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Leah Price is an American literary critic who specializes in the British novel and in the history of the book. She is Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University and founding director of the Rutgers Initiative for the Book. She has written essays on old and new media for The New York Times Book Review, London Review of Books, The Paris Review, and The Boston Globe. .. more

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 17h

Dropping off books at a community bookshelf at a local queer cafe. Going to have a rummage and see if there's anything to take home.

I'm a big believer in passing on books and that i don't need to keep them all, even the 4 star reads!

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Big stack of books on a shelf including Devils Breath, A Botanical Daughter, My Life in Sea Creatures and, All Fours.

A wider view of the bookshelf packed full of books with faux flowers and fairy lights.

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Jules @afewbugs.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18h

Peaceful counter protest against the planned far right march in #exeter on the 25th of October organised by #standuptoracism Exeter. The far right are planning to march through one of the most diverse areas of our city, we will not let them go unopposed.

#devon

A poster saying "Stop the scapegoating! No to Islamophobia! No to antisemitism! Exeter is for everyone!"

Oppose the far right patriots march Saturday 25th October.
Meet 10:30 Sidwell Street - location to be confirmed, see social media for updates.

Family friendly celebration of diversity in Bedford Square from 12 noon.

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Please come to a day conference on Printing Politics, Thursday, October 23

2:00-5:00pm: poster printing and zine making workshop

5:30-7:00pm: roundtable discussion with artists, art workers, and scholars on the role of print media in their diverse practices.

Rutgers Book Initiative, Murray […]

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

"Edify and Connect are two platforms from Ingenta." #inmyinbox #foundinanity #onomastics

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Stefan Bohacek @stefan.stefanbohacek.online.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Great idea!

"Yes, New Jersey should sue the Trump administration, but we have to do more. We should be withholding federal taxes, dollar for dollar, to backfill funding that’s illegally cut.

The state should also eminent domain Trump’s golf course in Bedminster and build some affordable […]

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d

How I feel whenever I set type. #letterpress

Street sign: [in large letters] No dumping "littering or distribution of handbills violation of location [in small letters] ordinance"

Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Crucifixion or freedom? @altbot

Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 15d

Hot take: #bookerprize screwed up in dropping the devastating (and funny, unlike AUDITION) MISINTERPRETATION by #lediaxhoga.

Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 23d

Duchamp in the suburbs. #nj

3 toilets abandoned on a lawn next to the curb.

Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 23d

The morning is inspiring, the breakfast is hot, the look at the strategic plan is inside: how much oatmeal would it take to bribe a professor to attend a talk by upper management? #foundinanity

Join us in person for an inspiring morning featuring a hot breakfast, an inside look at our strategic plan,

Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 24d

First they came for the nursing homes; why wouldn't #privateequity target textbooks too? https://jacobin.com/2025/09/wall-street-college-bookstore-education

College Textbooks: Wall Street’s New Cash Cow

For years, textbook prices have burdened students already struggling with loans and sky-high tuition costs. Now Wall Street is taking over the market, tightening its grip on a staple campus institution: the college bookstore.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24d

The game may have given me an unrealistic expectation of how fast I can run from Back Bay to Malden (5 min)

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24d

I am in Boston. I’ve only been here once but I feel like I know it very well. That’s likely because I have been playing Fallout 4 consistently for a decade.

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Thanasis Kinias @tkinias.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 25d

I was just looking up books for a course proposal, and I discovered that, according to Amazon, _The Left Hand of Darkness_ was published in 1708.

Talk about *pioneering*!

#sff

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Thanasis Kinias @tkinias.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 25d

I really wonder about Google Maps sometimes. The other day I got in the car and plugged in my phone, and at the top of its list of likely destinations I might want to drive to was... the British Library. The one in London.

I am in Texas.

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 26d

Also - anyone have a Mastodon instance that has a good bunch of narrative nonfiction authors / historians / nerds with a conscience?

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27d

As always, an important thing to understand when people are trying to explain and rationalize the far right, especially trolls like Groypers:

It's pointless to take literally anything they say as literal. It's all sarcasm wrapped in memes wrapped in irony wrapped in rage bait wrapped into […]

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Corin Ashwell 🌍 🌿 🍄🏳️‍⚧️ @corin-ja.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27d

The richest man in the world addresses your rally, and you claim to be plucky underdogs? F*ck off, flag-shaggers!

#tommyrobinson #standuptoracism
#ukpolitics

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 7

Safety training egging the custard: choose between a grammatical statement containing an acronym and an answer containing the advice "if it smells real bad wear gloves". #makerspace #letterpress

How do you find out about the hazards associated with a chemical or material you are using? [ ] Don't worry about it because all art related chemicals are safe to use

[ ] Find someone else that is working with the same material and ask them

[e] Check the Safety Data Sheet (SDS)

[ ] Smell the material and if it smells real bad use gloves

Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 7

@ai6yr Heartbreaking -- see Tana French's BROKEN HARBOR or Emily Hunt Kivel's DWELLING.

Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 7

Grateful to safety training for making the quiz so painless. #makerspace #letterpress

To determine which type of glove to wear when working with chemicals, LR nGH @ Usea color that matches the chemical or paint you are PE @ Use the most expensive @ Usetheleast expensive O ChecktheSDS

Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 2

#ice now charging veteran with resisting "orders to disburse" #freudianslip

According to the indictment, Mavalwalla and his co-defendants “physically blocked the drive-way of the federal facility and/or physically pushed against officers despite orders to disburse and efforts to remove them from the property”.

Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 2

Welcome -- or not -- to the new semester: administration sends, then retracts, "Welcome Back" email. #academic Chatter @altbot

Screenshot of email with sender redacted: [redacted] would like to recall the message, 'Welcome back.'"

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · Sep 2

From today’s @bostonglobe.com. I’ll link the full article below, but for those who hit a paywall…

“Velchik — who holds two degrees from Harvard, one from the college and one from the law school — was the sole lawyer arguing the case for the White House in July.”

You really can’t make this up.

A DOJ lawyer accused
Harvard of 'indifference to antisemitism? As a Harvard undergrad he wrote a paper from Hitler's perspective.
Michael Velchik once also told a peer that "Mein Kampf" was among his favorite recent reads.
Hilary Burns • Tal Kopan •
Updated September 2nd, 2025, 7.04 AM

The cornerstone of the Trump
administration's justification for cracking down on Harvard University is that the Ivy League school has allegedly allowed antisemitism to fester on campus.
"The choice was made, let's not give federal taxpayer dollars to institutions that exhibit a wanton indifference to antisemitism," the lawyer defending the government's case said in federal court in July.

Yet that lawyer, Michael Velchik, when he was a senior at Harvard 14 years ago, submitted a paper for a Latin class written from the perspective of Adolf Hitler, according to three people studying in the department with knowledge of the incident. The assignment was to write from the perspective of a controversial figure, but Velchik's choice of Hitler so unnerved the instructor that he was asked to redo the assignment.
And in an email to a peer about 18 months later, as he was preparing to enter law school, Velchik wrote that he'd enjoyed Hitler's autobiography and political manifesto, "Mein Kampf," more than any other book he'd read recently during a year of travels, according to a copy of the correspondence obtained by The Boston Globe. He did not mention Hitler's perpetration of the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were murdered.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · Aug 31

Public health signs in Bangalore hit different (probably from 2003 or so.. found it while looking through some old pics)

a photo of a road safety sign in bangalore, india, that says 'talk while riding you will never talk again'

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · Aug 31

I didn't know about this story when I wrote this letter. My jaw is on the FLOOR.

My letter: "Ban stock trading by members of Congress. It’s widely known that elected officials have access to information that could influence markets, and when they profit from trading stocks, it looks corrupt […]

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Chad :mstdn: @chad.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · Aug 31

Margaret Atwood claps back to having The Handmaid’s Tale banned from Alberta schools by the UCP.

It’s so good.

#ableg #abpoli #abed

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Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 29

@bookish here I guess
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MAY DAY STRONG

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