Megan Rosenbloom
@libraryatnight.bsky.social
Librarian & Author of DARK ARCHIVES: A LIBRARIAN’S INVESTIGATION INTO THE SCIENCE & HISTORY OF BOOKS BOUND IN HUMAN SKIN Picador / FSG, literary rep Neon
At today’s reopening of the Altadena library, Levar Burton read us a story & every adult cried & healed a little bit. Blair Imani (!) painted 8yo’s face, helping her live her feline dreams! What a morning for library love, especially with so many of us librarians under attack these days. 🥰🌈📚
March 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
At today’s reopening of the Altadena library, Levar Burton read us a story & every adult cried & healed a little bit. Blair Imani (!) painted 8yo’s face, helping her live her feline dreams! What a morning for library love, especially with so many of us librarians under attack these days. 🥰🌈📚
For my book people: the sliver of the nerd population who would appreciate the joke of this button made at my library is so narrow and I’m right in the middle of it. Drop an emoji if you knew both references without me explaining, which I’ll do in the comments. 📖 🐬
March 5, 2025 at 4:01 AM
For my book people: the sliver of the nerd population who would appreciate the joke of this button made at my library is so narrow and I’m right in the middle of it. Drop an emoji if you knew both references without me explaining, which I’ll do in the comments. 📖 🐬
In honor of Gorey’s 100th birthday, here is my giant orange cat I named after him.
February 21, 2025 at 4:55 AM
In honor of Gorey’s 100th birthday, here is my giant orange cat I named after him.
Anyone ever read Irvine Welsh’s MARABOU STORK NIGHTMARES? I’d be like put me back in
February 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Anyone ever read Irvine Welsh’s MARABOU STORK NIGHTMARES? I’d be like put me back in
Storytime: I plan to go to a low key Super Bowl party, because even though I don’t care about football, I’m still from Delco / Philly so #gobirds. Anyway I got this vision in my head that I’d do a more modest riff off of an ELGSES cake I saw, referencing the Philly mayor’s recent spelling gaff meme.
February 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Storytime: I plan to go to a low key Super Bowl party, because even though I don’t care about football, I’m still from Delco / Philly so #gobirds. Anyway I got this vision in my head that I’d do a more modest riff off of an ELGSES cake I saw, referencing the Philly mayor’s recent spelling gaff meme.
If you wish to dissociate, and who doesn’t, I highly recommend this world to visit. What a fantastic book Susanna Clarke’s PIRANESI is.
February 7, 2025 at 5:34 AM
If you wish to dissociate, and who doesn’t, I highly recommend this world to visit. What a fantastic book Susanna Clarke’s PIRANESI is.
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane…”
February 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane…”
Baby’s First Grammys 🥹 (That’s my husband, he’s baby. And has a job that is sending him.)
February 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Baby’s First Grammys 🥹 (That’s my husband, he’s baby. And has a job that is sending him.)
1/ Angelenos right now: oh thank goodness it’s going to rain. I can’t wait for it to rain. But not too much, or there’ll be landslides.
January 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
1/ Angelenos right now: oh thank goodness it’s going to rain. I can’t wait for it to rain. But not too much, or there’ll be landslides.
Me every time I see any news even by accident
January 25, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Me every time I see any news even by accident
I haven’t liked how little time I’ve gotten to spend with 8yo since the surgery so we decided to have a reading tea party on the foldout couch in the den. Hey whatever works
January 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I haven’t liked how little time I’ve gotten to spend with 8yo since the surgery so we decided to have a reading tea party on the foldout couch in the den. Hey whatever works
Got to go to an advance screening of NIGHTBITCH with a bunch of other moms and it was really the best way to see it (& hear their reactions). I read the book & while some elements are toned down, I think they made a weird, darkly relatable, funny movie about motherhood which is not so easy.
December 5, 2024 at 6:39 AM
Got to go to an advance screening of NIGHTBITCH with a bunch of other moms and it was really the best way to see it (& hear their reactions). I read the book & while some elements are toned down, I think they made a weird, darkly relatable, funny movie about motherhood which is not so easy.
Proud of 7yo kiddo and me, feel like we nailed this one! Hocus Pocus human skin spellbook brownies for a party we’re going to today. What does it say about me that I had all of these ingredients including the candy eyeballs just in my house already?
October 19, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Proud of 7yo kiddo and me, feel like we nailed this one! Hocus Pocus human skin spellbook brownies for a party we’re going to today. What does it say about me that I had all of these ingredients including the candy eyeballs just in my house already?
Been feeling nostalgic lately and digging into my past (for a project that for now remains #secretreasons) & came across my old WKDU college radio station paper playlists circa 2002, which prompted me to create a Spotify playlist from them. open.spotify.com/playlist/2Xl...
May 28, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Been feeling nostalgic lately and digging into my past (for a project that for now remains #secretreasons) & came across my old WKDU college radio station paper playlists circa 2002, which prompted me to create a Spotify playlist from them. open.spotify.com/playlist/2Xl...
Gothest first grader in sunny Los Angeles 🖤🦇
August 24, 2023 at 12:37 AM
Gothest first grader in sunny Los Angeles 🖤🦇
Your son Arthur
August 9, 2023 at 4:35 PM
Your son Arthur
Just your normal Rare Book School history of bookbinding class session where everyone is huffing a reindeer leather that was saved from a 18th century shipwreck nbd
August 2, 2023 at 11:23 PM
Just your normal Rare Book School history of bookbinding class session where everyone is huffing a reindeer leather that was saved from a 18th century shipwreck nbd
Still crazy about mine. Really benefits from a close look.
July 9, 2023 at 3:57 AM
Still crazy about mine. Really benefits from a close look.
Had a fun time galvanting around the Mr. Brainwash art museum today on the mean streets of Beverly Hills
July 9, 2023 at 1:07 AM
Had a fun time galvanting around the Mr. Brainwash art museum today on the mean streets of Beverly Hills
Sometimes your kid asks for a bespoke cape for their non-binary sloth Edamame and you drop everything and knit them one.
July 8, 2023 at 8:05 PM
Sometimes your kid asks for a bespoke cape for their non-binary sloth Edamame and you drop everything and knit them one.
Love this poster in our library’s preservation lab. “The Enemies of Paper”: heat, humidity, light, insects, atmospheric pollutants, & I think the last one translates to “badly made frames”
July 6, 2023 at 10:51 PM
Love this poster in our library’s preservation lab. “The Enemies of Paper”: heat, humidity, light, insects, atmospheric pollutants, & I think the last one translates to “badly made frames”
This woman on the embroidered bookbinding of The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures (1618) is a mood, a vibe, the moment, whatever the youths are saying these days, it’s she.
July 6, 2023 at 5:22 AM
This woman on the embroidered bookbinding of The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures (1618) is a mood, a vibe, the moment, whatever the youths are saying these days, it’s she.
Mirjam Foot did not come to play with this ivory bookbinding pic of a guy getting stabbed in the neck… does that say “Libido?”
July 6, 2023 at 5:21 AM
Mirjam Foot did not come to play with this ivory bookbinding pic of a guy getting stabbed in the neck… does that say “Libido?”
Doing pre-reading for a long-awaited History of Bookbinding course at Rare Book School. How charming is this embroidered binding on The Whole Booke of Psalmes (1633)?
July 6, 2023 at 5:20 AM
Doing pre-reading for a long-awaited History of Bookbinding course at Rare Book School. How charming is this embroidered binding on The Whole Booke of Psalmes (1633)?