Dylan Lewis

Promo image for Pop Bibliography, giving the dates of August 3-7 below an image of the bejeweled book that opens Disney's Sleeping Beauty

I know there's a lot going on right now, but don't forget to apply to @calrbs.bsky.social -- priority applications close in April! I'm teaching Pop Bibliography there again, and would love to have you in my class: www.calrbs.org/english-pale...

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people over 40 here, i beg: STOP w the AI photos. it’s never funny - not when you make trump a baby, or make him gay with putin, or dress MAGA in costumes, or any of it. you look as stupid as him when he does it, and everyone younger than you is cringing very, very hard. thx bye !!

The State of the Union: the president is a corrupt demented sex criminal who tried to overthrow the constitution.

amazing

Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

Yes! We have all day to talk about work, but lunch and post-work convos should be fun and… not work!

I am happy to talk about Alysa Liu, The Traitors, Survivor 50, drag, real housewives, Punch the monkey, and Nancy Guthrie conspiracies

It is an act of domestic terrorism to talk to me about WORK while I’m eating lunch, especially because I can’t eat in the privacy of my office since I work with rare books 🥲

Talk to me about fun things or not at all!

a man with a beard is holding a gun in front of a building ALT: a man with a beard is holding a gun in front of a building

Expedition 33! Your gommage year

I always feel weird about stuff like this because while I have four degrees and nothing but respect for learning, intellectual curiosity, training, etc, neither of my parents have college degrees and they are not MAGA or idiots.

There is so much you can contribute to society w/out a college degree

"Which country poses the greatest threat to Canada's security right now?"

USA: 55%
China: 15%
Russia: 14%
India: 4%
Iran: 2%

Nanos / Feb 4, 2026

Original of a page from Nancy's Magazine shows bits of cut up paper with typed text that have been glued to graph paper. Page also includes some handwritten text and drawings and white outs over errors.

Published version of the same page (white out and graph paper are no longer visible).

Talking to students this week about physically making zines & sharing some masters & printed zines of Nancy's Magazine so they can see the process of creation for this pub. Love the use of graph paper, white out, & glued bits of paper.

Thinking about you and the kitty ❤️

a ink drawing of a man tackling another man swinging a sword by grabbing him around the waist and putting his face in his crotch

swordfighting tactics, germany, 16th century

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

So good

Members only, inside the gay tech mafia. Hands through pants hole

screaming crying throwing up!! this @wired.com digital cover is TOOO GOOD 🫡

The UK arrested Prince Andrew. Hakeem Jeffries is telling Democrats not to boo Trump at the State of the Union.

📄 New paper:
Pre-Editorial Normalization for Automatically Transcribed Medieval Manuscripts in Old French and Latin

Thibault Clérice, @rachelbawden.bsky.social , Anthony Glaise, Ariane Pinche, @dasmiq.bsky.social (2026) arxiv.org/abs/2602.13905

We introduce Pre-Editorial Normalization (PEN).

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I tried to reverse this tendency with a group of book arts interns I had in the past and we started with quills and manuscript illumination, then moved to printing.

"now I can make multiple and give one to my boyfriend" one said when we moved to printing -- mission accomplished!

FTing with the bf on our fourth long-distance Valentine’s Day

Literally

This Monday, Feb 16, 5:15pm EST
📚 We welcome John Garcia (American Antiquarian Society) @jgarc.bsky.social for “Black Lives in the Early U.S. Book Trades.”

Join us for a rich conversation on race, labor, and the history of print.

Details: pennmaterialtexts.org
Hope to see you there!

Oh this is very sad news. He was a real hero. -gave evidence in the trials of Milosevic and Mladic at the Hague - he faced the monsters. He showed us how libraries are of crucial importance for their communities - esp when they are deliberately targetted. I celebrated his work in #Burningthebooks

(I am a rare book librarian not an archivist, so I have no idea what the AAA's vocab is for material like this. But surely the standard from museums, where this material is extremely common, probably works for us? They definitely would not call long-term forensic ID material "ephemera"!)

Just learned of an archival collection here at my library that contains someone's teeth--- the archivist of yore used "ephemera" for the series title, which has us all laughing.

I guess they thought "human remains" was a bit grim for the finding aid. Should we change to "osteological materials"?

we have a pedophile & rapist president. I am going more insane by the hour at this point

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Me to Reader 2

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, a UW–Madison assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean history, assisted in writing historical narratives to accompany videos for “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”