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She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard-posts mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in for good measure). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap. Website: https://deidrelynch.org
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this ad is pretty incredible

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

What does this even mean? I'm bemused by many things: the locution "an AI," for a start (now a count noun, it seems?). And I'm also confused that the AI in question has written a review of what was never a "paper" but always a book review. Why did it review my review? Give it something else to do!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Thrilled to report that the peonies in the garden have begun to bloom. Proof of peony (pale pink and hot pink) attached.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

New publication! Here’s my review of two books about sound recordings of POWs during WWI (Britta Lange’s Captured Voices for Kadmos Verlag and Anette Hoffmann’s Knowing by Ear for @dukepress.bsky.social). Surveying some great work on these complex sound archives and hoping to inspire some more!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Join us in York and online 27-28 June for our conference Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent. Fantastic speakers! Great value registrations, including free registration for York students! 🗣️🗣️🗣️ tinyurl.com/barbauld25

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

The Paris Review blog is marking the approach of Jane Austen's 250th with some great little essays, including one by Jennifer Egan on Emma as detective fiction. Here's the link and a bit of a 🧵 www.theparisreview.org/blog/

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

It's been a somewhat cool spring/early summer in Toronto, so the peonies in our garden still haven't bloomed. But as I wait and wait, I am appreciating the beauty of this stage too: look at these spheres of vermillion streaked marble. (When they open they will be light pink! What a great flower!)

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I’m sure that something like this is what Trump really wanted. Coming soon to the Kennedy center? Pyongyang, 2013.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

My kind of military parade:

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

In honour of Boy George's birthday Ron sings Karma Chameleon RS youtu.be/Pum0Q5o_nWs?...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

You've got to love how Canadians have decided to split the difference (in keeping with the tradition of 🇨🇦 political compromise): (Less lovable however: the address panel that says that this is happening in Toronto, NY)

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

My bitter take this morning: If everyone had Stood Up For The Humanities instead of shrugging while our funding has been steadily eroded over decades we wouldn’t be in this mess of having to argue for basic rights and No Kings. Just sayin.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Margaret Atwood, looking down at her cellphone, barreled into me during intermission at a Canadian Opera Company performance. (She's about six inches shorter than I am--no harm was done.)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

don't get tired. get mad.

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

Merriam-Webster definition of "escort" doesn't say anything about tackling someone to the floor or handcuffing them: "a person or group of persons accompanying another to give protection, provide supervision, or as a courtesy" I despair of the NY Times, I really do.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I am ordering my books for the fall semester this evening (nothing like that activity for making it feel as though summer is fleeting). Just in time, I noticed that autocorrect had turned the title _Deaf Republic_ into the title _Deaf Republican_. That would have created some confusion!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The work of Gertrude Eileen Trevelyan was out of print and utterly forgotten for over 80 years. But now, thanks to the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social, four of her best novels are back in print. All four are available in the US from @asterismbooks.bsky.social.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Trying to write today about #19thc London as a wordy, papery place & looking, as one does, at London Labour & the London Poor & Henry Mayhew's wonderfully baroque list of the used paper products that are sold in the streets. But bsky pals, help please: what are "gelatine poetry cards"? #BookHistory

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments