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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · Nov 6
It's more important than ever to support your public library. #Libraries are community. They are about opening minds and opening doors. Get a library card, and check out books. Download Libby. Libraries need the stats for funding, which is now uncertain. And thank your librarian.

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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 2h
The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist
The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist
The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were…
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 6h
Hard to believe, really.
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Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down
At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 6h
It ain't easy.
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How Do Freelancers Survive Today? An Interview with a 20-Year Veteran | Jane Friedman
The landscape is very different today: publications have folded, arts coverage has dried up, and most opinion writing is on Substack.
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 17h
Zabar’s should get cultural heritage status.
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 17h
Love that spongy bread.
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 17h
Now we have fox news for that.
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 17h
A Woman Reading by Camille Corot, 1869-70
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 19h
How the Collapse of Local Journalism Led to the Erosion of Community Trust lithub.com/how-the-coll...
How the Collapse of Local Journalism Led to the Erosion of Community Trust
My family had once been proud of me. In March 2011, my sister Terry went to the trouble of stuffing Post‑it notes into every issue of O, the Oprah Magazine in the checkout line of her grocery store…
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 21h
The punishment part is layered.
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 1d
One Last Pynchonian Caper: On “Shadow Ticket”
One Last Pynchonian Caper: On "Shadow Ticket" - Chicago Review of Books
Thomas Pynchon would prefer not to be introduced. Which is fine, because by now, on the occasion of the publication of his ninth novel, Shadow Ticket, the 88-year-old famously reclusive writer needs…
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 1d
"Crowd to Cloud"
This is the way.
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Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian Is Creating a Digital Archive of Exhibits
Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian is an all-volunteer effort to document everything on display at the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, the National Zoo, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Volunteer...
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 1d
Call for Volunteers: Serve on ALA Award Juries
Call for Volunteers: Serve on ALA Award Juries
Call for Volunteers: Serve on ALA Award Juries
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 1d
Gertrude Stein in her Paris studio with Picasso's portrait above her, unknown photographer, c. 1906. Via metmuseum.org.
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 1d
Muriel Spark: World-Beating Buster-Upper www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Burrow · World-Beating Buster-Upper: Muriel Spark’s Wickedness
The characteristic flavour of Spark’s writing was that of a Catholic ironist, for whom the terrible and the laughable...
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 2d
Good night, and good luck.

#cbs
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 2d
Merrian-Webster top lookups. Fascism has been at #3 for a while.
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 2d
Uncanny Prescience: Revisiting Kafka’s Amerika
Uncanny Prescience: Revisiting Kafka’s Amerika
Unlike the obsessive protagonists of The Trial and The Castle, who draw us into their labyrinthine thinking, Karl Rossmann, the naive young hero of Kafka’s Amerika or, to use Kafka’s own title, Der…
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 2d
"students learn not just about their constitutional rights but also terms used during censorship attempts, the book purchasing process, who is responsible for policies about information access...and the importance of being engaged voters."

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Walk with a Purpose | American Libraries Magazine
Instead of simply censorship statistics or bemoaning what we can’t read, the Freedom Walk celebrates our right to read.
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 2d
Agatha Christie at the typewriter, 1946.
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 3d
From October 5th to October 19th, we're offering 20% off select banned and challenged books to celebrate #BannedBooksWeek. Use code BBW25 and Dig in!

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Celebrate Banned Books Week!
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 3d
Enjoy your Sunday, everyone. How about a nice long walk outside and then a deep drift into a great book.

See you tomorrow.
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 3d
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn, 1904.
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 3d
Book Bikes!

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America’s Burgeoning Fleet of Book Bikes
A growing group of booksellers, librarians, and literary citizens is distributing books to the American reading public by bicycle.
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 4d
The Best Books About Time Travel, From Classics to Modern Favorites
The Best Books About Time Travel, From Classics to Modern Favorites
The genre explores some of our most intriguing questions as humans: what our future might look like, and how our history influences our present and future.
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 4d
Here's to filling those big shoes!

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‘Reading Rainbow’ Comes Back With a New Host, but the Same Mission
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