Chris DeWeese

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Thesession player who played bass on Alanis Morrisette’s “You Oughta Know” 30 years ago was an absolute monster & I had no idea at the time because I was listening on FM radio

Academics- can someone connect me with a historian who specializes in 1890s South Africa? I acquired a very interesting series of documents from 1896 relating to the Jameson Raid etc and am trying to understand some context.

Thanks to this post, I … Found out about youuuuuuuuuu

Or maybe he does it when he gives readings? One of those two…

Graham Foust does this in his books, I believe!

If I was Mark Twain, I’d always be going around saying “and never the Twain shall meet.” I would be insufferable.

'Complete takeover': Lawmakers exert control over university policy in 11th hour They appeared near the bottom of the 220-page budget bill Wednesday evening, and rose to the forefront of the heated debate Friday morning.

Indiana: www.indystar.com/story/news/p...

When I moved to Northampton, MA, for grad school 20 years ago, there were at least large five used bookstores. In a town of 30,000. No big point, just kind of mind-boggling to remember.

The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin".

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Publishers Marketplace Category: Poetry PAPER CROWN By Heather Christle Imprint: Wesleyan University Press, Corsair Deal Report March 5, 2025 Author of IN THE RHODODENDRONS, THE CRYING BOOK, and THE TREES THE TREES Heather Christle's PAPER CROWN, the author's first poetry collection in a decade, combining the imagination of her earliest work with the personal turn of her recent prose, and conjuring moments when the world's events align themselves with the odd logic of dreams and serendipity, to Suzanna Tamminen at Wesleyan University Press, by Meredith Kaffel Simonoff at The Gernert Company. Rights also to Sarah Castleton at Corsair (UK).

Cover of paper crown: poems by heather Christle

I have been sitting on this news for a minute. IN THE RHODODENDRONS is not the only book I’m publishing this year. 🦩

PAPER CROWN will be my first poetry collection in an entire decade.

In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf by Heather Christle Poet and memoirist Christle (The Crying Book) delves into her relationship with her mother and the work of Virginia Woolf in thi...

A starred review of Heather Christle’s dazzling memoir from Publisher’s Weekly!! www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-6437-5...

Cover of IN THE RHODODENDRONS: A MEMOIR WITH APPEARANCES BY VIRGINIA WOOLF. Barnes & Noble logo is above and 25% Off With Code: PREORDER25 is below.

You’ll get 25% off my book if you pre-order today-Friday via Barnes & Noble. I’m really proud of IN THE RHODODENDRONS & I want to find its people.

AND other beautiful books are coming out soon and you can use the same offer to pre-order them as well, so I wanted to share a couple recommendations.

Tomaž Šalamun left this life ten years ago. Here’s a poem of his I love. I still hear his voice.

A label maker and label tape

We made our own advent calendar for 10 year old and put random treasures from old boxes that one keeps, not knowing why… Very happy to report that this ancient Radio Shack label maker is a huge hit

Sick kid at home day here too- Tis the season

I lived in Philly and the Liberty Bell was guarded 24-7 for months after by some armed dudes sitting in a truck who had the easiest job in the world there for a while

A sleepy bear in pajamas on a cozy green chair

You have to respect the true winter style king

Obsessed with this style of late 20s/ early 30s fine binding.

Why isn’t everyone talking about Wisdom, the oldest-known wild bird in the world, who is 74 and just LAID AN EGG????

Pretty books I’m selling- fancy Stikeman bindings!

Dispatch from today in rare book beauty land

“Rainy Day” by me

Crazy that John Donne wrote 13 lines, beginning with “No man is an island” and ending with “for whom the bell tolls: it tolls for thee.”

Love that every post I’m seeing is about libraries. I collect and sell rare books- came across this, the most metal library message I’ve ever seen, in a book I bought today 🤘

“I think a poem is a real place, and prose is where I try to reconcile that belief with life in the physical world.”

-- Heather Christle

I never want a bumper sticker about my 10 year old child being an honors student or whatever, but I would proudly display one about how they are excitedly sharing Laurie Anderson’s “O Superman” w their friend right now.

Beautiful!

I sent five pairs of Darn Tough socks I had worn through in and now they are sending me five new pairs for free… this is a little sliver of what Utopia would feel like.

World of Virginia Woolf puzzle with illustrations of people in London and surrounding countryside.

Last Christmas my family gave me this extremely intricate World of Virginia Woolf puzzle by the illustrator Eleanor Taylor, which is packed with gorgeous little details from her life and books and I geeked out in total delight. So IMAGINE MY GASP when…