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Sarah Pyke

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teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography researching and writing various things close reading forever

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 8h

been imagining Hal Wyler as Seth Starkadder's grandson (he settled in the US after making it big in Hollywood ofc) and amusing myself greatly

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 8h

am I the only person that sees Rufus Sewell and immediately thinks Seth Starkadder

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 8h

it is so rare for me to watch telly when left to my own devices & home alone but I was also doing my marking, what can I say

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 8h

can't believe I stuck with something that took four episodes just to get going

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 8h

the ending of The Diplomat season 2 is THE MOST ridiculous thing I've ever seen and I can't WAIT for season 3

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Jennifer Flayley @flannelle.bsky.social · 1d

The power-bob, the paintbrush, the pussycat ♥️

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 1d

hell yeah

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 1d

Wanda Gag salutes you 🫡

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 1d

Huge congrats! This is going to be a must-read (even for non-medievalists like me) ✨

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 1d

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...

www.arc-humanities.org

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 1d

Dreamt it was the end of the world and the hands of all the clocks started bending slowly outwards. Morning.

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 2d

me too (currently grading and aaaaarrrrghh)

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 2d

ooh yeah, it’s great! I cited it in my PhD

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 2d

Online Lecture Fri. Oct. 17, 12:00pm EDT @sims-mss.bsky.social J. D. Sargan on Trans Studies as Book Historical Method @jdsargan.bsky.social

Trans Studies as Book Historical Method

J. D. Sargan considers generative modes of reading through the premodern archive to seek out trans lives beyond the ephemeral glimpses that have gone unnoticed in the historical record.

www.library.upenn.edu

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 2d

✨

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Ali Baker @alisonbaker01.bsky.social · 3d

Hey British children’s lit pals! What is it about “Susan”? I’m British Gen X and I think it was maybe considered old fashioned by families naming their daughters in the late 60s?
But:
Susan the First Mate in the Swallows and Amazons
Susan the Queen in Narnia
Susan the sister of Colin in Garner

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 3d

haaaa me too!

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Jennifer Flayley @flannelle.bsky.social · 3d

RIP Jilly Cooper. I accidentally own 8 copies of Octavia by you because I was trying to replace a specific edition which I thought my boss had gifted to me but she actually wanted it back because it belonged to her late mother and I didn't have the heart to tell her I'd dropped it in the bath

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 3d

I truly do adore how teaching at a university forces you to reread and rereread it is a discipline and a blessing

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 3d

gaslight gatekeep ghoulboss

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 3d

I like that his name sounds like lemon curd

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 4d

I've just realised that the Margaret Wise Brown who wrote the great Goodnight, Moon is also the MWB who commissioned Gertrude Stein's book for children, The World is Round. This is a delightful connection to make on the bedroom shelves. And this story about the amusing cake is the perfect footnote.

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 4d

and here is MWB reading Stein’s manuscript for the first time, according to Leonard Marcus, accidentally celebrating with ‘an amusing cake in the shape of a boat’

A page from Leonard Marcus’s biography Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon (1992) in which he describes MWB receiving the manuscript of Gertrude Stein’s children’s book, The World is Round. ‘In the happy confusion, everyone forgot about supper and Margaret had not thought to pick up refreshments. The only food in the house was an amusing cake in the shape of a boat, which she had ordered for a friend’s going-away party and which the trio now appropriated in the name of experimental literature.’

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 4d

:)

also both illustrated by Clement Hurd

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 4d

There’s this: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2013/oc...

And their edited collection, Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary (Palgrave, 2014)

Gill Partington and Adam Smyth | At the Shredding Plant

‘I hate books. Can't read them. They send me to sleep,' says the man responsible for annihilating tens of thousands of...

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 4d

and here is MWB reading Stein’s manuscript for the first time, according to Leonard Marcus, accidentally celebrating with ‘an amusing cake in the shape of a boat’

A page from Leonard Marcus’s biography Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon (1992) in which he describes MWB receiving the manuscript of Gertrude Stein’s children’s book, The World is Round. ‘In the happy confusion, everyone forgot about supper and Margaret had not thought to pick up refreshments. The only food in the house was an amusing cake in the shape of a boat, which she had ordered for a friend’s going-away party and which the trio now appropriated in the name of experimental literature.’