I support this! www.change.org/p/save-the-w...

Rach's latest Great Books dispatch from Biblioll College: bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/closing-re...

Rach's latest "Dickens Dispatch" from Biblioll College:

Boze's latest "Shadow Canon" post: open.substack.com/pub/biblioll...

Timothy Snyder on the abomination of what AI is doing to Christmas songs at his local coffee shop. snyder.substack.com/p/the-inhuma...

The latest from Biblioll College! bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/biblioll-c...

Boze’s latest Biblioll post (Substack) on that wonderful 85-hr Advent music playlist reminded me that one of my favorite YouTubers, Ben Maton, just put out a gorgeous video, filmed in a tiny Devon chapel, on “The Greatest Advent Hymn of All Time.” Highly recommend! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI0j...

An 85-hour playlist with enough fantastic traditional music for the whole of Advent and the Christmas season as well! bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-only-c...

This. www.commondreams.org/opinion/sist...

Some who worked for the WPA during the Depression built infrastructure, like my Dad, who told me that the program had saved his life. Others made art in public spaces, like the Cohen Building in D.C. Help save "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal" by signing this petition! c.org/V2MshfZk6S

Desperately miss these days when the entire country (planet?) went as one to movies like these, with lines snaking around the block. It brought us closer together. bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/harry-pott...

Son John, an art historian specializing in New Deal art, co-wrote this piece on a Washington DC building (and its art) worth saving: www.archpaper.com/2025/11/gsa-...

This is a fantastic little bookstore in #Oxford, crammed to the gills with all sorts of wonderful book, not just Catholic ones. thecatholicherald.com/article/a-ha...

Necromancy in silicon. bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/beware-the...

So proud of my son, John Murphy, who just published his first book with Thames & Hudson: "New Deal Art". It's on Amazon, of course (amzn.to/4qNRvsm), but if you happen to live in Upstate NY, The Department of Things on Abeel Street in Kingston has copies--the shop is worth a visit on its own!

I am so happy to be a member of this tribe... Read more books. Just start, start small if that's easier, it all counts. We humans need books and trees and stars, always.

Rach's latest Dickensian Dispatch from Biblioll College! #Dickens #BookSky bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/dispatches...

As book lovers know, Portlandia is the home of Powells’ City of Books, the largest used book store in the world and a site of pilgrimage for this family. This photo by Chiara Profenna was on the front page of the Oregonian today, in regards to the wee matter of—never mind—and I had to share.

Ah, for the days of my youth, when rock stars wrote songs inspired by this book: bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-shadow...

SISKEL & EBERT, which premiered #OTD in 1986, had a master class of an opening sequence. Thirty-five seconds, 21 shots, and a flawless establishment of the professional rivalry of two Chicago newspapermen who inspired a generation of film buffs. #FilmSky #TVSky

Whenever I my head hurts about Left and Right, the scourge of Political Violence and Who's to Blame, I am always reminded of the credo of my favorite fictional Angelino, Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch: "Everybody counts or nobody counts."

"Books are portals linking us with all that has come before and all that has ever been thought. To read a book at the drugstore is to transform the drugstore—and ourselves—into “something rich and strange.” Latest from Boze on Biblioll College: bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/how-to-rek...

Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.

It's that time of the month! bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/biblioll-c...

One of my favorite thrillers, both novel and movie (the one with Edward Fox), is DAY OF THE JACKAL. RIP Mr. Forsyth. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

💙📚 An amazing literary reflection by Boze on Biblioll College: bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-shadow...

Brooks should get angry more often. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...

Rach's latest from Biblioll College: Encountering the mind of the past: reflections on first reading Aeschylus & his Oresteia #AncientBlueSky #BookSky open.substack.com/pub/biblioll...

Tree of the Day, New College, Oxford

Boze's latest on Biblioll College: bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-shadow...

About to see JULIUS CAESAR at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival!

Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, slams Trump for posting an AI image of himself as the Pope: “This is deeply offensive to Catholics, especially during this sacred time that we are still mourning the death of Pope Francis…He owes an apology”

Even the AI knew to give Trump a red lightsaber.

May the 4th be with you! And given we have a wannabe Palpatine perjuring the oath he swore, to uphold the Constitution of our own little Republic, it may be time to break out those lightsabers and ring up Mon Mothma @markhamillofficial.bsky.social

Rach's beautiful post on re-reading THE ODYSSEY. #AncientBlueSky 💙📚 bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/i-am-a-par...

Yes. We keep writing headlines that assign powers to the president that he does not have.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

Ha, St. Philip Neri's "maxim" for the day to which I can say, "I resemble that remark": "Men are generally the carpenters of their own crosses."

Happy Friday, everyone! For today's paid post at Omnivorous I reviewed the fantastic film "The Return," which finds the deeply, searingly, and hauntingly human story within Homer's "The Odyssey." open.substack.com/pub/omnivoro...

About to see August Wilson's JITNEY, directed by Tim Bond, at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival! I ❤️ Ashland! @littleseamstress.bsky.social @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social

Up to mischief in April and May! bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/biblioll-c...

#AmReading #BookSky 💙📚 #booksky HERO - Michael Korda PORTRAIT OF MAX (Beerbohm) - S.N. Behrman SEVEN MEN - Max Beerbohm THE ILIAD - Homer

Printing my packing lists for our "sabbatical" month in Oxford! bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/dreaming-s...

Not a drill.

We head for Oxford in 2 wks. Hence this new "section" on Biblioll College: bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/dreaming-s...

"And the number of its name is 666." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Not that I'm going to try and memorize these—Frack, I'm stilly working on Ozymandias—but this is a fun way to be exposed to some new (to me) poems: #Poetry 💙📚 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...