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lit+material texts. balliol, oxford + london Rep'd RCW Literary Agency THE BOOK-MAKERS (2024) co-ed INSCRIPTION: The Journal of Material Text adamsmyth.substack.com

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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Last chance to be in a film!
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mikechatoran @mikechatoran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
アダム・スミス/ 村上彩訳『本作り500年の歴史』(原書房) 読了 15世紀の印刷技術確立以降の本作りの歴史を、印刷、製本、活字、フォント、製紙、貸本など11章に分けて辿る。ただ単に歴史的な事実を羅列するのではなくて、それぞれの分野である個人を取り上げて掘り下げているところが特徴的。個性的である個人を通じてその時代が生き生きと蘇る。同時に切り貼り、絵の追加、スモールプレス、zineの章で、本作りは特定の人のものではなく、読者もまた本を作ってきたし作れるのだと背中を押しているようなのもいい。それから貸本の章は現代の図書館論議にも通じるところがあって興味深かった。(続く
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アダム・スミス『本作り500年の歴史』
"The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives" by Adam Smyth
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's nearly upon us! Record what you're doing on your phone at 5.35pm BST on Friday 2 October and be part of an international collage of one minute on the planet! Get in touch if you'd like to be in! 📽️ ⏱️ 🌍 adamsmyth.substack.com/p/be-part-of...
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Be part of a film!
An invitation!
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hello! Yes! Record what you're doing on your phone at 5.35pm BST on Friday 2 October and be part of an international collage of one minute on the planet! 📽️ ⏱️ 🌍 adamsmyth.substack.com/p/be-part-of...
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Be part of a film!
An invitation!
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Record what you're doing on your phone at 5.35pm BST on Friday 2 October and be part of an international collage of one minute on the planet! 📽️ ⏱️ 🌍 adamsmyth.substack.com/p/be-part-of...
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Be part of a film!
An invitation!
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Record what you're doing on your phone at 5.35pm BST on Friday 2 October and be part of an international collage of one minute on the planet! 📽️ ⏱️ 🌍 adamsmyth.substack.com/p/be-part-of...
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Be part of a film!
An invitation!
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Record what you're doing on our phone 5.35pm BST on Friday 2 October and be part of an international collage of one minute on the planet 📽️ ⏱️ 🌍 adamsmyth.substack.com/p/be-part-of...
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Be part of a film!
An invitation!
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Record what you're doing on our phone 5.35pm BST on Friday 2 October and be part of an international collage of one minute on the planet 📽️ ⏱️ 🌍 adamsmyth.substack.com/p/be-part-of...
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Be part of a film!
An invitation!
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
An experiment in recording what happens in one minute -- please consider being part of this! adamsmyth.substack.com/p/be-part-of...
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Be part of a film!
An invitation!
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
An experiment in recording what happens in one minute -- please consider being part of this! adamsmyth.substack.com/p/be-part-of...
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Be part of a film!
An invitation!
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Funerals, photographs, life-writing. open.substack.com/pub/adamsmyt...
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O.
I met O.
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Funerals, photographs, life-writing. open.substack.com/pub/adamsmyt...
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O.
I met O.
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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Thanks to the urbane people at @thetls.bsky.social for this nice piece about INSCRIPTION 6 (on cuts and tears), including the great Buzz Spector ripping up pages.
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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"A stroke of genius from the issue’s editorial and design team." Lovely and detailed review of INSCRIPTION edition 6 (on tears and cuts) from BOOKS ON BOOKS. books-on-books.com/2026/07/14/b... @gillpartington.bsky.social
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Issue 6 of _Inscription: The Journal of Material Text_: Cuts and Tears
Explore the rich themes of tearing and cutting in _Inscription 6_, with Buzz Spector's book art, AT Kabe Wilson's exhibit _Copywrong_ and dozens more.
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
99p on Kindle in July! www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Game-Fr...
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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Last call for our Dalloway Day Salon this Thursday. Just 3 tickets left.... We have some fantastic readers bringing their own slant to Mrs Dalloway including @rachelmalik.bsky.social, @adamwithbooks.bsky.social, poets Nicola Caroli and Ariel Rosé and more. Friendly, interesting and fun. Join us?
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Come along on Wednesday at 6pm at Waterstone's, Cambridge to hear the mysterious, incorrigibly plural "Frances Wise" in conversation with @katesawyer.bsky.social about The Book Game. Readings, Q&A, signings: the full literary trimmings. @chloehouston.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
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An Evening with Frances Wise | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An Evening with Frances Wise today.
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
If you’re in Cambridge on Wednesday 17 June, please say hello! @chloehouston.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Hello! Does anyone know any stimulating criticism on reading or producing mirror image / reversed text (printed or handwritten) or images -- from any discipline?
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
THIS! All welcome.
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Borna Izadpanah on 'Printing the Qur’an across Empires' All welcome to our final event of the academic year - in person in Oxford, or online (email secretary@oxbibsoc.org.uk).
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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Paperback writer
I co-wrote a novel with my friend Chloë; it came out in hardback in June 2025; it’s published in paperback this week.
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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Paperback writer
I co-wrote a novel with my friend Chloë; it came out in hardback in June 2025; it’s published in paperback this week.
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
@4thestatebooks.bsky.social @chloehouston.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social @hungerfordbookshop.bsky.social
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
📣 Job Alert (permanent) 📣 Lecturer in English Literature (Romanticism), The Open University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRQ222/l...
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Lecturer in English Literature at The Open University
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Hooray for Japan!
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Our next talk! All welcome! Dr Alice Wickenden, The 'sticky' materiality of early-modern book provenances. A discussion of deletions of ownership inscriptions in early-modern books. Thur 21 May, 5.15pm. Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College, Oxford + live on zoom (email secretary@oxbibsoc.org.uk)
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Re-reading books: a mini essay (ft. EM Forster, Jane Austen, Moldova) open.substack.com/pub/adamsmyt...
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Re-reading
It’s an odd temporal tumbling, re-reading a book you read a long time ago.
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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
INSCRIPTION is a labour of love. We don't make a penny from it: all income is put back in to INSCRIPTION. But costs are rising! If you felt able to donate: amazing. Online free open access inscriptionjournal.com Hard copies to buy inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Help raise £5000 to support education – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to support education. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
ON MAKING BOOKS. Looking forward to this conversation with the Bodleian Libraries’ Printer in Residence 2025–26, the wonderful James Freemantle. If you're in or near Oxford on Tuesday 12 May, come along. It's free! visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/2026/m...
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James Freemantle in conversation with Adam Smyth
Free talk at the Weston Library. Meet the Bodleian’s printer in residence for a conversation about making books by hand in the 21st century.
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Delighted to have written the Afterword for Katherine Hunt and Dianne Mitchell's fizzing collection on literary and material forms -- available for pre-order now with a discount.
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Delighted to have written the Afterword for Katherine Hunt and Dianne Mitchell's fizzing collection on literary and material forms -- available for pre-order now with a discount.
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Misreading words -- a mini essay. open.substack.com/pub/adamsmyt...
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Jamais vu
This morning I was in the London Library – a beautiful, calm place on St James’s Square; Virginia Woolf’s favourite spot; miles of stacks and an Edwardian atmosphere, and you can borrow almost anythin...
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Misreading words -- a mini essay. open.substack.com/pub/adamsmyt...
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Jamais vu
This morning I was in the London Library – a beautiful, calm place on St James’s Square; Virginia Woolf’s favourite spot; miles of stacks and an Edwardian atmosphere, and you can borrow almost anythin...
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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This is a great book
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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. www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
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Small found dogs
Adam Smyth’s new book, 13 March 1911, takes an experimental approach to (auto)biography. A verbal collage, it consists of textual fragments documenting various events and announcements that took place...
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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. www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
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Small found dogs
Adam Smyth’s new book, 13 March 1911, takes an experimental approach to (auto)biography. A verbal collage, it consists of textual fragments documenting various events and announcements that took place...
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Harper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
“A village theatrical staging of N. F. Simpson’s absurdist play The Hole. Abandoned when it became clear that its anti-religious sentiments would not go down well in a church setting. (2025)” From a list of projects undertaken and abandoned by Adam Smyth.
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Wealth of Creations, by Adam Smyth
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Our next event! Sarah Cusk and Sophie Floate, Printed books from the libraries of some Oxford humanists Thursday 12th March, 5:15pm, Lower Lecture Theatre, Berrow Foundation Building, @lincoln.ox.ac.uk With a small exhibition! In-person only: book via email secretary@oxbibsoc.org.uk.
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
OBS / Lincoln College research associate position! We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Lincoln -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 27th March
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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Call for papers! INSCRIPTION 7 (out 2027) will be all about BLANKS. It will be (as ever) a BEAUTIFUL and MAXIMAL object. Send us your ideas! Historical / theoretical / creative / creative-critical -- or some strange blend. First step: 400-word proposal + brief CV by 1 April 2026. CFP attached.
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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Writing to authors and getting replies
In the mid-1990s I wrote some short stories, and, not knowing quite what to do next, I looked up the names of authors I knew and liked in Who’s Who, found some addresses, and sent copies, asking for f...
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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Writing to authors and getting replies
In the mid-1990s I wrote some short stories, and, not knowing quite what to do next, I looked up the names of authors I knew and liked in Who’s Who, found some addresses, and sent copies, asking for f...
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
JOB! Come and be my colleague! Tutorial Fellow and Professor (or Associate Professor) of English Literature, ca. 1780–1914, at Balliol College, Oxford. Details: www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/balliol-peop...
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Tutorial Fellow and Professor (or Associate Professor) of
Tutorial Fellow and Professor (or Associate Professor) of Literature in English Balliol College, Oxford, and the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford are seeking to
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
On Thursday of this week (12th Feb.)! Books! Collectors! Elizabethans! Libraries! In person (Oxford) or online (Zoom).
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a book called 6 language visual dictionary sits on a shelf with other books
ALT: a book called 6 language visual dictionary sits on a shelf with other books
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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Books & Hands
The village of Great Tew, Oxfordshire, was famous in the 1630s as a gathering point for intellectuals who, reclining in the comfortable surroundings of Lucius Carey’s estate, debated philosophical mat...
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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Books & Hands
The village of Great Tew, Oxfordshire, was famous in the 1630s as a gathering point for intellectuals who, reclining in the comfortable surroundings of Lucius Carey’s estate, debated philosophical mat...
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