P S Billie Holiday Center founder Lawrence Jackson has written for Book post on Percival Everett and James McBride ⭐️

Remembering Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and being bound together Each year, the Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts sponsors a free public lecture. The most recent lecture covered Frances Ellen Watkins Harper in celebration of her 200th birthday. Harper was t...

Baltimore did right by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, marking her 200th! Thanks to Dr. Ida Jones, Dr. Lawrence Jackson, the team at Hard Histories, and the many others who made these celebrations possible.

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Tucker Carlson on his new book imprint (in @wsj.com)

two little poems from Walkman that I wrote in Virginia during the dark pandemic summer of George Floyd, wavering between hope & despair

A screenshot of the linked pdf showing the hardcover bestsellers in fiction and nonfiction, with an arrow pointing to an image of my book cover

THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME DEBUTED AT #9 ON THE INDIE BESTSELLER LIST!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!

What I love most about this is that it means people are supporting indie bookstores ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
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Diary: Peter Brooks on “Viewpoint Diversity” Can compulsory ideas contribute to the pursuit of knowledge?

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This great blog post by librarian Kait Astrella about the book curses in the collections of the Morgan Library makes use of my little book ✨Book Curses✨, which is very gratifying.

Helen Frankenthaler, A Green Thought in a Green Shade, 1981

Screenshot of "Zen and the Art of Mimeo Maintenance" article in issue one of the Whole Fanzine Catalog by Brian Earl Jones.

The first issue of Whole Fanzine Catalog (1978) ends with an article to help aspiring zine makers understand the labor & cost involved. He breaks it down step by step & concludes, "You can count on a 24 page fanzine of 200 copies to take about 50 hours to produce." fanac.org/fanzines/Who...

Donald J. Trump Presidential Library - Home Welcome to the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library. Explore the legacy and achievements of the 45th and 47th President of the United States.

Where do you do the reading? www.trumplibrary.org

Meet Our Spring 2026 Partner Bookstore! WordsWorth Books in Little Rock, Arkansas Loving people is wanting to really know them, and that means saying, "I want to know your story"

Meet our spring 2026 partner bookstore! WordsWorth Books, the oldest independent bookshop in Little Rock, Arkansas. 🏞📚

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Remember seeing that stuff everywhere in Berlin this time of year 🙄 (✍️)

True confessions: Chatbot just told me something I was looking for was “a bit niche” and I was actually peeved. See what they’re getting at with the sycophancy I guess (✍️)

A Newspaper Is Raided and a Rights Group Outlawed Amid Kremlin Crackdown

Russian authorities raid offices of Novaya Gazeta and declare Memorial an extremist group www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/w...

The Trump administration wants to sanitize George Washington’s role in slavery at President’s House The federal government uploaded digital renderings of 11 new panels that it was preparing to display at the President's House. They reframe George Washington's role in upholding slavery.

The incredible team at @inquirer.com continues to be all over this story. The revised approach the administration proposes here is very typical in recent years, qualifying statements about Washington’s enslaving by pointing to his statements in opposition to it. (Gift link) share.inquirer.com/tkvteN

One subway outing, sat next to people reading (separately) Santantango and Confederacy of Dunces (✍🏼)

Central enigma of Ronan Farrow’s Sam Altman profile

Last word goes to @theonion.com / #altmanthoughts

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Hours of Catherine of Cleves, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.945, f. 107r ca. 1440

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“The Tree of Jesse (detail),” The Tickhill Psalter (~1314). The New York Public Library

This post was influenced by the recent Morgan Library exhibition, “Sing a New Song: The Psalms in Medieval Art and Life,” and its accompanying, handsomely illustrated monograph.

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Review: Ange Mlinko on the Book of Psalms The most copied and translated book of the Bible, beginnings of a form at once personal and universal

“To consider the psalms and their centrality to Christianity is to consider from a different angle the centrality of lyric poetry to our sense of ourselves as individuals, each harboring a world of feeling that is simultaneously universal.” -Ange Mlinko

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Today is a great day because we can officially say that INDIE BOOKSTORE DAY IS ONE MONTH AWAY 🎉

Mark your calendars for April 25, prepare your TBRs, and get ready to show your indies all the love they deserve!

Finally! Very much appreciating the new layout of the @nytimes.com magazine! The cramped pages and tiny fonts and labyrinthine opening have driven me off for years (✍🏼)

16 Strangers, One 304-Page Novel and a Weekend of Reading Aloud

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This post is adapted from The Dead, Alive and Busy: Selected Essays of Robert Morgan, out from @utpress.bsky.social.

Diary: Robert Morgan, Wildacres At home I would have been tying bean strings and hoeing corn in the hot fields. Instead, I was sitting on the porch high in the Blue Ridge Mountains talking about German philosophy

New on Book Post → Robert Morgan on his experiences at Wildacres—a camp in the mountains east of Asheville—that was rich with dance, poetry, nature, and music. A “campus [that] seemed on top of the world.”

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