Matthew Chambers
@matthewchambers.bsky.social
Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University. Honorary Lecturer, UCL. Publications Director, Bookselling Research Network. London and the Modernist Bookshop (Cambridge UP, 2020). https://tinyurl.com/eub7wta5
I'm excited to say it's up and official! Please write if you have any questions or interest in writing a short monograph for the "Periodicals and Print Matter" strand of the Cambridge Elements Publishing and Book Culture series. I'd love to hear from you! www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
I am pleased to share that I've been awarded the Humfrey Wanley Visting Fellowship and I will be spending September at the Bodleian Library in Oxford!
Deadline Day! If you have a good idea, please share it with me! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...
CFP: Bookselling and Literature
Bookselling and LiteratureA Special Issue of English Studies Guest Editor: Matthew Chambers (matthew.chambers@uj.edu.pl) One of the best-known literary friendships was formed in a bookshop, and one…
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I just signed to edit a new strand for Cambridge Elements Publishing and Book Culture called "Periodicals and Print Matter." More details to follow but I look forward to your ideas on anything connected to periodicals, catalogues, zines, and ephemera. www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
Publishing and Book Culture
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...
CFP: Bookselling and Literature
Bookselling and LiteratureA Special Issue of English Studies Guest Editor: Matthew Chambers (matthew.chambers@uj.edu.pl) One of the best-known literary friendships was formed in a bookshop, and one…
bookshoplit.com
We've both re-dedicated ourselves to a better diet and more exercise, which this Christmas also seems to include melting an entire stick of butter.
I'm reminded of the time I ended up in a band photo (2nd left) for their album liner notes because they couldn't get the keyboardist to pick up the phone and they needed a body for the shot. And no, I don't play.
Question for the Victorianists: is there a digital scan of any/all of the serialized edition of Bleak House out there?
My life's aspiration is to walk down the street and have people point and say...
Our latest issue is out! Check Part Two of our special topic "Print Cultures and Bookishness in Contemporary Life" in The New Americanist (Edinburgh UP): www.euppublishing.com/toc/tna/curr...
The New Americanist: Vol 3, No 2
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I need help translating some handwriting. I think "W.B. Turner" but I really can't be sure. Ideas?
FINALLY! The first piece I wrote on Sylvia Beach and the last to be published. Thanks to the editors of this fine edited collection -- Gender and the Book Trades -- which is crammed full of great scholarship. brill.com/edcollchap/b...
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I just attended the latest Bookselling Research Network event and a "William Gibson" was there who never turned on his camera. I spent the whole time thinking "nah, it can't be, can it?"
Excited to be joining the London Rare Books School once again to present on early 20th c. bookselling during the Bookshops and Booksellers course convened by @bettyblogs.bsky.social and Andrew Nash! Open to all those interested! Course: ies.sas.ac.uk/london-rare-... And see below for how to join.
Bookshops and Booksellers: Five Centuries of Selling Books
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Institute of English Studies@ies-sas.bsky.social · 2y agoWe are excited to announce the launch of our well-loved London Rare Books School for 2025! 📖Discover a range of captivating courses on all things rare books!📖 Learn more and secure your spot here: buff.ly/4ejU2mT #SummerSchool #RareBooks
I live in the land of slow email replies and even slower administrative processes, so receiving a reply from a bookseller within an hour of their opening time was strangely exciting.
We're hosting some great booksellers working on a project documenting a history of radical bookselling in the UK (1970-2000). Join us on Friday 2pm GMT/8am EST! booksellingresearchnet.uk/event/radica...
Radical Bookselling in the UK 1970-2000 - Bookselling Research Network
Join Zoom Meeting: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/92896539458?pwd=CzHY3JVopbp58jtl06eGAgdlVFBUHq.1Meeting ID: 928 9653 9458 Passcode: 108114 Radical Bookselling History Project: Dave Cope, John Goodman, Rick S...
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Re-upping for all the new followers. Please let me know if I've missed you!
Matthew Chambers@matthewchambers.bsky.social · 2y agoA starter pack for bookshops, bookselling, and those that follow closely. Hit me up if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/MshhBgG
Published in 1933 and still immensely helpful in 2024
I'm not sure I've ever described a blueberry as "crunchy"
Nobody: Joseph Ames: ALL the imprints everywhere all at once
I wrote a review of Evan Friss's book on American bookstores. Certainly a conversation can be had about it includes and excludes, but I'm on the side of MORE research and focus. So I welcome it from that perspective. www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
The Bookshop by Evan Friss | Book review
Evan Friss’s The Bookshop is an admirable exploration of US bookselling. It comprises thirteen chapters on various booksellers across US history, which are broken up by short interstitial pieces on bo...
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I'm pretty confident my path to the academy started at Pizza Hut.
I just learned Jimmy Page owned a bookshop in the 1970s. Finally, my teenage years have research value.
I understood that in moving to Warsaw there'd be a possibility of an unexploded shell found near where I'm living. It looks like today's that day.
