Paul Shortt | Shortt Editions

Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...

A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

Donate to Help Rebuild einBuch.haus in Berlin after Water Damage, organized by Jae Kyung Kim >> Help us rebuild Berlin’s independent artist's book spac… Jae Kyung Kim needs your support for Help Rebuild einBuch.haus in Berlin after Water Damage

Ein Buch Haus in Berlin experienced water damage to their gallery/bookshop. Here is the link to learn more and donate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebui...?

A white page which says 'Goodnight nobody' at the bottom in black type. From Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon (1947), illustrated by Clement Hurd.

one of the greatest single pages of the twentieth-century, a masterpiece

A Novelist, Naturalist (and C.I.A. Agent) Always on the Move

From this: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/b...

I love how harsh this last sentence is from this quote: His unruly life can remind you of something Clive James said about E.E. Cummings — that he “was as hot against materialist society as only a poet living on a trust fund can be.”

Stickers illustrating animals that incorporate orange lock open access logo. Parrot, bunny, snail, cat.

It’s almost #OAWeek, which means an extra busy calendar and a new addition to our OA critter sticker collection. Files CC0 for anyone who needs some extra joy drive.google.com/file/d/1WCg7... #DHmakes

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

That's awesome!

Making (Book)Ends Meet: Making Artist Books in Florida In a special week-long editorial series on zines in anticipation of Burnaway’s Book//Zine fair, Florida-based artist Paul Shortt speaks to the art of tabling a zine fair.

I wrote a bit about how I make my art book publishing somewhat sustainable for @burnaway.org: burnaway.org/magazine/mak...

My 3 year old son and his friends at daycare like to run around pointing at themselves and others and say "You're a Cheeto". It's to the point where when we are in stores he will just point at people and say it too. For about a day I thought he meant cheetah, but no, he means Cheeto.

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

"The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,” according to a person familiar with the discussions." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

👏 stop 👏 requiring 👏 recommendation letters 👏 in 👏 the 👏 first 👏 round 👏 of 👏 academic 👏 job 👏 applications

Image: Acheiropoieta by Clifton Meador (2020). A picture of a woman from photographs in the collection, reworked in colour.

The new call for entries for the Herzog August Bibliothek Artist’s Book Prize 2026 is now open. Create a new work in response to the collection. Prize: €6,000 plus a four-week residency at HAB in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Application deadline: 31st December 2025. Info at:
www.hab.de/en/artists-b...

This piece is smart throughout, but the ending really knocks it out of the park💥

Love it!

Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking ba...

Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones.

The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Fuzzy’s
Deary, ID

zine psa: please number your pages please

*80 percent* drop in mail to the US because Trump is taxing every single small package anyone might want to send someone here

U.S. shoppers' orders canceled as world shuts down some American-bound shipments The end of the “de minimis” exemption for cheap parcel shipments, nearly a century old, is prompting countries everywhere to suspend shipments to the U.S.

this is real chaos for small businesses: overnight, shipping to the US became impossible. the small publisher I’m working with in Portugal suddenly has to totally reimagine their business or else forfeit the entire US market
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Public Collectors - "QUARANZINE: A printed space for creative work produced during the Covid-19 pandemic", 2020. Various issues of this single-sheet publication, hanging on a wall at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Learn more here: https://publiccollectors.tumblr.com/tagged/QUARANZINE

40 issues of my Public Collectors project QUARANZINE from 2020 are on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago now until July 2026. That is 11 months. It just occurred to me: What will this country even be in 11 months? What will it be in 4 months? That feels like an eternity right now.

“Calvinball jurisprudence.”

Miners Cafe
Laurium, MI

A vintage light up 7UP sign with flowers and sun at S&S Grocery in San Francisco.

Oh wow. I didn't realize there were more of this vintage around. Here is the iconic one at S&S Grocery in San Francisco.

States rethink a long-held practice of setting speed limits based on how fast drivers travel Road safety activists and some states are pushing to depart from a longstanding rule that sets speed limits in the United States based largely on how fast drivers actually travel.

What's wild about the 85th percentile is that lots of US states use it to set all speed limits, but the original idea (from the 1930s) was to let observed driver speeds shape speed limits on **rural roads**.

It was never intended for urban areas w/pedestrians & cyclists!

I required this when I taught art students. Seeing the color corrected and approved images, as opposed to seeing the artwork online makes a huge difference.

so, in the course of a month, the New York Times reassigned four veteran critics, the Washington Post’s film critic took a buyout, Vanity Fair decided it doesn’t need a film critic at all, and the Associated Press got rid of book criticism altogether?

Cool.

A Love Letter to Music Listings Publications like 'Time Out New York' were my bible and my roadmap.

"Perhaps social-media influencers are today’s critics and curators, but even as our feeds promise 'discovery,' they mostly serve us what we already like. We have no idea what we’re missing."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Prairie dog
Mellette, SD