Reposted by Dennis DuncanTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 41119403102
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Galley photo looks fine. Extraordinarily proud to think that soon I’ll be a published poet. 🥲 040
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A century ago today "Irene Iddesleigh" – first novel by Amanda McKittrick Ros, the worst novelist in the world – was reprinted by Nonesuch. “I am pleased to say this work now rests upon the shelf of ‘Classic’,” she wrote. “I am very proud of [Irene] sistering Shakespeare, Milton, Blake &c &c” 021
Reposted by Dennis DuncanGreg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This piece by @djbduncan.bsky.social is such delightful writing, like a gift wrapped in many layers of pretty paper (please forgive the tea stains, he didn’t provide those) 34410
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Mr 'Ack, pork cutter. Ask me 'bout me griskins and me forced meat. 250
Reposted by Dennis DuncanLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/09/2026‘Part of the pleasure of the books is that they present us with a less ethereal version of Woolf than we usually encounter. More granite, less rainbow.’ @djbduncan.bsky.social on the books that Virginia Woolf made at the Hogarth Press. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukDennis Duncan · At Charleston: Hogarth Press‘Our press you know, is to give birth to every monster in the vicinity,’ Virginia Woolf told Clive Bell. Hogarth’s... 052
Reposted by Dennis DuncanLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 27/08/2026‘There is something magnetic about the large case containing all 34 titles that Virginia Woolf made. Displaying them together like this reminds us that, when a book is bound in handmade papers, every copy is unique.’ @djbduncan.bsky.social on the Hogarth Press. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukDennis Duncan · At Charleston: Hogarth Press‘Our press you know, is to give birth to every monster in the vicinity,’ Virginia Woolf told Clive Bell. Hogarth’s... 0142
Reposted by Dennis DuncanLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 21/08/2026‘To a designer’s eye, after two years of making books, the Woolfs were still unable to balance text and white space. What is it about these books, then, that warrants a display like this?’ @djbduncan.bsky.social on the Hogarth Press’s first books. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukDennis Duncan · At Charleston: Hogarth Press‘Our press you know, is to give birth to every monster in the vicinity,’ Virginia Woolf told Clive Bell. Hogarth’s... 051
Reposted by Dennis DuncanIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026 633897863
Reposted by Dennis DuncanLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 18/08/2026‘The titles that the Woolfs continued to make themselves were overwhelmingly written by their closest friends. Vita Sackville-West, Forster and others: the same crowd they wanted to publish before they became professionals.’ @djbduncan.bsky.social on the Hogarth Press. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukDennis Duncan · At Charleston: Hogarth Press‘Our press you know, is to give birth to every monster in the vicinity,’ Virginia Woolf told Clive Bell. Hogarth’s... 0116
Reposted by Dennis DuncanLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/08/2026‘Part of the pleasure of the books is that they present us with a less ethereal version of Woolf than we usually encounter. More granite, less rainbow.’ @djbduncan.bsky.social on the books that Virginia Woolf made at the Hogarth Press. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukDennis Duncan · At Charleston: Hogarth Press‘Our press you know, is to give birth to every monster in the vicinity,’ Virginia Woolf told Clive Bell. Hogarth’s... 1162
Reposted by Dennis DuncanLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 15/08/2026‘There is something magnetic about the large case containing all 34 titles that Virginia Woolf made. Displaying them together like this reminds us that, when a book is bound in handmade papers, every copy is unique.’ @djbduncan.bsky.social on the Hogarth Press. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukDennis Duncan · At Charleston: Hogarth Press‘Our press you know, is to give birth to every monster in the vicinity,’ Virginia Woolf told Clive Bell. Hogarth’s... 0257
Reposted by Dennis DuncanLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 12/08/2026‘𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘢𝘺 would be the last book she would bring out with a press other than her own. For the rest of her life, Woolf’s experiments in fiction went hand in hand with being her own publisher.’ @djbduncan.bsky.social on the Hogarth Press. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukDennis Duncan · At Charleston: Hogarth Press‘Our press you know, is to give birth to every monster in the vicinity,’ Virginia Woolf told Clive Bell. Hogarth’s... 0174
Reposted by Dennis DuncanLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 11/08/2026‘Virginia’s letters from the time are frank about how inexpert she is. “Heaven knows how one prints,” she wrote to Lady Cecil. To Violet Dickinson: “We have bought our Press! We don’t know how to work it.”’ @djbduncan.bsky.social on the Hogarth Press. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukDennis Duncan · At Charleston: Hogarth Press‘Our press you know, is to give birth to every monster in the vicinity,’ Virginia Woolf told Clive Bell. Hogarth’s... 0152
Reposted by Dennis DuncanLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 09/08/2026‘The titles that the Woolfs continued to make themselves were overwhelmingly written by their closest friends. Vita Sackville-West, Forster and others: the same crowd they wanted to publish before they became professionals.’ @djbduncan.bsky.social on Hogarth Press: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukDennis Duncan · At Charleston: Hogarth PressThere is something magnetic about the large case containing all 34 titles that Virginia Woolf made. With their marbled,... 1122
Reposted by Dennis DuncanLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 08/08/2026‘Part of the pleasure of the books is that they present us with a less ethereal version of Woolf than we usually encounter. More granite, less rainbow.’ @djbduncan.bsky.social on the books that Virginia Woolf made at the Hogarth Press. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukDennis Duncan · At Charleston: Hogarth PressThere is something magnetic about the large case containing all 34 titles that Virginia Woolf made. With their marbled,... 0166
Reposted by Dennis DuncanLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 06/08/2026‘There is something magnetic about the large case containing all 34 titles that Virginia Woolf made. Displaying them together like this reminds us that, when a book is bound in handmade papers, every copy is unique.’ @djbduncan.bsky.social on the Hogarth Press. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukDennis Duncan · At Charleston: Hogarth PressThere is something magnetic about the large case containing all 34 titles that Virginia Woolf made. With their marbled,... 0214
Reposted by Dennis DuncanZoe Guttenplan @zoeguttenplan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The August issue of @litreview.bsky.social is a cabinet of curiosities containing @djbduncan.bsky.social on raunchy pirates, @harrstetler.bsky.social the French far Right, @oldfortunatus.bsky.social on New World imports, Seamus Perry on Sylvia Plath, and so much more: literaryreview.co.ukliteraryreview.co.ukLiterary Review - For People Who Devour BooksIn the Current Issue: Emma Smith on New World imports * Ian Thomson on Mario Vargas Llosa * Seamus Perry on Sylvia Plath * Hamish de Bretton-Gordon on biological warfare * Daisy Dunn on Christopher No... 064
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I wrote a thing about Virginia Woolf, and being a shonky printer, and making imperfect books that are really about playing with the people you love. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukDennis Duncan · At Charleston: Hogarth PressThere is something magnetic about the large case containing all 34 titles that Virginia Woolf made. With their marbled,... 0232
Reposted by Dennis DuncanDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 03/07/2026As we head into a long holiday weekend in the US, our staff share their summer reading recommendations, including books by @glumghost.bsky.social and @djbduncan.bsky.social ... and Moby Dick! buff.ly/bBLLeqj 0104
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026A blog about posters, ballads, flawed children.open.substack.comSammy SlapPosters, Ballads, Flawed Children. 010
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026The final resting place of Amanda McKittrick Ros, the worst novelist in the English language. 020
Reposted by Dennis DuncanW. Caleb McDaniel @wcaleb.org · 23/04/2026A student in my Civil War history course brought by an interesting artifact she once found in a Baltimore used book store. It appears to be a scrapbook kept by a journalist during the 1860s, with an index of topics in the front. Very cool! 1224
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 16/04/2026A little blog about confetti open.substack.com/pub/scrapsan...open.substack.comConfettiA few years ago, the bookshop Foyle’s moved next door to itself. 000
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Maundy Thursday is named for St Maundy, or Mandy, who was a waitress at the last supper (Luke 22:14). In the Middle Ages a popular ballad, ‘Raundy Maundy’, celebrated her fertility. 031
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Postdoc klaxon! Spend a year in our lovely English dept at UCL. English lang or lit, PhD awarded post Oct 23. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...ucl.ac.ukUCL – University College LondonUCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021). 122
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Job klaxon! Come and be an Early Modernist at UCL: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...ucl.ac.ukUCL – University College LondonUCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021). 098
Reposted by Dennis DuncanRobin Bougie @robinbougie.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened. 166109722945
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026I wrote a little essay about the early English filmmaker Charles Goodwin Norton substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.com'The Bill Poster' (1899)Charles Goodwin Norton on Marchmont Street 010
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Latest catalogue from @blackwells.bsky.social is books by – or owned by – Naomi Michison. One for you @jennykenyon.bsky.social? blackwells.co.uk/rarebooks/ca...blackwells.co.uk 120
Reposted by Dennis DuncanOlivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Would you be interested? Spotted by a friend in London 482
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 13/02/2026The Lovejoy reboot you didn’t realise you needed 130
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Someone’s left a stuffed ferret outside the library on my road. Yours for the taking if you can get to Muswell Hill fast enough. 110
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Charity shop find: early C20 scrap book. Somebody likes lobsters. @drbibliomane.bsky.social 280
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026My friend just bought me this book of found shopping lists and I can't stop imagining they're Emily Dickinson poems. “Chicken — Brockley — — Milk”. I think it’s about death. 4200
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 30/01/2026At the Natural History Museum looking at mayflies trapped in amber. Biomatter that gets frozen in amber like this is called an "inclusion". Isn't that a wonderful word to conjure with. 281
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Unhelpfully, this is what the weather forecast used to look like in the Times. I only wanted to say whether it was sunny or not in London. Can anyone translate? 343
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026This is Winnie the Harris hawk. She comes to the British Library twice a week to scare away the pigeons. 310016
Reposted by Dennis DuncanJames Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls 9454685014405
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 24/12/2025A quick blog about funeral biscuits, the ephemera around them, and a boy who could eat a kilo of them in four minutes. open.substack.com/pub/scrapsan...open.substack.comFuneral BiscuitsAnd eighteenth-century speed eating 0111
Reposted by Dennis DuncanGretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 19/12/2025Mandarins, Italian paired with Index, a History of the by Dennis Duncan Day 19 of #BooksAreMyJam, in which I pair a language-y book from my shelves with today's jam from the Bonne Maman jamvent calendar 2246
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 17/12/2025A little blog about printing, writing and funeral tickets open.substack.com/pub/scrapsan...open.substack.comForms of DeathRemember to Die... And bring this Ticket with you. 161
Reposted by Dennis DuncanFraga @fragarf.bsky.social · 01/12/2025UM LIVRO PARA DOIDOS POR LIVROS (Índice, uma história do, de Dennis Duncan. Como alguém consegue pesquisar assunto tão obscuro e curioso? Eleito pela New Yorker um dos melhores livros de 2022, é irresistível para quem é amante das palavras, leitor de raridades ou viciado em linguagem.) 2112
Reposted by Dennis DuncanDIACRITIK @diacritik.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Ne pas oublier Michèle Audin (1954-2025) Michèle Audin, mathématicienne, historienne, autrice, membre de l'Oulipo, spécialiste de la Commune, femme engagée et passionnée, fille de Maurice Audin, nous a quittés ce matin. En hommage, Diacritik republie un article sur son superbe Oublier Clémence,…diacritik.comNe pas oublier Michèle Audin (1954-2025)Michèle Audin, mathématicienne, historienne, autrice, membre de l'Oulipo, spécialiste de la Commune, femme engagée et passionnée, fille de Maurice Audin, nous a quittés ce matin. En hommage, Diacritik republie un article sur son superbe Oublier Clémence, paru en 2018. Lire, relire Michèle Audin. 015084
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Where does Dora the Explorer buy drugs from? Boots! 🥁 #tooniche 010
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 11/11/2025"That enormous large Serpent, 16 feet long, that was shot in the act of killing a Deer, near LYNN, in Norfolk"! 😬 172