I'm incredibly honored to be selected, as one of 11 teams, for a 2026 @schmidtsciences HAVI Development Award. I'll be working with the brilliant
@maria_antoniak and @mellymeldubs on #Borges, generative AI, imaginary books, and many things in between. An absolute dream! ๐๐ป
Fun fact about "Don Quixote," first published on this day in 1605: The publisher, not anticipating its popularity, secured publication rights only for Spain's Castile region. Pirated editions appeared in Valencia & Lisbon within months! The Library has copies of both the original & pirated editions.
@dedalusdenaries Sorry I missed you this morning, but I heard you saw @hpfrye and the small Frye, too! ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ
Today, on Borgesโs birthday, it feels appropriate to celebrate that there are only three weeks until the release of the @OUPAcademic Handbook of Borges ๐๐
https://t.co/Bjgsy5bQdC
Submissions open til June 15 for the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize! Over the next seven days, weโll be celebrating our first seven winners. Today: 2017 H&W Prize winner, librarian Jessica Hubbard, for her collection โRomance Novels of the Jazz Age and Depression Eras.โ
Why is every single end-of-the-year reception, luncheon, "thanks for being awesome!" cocktail hour held on Reading Day? Can't we spread out these celebratory events during the *whole* month of April?? Asking for...me.
TFW you receive article proofs and your OUP Handbook proofs at the same time and have a mere two weeks to turn them in. Oh, and it's the end of the semester #thoughtsandprayers ๐๐ฑ๐คฃ๐