Have been told that the BL manuscript I'm trying to look at - all letters from the mid-1700s - requires a 'letter of introduction' because it may contain correspondence from 'royal personages' and I think I'm radicalised now.
Huge congrats to the workers at Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore for winning their first union contract in 142 years!
Congratulations!
I think we should all play at least one round of Humiliation today. Whoever gets fired first, wins.
Bookseller question: does Bookshop tell you what books I've ordered where your store gets the affiliated funding? Thinking about it from the perspective of how do you know what titles are emerging interest.
So excited to be able to announce this before putting 2024's work to bed: @celj.bsky.social has been awarded a $555,000 grant from the @mellonfoundation.bsky.social to assess and re-imagine peer review practices in humanities publishing. Absolutely stoked to be part of this incredible team.
This is a great article. And I love to see Archeophone getting press attention. www.archeophone.com
Bonus points for radical worker-owned co-ops like @redemmas.org and @firestorm.bsky.social! It was my pleasure and honor to be able to do author events around the release of my book with them. 🥰❤️🔥
The UNESCO translation database doesn't have one listed. But they don't have Russian works from after 2007 or Ukrainian ones from after 2003, so there's still a chance one might exist. www.unesco.org/xtrans/bsres...
The winner of the Exhibition of the Year award, supported by TM Lighting, is ‘Ethiopia at the Crossroads’ at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. https://buff.ly/3YYIFuW
Just learned about this wild 19th century Wilhelm Trübner painting titled “Caesar at the Rubicon”
The MIT Press releases report on the future of open access publishing and policy - MIT Press mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-press-releases-r...
It’s a mess out there, y’all. Glad to be here on this fresh platform, with all of you. Better South. Better America. Better World. Let’s get to work. Let’s go.
I'm always amazed at the number of *congresspeople* who appear not to understand marginal tax rates.
Of course!
The best part so far of the exodus from the other place to here is that my feed is populated with new books — mostly academic history in my field, but some intriguing fiction + work outside of my immediate interests that looks great.
I didn’t realize how much I’d missed that.
Former Baltimore City Councilwoman/City Council President Mary Pat Clarke died this am, per Baltimore Banner. I always thought she was a good egg.
Happy 18th Brumaire to all who celebrate!
I voted against shrinking the city council. my city councilman is the highest ranking politician who has ever known who I am.
they owe you 1 (one) Project Muse-branded Hydroflask and also money
The short answer is that PS3500-3549 is for authors who started publishing between 1900 and 1960, while PS3600-3626 are for 2001+. Within these blocks, it's alphabetical by author. There's a big PDF with the individual numbers here: www.loc.gov/aba/publicat...
The purpose of the post-menopausal female is to welcome her husband and his new girlfriend home by rolling out a long and expensive purple tapestry and delivering an extended speech full of insincere flattery and double-edged innuendo while her lover waits in the bathroom with the axe.
This sucks. Doner Bros was a solid option. Everything I’ve seen about the rents in that complex point to them being prohibitively high. Maybe they should take the hint and help some of these businesses out
Y'all Baltimore's mayor is far from perfect, but I love what a nerdy lover of this city he is. The food at his surprise wedding this weekend was chicken boxes and snowballs. Oh so Baltimore.
Definitely give them a call, if you feel up to it. If not, they don't have fines anymore, so it's not the end of the world.
“they wanted to spend their lives surrounded by feminists and books more than they wanted money. As anyone who works in publishing will attest, a love of books can be as destructive to one's bank account as a drug habit”
~ June Thomas, A Place of Our Own
