Oooh! @mairistirlinghill.bsky.social have you checked for any spare change behind the sofa, maybe…? www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Medieval King Arthur manuscript could fetch £2m at auction

Book containing early versions of the Merlin and Grail legends has remained in private hands for 700 years

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I need to be on here more and less on the higher-priced spreads.

Delighted to post that the University of Chicago Press has brought out a fourth edition (substantially revised and updated) of Getting It Published. I how could I have known twenty-five years ago that this book would be my companion?

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

The new page emphatically promotes a theory that many scientists question. Meanwhile, basic information about COVID testing and vaccines has disappeared.

'Lab Leak,' a flashy page on the virus' origins, replaces government COVID sites

The new page emphatically promotes a theory that many scientists question. Meanwhile, basic information about COVID testing and vaccines has disappeared.

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🚨Here’s a list of just a few of the major pieces of misinformation Kennedy shared about autism🚨

RFK Jr. knows amazingly little about autism

For someone who's been talking about it for so long, the HHS secretary got many basic facts wrong.

motherjones.com

I see more criticism here of Democrats in Congress than I do condemnation of Republicans. And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump. It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other. Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.

Measles, mumps and rubella like this post.

Just reminded of my favorite citation ever, there will be no topping this (thanks @williamgermano.bsky.social)

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

Just a chance to raise a virtual glass to Bloomsbury’s “Object Lessons” series on its tenth birthday. Here’s what a few of us had to say about it. www.bloomsbury.com/us/discover/...

10 lessons learned from the Object Lessons series

Ten authors from Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series reflect on their contribution to the series including surprising discoveries made about the object itself, and the writing process

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Writing as teaching. Still finding my way around this app, looking for my peeps, looking out for the problems on which I work: writing for real people, teaching real students, reimagining the real work of the classroom. Using tech but without succumbing to AI. Helping others to do exactly that.

Back home from the MLA. The sessions were a vast array of specialized ideas in progress, but the in-person conversations were exhilarating and energized my ideas for and about writing. The Publishers exhibit hall was terrific, as always.

With the collapse of Twitter, BlueSky is a good venue for helping writers move their work forward. Here’s a thread of ten tips on revising (thanks to folks who reached out to me about this). Thread is adapted from my “On Revision” (Chicago, 2021).

Hats off, Richard Schoch!

Idea for a tattoo parlor: “Needles to Say.”

I have no patience anymore for people (critics or otherwise!) who get so anxious when greatness in any medium is put in front of them that they feel they have to "Yes, but..." it. Huge talent isn't that common. So when you see it, let yourselves be awed! You won't lose credibility, you'll gain it.

Auf Wiedersehen, Frau. Last night’s terrific final performance of “Die Frau ohne Schatten” at the Met, a reminder that in this deeply screwed up moment it’s still possible for people to come together to make something beautiful and tender and, well, great.

Sound about right.

A colossal “Frau ohne Schatten”last night at the Met. Nézet-Séguin led the revival of Herbert Wernicke’s gorgeous, multilevel production. Acting-singing from Volle, Stemme, Lindstrom, Van den Heever, plus Russell Thomas thrilling as the Emperor. It’s “Zauberflöte” on drugs only Strauss could brew.

Strauss’s “Die Frau ohne Schatten” begins its run at the Met this Friday in Herbert Wernicke’s dazzly production: Nézet-Séguin; Van den Heever, Lindstrom, Stemme, Volle, Thomas, Green. Can’t wait.

Maylis de Kerangal’s “The Heart,” trans. Sam Taylor. Wow. Tour de force is a description easily thrown around, but here it really applies. A terrific book.

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Facts matter. Science saves lives. Anti-science destroys them.

My #HigherEd book of the day: Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis by @edufuturist.bsky.social www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... @hopkinspress.bsky.social #AcademicSky #ClimateCrisis

Cannot recommend highly enough Meylis De Kerangal’s “The Heart” (FSG, 2016), beautifully translated from the French by Sam Taylor. The most moving novel I have read in recent memory. (What’s it about? Being alive. Go read it.)

That’s the quote. I was looking for it. And here it is. Hannah Arendt on the Matt Gaetz as AG announcement

Tamar de Waal@tamardewaal.bsky.social · 2y ago

'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)

Is a post on Bluesky a Blurt?

This is the grim reality we’ve allowed to happen. www.facebook.com/share/r/15NF...