A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...

My favorite catalogue cover.

This platform is getting out of hand

We've both re-dedicated ourselves to a better diet and more exercise, which this Christmas also seems to include melting an entire stick of butter.

I'm reminded of the time I ended up in a band photo (2nd left) for their album liner notes because they couldn't get the keyboardist to pick up the phone and they needed a body for the shot. And no, I don't play.

Re-upping this in hopes of an answer

Question for the Victorianists: is there a digital scan of any/all of the serialized edition of Bleak House out there?

My life's aspiration is to walk down the street and have people point and say...

Our latest issue is out! Check Part Two of our special topic "Print Cultures and Bookishness in Contemporary Life" in The New Americanist (Edinburgh UP): www.euppublishing.com/toc/tna/curr...

I need help translating some handwriting. I think "W.B. Turner" but I really can't be sure. Ideas?

FINALLY! The first piece I wrote on Sylvia Beach and the last to be published. Thanks to the editors of this fine edited collection -- Gender and the Book Trades -- which is crammed full of great scholarship. brill.com/edcollchap/b...

I just attended the latest Bookselling Research Network event and a "William Gibson" was there who never turned on his camera. I spent the whole time thinking "nah, it can't be, can it?"

Ok Warsaw, you can do pretty once in a while.

Excited to be joining the London Rare Books School once again to present on early 20th c. bookselling during the Bookshops and Booksellers course convened by @bettyblogs.bsky.social and Andrew Nash! Open to all those interested! Course: ies.sas.ac.uk/london-rare-... And see below for how to join.

I live in the land of slow email replies and even slower administrative processes, so receiving a reply from a bookseller within an hour of their opening time was strangely exciting.

We're hosting some great booksellers working on a project documenting a history of radical bookselling in the UK (1970-2000). Join us on Friday 2pm GMT/8am EST! booksellingresearchnet.uk/event/radica...

Re-upping for all the new followers. Please let me know if I've missed you!

Published in 1933 and still immensely helpful in 2024

I'm not sure I've ever described a blueberry as "crunchy"

Nobody: Joseph Ames: ALL the imprints everywhere all at once

I wrote a review of Evan Friss's book on American bookstores. Certainly a conversation can be had about it includes and excludes, but I'm on the side of MORE research and focus. So I welcome it from that perspective. www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

Re-upping in case #BookSky or any new followers have suggestions to add.

I'm pretty confident my path to the academy started at Pizza Hut.

I just learned Jimmy Page owned a bookshop in the 1970s. Finally, my teenage years have research value.

I understood that in moving to Warsaw there'd be a possibility of an unexploded shell found near where I'm living. It looks like today's that day.

I'm trying to imagine what it would have been like to buy a book from David Garnett.

Starting a chapter on Bloomsbury booksellers Birrell & Garnett. Lots of fun data to share from the archives.

A starter pack for bookshops, bookselling, and those that follow closely. Hit me up if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/MshhBgG

This morning's desk selfie

My people

Since you're all here now, do let me know what your favorite bookshop is. Photos welcome!

So excited to share Ben Huebsch and the Booksellers' School with everyone! Thanks to @astarre.bsky.social Florian Sedlmeier, and Sheila Liming for seeing this through!

I received a fan email for my last book from somebody who worked on the production of Monty Python and the Holy Grail and I'd really like to tell the 11yo me who obsessively listened to an audio tape of bits of that film all about it.

Today in Slow Academia: I received a response to an email I sent 2 1/2 years ago from a professor at another institution. I appreciate the email but should I be worried about them?

Quite the night

✅First chapter: written.

I take a copy of Ulysses in a hotel's library as a seal of quality.

Morning work station

Kite weather on the Baltic

Fighting words

A monumental achievement by the most impressive academic I know, @karolinakrasuska.bsky.social. Out today! Check out the free electronic version and buy yourself a print copy! And then have your library order the hardcover! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/soviet-born/...

As my British friends go to the polls on the anniversary of my country's declaring independence from them, I'd like to take this moment to say...

New issue out! Thank you Jessica Pressman for the inspiration! www.euppublishing.com/toc/tna/3/1 @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social Kathi Berens Rachel Noorda Seth Glickman

Just received the proofs for my other piece on Beach. Due out with Brill in the fall! brill.com/edcollbook/t...

If I know anything in life, it's that I wouldn't last long as a W.H. Smith's shop assistant in 1908.

Bookseller customer service c. 1861

I wrote the first 400 words of the next book today. Had to start somewhere.

The good news: I have funding to run a week-long summer school on publishing and bookselling next year! The difficult news: I have to organize a week-long summer school on publishing and bookselling by next year.

Course plan taking shape.