Reposted by Adam Smythmikechatoran @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 1151
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It'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...adamsmyth.substack.comBe part of a film!An invitation! 023
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Hello! 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...adamsmyth.substack.comBe part of a film!An invitation! 020
Reposted by Adam SmythAdam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Record 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...adamsmyth.substack.comBe part of a film!An invitation! 024
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Record 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...adamsmyth.substack.comBe part of a film!An invitation! 024
Reposted by Adam SmythAdam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Record 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...adamsmyth.substack.comBe part of a film!An invitation! 169
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Record 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...adamsmyth.substack.comBe part of a film!An invitation! 169
Reposted by Adam SmythAdam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026An experiment in recording what happens in one minute -- please consider being part of this! adamsmyth.substack.com/p/be-part-of...adamsmyth.substack.comBe part of a film!An invitation! 053
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026An experiment in recording what happens in one minute -- please consider being part of this! adamsmyth.substack.com/p/be-part-of...adamsmyth.substack.comBe part of a film!An invitation! 053
Reposted by Adam SmythAdam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Funerals, photographs, life-writing. open.substack.com/pub/adamsmyt...open.substack.comO.I met O. 061
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Funerals, photographs, life-writing. open.substack.com/pub/adamsmyt...open.substack.comO.I met O. 061
Reposted by Adam SmythInscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Thanks 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. 0114
Reposted by Adam SmythInscription: 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.socialbooks-on-books.comIssue 6 of _Inscription: The Journal of Material Text_: Cuts and TearsExplore 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. 173
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 07/07/202699p on Kindle in July! www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Game-Fr... 000
Reposted by Adam SmythEuropean Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Last 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? 066
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Come 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...waterstones.comAn Evening with Frances Wise | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | WaterstonesEvents at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An Evening with Frances Wise today. 032
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 13/06/2026If you’re in Cambridge on Wednesday 17 June, please say hello! @chloehouston.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social 130
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Hello! Does anyone know any stimulating criticism on reading or producing mirror image / reversed text (printed or handwritten) or images -- from any discipline? 1093
Reposted by Adam SmythOxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Borna 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). 0115
Reposted by Adam SmythAdam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 31/05/2026open.substack.com/pub/adamsmyt...open.substack.comPaperback writerI co-wrote a novel with my friend Chloë; it came out in hardback in June 2025; it’s published in paperback this week. 0104
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 31/05/2026open.substack.com/pub/adamsmyt...open.substack.comPaperback writerI co-wrote a novel with my friend Chloë; it came out in hardback in June 2025; it’s published in paperback this week. 0104
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 22/05/2026@4thestatebooks.bsky.social @chloehouston.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social @hungerfordbookshop.bsky.social 121
Reposted by Adam SmythDr 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...jobs.ac.ukLecturer in English Literature at The Open UniversityStart your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top... 03134
Reposted by Adam SmythOxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Our 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) 0147
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Re-reading books: a mini essay (ft. EM Forster, Jane Austen, Moldova) open.substack.com/pub/adamsmyt...open.substack.comRe-readingIt’s an odd temporal tumbling, re-reading a book you read a long time ago. 0102
Reposted by Adam SmythInscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026INSCRIPTION 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...justgiving.comHelp raise £5000 to support education – JustGiving CrowdfundingIʼm raising money to support education. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page. 076
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 20/04/2026ON 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...visit.bodleian.ox.ac.ukJames Freemantle in conversation with Adam SmythFree talk at the Weston Library. Meet the Bodleian’s printer in residence for a conversation about making books by hand in the 21st century. 090
Reposted by Adam SmythAdam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Delighted 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. 0176
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Delighted 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. 0176
Reposted by Adam SmythAdam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Misreading words -- a mini essay. open.substack.com/pub/adamsmyt...open.substack.comJamais vuThis 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... 082
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Misreading words -- a mini essay. open.substack.com/pub/adamsmyt...open.substack.comJamais vuThis 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... 082
Reposted by Adam SmythAdam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 13/03/2026It'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...the-tls.comSmall found dogsAdam 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... 0137
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 13/03/2026It'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...the-tls.comSmall found dogsAdam 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... 0137
Reposted by Adam SmythHarper’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.buff.lyWealth of Creations, by Adam SmythWe've recently updated our website to make signing in easier and more secure 031
Reposted by Adam SmythOxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Our 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. 0208
Reposted by Adam SmythOxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · 20/02/2026OBS / 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 02823
Reposted by Adam SmythInscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Call 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. 22721
Reposted by Adam SmythAdam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 13/02/2026open.substack.com/pub/adamsmyt...open.substack.comWriting to authors and getting repliesIn 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... 232
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 13/02/2026open.substack.com/pub/adamsmyt...open.substack.comWriting to authors and getting repliesIn 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... 232
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2026JOB! 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...balliol.ox.ac.ukTutorial Fellow and Professor (or Associate Professor) ofTutorial 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 11617
Reposted by Adam SmythOxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · 09/02/2026On Thursday of this week (12th Feb.)! Books! Collectors! Elizabethans! Libraries! In person (Oxford) or online (Zoom).media.tenor.coma book called 6 language visual dictionary sits on a shelf with other booksALT: a book called 6 language visual dictionary sits on a shelf with other books 094
Reposted by Adam SmythAdam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 04/02/2026open.substack.com/pub/adamsmyt...open.substack.comBooks & HandsThe 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... 044
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 04/02/2026open.substack.com/pub/adamsmyt...open.substack.comBooks & HandsThe 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... 044