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Elyse Graham
@elysegraham.bsky.social
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Spies and the archives. Professor, Stony Brook University. Four books, including BOOK AND DAGGER (Ecco, September 24, 2024).
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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · Nov 20
This is the song "Boo Boo, Baby, I'm a Spy," which featured in casinos and nightclubs in Istanbul in the 1940's:

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Boo Boo, Baby, I'm a Spy
Listen to Boo Boo, Baby, I'm a Spy by Wartime Istanbul #np on #SoundCloud
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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 11h
'Knit Hello is a typeface for hand knitting, the outcome of a series of Typographic Knitting—or Typeknitting—workshops...based on slipstitches & a simple letterform grid, offers a simple, frustration-free process for beginners, w/o floats or getting entangled'. By Rüdiger Schlömer. #DHmakes
Knit Hello – Typeknitting
Knit Hello is a typeface for typographic knitting.
www.knithello.com
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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 17h
I don't know much about art, but I know what I like.
A painting of a beaver in an old-fashioned coat and cravat, wearing a crown.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 21h
As the legend goes, the German Prof. Dr. Eduard Müller is still fighting Death over a giant book. This ex libris is pure excellence and of #bookhistory and #booksky fame. Go, Ede!
"Ex libris Professor Dr. Eduard Müller". This ex libris - showing a Man fighting Death on a giant book - is glued into a medical book from 1793. Source: http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN1804462381
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Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social · 1d
I have made a critical blunder: the color I chose for my book cover looks absolutely terrible on me, gone are my aspirations for a coordinating Diane von Fursternberg wrap dress.
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Sasha the Furious Ghost 👻 @sashafury.blackskycomra.de · 1d
I love when the chapter evolves to a point where you realize a footnote needs to be brought into the text proper. Like, "Welcome, welcome, little one."
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Shaquille Sunflower🦇🎃 @mumzzzthewurd.blacksky.app · 1d
Fall weather is finally here 🍂🎃
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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 1d
RIP Walter Pater, you would have loved this
A Halloween decoration that portrays the Mona Lisa as a green, serpent-eyed Medusa, in an uncanny style that evokes Pater's famous passage about her: "She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her...."
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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 4d
Fun story: in 1920 the Irish Republic loaned the Bolsheviks $25,000, who gave them as collateral the Romanov family jewels. For three decades, until the loan was repaid, these jewels were kept secret behind a fireplace in an unassuming house: 15 Marino Crescent—the birthplace of Bram Stoker.
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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 3d
SWEATER WEATHER
A baby goat wearing a sweater
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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 5d
Covers I covet: "The Book of Were-Wolves," 1865
A red book cover with a stamped gilded illustration of a wolf crouching in a snarl. The title reads, "The Book of Were-Wolves." The same book cover, now showing the gilded spine, which has faded with age.
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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 6d
The Anthropodermic Book Project tests and identifies books bound in human skin.

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The Anthropodermic Book Project
A research project to identify the world's books bound in human skin
anthropodermicbooks.org
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 6d
How could a man who never set foot in a library until he was in college create what is considered the most extensive online collection of global Black history?

Maybe it had something to do with the story Dr. Quintard Taylor's father told him when he was a young boy.

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Remembering Quintard Taylor: Historian of the Black West and beyond
Dr. Quintard Taylor taught history at the University of Washington and created BlackPast.org, an online collection of global Black history. He died Sept. 21, 2025, at the age of 76.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Dec 8
Seasonal greetings for both the #bookhistory and #digitalhistory folks: a keyboard waffle iron. 🗃️
A waffle iron that forms keyboard waffles.
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Bryan @grimhawke.bsky.social · 7d
No fangs, but she's got her cape on.
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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 7d
You ever try to be polite but open the wrong page of the script?

COLLEAGUE
I'm sorry about that.

ME
It's my pleasure.
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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 7d
A photograph of a bat eating a Jack-o'-Lantern
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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 7d
Let's go spooky season!
A mashup of the pumpkin emoji and the "face with steam from nose" emoji, which is used to represent pride and determination
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 8d
The White House is asking nine major universities to commit to President Donald Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money.
https://to.pbs.org/3IDyV5d
Trump asks 9 colleges to commit to his political agenda for better access to federal money
A document sent to the universities encourages them to adopt the White House’s vision for America’s campuses, with commitments to accept the government’s priorities on admissions, women’s sports, free...
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James Fridman @jamesfridman.com · Dec 1
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Helen Kingstone @helenkingstone.bsky.social · 8d
Look upon this marvel and delight!
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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 8d
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 9d
Happy Daniel Boorstin Day! A great example of what the @librarycongress.bsky.social should & must be.

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October Nominees
October 1: Daniel Boorstin , the towering historian and Librarian of Congress whose pioneering and influential scholarly works include T...
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🕷️💀 Reg Ipsa Spookquitur 🦇🪦 @regipsaloquitur.com · 9d
It’s October!!
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heathen king @heathenking.bsky.social · 9d
a man with a pumpkin on his head is standing in a cemetery .
Alt: a man with a pumpkin head is dancing in a cemetery .
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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 11d
DIDO: Remember me, but ah! forget my fate on this device
Paul F. Tompkins: Something so poignant about "remember me on this device"
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 11d
Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social
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