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What are you doing? You're reading. How are you doing that? It's a bit weird isn't it? You don't think so? You should listen to this then Debris Stevenson Anthony @LouiseCreechan Matt Rubery Matthew Sweet #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek bbc.in/3SM6pxV

Getting our Little Free Library ready for Halloween.

A big thx to Salon and Matthew Rozsa for the end of year mention: salon.com/2022/12/15/sal…

What a footnote from Guillory:

Spreading the word about the “Authoring, Reading, Publishing” track at the ACM Hypertext conference in Rome next September: ht.acm.org/ht2023/calls/c…

Sound Studies postdoc at Rutgers on themes of “Voice: Sound, Technology, Performance” + “Resonance: Sound across the Disciplines”: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/183057

Now that I’m (gratefully) no longer allowed to make further tweaks to the manuscript, I’m ready to formally holler into the digital abyss: My first book, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight, is coming out this summer from penguinpress!! “Thread emoji”

What a spectacular career this woman had: nytimes.com/2023/02/09/art… #audiobooks

The state of British universities

Looking forward to learning about C19 handwriting at Elizabeth Gaskell's house in Manchester on Thursday: handwriting19c.wordpress.com

Tune in to My Life in Books. This episode: Matthew Rubery on The Untold Story of The Talking Book, which grew from the needs of blind people. Mon 5 June 1pm EST/6pm BST on AMI-audio, or download via: ami.ca/My-Life-Books/… AMI Matt Rubery QMUL English & Drama Blackstone Publishing

Terrific account of falling in love with audiobooks:

New episode: Matt Rubery, a literature prof who pioneered the study of audiobooks, talks narration, neurodiversity, and "audiobook shame." phantompod.org/audiobooks/

Rita Felski will be giving a lecture titled "How Not to Talk about Experience" at QMUL on Monday if anyone's interested in joining us: eventbrite.com/e/how-not-to-t…

Ouch theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A big thanks to Syed Khalid and the New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) for the chance to talk about Reader’s Block: newbooksnetwork.com/readers-block Stanford Press

My op-ed on the pitfalls of audiobook streaming out now in the Independent (paywalled): independent.co.uk/voices/spotify…

Might you possibly help? If you read & reviewed my book - the Lost Properties of Love - in the UK edition, might you consider reposting your review to the American edition of the book (it’s the same text under a new title) shorturl.at/gjyW4? If you are in the US, it would

Join us for Caroline Levine’s public lecture “Studying the Novel in the Climate Crisis” at QMUL on 15 May: eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-lectu…

“Awakenings at 50: A Clinical and Cultural Retrospective” symposium on Oliver Sacks in Dublin, June 26-27: eventbrite.ie/e/awakenings-a…