Sarah Werner

that is hilarious and, yeah, no

You already know Sir John Soane’s Museum, yes? Truly a favorite visit for me

This has all the makings of a cross-over hit opera

Also being an early modernist is shockingly helpful in handling its excess and shagginess. Like, other people think it should be plot, but I’m totally into the constant interruption of plot with important ideological tricks

Why? Why do we live in the most stupid and criminal of times?

(Please don’t explain to me, I know, I just am really feeling it right now)

(The answer is racism and sexism and MONEY)

READ IT! Truly it is a big shaggy super weird book that I think is delightful.

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

'There are currently 306 Black-owned bookstores in the United States, representing approximately 8% of independent bookstores nationwide.

Nearly 90% report annual revenue under $250,000'

www.nab2.org/state-of-bla...

ok this slayed me and I will never recover

Goal: writing a paper in which I footnote Karin’s stickers, because she is right

MoCo bill would prohibit ICE building permits The Montgomery County Council announced its latest step Monday to counter the federal campaign to deport immigrants, which has disrupted the lives of hundreds of county residents.

Montgomery County wants to ban permits for ICE facilities after seeing warehouses turned into detention centers in other parts of the state. My latest: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Through its haste and recklessness, the Trump administration has effectively trapped hundreds of thousands of Americans in an active war zone.

nothing but tears at how life is devalued at every stage of this

I'm just a 16th centuryist at heart! A reasonable number of printers! A countable number of books! The ability to think in terms of editions and states and even ideal copy!! The only thing more terrifying than the 18th century is the 19th.

Project T'ruah '25 Purim Torah from T'ruah

If you are the sort of person who loves T'ruah, you will laugh loudly at the Purim edition of their newsletter, and let me tell you, we desperately need those laughs

will I never escape the morass of 18th-century publishing????

I have multiple editions of Tristram Shandy but have still never read it! (probably about tied with Ulysses on my list)

ahhh this is perfect, congratulations!!

I don't care if Congress authorizes War on Iran. NO WAR ON IRAN. I want people to fucking reclaim their morality.

That octopus ring!!!

A relief carving on the outside of Penn State's Pattee Library. it depict a scholar in cap and gown reading a book, and the text above it reads "The true university is a collection of books"

No, the true university is a whaling ship. But a library is a good second choice. 🐋

Deeply excited to realize that I remember absolutely nothing about Bleak House from when I last read it some 30 years ago (not a joke, it is fun to read it fresh) (yes I do remember the thing the book is notorious for) 🔒

That Michael Dobson review in LRB that’s circulating will probably serve!

Saint Heron Saint Heron Community Library; a growing media center dedicated to students, practicing artists and designers, musicians and general literature enthusiasts.

I like to look through the index of Solange's online community library to see the books circulating. They are always checked out which is so encouraging. library.saintheron.com

I am not taking the bait on that new Stephen Greenblatt book because I’ve been done with him for too long now

Michael Dobson is amazing

Yowza

I just……. And I trained as a Shakespeare scholar!

It's Bleak House time!!! Best thing about March and April? OBVIOUSLY 🔒

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.