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PhD student, info sci at UIUC. Research in DH–NLP, AI, cultural analytics. Python enthusiast. Interested in place studies, US lit, creative writing, writing studies: https://matthewkollmer.com I also own a rare book firm: https://eveninglandbooks.com
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The front cover of the first edition. It's in the original dust jacket with an image of a porcelain doll's face close-up, looking eerily to the side.
The title page showing Donna Tartt's signature.
The Little Friend. Signed by Donna Tartt. First Edition, First Printing. Knopf. New York, 2002.
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Reviewer feedback said my submission was bordering on poetic. Unclear if it was meant as compliment or to communicate significant doubt lol
Love McPhee, best prose ever, makes geology most interesting subject
The front cover of the first edition. It's in the original dust jacket featuring a photo of Mantle in his Yankees uniform, standing in a batter's pose with bat over his shoulder. Behind him is a blue sky with light clouds.
The title page showing Mantle's signature running along the ball stitch pattern printed along the page.
My Favorite Summer 1956. Signed by Mickey Mantle. First Edition, First Printing. Doubleday. New York, 1991.
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The front cover in fine modern half leather over floral paper boards. With raised bands and gilt spine label. The book is also surprisingly small.
The title page on rag paper and the frontispiece–a woodcut of a woman in a kitchen holding a large hunk of meat on a tray.
The Art of Cookery. By Hannah Glasse. Pratt Edition, First Printing. J.S. Pratt. London, 1843.
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My wife says I like The Pitt because "where else do you see competent people in positions of authority trying to help?"
The front cover of the first edition. It's in the original dust jacket featuring a broad hazy sky over a hilly landscape with rows of trees and orchards.
East of Eden. By John Steinbeck. First Trade Edition, First Printing. Viking. New York, 1952.
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📢 DH2026 review results are out!
Long papers: 164/264 (61%)
Short papers: 275/387 (71%)
Posters: 101/131 (76%)
Workshops: 18/19 (95%)
Mini-conferences: 12/13 (92%)
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See you in Daejeon 🇰🇷 July 27–31!
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academic precarity is when you don't apply for the two-year dream job you've seen advertised, because you already have your dream job...but only for the next two years
The Chinese University of Hong Kong is searching for an assistant professor in AI Humanities. Application deadline March 29.
The Einstein AI debacle feels a bit like a scale model of everything commercial LLM right now: tool announced with hype, press leaps onboard, panic/ outrage ensues, founder melts down and deletes. (With a side of well actually, the underlying technology could do what it promised, with some effort.)
The front cover of the first edition. It's in the original dust jacket featuring the title and author text over black backgrounds. In between them is a panel showing rocky hillsides and a blue sky and a small building with a red roof.
The back panel of the first state dust jacket featuring a photo of Hemingway at work on the typewriter. There is no photo credit.
For Whom the Bell Tolls. By Ernest Hemingway. First Edition, First Printing. Scribners. New York, 1940.
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I really hope this story gets the mainstream coverage that the Pretti and Good murders received. We need to dismantle the notion that immigrants deserve any of this. We need to argue that they remain the primary victims of inhumane policies and state-sanctioned violence.
The front cover of this second printing. It's in the original cloth–a bright blue with a spectacular pictorial front board featuring a yellow sky and the blue and black silhouette of a man in a large fur-lined coat holding his dog on a leash as they run over a snow line. The title and author text is below said snow line.
Burning Daylight. By Jack London. First Edition, Second Printing. Macmillan Company. New York, 1910.
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From time to time I mutter about a secret project that involves benchmarks and historical language models. Here's a formal announcement of the Schmidt Sciences grant. Other PIs include @dmimno.bsky.social , @lauraknelson.bsky.social, @andrewpiper.bsky.social, and @mattwilkens.bsky.social. And +
so much data work to do over the next several months... extraction, curation, presentation–rinse and repeat
Take it from this former MN Zamboni driver: there is no sports culture more revolting and douchey than American hockey culture. It’s always been its own fascist cult.
The front cover of the first edition. It's in the original dust jacket featuring a briar over a red background framing the author's name and title text. In the middle of the author's title text is the lion's face.
The limitation page featuring Maguire's signature and inscription.
A Lion Among Men. Inscribed by Gregory Maguire. Signed Limited First Edition, First Printing. HarperCollins. New York, 2008.
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dangit, I repeated Edith Wharton!
Without looking, I'm going to try to make my answer different than the last time this little listing game appeared on Bsky.
5 authors by whom I've read at least 5 books:
Octavia Butler
Tolkien
Cormac McCarthy
Jane Austen
Edith Wharton
This Zelda viral moment is bringing me back to late 98 thru 1999, when every recess and lunch table convo was concerned w/ Epona’s song, the Water Temple, the biggoron sword, etc etc—what a cultural moment, life-changing, not to be underestimated as a formative experience for 90s kids
The Olympics: where historically American athletes have shown the rest of the world our nation's potential for a better politics
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Obama's portrait–a closeup, straight on shot of his face. It was taken when he was a young senator. He is gazing directly into the camera.
Schoeller's signature on the back of the print, numbered and dated.
The original certificate of authenticity from the Obama campaign and Hasted Hunt galleries.
Barack Obama Portrait Print. Signed by Martin Schoeller. Signed Limited Edition. Hasted Hunt Galleries. No Place, 2008.
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Kristina with a black goat in the hay. She is squatting down to get on its level. She is holding a brush for petting. Another goat cranes its neck into the picture, trying to nibble on her purse strap
Valentine’s date success
I understand you. I am resigned to the fact that this longing I have will only get worse with age.
I miss the jaunty scholarship of my youth. I was a confident idiot who knew nothing, but at least I had fun ideas. No one tells you that your PhD will clarify so much through a remarkable inundation of null results and granular fixations–exceptionally dull stuff compared to where you started.
The front cover in the original leather with gilt spine and raised bands. The leather is a rich brown. It shows some soiling and a drink circle, but still looks quite handsome.
The frontispiece photogravure of a young child slouched on its knees.
A photogravure of several women in robes and a young child all standing in front of a cloudy backdrop. They are framed by a stained-glass window design. Below them is a text box that reads: "I thought once how Theocritus had sung of the sweet years, the dear and wished for years. Who each in a gracious hand appears to bear a gift for mortals old or young"
Sonnets from the Portuguese. By Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Photogravures by Adelaide Hanscom Leeson. Illustrated Edition. George G. Harrap & Co. London, Circa 1916.
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