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Curator, fangirl, utter nerd. Assoc. Prof/Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at U of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Co-Editor of Women in Book History Bibliography at womensbookhistory.org. PCA Fan Studies Area Co-Chair. Media reviews editor at Foundation.
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The greatest close-up of a bit player in movie history.

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Protect this man.

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Surprise! Sunday vinyl!

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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

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True story: the last thing I did as Associate Editor of Studies in Romanticism was solicit this *very timely* forum on Transromanticsm - it has now been published in the current issue - and is OPEN ACCESS for 1 month. Thrilled to receive the issue in the mail too muse.jhu.edu/journal/754

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Percy Shelley: I propose a ghost story contest! What is the SCARIEST story concept??? Mary Shelley: a guy creates another guy Byron: I don’t get it Mary Shelley: (*looks directly into the camera)

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Saturday vinyl!

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"Later, as well as smuggling books, the CIA would fund and ship presses and printing equipment into Poland, so that the banned titles could be reproduced in huge quantities by underground printers in situ." Extract from The CIA Book Club: The Best Kept Secret of the Cold War by Charlie English.

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Any resemblance to me learning Greek totally coincidental! :)

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Born #OTD in 1940, Rep. John Lewis’s steadfast dedication to civil rights led to many roles: organizer, activist, public speaker, and Congressman. Read more in this #NEHgov funded book “John Lewis: A Life” by #NEH Public Scholar David Greenberg: ow.ly/Xnq750UZFAu

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So like hey, some good news?

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I have been so excited since I found out this would be announced today! RIP any ability for me to concentrate: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...

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ooh ooh ooh! Literally two of my favorite things together, this looks AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The immediate and visceral NOSTALGIA I felt for Cushing's Don Quixote collection.

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Also planning to go to THIS next week, a hybrid seminar on Chinese types!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I'm going and I'm super excited about it!!

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if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power

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Thank you for loving libraries, for supporting libraries, for being library people, Audre Lorde & Toni Morrison 💜 Happy Birthday! This will always be your day ✨ 📖

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At last, in my hot lil hands!!!

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Oooh, let's talk about creative tithing! As the arts come directly under attack, one thing we can do to ensure great art keeps getting made is to directly support artists. Since my baby author days, I've been giving back 10% (pre-tax) of my writing earnings to other creatives.

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Don’t you just love how the people who wanted school open during the pandemic think we don’t need a Department of Education?

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Observation: I wish Bluesky I had a "listening to" function like Livejournal did. Then I could say I was listening to The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and it would just be additional contextual information rather than a singular statement.

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“He said, you Americans are so naive. He said, you think that evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots and climb up the stairs—it begins in the language. Look to the language.” -Joseph Brodsky, as recounted by Marie Howe themillions.com/2018/01/tk-t...

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"After February 26th, you can only download books from the Kindle store to your e-reader over Wi-Fi." Geez!

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Saturday vinyl!

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Friends, it's so close-- please clicky for me!!!!!!!

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Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests

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Countdown to tonight's concert!!!!

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Happy Valentine’s!

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When the people in office are actually "Just go touch grass instead." Ugh.

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"Argentine women writers and intellectuals are absolutely at the forefront, with their literature and their activism. That’s what defines them, what sets them apart: women who don’t hold back when it comes to speaking and writing about what needs to change radically in our societies.”

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Christ. If you're going to do a humor column surely you could try to be funny.

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