Deidre Lynch

come listen to and help me work through many complicated thoughts about the relations between (New) Bibliography and Theory! And of course stay for brilliant work by everyone else :)

Gorgeous!

Graffito on a page in a copy of Tristram Shandy: a line drawing in profile of Slawkenbergius, recognizable because of his large nose.

Niche but cool. I mentioned in class that there was little evidence that #18thc readers had ever responded to the invitation tendered by the blank page in Tristram Shandy & drawn the Widow Wadman. & then a student revealed the portrait of Slawkenbergius she found inscribed into her copy of our novel

As I recall, McGill has an excellent collection of annuals
That must have been fun!

That the spider is papery makes this even more delicious! Thank you!

Like lace!

I think it's the Forget Me Not for 1829.

I'm not so sure about its greatness, but yes, I should have provided alt text, so here it is again. Thanks for the reminder!

And some days you're the gnat "found crushed on the leaf of a lady's album": the unfortunate insect for whom James Montgomery writes a poem in 1827 (1st inscribing it in an album and then printing it in a literary annual). "Lie there, embalm'd from age to age!--/ This is the album's noblest page."

The banality of evil

#BookHistory

Also a slight Regency flavour, with the empire waist?

I don't think I've seen that particular phrase. But it continues to be the case that extensions are pretty much impossible to obtain.

a black and white clock with a spiral in the center Alt: a black and white clock with a spiral in the center

Annual petition for your thoughts & prayers, Bluesky: please send them to the senior English majors here, whose theses are due on Monday, & who will have just figured out that they will be losing an hour to the time change this weekend.

Cover of Howe's Penitential Cries, published in 2025 by New Directions Press: detail from The New England Primer, of a devil pursuing a male figure--superimposed on a bit of Emily Dickinson ms (we can see the pencilled word "position")

We are still making the poster, but I want my Boston-area friends to know sooner vs later that on April 3rd, at the Harvard Divinity School, there will be a symposium honoring Susan Howe & her new 📘 _Penitential Cries_--talks & readings too by Craig Dworkin & Elizabeth Willis. Pls save the date!

oh dear, this explains a lot!

Wonderful leads--thank you, Sam!

fabulous! Thank you!

That's very cool!

Thank you! It is!

Oooh, yes, it might well!

The Lady and the Typewriter - Harvard Film Archive As women came into the workforce in the early twentieth century, the image of the working woman entered the cultural imagination. In Hollywood, she was often what Maria DiBattista has called the &ldqu...

I can't really believe the HFA let me partner with them on a film series about women and the typewriter, but here it is. Catch MEET JOHN DOE (1941) , HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940), and THE HUDSUCKER PROXY (1994) this women's history month!

harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/the...

Thank you! That is so, so interesting.

Thanks! It did feel fun (though also a little uncanny)!

Wonderful! Thank you--I would never have found this on my own!

Thank you!

A poster for an event called The Novel and Labor on May 1, 2026 at the University of Pennsylvania featuring a black and white photo of haystacks x'ed out.

Looking forward to this whole workshop, especially the public conversation on the novel and labor with Dora Zhang and Lilith Todd on May 1 in Philly!
www.english.upenn.edu/.../2026/05/...

GORGEOUS!

Amazing! Thank you so much!