V excited to read this!

I am thrilled to be once again sponsoring a scholarship to the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association 's excellent York Book Seminar - find out more about the wonderful bookselling course, and how to get your applications in, here: yabseminar.com/scholarships

Looking forward to talking to William Thomson #Scotonomics on demystifying & demythifying modern money and banking, and how the world can move towards a mature conversation about monetary and fiscal policy that is based on reality rather than illusions. #Money #Alice Melbourne University Publishing

Don’t miss the Honey & Wax Prize! And if you’re applying for one prize, it seems the efficient thing would be to apply for others, right?

Thrilled to be interviewed by Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read, chatting about my biography of librarian/author/book collector #CarolynWells 📚 s/o Beinecke Library & Fine Books Magazine bookcougars.com/blog-1/2024/ep…

Are you a woman book collector aged 30 or younger? Share your obsession! Apply for the Honey & Wax Prize: $1000 for a creative collection of books, manuscripts, and/or ephemera. Meet our past winners and apply here: honeyandwaxbooks.com/prize.php

Reminder that on the front of our site we have some curated Starter Packs where you get 10 (or 50) Valancourt titles at a huge discount. We haven't updated the prices since inflation hit & I'm not sure how much longer we can leave the books at $11.99 each: valancourtbooks.com/starter-pack.h…

After having read eleventy-six 'have you heard about this brand new thing called romantasy?' pieces, Kate Cuthbert 📚 and I teamed up for this piece in The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand to discuss the long history of romance/fantasy hybrid genres. theconversation.com/what-is-romant…

PUBLICATION DAY THREAD! 🧵Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History is officially out today from Columbia Univ Press! If you don’t already have your copy, you can use discount code CUP20 cup.columbia.edu/book/scattered…

Back to work on my next book... I'm behind with the manuscript due to breast cancer in 2022/2023. But I'm looking forward to bringing the world of Victorian forensics to life for readers.

Excited to announce that our children’s book (for ages 4-8), *Fearless Benjamin*, about radical abolitionist Benjamin Lay, written by Michelle Markel and yours truly, with art by the gifted Sarah Bachman, is forthcoming next year from PM Press. Here is a sample of the art.

Mods are asleep, the app is still open until tomorrow. Submit your program idea for Virtual JaneCon TODAY. buff.ly/3PWIRaj

When I visit schools, the most common question children ask me is “What’s your favorite picture book?” My answer, without hesitation, is always Tar Beach. Rest well, Faith Ringgold 💐

Great to see Alice in excellent company on the new releases shelf at the Hill of Content ⁦bookshop Hill of Content⁩ ⁦Melbourne University Publishing⁩ #Alice

1 reason why #Asecs24 in Toronto was special: My Dark Room made its debut in its book exhibition hall, next to other fascinating titles in c18 studies, incl book by MATTHEW DANIEL EDDY 🌻, fellow UChicagoPress author. Thanks Angie Hogan for photo! W/Angie my UVA Press editor in last

This makes me so happy! The #LastMan lives!

A great write up of the first edition Gay Cookbook we brought to the New York rare book fair this weekend:

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The collection includes books Plath owned and annotated and her first professional writing contract.
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This weekend NY Int’l Antiquarian Book Fair! nyantiquarianbookfair.com/nyiabf-presents

An ABC of dragons, created by a pretender to the Stuart royal line!

Last week the Curious Objects podcast indulged my obsession with an odd 19th century manuscript we have at typepunchmatrix —

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