Matthew Chambers
Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University. Honorary Lecturer, UCL. Publications Director, Bookselling Research Network. London and the Modernist Bookshop (Cambridge UP, 2020). tinyurl.com/eub7wta5
- 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...
- -stabbed palm of hand (steak knife) trying to open a yogurt - tore tendons (knee) saving an ice cream - tore ligaments (ankle) rolling on a plastic ball - broke a collarbone on a lamp post after I fell off my daughter's scooter - slammed my forehead into a counter or shelf many times bending over
- There's still time to submit!
- 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...
- 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...
- My favorite catalogue cover.
- This platform is getting out of hand
- 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.
- Re-upping this in hopes of an answer
- 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...
- 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...
- 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?"
- Ok Warsaw, you can do pretty once in a while.
- 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.
- 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...
- Re-upping for all the new followers. Please let me know if I've missed you!
- A starter pack for bookshops, bookselling, and those that follow closely. Hit me up if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/MshhBgGat://did:plc:tey4x73ro4zhj2crio3albwr/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lao3eq5b6a2t
- 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...
- Re-upping in case #BookSky or any new followers have suggestions to add.
- A starter pack for bookshops, bookselling, and those that follow closely. Hit me up if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/MshhBgGat://did:plc:tey4x73ro4zhj2crio3albwr/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lao3eq5b6a2t
- 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.
- I'm trying to imagine what it would have been like to buy a book from David Garnett.
- Starting a chapter on Bloomsbury booksellers Birrell & Garnett. Lots of fun data to share from the archives.
- A starter pack for bookshops, bookselling, and those that follow closely. Hit me up if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/MshhBgGat://did:plc:tey4x73ro4zhj2crio3albwr/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lao3eq5b6a2t
