More than 30 years worth of data on UK literary prizes (and their winners) goes live today @post45data.bsky.social! Bravo to researchers Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Theo Gray, and Maryse Jayasuriya for compiling and publishing this incredible resource! data.post45.org/posts/britis...

When a big @nytimes.com feature about #reeesesbookclub dropped in mid-May 2024, @astarre.bsky.social and I had just submitted our manuscript about - you guessed it - the club to @cl-journal.bsky.social. #Academicpublishing is slow, but here we are, 13 months later... (1/4)

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Are you interested in book history and the fabulous scholarly society that brings people like us together? Because SHARP is here! 📚📜

Sweet home Chicago! 🤩 I would recommend @annnapolitano.bsky.social's "Hello Beautiful" for a great Chicago read, too. (Librarian protagonist, campus storyline, basketball storyline, Little Women references: it covers all the bases.)

THIS is why we wrote this. archive.is/2024.10.31-1...

The German book industry has just revised their product category 112 (contemporary literature from 1945), motivated by the boom in New Adult literature: www.boersenverein.de/interessengr... #newadult #publishing

Just diving right in here - hello! - to share my excitement: @astarre.bsky.social & I have been working on a piece about #ReesesBookClub for quite some time, & it has just been accepted for publication by the journal Contemporary Literature! #bookclubs #bookculture

My second take on a big question: what does a feminist #bookhistory look like? sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...