Matthew Chambers
@matthewchambers.bsky.social
Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University. Honorary Lecturer, UCL. Publications Director, Bookselling Research Network. London and the Modernist Bookshop (Cambridge UP, 2020). https://tinyurl.com/eub7wta5
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CFP: Bookselling and Literature
Bookselling and LiteratureA Special Issue of English Studies Guest Editor: Matthew Chambers ([email protected]) One of the best-known literary friendships was formed in a bookshop, and one…
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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...
I just signed to edit a new strand for Cambridge Elements Publishing and Book Culture called "Periodicals and Print Matter." More details to follow but I look forward to your ideas on anything connected to periodicals, catalogues, zines, and ephemera.
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Publishing and Book Culture
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January 19, 2026 at 4:34 PM
I just signed to edit a new strand for Cambridge Elements Publishing and Book Culture called "Periodicals and Print Matter." More details to follow but I look forward to your ideas on anything connected to periodicals, catalogues, zines, and ephemera.
www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
-stabbed palm of hand (steak knife) trying to open a yogurt
- tore tendons (knee) saving an ice cream
- tore ligaments (ankle) rolling on a plastic ball
- broke a collarbone on a lamp post after I fell off my daughter's scooter
- slammed my forehead into a counter or shelf many times bending over
- tore tendons (knee) saving an ice cream
- tore ligaments (ankle) rolling on a plastic ball
- broke a collarbone on a lamp post after I fell off my daughter's scooter
- slammed my forehead into a counter or shelf many times bending over
What's the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I got out of the tub, skidded in water and tripped over the toilet. Ankle sprain.
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January 6, 2026 at 2:30 PM
-stabbed palm of hand (steak knife) trying to open a yogurt
- tore tendons (knee) saving an ice cream
- tore ligaments (ankle) rolling on a plastic ball
- broke a collarbone on a lamp post after I fell off my daughter's scooter
- slammed my forehead into a counter or shelf many times bending over
- tore tendons (knee) saving an ice cream
- tore ligaments (ankle) rolling on a plastic ball
- broke a collarbone on a lamp post after I fell off my daughter's scooter
- slammed my forehead into a counter or shelf many times bending over
There's still time to submit!
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...
CFP: Bookselling and Literature
Bookselling and LiteratureA Special Issue of English Studies Guest Editor: Matthew Chambers ([email protected]) One of the best-known literary friendships was formed in a bookshop, and one…
bookshoplit.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:03 AM
There's still time to submit!
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...
CFP: Bookselling and Literature
Bookselling and LiteratureA Special Issue of English Studies Guest Editor: Matthew Chambers ([email protected]) One of the best-known literary friendships was formed in a bookshop, and one…
bookshoplit.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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.
December 28, 2024 at 1:21 PM
My favorite catalogue cover.
This platform is getting out of hand
December 27, 2024 at 11:05 AM
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.
December 24, 2024 at 9:52 AM
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.
December 23, 2024 at 10:35 AM
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?
December 11, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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?
December 6, 2024 at 8:18 AM
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...
December 4, 2024 at 11:09 AM
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...
The New Americanist: Vol 3, No 2
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November 26, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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?
November 25, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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...
brill.com
November 25, 2024 at 9:16 AM
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?"
November 22, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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.
November 22, 2024 at 8:09 AM
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.
And see below for how to join.
November 21, 2024 at 11:17 AM
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.
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.
November 20, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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...
Radical Bookselling in the UK 1970-2000 - Bookselling Research Network
Join Zoom Meeting: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/92896539458?pwd=CzHY3JVopbp58jtl06eGAgdlVFBUHq.1Meeting ID: 928 9653 9458 Passcode: 108114 Radical Bookselling History Project: Dave Cope, John Goodman, Rick S...
booksellingresearchnet.uk
November 19, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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!
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
November 19, 2024 at 1:18 PM
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
November 18, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Published in 1933 and still immensely helpful in 2024
I'm not sure I've ever described a blueberry as "crunchy"
November 16, 2024 at 4:58 PM
I'm not sure I've ever described a blueberry as "crunchy"
Nobody:
Joseph Ames: ALL the imprints everywhere all at once
Joseph Ames: ALL the imprints everywhere all at once
November 15, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Nobody:
Joseph Ames: ALL the imprints everywhere all at once
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...
The Bookshop by Evan Friss | Book review
Evan Friss’s The Bookshop is an admirable exploration of US bookselling. It comprises thirteen chapters on various booksellers across US history, which are broken up by short interstitial pieces on bo...
www.the-tls.co.uk
November 14, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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.
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
November 14, 2024 at 8:03 AM
Re-upping in case #BookSky or any new followers have suggestions to add.