I'll be in York tonight speaking at the ever generative, friendly, and rigorous @crems-york.bsky.social seminar about my book! Come for a discussion about paper and literary criticism, stay for "a thinge in verse", a disgruntled stationer, and a spinnable paper dial.

It's 13 March day! If you'd like a free copy of my prose collage of one day from the past -- 13 March 1911 -- send me a DM and I'll see what I can do.
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Is it a book or is it a box? Should we, could we, would we know?

I'll send it to you (and anyone else who would like it!) via message x

TODAY! I'm looking forward to speaking about my book **Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature** at 5.15pm GMT - come along online or in person (Queen's College, Ox) @obs1922.bsky.social

'Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you'. --Ford Madox Ford.

Here's my blog post on the page 99 test and **Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature** shorturl.at/tExjl @pennpress.bsky.social

Uncut pages in a copy of the @thetls.bsky.social! A glimpse into the production process makes a text suddenly strange

Thanks Eleanor!

Thanks Devani!

Thanks Malcolm!

In true early modern style the waggons bearing author copies appear to have got stuck somewhere

Thanks Christopher! :)

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

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I'm making a short film composed of lots of 20-second clips of different people reading the same line of text: a series of brief instalments.

If you would like to be involved - it will be fun, and maybe interesting, and easy (you film on a phone) - please DM me (and/or repost).

Thank you!

Next week, Penn Press authors @georginaemw.bsky.social (PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE) and @wsperrazza.bsky.social (ANATOMICAL FORMS) will discuss their books in a virtual panel! See the flyer for more info, and join the event on Thursday Sept. 18 at 12 p.m. CDT / 6 p.m. BST!

Featuring brilliant respondents Laurie Maguire, Debapriya Sarkar, and @zacharylesser.bsky.social!

It's 2 weeks until the joint launch of @wsperrazza.bsky.social's ANATOMICAL FORMS, Jonathan P. Lamb's HOW THE WORLD BECAME A BOOK IN SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND and my PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE!

All welcome - join us 6-7pm BST on Thursday 18th Sep.
(Message me for Zoom details)

'Chapters remain through all these genres a fundamental tool of composition: a way of writing stories, shaping readings, and making physical and digital "books".’

For the next 4 weeks, when not in the Walpole library archives, I'll be listening to Clarissa on audiobook and reading Charles Lamb's essays. Eighteenth-centuryist method acting!

Early modern London in new editions of early modern plays There are eleven commendatory and dedicatory poems at the start of Ben Jonson’s comedy Volpone, or, The Fox, both as it first appeared in print in 1607

Foxes and Holidays! I reviewed new editions of old plays in @thetls.bsky.social

A sneak preview of the brilliant line up in a special issue of Critical Quarterly on *PAPER AND POETRY: INTERVENTIONS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE* that I co-edited with Orietta Da Rold!

Fantastic books are currently being made!

@wordsmith.bsky.social @jillburke.bsky.social @gillpartington.bsky.social @18thcenturysam.bsky.social @ktonry.bsky.social @samuscript.bsky.social @minxmarple.bsky.social @matildah-b.bsky.social @loreandordure.com @susannah-lw.bsky.social @xinyiwenhps.bsky.social

Print Matters summer school hard at work at Thin Ice Press amid 3 days of book-making, reading Lucretius, depicting 'chaos', and perusing the Minster Library and Shandy Hall

print matters artist’s residencies — Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print, offering memberships, workshops, equipment hire, events & exhibition space. Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print welcomes applications for two artist’s residencies, to take place across five days between August and September 2025 as part of our research project: Print ...

Applications for 2 artists' residencies now open at Thin Ice Press! Deadline 25th July www.thinicepress.org/research/pri...

Thanks to our panellists and engaged audience for a wonderful discussion on critical writing, creative writing, close reading, and the jutting elbows of proximate essayists @univeng.bsky.social

Thanks so much to co-editor @zacharylesser.bsky.social as well as all our fantastic contributors! We're thrilled that this special issue is out in the world

Had a brilliant week learning about Artists' Books @ies-sas.bsky.social with @gillpartington.bsky.social! We saw sculptures, boxes, pills, epherama, and >25 gasoline stations. Parts of one page were consumed in the process.

This!

Setting up Thin Ice Press for the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair with @wordsmith.bsky.social - come along and say hello at the Exam Schools this weekend!