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Maria Snyder

@bibliomaria.bsky.social
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Academic editing, translation [DE and FR>EN], book history in early modern Germany & France, media history, art & art history. Once I had tenure, now I walk the trails of southern Maine.

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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 14/10/2026
Oh my. These were in the first of two boxes of midcentury novels, all VG+ to F, most first printings or first thus. A few weren't as memorable, but others....
Seven books by everybody's favorite expatriate literary lepidopterist, Vladimir Nabokov, including Lolita, Bend Sinister, The Defense, Speak, Memory (an autobiography), Despair, Invitation to a Beheading, and Nabokov's Dozen (a short story collection). All but the last have relatively consistent design elements typical of the 1960s in America. The mostly white dust jackets are remarkably well preserved. Prices range from $40 up
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Inside!
Inside of binding with documents inside woven floral fabric doublures.
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 13/10/2026
Me, walking into @illinoisrbml.bsky.social to inspect the spread @caitcoker.bsky.social has out for my class’ visit Me: Wow a 1st American edition of *Moby Dick* in which someone pasted newspaper articles about whaling & reviews of the book Me: do we know who pasted these? CC: um, Herman Me: 🤯
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Maria Snyder @bibliomaria.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social Is the Case of the Mistaken Spinach the perfect example of the Chortlemuffin effect?
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Maria Snyder @bibliomaria.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Perhaps take a look at Alston Kennerley's work? Such as: "Writing the History of Merchant Seafarer Education, Training and Welfare: Retrospect and Prospect" cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mar...
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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ronald Blythe Fellowship 2026 The John Clare Society runs an annual bursary scheme, providing £1,000 for PhD researchers in the field of John Clare studies. Closing date: 30 October. @bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social johnclaresociety.org/2026/10/01/r...
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Apply for John Clare Society Bursary by 30 October 2026
Apply for the Ronald Blythe Fellowship bursary for John Clare studies! Deadline: 30 October 2026. Fund your research projects
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Frank Tallett, War and Society in Early Modern Europe At your service, @djgrieser.bsky.social! #earlymodern
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Books we're discussing in my Early Modern Europe graduate seminar this semester: Lauro Martines, Power and Imagination: City States in Renaissance Italy Timothy Brook, Vermeer's Hat: The 17thC and the Dawn of the Global World
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Maria Snyder @bibliomaria.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I love the whole idea of the demotivator playlist. Is everybody ready for the wistful workout?!?
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 06/10/2026
"If AI had existed in the early aughts, we could not have accelerated Zotero’s conception, b/c we did not know exactly what we wanted...As programming increasingly becomes a caffeinated bender with magical bots, this measured pace & emphasis on communal thinking likely holds an important lesson." ❤️‍🔥
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Also managed to catch this small but perfectly formed exhibition at the Courtauld, showcasing Paul Laib’s photographs of the Hampstead Studio used by BARBARA HEPWORTH & BEN NICHOLSON. Just slid under the wire before it closed yesterday. #Photography
PAUL LAIB (1869-1958)
Portrait of Barbara Hepworth
1933
Vintage gelatin silver prints
These portraits, taken at 7 The Mall in the summer of 1933, were selected by Hepworth and Nicholson for a book titled Unit One. It profiled a group of the same name founded by Paul Nash the previous year. The eleven artists and architects sought 'to stand for the expression of a truly contemporary spirit. The book accompanied an exhibition held at London's Mayor Gallery in 1934, which travelled to six cities around the country and attracted controversy for its promotion of modernism. The group was ultimately short-lived, and disbanded soon after.
Bowness ArchiveLett to right
PAUL LAIB (1869-1958)
The studio at 7 The Mall with Ben Nicholson's
1933 (fiddle and Spanish guitar)
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The studio at 7 The Mall with various works by Ben Nicholson
June 1933
The studio at 7 The Mall with works by Ben Nicholson and a fabric by Barbara Hepworth
1933
Modern gelatin silver prints
from the original glass plate negatives
The artists' interest in the display of artworks and objects is exquisitely captured in this group of photographs. In one, a marine painting by the St Ives artist Alfred Wallis hangs above the fireplace, while Hepworth's Head of 1930 gazes out from a plinth in the corner, surrounded by works by Nicholson. Two show Laib photographs of Hepworth sculptures propped up on the mantelpiece.
In the 1920s, Nicholson had tended to paint landscapes and still lifes. These images show his new fascination with depicting the face in profile, influenced by both the work of Pablo Picasso and his new relationship with Hepworth.
The de Laszlo Collection of Paul Laib Negatives, Courtauld Institute of ArtLett to right
PAUL LAIB (1869-1958)
The studio at 7 The Mall with Ben Nicholson's
1933 (fiddle and Spanish guitar)
1933
The studio at 7 The Mall with various works by Ben Nicholson
June 1933
The studio at 7 The Mall with works by Ben Nicholson and a fabric by Barbara Hepworth
1933
Modern gelatin silver prints
from the original glass plate negatives
The artists' interest in the display of artworks and objects is exquisitely captured in this group of photographs. In one, a marine painting by the St Ives artist Alfred Wallis hangs above the fireplace, while Hepworth's Head of 1930 gazes out from a plinth in the corner, surrounded by works by Nicholson. Two show Laib photographs of Hepworth sculptures propped up on the mantelpiece.
In the 1920s, Nicholson had tended to paint landscapes and still lifes. These images show his new fascination with depicting the face in profile, influenced by both the work of Pablo Picasso and his new relationship with Hepworth.
The de Laszlo Collection of Paul Laib Negatives, Courtauld Institute of Art PAUL LAIB (1869-1958)
Barbara Hepworth's Mother and Child
1932
Modern gelatin silver print
from the original glass plate negative
The theme of mother and child was of enduring significance to Hepworth. This work was one of the final figurative sculptures she made on the subject, before embarking on the more abstract approach observable in Figure (Mother and Child) of the following year, a photograph of which is displayed nearby.
As in many of Laib's photographs of Hepworth's sculptures, materials are captured with exquisite detail - here, mottled Cumberland alabaster stands out against the sinuous pattern of the wooden background.
The de Laszlo Collection of Paul Laib Negatives, Courtauld Institute of Art
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Joëlle Alazard @jalazard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
En attendant Blois et « les marchands », les @editions-puf.bsky.social ont réédité, avec une préface de Patrick Boucheron, l’essai magistral de Jacques Le Goff, initialement écrit pour la collection « Que sais-je? » en 1957, « Marchands et banquiers du Moyen Age » - un grand plaisir de lecture!
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Maria Snyder @bibliomaria.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And I remember being at a Sixteenth Century Studies Association conference where people were joking about how you could sound very up-to-date by just pluralizing all the terms in your title.
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Maria Snyder @bibliomaria.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When you look at the variety of what happened across Europe, it makes sense to use the plural -- very helpful, really. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10....
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The European Reformations
Combining seamless synthesis of original material with updated scholarship, The European Reformations 2nd edition, provides the most comprehensive and engaging textbook available on the origins and impacts of Europe's Reformations - and the consequences that continue to resonate today. A fully revised and comprehensive edition of this popular introduction to the Reformations of the sixteenth century Includes new sections on the Catholic Reformation, the Counter Reformation, the role of women, and the Reformation in Britain Sets the origins of the movements in the context of late medieval social, economic and religious crises, carefully tracing its trajectories through the different religious groups Succeeds in weaving together religion, politics, social forces, and the influential personalities of the time, in to one compelling story Provides a variety of supplementary materials, including end-of-chapter suggestions for further reading, along with maps, illustrations, a glossary, and chronologies .
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Anita Hoffmann @17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#earlymodern ads are never boring! Today's fave: Remedy for Ruptures and a SPECIFICK that is better than dipping in the Sea to cure the 'Bite of a mad Dog' (rabies...)! Country Journal, or the Craftsman, Sept 6, 1729.
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Maria Snyder @bibliomaria.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I assumed the main utility was not having to say fellow+whatever (e.g. fellow Greek Ruthenian Catholics, fellow Christian Reformed Church of North America members etc.). Makes it sound like they don't understand the words.
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Maria Snyder @bibliomaria.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you search on JSTOR, you'll see lots of totally ordinary usage.
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Maria Snyder @bibliomaria.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
One setting of this poem by Ola Gjeilo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao11...
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Ola Gjeilo - The Lake Isle ft. Tenebrae
YouTube video by OlaGjeiloVEVO
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Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Peter has written a guest post which you can read here peterfrankopan.substack.com/p/how-did-he...
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How Did Hermes Reach China? A Silk Road Detective Story
Peter Stewart is an outstanding scholar with a remarkable breadth of interests.
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Maria Snyder @bibliomaria.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Cat vanishes for days, goes to a neighbor's, gets new toys, eats fancy dinners, gets high. And it's the neighbor's fault? I feel like they totally let the cats off the hook here. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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The unsettling rise of cat seducers: ‘My little companion was missing – and I was consumed with anger’
Has your cat been gaining weight and staying out at night, only to arrive home reeking of marijuana? These are just some of the signs that a neighbour is trying to entice them away ...
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Maria Snyder @bibliomaria.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Or this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp6l...
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zarah leander ich weiss es wird einmal ein wunder geschehn
YouTube video by zarahlilawen
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Maria Snyder @bibliomaria.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I was puzzled by his singling out of jazz, but it seems possible that, since he was born in 1903, he was probably thinking of stuff more like this (in other words, dumb pop music). Not what you or I would call jazz now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUkv...
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In meiner Badewanne bin ich Kapitän
YouTube video by HeadHunter131
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Marc Dubuisson @unpied.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
La rentrée littéraire, tous les ans. Dessin paru dans Les Echos Week-end.
Les marronniers de la rentrée littéraire :
L'histoire d'un romancier qui a du mal à écrire son roman.
Bandeau sur fond rouge sur lequel est écrit "Jubilatoire !"Plongée dans des secrets de famille sur plusieurs générations.
Bandeau sur fond rouge sur lequel est écrit "Un roman intime qui questionne les apparences"La vie sexuelle médiocre et un peu glauque d'un nihiliste qui s'emmerde.
Bandeau sur fond rouge sur lequel est écrit "Chef d'œuvre ! (même si on n'a pas tout compris)"Amélie Nothomb.
Bandeau sur fond rouge sur lequel est écrit "Amélie Nothomb"
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Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's September! So here's your food illustration Calendrier Gastronomique: Histories de cuisine et cuisine de l’histoire par Marius Dutrey, dessins par Pierre Camin (Londres: Frederick Muller, 1938) 88/250 copies, signed, London 1944 charming 17th-century tribute to the oyster
on a tablecloth or a fishnet:

an oyster flanked by a large bunch of purple grapes and a lemon
behind them, a bottle of wine labeled Pouilly Fuissé 1924

L'huitre
Toi qui te ris de la tempéte, 
Vivant rocher, enfant de l’eau,
Qui nais captif dans un tombeau
Ou tu vis sans cceur et sans téte,
Aveugle esclave de Thétis,
Délice de nos appétits,
Huitre, fuis la plaine liquide, 
Viens dans la pompe d’un festin, 
Quitte cet élément perfide, 
Et puisqu’il faut mourir, meurs plutot dans le vin. 

MARQUIS DE VAUVERT (1637) 

page Cent trois
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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 17/08/2026
For real 😹
Snapshot of a computer screen, on which an email is open in Outlook. The email purports to be from a Nadine Bailey. It's long, flowery, and ridiculous.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If you were living in Europe in the 1580s and 90s, you would likely have heard a few herring prophecies from Norway. Fishes with words about evil, fighting knights symbolizing the Ottoman conflicts of the Habsburg monarchy etc. appeared, and they all predicted something about the state of the world.
a German broadside with a wondrous fish caught off Norway. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1880-0710-3466 fishes with words from a small print of 1598 ("Prophetia halieutica nova et admiranda...", Source: https://www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/titleinfo/1489626A broadside from 1587 showing a fish with wondrous inscriptions which reads 'Vici Malum' caught off Norway. Source: https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/freytag/content/pageview/8433201
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Espooky Hispanic Pixie Dreamgirl @bocadelperro.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"Read about the past. Read about faraway places. Read Macaulay or Sylvia Townsend Warner or Santayana’s letters. Read a real book."
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Rob is reading The Professional Soldier🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
For #InternationalCatDay 🐈 a repost of the happiest cat in the world. John Aldridge, Lady with Cat artuk.org/discover/art...
From above, a woman in a lilac coloured dress seated on a sofa and doing some needlework, with a sleeping cat on her lap.
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Jenn Wong @jennwong.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"The Morgan Library & Museum obtained $2.5m from the Lilly Endowment to digitize about 300 religious manuscripts from the Middle Ages & Renaissance. Called The Morgan Illuminated, the program should lead in 2029 to a free portal giving access to the volumes in their entirety, nearly 120,000 pages"
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Maria Snyder @bibliomaria.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Don't forget the girl who plays with matches. She sets herself on fire. And her cats watch and cry.
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Joh Peccadille @peccadille.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Et encore quelques photos prises parmi les 245 clichés de ma visite...
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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
OH MY GOD EVERYBODY I just learned about reciprocard.com , which lets you enter your public library and find out all the places you can get a card on Libby. I had not known my Minuteman card actually gave me *every network in the state*, including the flawlessly-named CLAMS?!?!
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ReciproCard - Reciprocal Library Cards for Libby
Discover which reciprocal library systems you can access based on where you live. More cards means more books on Libby.
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Maria Snyder @bibliomaria.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Without little musicians, we don't get grown-up musicians. If you love music, you should be thrilled that other people's children are learning to sing and play instruments. Your favorite pop band, your favorite orchestra or jazz ensemble -- they were all somebody's kid making a racket at some point.
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Only In Boston @onlyinbos.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Thank You. 💚
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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
1.) For non-Americans and/or younglings, HUAC = House Un-American Activities Committee. 2.) Natalie Zeamon Davis talks about the connection between having her passport confiscated and how she had to reorganize her early research in this essay for @nybooks.com: www.nybooks.com/online/2013/...
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How the FBI Turned Me On to Rare Books | Natalie Zemon Davis
The year was 1952. I had spent six months in France doing the first research for my PhD thesis on “Protestantism and the Printing Workers of Lyon.” Not long after my return, two gentlemen from the US ...
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Maria Snyder @bibliomaria.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I've given this book as a gift and recommended it many times!
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Hulst has a playground on its ramparts that is 17th-century themed, complete with helmet, cannon and cannonballs.
Photo of a playground with picnic table and trees.
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Maria Snyder @bibliomaria.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
No response. Then I can try various door knob strategies, such as push-turn-pull, or is it turn-pull-push, or just pull really hard? Otherwise, I stand like an idiot until a passing server tells me that it's empty, and I just didn't try hard enough to open the door.
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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The joy that is this book!
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I'm going to need people to read the article rather than take the rage-bait...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 30/05/2026
While regulations.gov incorrectly lists this action as "closed for comments", you can submit your comments directly here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM... My response is below, but don't feel that you need to draft anything nearly so long-winded. A short statement will also be very helpful.
For the better part of a century, US science has been the envy of the world, propelled by Eisenhower-era investment in every level of research and education, up through and including the American research university system. The best and brightest from around the world have come to the United States to study and work. Some stayed, bringing their exceptional talent here; others returned home, often carrying with them professional norms, institutional ties, and democratic ideals encountered in the United States, a process that has been a critical form of US soft power for many decades. This vibrant ecosystem of science, technology, engineering, and medicine has led the US through its transformation from a manufacturing economy to a technology and information economy, and ensured US prosperity and economic power up to the present day. Our funding agencies have not only promoted the technological discoveries and medical breakthroughs that transform our world and extend our lives, but also have been instrumental in developing the human capital that flows into our commercial science and technology sector and generates the growth and innovation that has given US businesses a worldwide competitive advantage. 

These proposed changes to the Regulations for Federal Financial Assistance undercut all of this. By transferring decision-making authority from scientific experts to political appointees in the grantmaking process, we lose the competitive edge and innovative capacity provided by the most effective research funding system in history. The numerous provisions allowing administrators to exclude individuals and institutions based on political litmus tests serve to squander the diverse talent available in this country, undermine basic principles of free speech, and run counter to the very ethos of science as described by Robert Merton in 1942. 

Science costs money, and scientific research is planned out on the scale of years. When any grant can be terminated at any time for…
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mkk86.bsky.social @mkk86.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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Inside Project Panama: 2 million books scanned and destroyed by Anthropic AI to train machines | - The Times of India
Trending News: Information follows a simple rule: The more it is consumed, the more it is reshaped and shared. Human intelligence grows by absorbing knowledge, combi.
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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 25/05/2026
I'm not talking about the B&N Classics editions of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson here. Or The Cat in the Hat, or Goodnight Moon. Or any of a dozen popular histories. I'm talking about Black Sparrow Press and 70's letterpress editions. Hard-to-find 20th century illustrators. Scholarly work.
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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 25/05/2026
Friends, they've come for the poetry section. And the illustrated children's books. And the medieval history. The unknown company is buying up good stuff, and (for contractual reasons, and also because maybe? these books really are for humans? in a different market?) I can't refuse to sell them.
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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 25/05/2026
If I believed that someone was trying to assemble a collection of obscure books, that would be different, too. Like, go ahead. Make a seed bank but books. I'm on board. Instead, the obscure books are just... gone. And I'm not alone in suspecting that. www.democrata.es/en/digital-a...
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Zoom Books buys and destroys thousands of old books to train AI algorithms
Bookstores in Spain and other countries sell out-of-print copies to the mysterious Canadian company, which scans and shreds the texts to feed artificial intelligence models, generating alarm in the se...
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Waterhen by Ohara Koson (1877-1945), Japan
by the master artist Ohara Koson (1877–1945) depicts a solitary waterhen (Moorhen) standing poised in a shallow marsh. Renowned for his exceptional ability to capture the lifelike textures and quiet dignity of the natural world, Koson was a leading figure in the early 20th-century Shin-hanga (New Prints) movement, which revived traditional ukiyo-e collaborative workshop methods while introducing subtle Western techniques of light and perspective.

The composition centers on the volumetric, rounded body of the waterhen, which is rendered with exquisite gradations of grey, charcoal, and black ink (bokashi) to simulate the soft, dense texture of its plumage. The bird is captured in a classic, serene posture, balancing gracefully on its long, segmented left leg while its right leg is tucked up close to its breast. Its head is turned back over its shoulder, revealing a bright, attentive golden-orange eye and a matching short, pointed orange beak adorned with a soft red frontal shield at the brow. A small flash of white feathers accents the underside of its upturned tail, providing a sharp contrast to the deeper, velvety tones of its wings.

The setting is minimalist and atmospheric, utilizing a soft, cream-colored background that evokes a misty, early morning or overcast day. The bird stands at the edge of a tranquil body of water, its single leg casting a fine, vertical reflection onto the mirror-like surface. Faint, horizontal washes of pale grey indicate gentle ripples in the water, while a few small, oval lily pads float quietly nearby. Rising behind the bird on the right side of the frame are slender, delicate stalks of wild marsh grass or reeds, executed in soft shades of sage green. The fine, linear strokes of the grass blades provide a beautiful geometric counterpoint to the soft, curved silhouette of the waterhen.
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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Really enjoyed this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast with Richard Calis talking about his book on a 16th-century Tübingen scholar's encounters with Greek Orthodox travelers from the Ottoman empire & the broader Mediterranean cultural world: newbooksnetwork.com/the-discover...
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Richard Calis, "The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius" (Harvard UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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