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Basic Bibliographic Bitch. Antiquarian Bookseller. Now based in Philly.
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February 9, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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This 1450-1470 German Ms has very adroitly doubled up the tooth of St Apollonia whose feast it is #otd 9 Feb by turning it into a bloodied crown reflecting her martyrdom. #PatronOfDentistry
February 9, 2026 at 12:37 PM
This 1450-1470 German Ms has very adroitly doubled up the tooth of St Apollonia whose feast it is #otd 9 Feb by turning it into a bloodied crown reflecting her martyrdom. #PatronOfDentistry
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Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night
February 9, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night
So uh. Why does nobody mention the weird second-to-last chapter of Cider with Rosie in which the village boys plot to rape a local woman ????? What the fuck ????
February 8, 2026 at 9:44 PM
So uh. Why does nobody mention the weird second-to-last chapter of Cider with Rosie in which the village boys plot to rape a local woman ????? What the fuck ????
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That's a one-finger salute from a reading lady of the 1770s with a fancy headdress. 🖕 #skystorians
January 22, 2026 at 9:44 AM
That's a one-finger salute from a reading lady of the 1770s with a fancy headdress. 🖕 #skystorians
Due to the freezing weather, we have to leave all the taps dripping in the apartment, which is creating a Poe-like creepy soundscape which is driving me a little crazy…
February 8, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Due to the freezing weather, we have to leave all the taps dripping in the apartment, which is creating a Poe-like creepy soundscape which is driving me a little crazy…
BTW it snowed again last night and feels like -11 degrees right now and the wind is so strong it sounds like I’m inside a dragon. I have to go to a wedding in two hours.
February 7, 2026 at 5:02 PM
BTW it snowed again last night and feels like -11 degrees right now and the wind is so strong it sounds like I’m inside a dragon. I have to go to a wedding in two hours.
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saffron risotto! bees! architecture! old bells! waiters! that's italy baby!!
February 7, 2026 at 4:18 AM
saffron risotto! bees! architecture! old bells! waiters! that's italy baby!!
Inject it into my veins
Proofs Day for “Sisters but not Women?” in the Eighteenth-Century Studies special issue on Women’s Agency!
Featuring: The prelapsarian androgynous Adam, Sister Marcella who “proved by example that a man’s spirit could dwell in a woman’s body,” and the salvific Gott-mann-weiblichen licht-leib
Featuring: The prelapsarian androgynous Adam, Sister Marcella who “proved by example that a man’s spirit could dwell in a woman’s body,” and the salvific Gott-mann-weiblichen licht-leib
February 7, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Inject it into my veins
I can read Don Quixote in two months, right?
February 7, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I can read Don Quixote in two months, right?
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Emily would want you to see it.
Ghost of Emily Brontë: am I remembered?
Me: yes, a new Wuthering Heights is coming out now
Brontë: and does it look good?
Me: no, it looks like it will be an almost unbearable saga of confusingly sexy suffering for everyone involved
Brontë: I love it.
Me: yes, a new Wuthering Heights is coming out now
Brontë: and does it look good?
Me: no, it looks like it will be an almost unbearable saga of confusingly sexy suffering for everyone involved
Brontë: I love it.
February 7, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Emily would want you to see it.
Werner Herzog
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
February 7, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Werner Herzog
Every day I go to the shelf of things to catalog for CA and try to pick something “easy” and then it’s not 😅
February 6, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Every day I go to the shelf of things to catalog for CA and try to pick something “easy” and then it’s not 😅
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One of the best things you can do as a writer to support the literary landscape is to buy small press books. Buy them at indie bookstores, ask for them at your libraries. The big publishers have proven they are just another corporation. Small presses are responsible for innovation.
February 6, 2026 at 4:37 PM
One of the best things you can do as a writer to support the literary landscape is to buy small press books. Buy them at indie bookstores, ask for them at your libraries. The big publishers have proven they are just another corporation. Small presses are responsible for innovation.
I know it’s not possible to only do business with “perfect” companies. But it’s particularly disappointing when outfits like Bookshop, which markets itself as a more ethical alternative, get in bed with straightforwardly bad actors.
Disappointing move by Bookshop Org. Supporting Spotify is not supporting artists. www.thebookseller.com/news/spotify...
Spotify branches into physical books through Bookshop.org partnership
Spotify has partnered with Bookshop.org to enable listeners in the US and the UK to purchase physical books via the Spotify app, connecting audiobook discovery with physical ownership.
www.thebookseller.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:50 PM
I know it’s not possible to only do business with “perfect” companies. But it’s particularly disappointing when outfits like Bookshop, which markets itself as a more ethical alternative, get in bed with straightforwardly bad actors.
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February 6, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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Right after I quit, an emeritus professor at my grad program gave a talk comparing the work of papyrology to raping women after the siege of Troy. He was, of course, a papyrologist.
American academia is *full* of people who think rape is not that big of a deal. esp of young women and girls.
February 5, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Right after I quit, an emeritus professor at my grad program gave a talk comparing the work of papyrology to raping women after the siege of Troy. He was, of course, a papyrologist.
I got an email from my borough this morning saying that someone was taken by ICE from the surrounding county and more ICE activity may be brewing. They suggest relying on our local police force for help (which I think is like two nepo babies who let their families drunk drive in the borough).
February 5, 2026 at 2:13 PM
I got an email from my borough this morning saying that someone was taken by ICE from the surrounding county and more ICE activity may be brewing. They suggest relying on our local police force for help (which I think is like two nepo babies who let their families drunk drive in the borough).
This is who runs this account
Brief pause from doom-scrolling for Pre-Raphaelite Art
February 5, 2026 at 3:42 AM
This is who runs this account
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Philadelphians are bringing the history back to the President’s House. 🦅
February 4, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Philadelphians are bringing the history back to the President’s House. 🦅
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🌱Today’s flower is Viola. Easy to grow and tolerant of wet, chilled weather, they’ll flower all Spring as long as temperatures don’t get too high, resuming when it cools down in the Autumn. Grows best in mixed light conditions, preferably w/ morning sun & afternoon shade.
February 4, 2026 at 7:11 PM
🌱Today’s flower is Viola. Easy to grow and tolerant of wet, chilled weather, they’ll flower all Spring as long as temperatures don’t get too high, resuming when it cools down in the Autumn. Grows best in mixed light conditions, preferably w/ morning sun & afternoon shade.
I’ve been reading Cider with Rosie on the recommendation of a friend, and it makes me wish I lived in a little village next to a forest with almost knowledge of the world. Just eating cabbage and making weird herbal wine.
February 4, 2026 at 6:34 PM
I’ve been reading Cider with Rosie on the recommendation of a friend, and it makes me wish I lived in a little village next to a forest with almost knowledge of the world. Just eating cabbage and making weird herbal wine.
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NEW ESSAY — Christine Jacobson’s “Typing for Love or Money”, on the neglected efforts of women like Theodora Bosanquet, Véra Nabokov, and Valerie Eliot, who — through their work as typists and editors — had a profound impact on modern literature: publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing...
February 4, 2026 at 5:33 PM
NEW ESSAY — Christine Jacobson’s “Typing for Love or Money”, on the neglected efforts of women like Theodora Bosanquet, Véra Nabokov, and Valerie Eliot, who — through their work as typists and editors — had a profound impact on modern literature: publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing...