2022 - To Read

Folds. https://t.co/thluCihVMr pic.twitter.com/VacI1mPhOg— Joe Devlin (@JoeDevlin) January 19, 2022

Another Kafka unit taught by Max Sebald. “Please note also that work presented in seriously flawed English will be marked down” pic.twitter.com/cZ7WowWBAa— Martin Shaw (@thebooksdesk) January 21, 2022

In a new exhibition, the long, difficult history of literary maps is explored, from James Joyce to Raymond Chandler

My book #CutCopyPastetheBook is here, in the flesh! Didn't the designers do a nice job?!Grab a beautiful print copy from @UMinnPress: https://t.co/ba6HLw2Xm8— or read the open access version, enriched w/digital resources, on @ManifoldScholar : https://t.co/1Htsrk2ZGr pic.twitter.com/aZ3rdUNT1C— whitney trettien (@whitneytrettien) January 25, 2022

A poem by W. S. Graham

Looking forward to this exhibition.In 2019 the Kröller-Müller Museum made a presentation of the works of Barry Flanagan from the Art & Project gift.February 2019 @krollermuller https://t.co/G5mnqRFuoz pic.twitter.com/pnu1j1uMNS— peter foolen (@PeterFoolen) February 1, 2022

Pretty excited to finally sit and read this brilliant collection. Discussion of overlapping antiracist & neoliberal Black businesses meshes with our @BoWWords work on feminist enterprise in 1970s and 80s pic.twitter.com/hZycKv113B— Lucy Delap (@suff66) February 11, 2022

Book reviews aren’t as ubiquitous as they used to be, but there are still more at least 74 publications that pay freelance writers for book reviews and author interviews.

How to fix a book: first, gather your tools. The bone folder that feels familiar in your hand, the knitting needles still sticky with glue, the X-Acto knife, the tiny Tupperware of glue. Then, diag…

Featuring Sheila Heti, Marlon James, Buster Keaton, Alejandro Zambra, and more

Claude Willan and I published Text Technologies: A History, seeking to promote a model that emphasises materialities. It has case studies from all periods, many forms, and a variety of places. The same materialist method is applied for each example.https://t.co/cvyRKS0m1F— Elaine Treharne (@ETreharne) February 22, 2022

‘Casually’ - this arrived from ⁦@EuropaEdUK⁩ - publishes 17 March. #Ferrante pic.twitter.com/XnTcQ7F2J8— Catherine Taylor 🇺🇦🌻 (@KatyaTaylor) February 23, 2022

What is space on the page? In M. NourbeSe Philip’s poem Zong! the space around words appears as an element in its own right. The poem is based on the case of drowning of enslaved Africans fro…

Dr Sarah Pyke reflects on Living Libraries, an oral history project that collected interviews on the institution of the public library in the UK.

It was the seventies. I was a young and untested art critic when John Coplans, then editor of Artforum, asked...

Books! Pleased to get hold of this, forthcoming @OldFortunatus pic.twitter.com/XHtb09uYFU— James Waddell (@james_waddell) March 24, 2022

I love Naden’s ‘The earth’s history is a mutilated book’ metaphor - excited to see that @dr_r_fallon is discussing it @TheBSLS conference. https://t.co/ffhmlGAjij— Dr Clare Stainthorp (@ClareGS87) April 8, 2022

This Friday, in the "Discourse and Advocacy in Spaces of Curation" course @HarvardGSD, I'll give a small talk about the printing "gaffe" of a diagram from Sterne's Tristram Shandy in Viktor Shklovsky's "The Novel as Parody," and why it turned my world upside down. Literally. pic.twitter.com/p4gS7mgxNG— Enrique Ramirez (@enriqueramirez) April 6, 2022

and then this arrived. pic.twitter.com/x7iBbAnXcX— Katherine McKittrick (@demonicground) April 11, 2022

We're starting to share the stories from our participants about working in the modern, neoliberal, #University https://t.co/vo2FAYMoHa @AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter @UWankings— Modern Universities: stories of work & resistance (@ModernUniversi1) April 11, 2022

Just finished @reversediorama's This is Memorial Device. One of the best novels I've read in ages. Absolutely *essential* for anyone who was into a local alternative/experimental music scene in their youth. It captures that world perfectly, in heart-soaring, beautiful prose. pic.twitter.com/KpTGT5yBTQ— Elizabeth Boyle (@thecelticist) April 15, 2022

https://t.co/r9EKfgnjkFI feel like I've read something about Hinman recently, as well, but my memory isn't cooperating.— Piers Brown (@cohaerencegone) April 19, 2022

Something academics don't talk about is how it's very probable that you will get to a point in your career when you don't agree with all aspects, particularly the framing, of the previous research you've published.— Jenni Tabler, PhD (@jenni_tabler) April 19, 2022

Librarians say Holocaust deniers, antivaxxers, and other conspiracy theorists are being featured in the catalogs of a popular ebook lending service.

“Disorder is simply the order we are not looking for.” ―Henri Bergson, "The Creative Mind'— Anthony (@timesflow) April 24, 2022

An anti-universe running backwards in time could explain dark matter and cosmic inflation.