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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 23h

Please check out our Announcements on Black & White & Read All Over for a CfP from @contingent-mag.bsky.social, a podcast series from @melusinagr.bsky.social, and praise to @tdtherrien.bsky.social and @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social for new book deals!

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you!!

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 23h

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 1d

Yep she does. Guess they had a bad shortlist this year.

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s going to start with the Republican governors, and some representatives who can see how policies are hurting their constituents. And the Dems will get fired up over these DoJ charges. And the people will get fed up with all of it.

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 1d

#bookhistory #bookprizes

Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 1d

The Swedish Academy recognized the 71-year-old Hungarian author, who is published in the U.S. by New Directions, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

László Krasznahorkai Wins 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature

The Swedish Academy recognized the 71-year-old Hungarian author, who is published in the U.S. by New Directions, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror,…

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think anyone should, but then I got my fill of it early. It’s ruined us, surely.

melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 1d

haha ikr??

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 1d

He got caught in bad syntax again, didn’t he?

melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 1d

Woot, woot! The interview with Dr. Gouck is super interesting. 💜 Fight evil, read banned books! #BannedBooksWeek #bookhistory

CodEX Machina Podcast @codexmachina.bsky.social · 1d

It's Banned Books Week! And we are so happy to hear that @georgetakei.bsky.social is the honorary chair this year! We'll have to read his book for Strange Land Book Club! The Codex Machina team has a couple of episodes out right now that focus on banned books and scholarship of banned books.

A slide saying "read banned books" "swipe to find out" Codex Machina

#60 of the 100 most frequently challenged books of the 1990s according to the ALA

young adult literature, coming-of-age story 1970 beside a recent cover of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. The cover is bright pink and has Judy Blume in large letters at the bottom, with what looks like a text message saying Are You There God? It's me, Margaret followed by "God" with the three dots that show a message is being written.

The most challenged book of 2006, 2007, and 2008 according to the ALA.

children's book, 2005 next to the cover of the book "and tango makes three" by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell with illustrations by Henry Cole. The cover art features two adult penguins and a baby penguin on an iceberg. There is a medallion for the ASPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Award

One of the ten most-challenged books of 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2021, according to the ALA

novel, urban fiction, 2017 next to the cover of "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas with a medallion for the Deutscher Jugendliteratur Preis (the German young adult literature prize). The cover features a Black teenaged woman holding the title of the book.

melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 2d

Very important #bookhistory

J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 3d

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access!

www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press

Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 2d

When video games are self-censoring, it says a lot.

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 3d

On This Day in History: October 7, 1955
Allen Ginsberg gave the first public reading of “Howl” at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. Kenneth Rexroth emceed while Jack Kerouac worked the crowd with a wine jug and shouts of encouragement. The reading helped ignite the Beat scene.

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg in 1959 – Photo by John Cohen

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 3d

I was asked to write a piece about different genres/formats of “gathering” — the bookstack itself being one such example! This’ll be a fun collection to work through :)

Jonathan Field, Townhall meetings and the death of deliberation; Cooper
100 TRICKS TO APPEAR SMART IN MEETINGS B
MEETING GROUNDS
PRIYA PARKER
THE ART OF
GATHERING
BERGER Et al.
A Toolkit for Gathering
Draw Down
PARRY
A THEORY OF ASSEMBLY From Museums to Memes
Unfurlings
Explorations in art, activism, and archiving
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* FREEDOM IS AN ENDLESS MEETING * Francesca Polletta
CERVENAK BLACK GATHERiNG
J. T.
ROANE
DARK AGORAS
MARGARBT MBAD AND PAUL, BYERS THE SMALL CONFERENCE
INSURGENT BLACK SOCIAL LIFE AND THE POLITICS OF PLACE
MOUTON
CHICAGO
Touloumi
Assembly by Design The United Nations and Its Global Interior
MACHINE PROJECT
Tang-Skidmore
DelMonico

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, it’s about time we bring more into our cult. *rubs hands together and laughs maniacally*

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 4d

A thousand book historians are nodding vigorously.

(we are legion, and more canny about the history of markets than you’d think for folks who also make literal formulae to represent how an individual book was constructed)

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4d

Honestly if you want at least some insight as to why "classics of literature" are constructed as they are, it's worth knowing the market imperatives of the time. American science fiction and fantasy started in magazines and drugstore racks; short stories and 40K novels were how people go paid...

Crewman Six, Snack Viking @crewmansix.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like this probably explains a lot more of the so-called classics of literature than is immediately obvious on the surface. 🤔

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 3d

#bookhistory

Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 4d

This is a huge collapse in the book distribution business, especially following the closure of Small Press Distribution last year. Baker & Taylor--originally established in 1828--has been central to the library market for decades.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 4d

seems very bad www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social · 3d

Can anyone recommend an academic audiobook that was well done? Looking for a good example of how to handle citations, footnotes, bibliography, etc. in audiobook format. Ideally an academic monograph. Please only recommend if you've read the audiobook and thought it was well done.

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 3d

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

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PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 3d

#bookhistory

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.