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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 5h

When video games are self-censoring, it says a lot.

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 1d

On This Day in History: October 7, 1955
Allen Ginsberg gave the first public reading of “Howl” at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. Kenneth Rexroth emceed while Jack Kerouac worked the crowd with a wine jug and shouts of encouragement. The reading helped ignite the Beat scene.

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg in 1959 – Photo by John Cohen

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 1d

I was asked to write a piece about different genres/formats of “gathering” — the bookstack itself being one such example! This’ll be a fun collection to work through :)

Jonathan Field, Townhall meetings and the death of deliberation; Cooper
100 TRICKS TO APPEAR SMART IN MEETINGS B
MEETING GROUNDS
PRIYA PARKER
THE ART OF
GATHERING
BERGER Et al.
A Toolkit for Gathering
Draw Down
PARRY
A THEORY OF ASSEMBLY From Museums to Memes
Unfurlings
Explorations in art, activism, and archiving
IS04
* FREEDOM IS AN ENDLESS MEETING * Francesca Polletta
CERVENAK BLACK GATHERiNG
J. T.
ROANE
DARK AGORAS
MARGARBT MBAD AND PAUL, BYERS THE SMALL CONFERENCE
INSURGENT BLACK SOCIAL LIFE AND THE POLITICS OF PLACE
MOUTON
CHICAGO
Touloumi
Assembly by Design The United Nations and Its Global Interior
MACHINE PROJECT
Tang-Skidmore
DelMonico

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, it’s about time we bring more into our cult. *rubs hands together and laughs maniacally*

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 1d

A thousand book historians are nodding vigorously.

(we are legion, and more canny about the history of markets than you’d think for folks who also make literal formulae to represent how an individual book was constructed)

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Honestly if you want at least some insight as to why "classics of literature" are constructed as they are, it's worth knowing the market imperatives of the time. American science fiction and fantasy started in magazines and drugstore racks; short stories and 40K novels were how people go paid...

Crewman Six, Snack Viking @crewmansix.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this probably explains a lot more of the so-called classics of literature than is immediately obvious on the surface. 🤔

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 1d

#bookhistory

Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 1d

This is a huge collapse in the book distribution business, especially following the closure of Small Press Distribution last year. Baker & Taylor--originally established in 1828--has been central to the library market for decades.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

seems very bad www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social · 1d

Can anyone recommend an academic audiobook that was well done? Looking for a good example of how to handle citations, footnotes, bibliography, etc. in audiobook format. Ideally an academic monograph. Please only recommend if you've read the audiobook and thought it was well done.

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 1d

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Do apply and spread the word!

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 1d

#bookhistory

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’

A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 2d

#bookhistory #reading

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 3d

I hadn’t considered Netto!

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 3d

Haha! Weird and nasty little buggers.

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 3d

Of all places an Edeka! I think REWE is more likely. 🤣

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not crying!!! (I am)

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 3d

A student in my publishing course is interested in researching book pulping and book recycling. Do we know any work or introductory material in this area?

(Work on remainders, print runs, supply chain, raw materials all relevant, too.)

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 3d

Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possible, & thanks, all! 🗃️

blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

#ScholarSunday Thread 244 (10/5/25) – Black and White and Read All Over

Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possib...

blackwhiteandread.com

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 3d

Yea, that’s pretty freaky!

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 4d

#bookhistory #cookbooks This is a fun thread to follow to its crowdsourced conclusion about how koftes (keftedes in Greek) found their way into a 17th century English cookbook.

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 5d

Would anyone like to take a guess at the word before “kebob”? Which predates OED - ms is 1660

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 4d

To be fair, in my early 90s college days, my friend and I were called conspiracy theorists for talking about how the internet will be used by the government as Soma to keep us docile and quiet and stuck on our toys.

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 4d

Ok, I’m reading this now (had never heard of it)

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 4d

Basic human decency. Would be nice to see that worldwide.

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 5d

Freedom has nothing to do with God. But no, freedom is definitively not just being able to do what you want.

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 5d

Um, neither, because that’s not how reality works?

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 5d

This was really interesting, thank you!

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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social · 5d

What you are talking about is intolerance fueled by hatred. The only political ideology like that is, well actually, authoritarianism. Which is definitively what I’ve pledged allegiance to my whole life. So I guess we’re even.