Chris Wolak
@chriswolak.bsky.social
Reader, writer, librarian. Budding biographer. Co-host Book Cougars podcast. 🏳️🌈
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I love and already read a lot of nonfiction, but haven’t been writing much on my blog about what I read—signing up for #ReadNonFicChal
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Sign Up for the 2026 Nonfiction Reader Challenge
The aim of the Nonfiction Reader Challenge is to encourage you to make nonfiction part of your reading experience during the year. HOW IT WORKS You can select, read and review a book from the categ…
bookdout.wordpress.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I love and already read a lot of nonfiction, but haven’t been writing much on my blog about what I read—signing up for #ReadNonFicChal
bookdout.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/s... #booksky
bookdout.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/s... #booksky
This sounds interesting. And horrifying.
It’s 💳COVER REVEAL Friday💳 for @reitman.bsky.social!
TRANSACTION DENIED exposes how companies like Visa, PayPal & Bank of America use their power to silence dissenting voices & hurt democracy through the practice of financial censorship.
Watch this space in April 2026! 👀
Cover design: Carol Chu
TRANSACTION DENIED exposes how companies like Visa, PayPal & Bank of America use their power to silence dissenting voices & hurt democracy through the practice of financial censorship.
Watch this space in April 2026! 👀
Cover design: Carol Chu
December 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This sounds interesting. And horrifying.
#currentlyreading A THREAD ACROSS THE OCEAN by John Steele Gordon.
The East Guilford birthplace of Cyrus Fields’ father made me smile. I live in Guilford, and Madison is a town known for its “new wealth.” When Madisonites get too uppity, the joke goes, remind them that they live East Guilford.
The East Guilford birthplace of Cyrus Fields’ father made me smile. I live in Guilford, and Madison is a town known for its “new wealth.” When Madisonites get too uppity, the joke goes, remind them that they live East Guilford.
November 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
#currentlyreading A THREAD ACROSS THE OCEAN by John Steele Gordon.
The East Guilford birthplace of Cyrus Fields’ father made me smile. I live in Guilford, and Madison is a town known for its “new wealth.” When Madisonites get too uppity, the joke goes, remind them that they live East Guilford.
The East Guilford birthplace of Cyrus Fields’ father made me smile. I live in Guilford, and Madison is a town known for its “new wealth.” When Madisonites get too uppity, the joke goes, remind them that they live East Guilford.
Definitely going on my TBR 🧱
Chicagoans: This is going to be a very good and fun book. (And if you’ve not yet taken one of Will Quam’s brick tours, hie thee to his website and book one. You won’t regret it.)
Fire and Clay
A remarkable exploration of Chicago’s architectural history through the humble brick. By the late 1920s, at its peak of brick making and consumption, Chicago was making over a billion bricks a year ...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Definitely going on my TBR 🧱
I was thrilled to make it to the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. chriswolak.com/2025/11/13/t... #library
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Photos from my visit to the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I was thrilled to make it to the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. chriswolak.com/2025/11/13/t... #library
So @mattseybold.bsky.social probably already knows this, but I just learned that Wile E. Coyote's creator, Chuck Jones, got his inspiration for the character from Twain's Roughing It.
Beep Beep!
www.nytimes.com/1989/11/07/m...
Beep Beep!
www.nytimes.com/1989/11/07/m...
Chuck Jones on Life and Daffy Duck (Published 1989)
www.nytimes.com
July 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
So @mattseybold.bsky.social probably already knows this, but I just learned that Wile E. Coyote's creator, Chuck Jones, got his inspiration for the character from Twain's Roughing It.
Beep Beep!
www.nytimes.com/1989/11/07/m...
Beep Beep!
www.nytimes.com/1989/11/07/m...
Reposted by Chris Wolak
At first blush, opt-outs might sound innocuous. But the result is not simply disruption in the classroom — it is the stigmatization of topics and identities that operates as a gateway to censorship.
More here: pen.org/how-opt-outs... #education #censorship
More here: pen.org/how-opt-outs... #education #censorship
June 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
At first blush, opt-outs might sound innocuous. But the result is not simply disruption in the classroom — it is the stigmatization of topics and identities that operates as a gateway to censorship.
More here: pen.org/how-opt-outs... #education #censorship
More here: pen.org/how-opt-outs... #education #censorship
Exciting #bookmail today!
TOO GOOD TO GET MARRIED: THE LIFE AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF MISS ALICE AUSTEN
by Bonnie Yochelson @fordhampress.bsky.social
#booksky
TOO GOOD TO GET MARRIED: THE LIFE AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF MISS ALICE AUSTEN
by Bonnie Yochelson @fordhampress.bsky.social
#booksky
June 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Exciting #bookmail today!
TOO GOOD TO GET MARRIED: THE LIFE AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF MISS ALICE AUSTEN
by Bonnie Yochelson @fordhampress.bsky.social
#booksky
TOO GOOD TO GET MARRIED: THE LIFE AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF MISS ALICE AUSTEN
by Bonnie Yochelson @fordhampress.bsky.social
#booksky
From last week’s Bloomsday celebration at @guilfordfreelibrary. On my plate: two types of soda bread slathered with butter, a very gingery ginger cookie, and grapes. They were all made tastier by the talented actors who read from Ulysses while I chowed down. 😋
#booksky #publiclibrariesrock
#booksky #publiclibrariesrock
June 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
From last week’s Bloomsday celebration at @guilfordfreelibrary. On my plate: two types of soda bread slathered with butter, a very gingery ginger cookie, and grapes. They were all made tastier by the talented actors who read from Ulysses while I chowed down. 😋
#booksky #publiclibrariesrock
#booksky #publiclibrariesrock