spain, so we did some more wandering around Madrid & two more museums: a small museum on the history of printing (Imprenta Municipal) in the morning & then the Prado in the afternoon. The next day, we departed again for the US--adios España!