I am pleased to share that I've been awarded the Humfrey Wanley Visting Fellowship and I will be spending September at the Bodleian Library in Oxford!

CFP: Bookselling and Literature Bookselling and LiteratureA Special Issue of English Studies Guest Editor: Matthew Chambers (matthew.chambers@uj.edu.pl) One of the best-known literary friendships was formed in a bookshop, and one…

Deadline Day! If you have a good idea, please share it with me! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...

I'm in Poland with the same problem at the moment.

Publishing and Book Culture Welcome to Cambridge Core

I just signed to edit a new strand for Cambridge Elements Publishing and Book Culture called "Periodicals and Print Matter." More details to follow but I look forward to your ideas on anything connected to periodicals, catalogues, zines, and ephemera.

www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

I can supply some apples

I'm a menace to myself

-stabbed palm of hand (steak knife) trying to open a yogurt
- tore tendons (knee) saving an ice cream
- tore ligaments (ankle) rolling on a plastic ball
- broke a collarbone on a lamp post after I fell off my daughter's scooter
- slammed my forehead into a counter or shelf many times bending over

There's still time to submit!

Then you'd really be offended by where I went (St. Joe's).

I had you pegged more as a Timon or Canisius guy (no offense meant!)

CFP: Bookselling and Literature Bookselling and LiteratureA Special Issue of English Studies Guest Editor: Matthew Chambers (matthew.chambers@uj.edu.pl) One of the best-known literary friendships was formed in a bookshop, and one…

A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...

My favorite catalogue cover.

This platform is getting out of hand

Thank you! I've been meaning to ask you directly about this but it's just been so busy.

We've both re-dedicated ourselves to a better diet and more exercise, which this Christmas also seems to include melting an entire stick of butter.

I'm reminded of the time I ended up in a band photo (2nd left) for their album liner notes because they couldn't get the keyboardist to pick up the phone and they needed a body for the shot. And no, I don't play.

Certainly one of mine!

Re-upping this in hopes of an answer

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I was once addressed as "Dead Ms. Chambers"

Question for the Victorianists: is there a digital scan of any/all of the serialized edition of Bleak House out there?

"Here's a guy who owns 2 book stores"

My life's aspiration is to walk down the street and have people point and say...

Done!

The New Americanist: Vol 3, No 2

Our latest issue is out! Check Part Two of our special topic "Print Cultures and Bookishness in Contemporary Life" in The New Americanist (Edinburgh UP): www.euppublishing.com/toc/tna/curr...

I need help translating some handwriting. I think "W.B. Turner" but I really can't be sure. Ideas?

FINALLY! The first piece I wrote on Sylvia Beach and the last to be published. Thanks to the editors of this fine edited collection -- Gender and the Book Trades -- which is crammed full of great scholarship. brill.com/edcollchap/b...

I just attended the latest Bookselling Research Network event and a "William Gibson" was there who never turned on his camera. I spent the whole time thinking "nah, it can't be, can it?"

Ok Warsaw, you can do pretty once in a while.

A Phish fan whose mind wandered two letters in?

Excited to be joining the London Rare Books School once again to present on early 20th c. bookselling during the Bookshops and Booksellers course convened by @bettyblogs.bsky.social and Andrew Nash! Open to all those interested! Course: ies.sas.ac.uk/london-rare-...

And see below for how to join.