Dana Rail
@danarail.substack.com
Scribbling bibliophile over at #BibliollCollege: https://bibliollcollege.substack.com. 💙📚 Writer of speculative fiction with #DarkAcademia / #Arthurian themes. I love books, music & the city of #Oxford. Blessed with the coolest family on the planet.
Rach & Boze's latest Dickensian dispatch from Biblioll College!
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Our Thirty-Five Favorite Characters in Dickens
A Celebration of the Greatest Character Writer in English
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January 20, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Rach & Boze's latest Dickensian dispatch from Biblioll College!
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I love the British slang term "flog" ("promote") and have always wanted an excuse to use it:
Son John is in Chicago this afternoon (3pm Pacific time, 6pm East Coast) flogging his new book, NEW DEAL ART. If you can't join him in person, it will be on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXbj...
Son John is in Chicago this afternoon (3pm Pacific time, 6pm East Coast) flogging his new book, NEW DEAL ART. If you can't join him in person, it will be on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXbj...
Author Talk: NEW DEAL ART (World of Art) with John P. Murphy
YouTube video by FDRLibrary
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January 13, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I love the British slang term "flog" ("promote") and have always wanted an excuse to use it:
Son John is in Chicago this afternoon (3pm Pacific time, 6pm East Coast) flogging his new book, NEW DEAL ART. If you can't join him in person, it will be on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXbj...
Son John is in Chicago this afternoon (3pm Pacific time, 6pm East Coast) flogging his new book, NEW DEAL ART. If you can't join him in person, it will be on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXbj...
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#DickensClub - of yuletide interest! 🎄🔔
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Is it possible to track down Scrooge's knocker in today's distinctly non-Dickensian capital?
In Search Of Scrooge's Door Knocker
A festive mission across London.
londonist.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Rach's latest Great Books dispatch from Biblioll College:
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Closing Reflections on My First Encounter with Thucydides and Euripides
Post 15 of the series, Library-Educated: St. John’s College Great Books Challenge
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December 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Rach's latest Great Books dispatch from Biblioll College:
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Rach's latest "Dickens Dispatch" from Biblioll College:
December 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Rach's latest "Dickens Dispatch" from Biblioll College:
Boze's latest "Shadow Canon" post:
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Campus Ghosts: A Living Folklore
The Shadow Canon No. 09: The Folklore of American Colleges
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December 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Boze's latest "Shadow Canon" post:
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Timothy Snyder on the abomination of what AI is doing to Christmas songs at his local coffee shop.
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The inhuman assault on Christmas
On Christmas Carols, 1/2
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December 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Timothy Snyder on the abomination of what AI is doing to Christmas songs at his local coffee shop.
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Biblioll College's Monthly Miscellany No. 9
Notes and Highlights from November 2025
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December 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Boze’s latest Biblioll post (Substack) on that wonderful 85-hr Advent music playlist reminded me that one of my favorite YouTubers, Ben Maton, just put out a gorgeous video, filmed in a tiny Devon chapel, on “The Greatest Advent Hymn of All Time.” Highly recommend!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI0j...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI0j...
The GREATEST ADVENT HYMN of all time
YouTube video by Ben Maton - The Salisbury Organist
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December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Boze’s latest Biblioll post (Substack) on that wonderful 85-hr Advent music playlist reminded me that one of my favorite YouTubers, Ben Maton, just put out a gorgeous video, filmed in a tiny Devon chapel, on “The Greatest Advent Hymn of All Time.” Highly recommend!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI0j...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI0j...
An 85-hour playlist with enough fantastic traditional music for the whole of Advent and the Christmas season as well!
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The Only Christmas Carol Playlist You Will Ever Need
Eighty-Five Hours of Medieval and Tudor Festive Joy
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December 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
An 85-hour playlist with enough fantastic traditional music for the whole of Advent and the Christmas season as well!
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bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-only-c...
Some who worked for the WPA during the Depression built infrastructure, like my Dad, who told me that the program had saved his life. Others made art in public spaces, like the Cohen Building in D.C.
Help save "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal" by signing this petition!
c.org/V2MshfZk6S
Help save "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal" by signing this petition!
c.org/V2MshfZk6S
Have you seen this petition yet?
Save the Wilbur J. Cohen Building — the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal”
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December 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Some who worked for the WPA during the Depression built infrastructure, like my Dad, who told me that the program had saved his life. Others made art in public spaces, like the Cohen Building in D.C.
Help save "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal" by signing this petition!
c.org/V2MshfZk6S
Help save "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal" by signing this petition!
c.org/V2MshfZk6S
Desperately miss these days when the entire country (planet?) went as one to movies like these, with lines snaking around the block. It brought us closer together.
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: A Retrospective
Revisiting the Most Underrated Film in the Franchise
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December 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Desperately miss these days when the entire country (planet?) went as one to movies like these, with lines snaking around the block. It brought us closer together.
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Son John, an art historian specializing in New Deal art, co-wrote this piece on a Washington DC building (and its art) worth saving:
www.archpaper.com/2025/11/gsa-...
www.archpaper.com/2025/11/gsa-...
www.archpaper.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Son John, an art historian specializing in New Deal art, co-wrote this piece on a Washington DC building (and its art) worth saving:
www.archpaper.com/2025/11/gsa-...
www.archpaper.com/2025/11/gsa-...
This is a fantastic little bookstore in #Oxford, crammed to the gills with all sorts of wonderful book, not just Catholic ones.
thecatholicherald.com/article/a-ha...
thecatholicherald.com/article/a-ha...
A haven of faith and literacy: St Philip’s Books in the heart of Oxford
Tucked away on St Aldates, this is one of Oxford’s hidden treasures and is more than a bookstore. It serves as a warm hearth of Catholic intellectual life, where the love of books and the love of God ...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This is a fantastic little bookstore in #Oxford, crammed to the gills with all sorts of wonderful book, not just Catholic ones.
thecatholicherald.com/article/a-ha...
thecatholicherald.com/article/a-ha...
So proud of my son, John Murphy, who just published his first book with Thames & Hudson: "New Deal Art".
It's on Amazon, of course (amzn.to/4qNRvsm), but if you happen to live in Upstate NY, The Department of Things on Abeel Street in Kingston has copies--the shop is worth a visit on its own!
It's on Amazon, of course (amzn.to/4qNRvsm), but if you happen to live in Upstate NY, The Department of Things on Abeel Street in Kingston has copies--the shop is worth a visit on its own!
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
So proud of my son, John Murphy, who just published his first book with Thames & Hudson: "New Deal Art".
It's on Amazon, of course (amzn.to/4qNRvsm), but if you happen to live in Upstate NY, The Department of Things on Abeel Street in Kingston has copies--the shop is worth a visit on its own!
It's on Amazon, of course (amzn.to/4qNRvsm), but if you happen to live in Upstate NY, The Department of Things on Abeel Street in Kingston has copies--the shop is worth a visit on its own!
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I am so happy to be a member of this tribe...
Read more books. Just start, start small if that's easier, it all counts. We humans need books and trees and stars, always.
Read more books. Just start, start small if that's easier, it all counts. We humans need books and trees and stars, always.
"Books are portals linking us with all that has come before and all that has ever been thought. To read a book at the drugstore is to transform the drugstore—and ourselves—into “something rich and strange.”
Latest from Boze on Biblioll College:
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Latest from Boze on Biblioll College:
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How to Rekindle Your Love of Reading
I read 186 books in six months. Here's how.
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October 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I am so happy to be a member of this tribe...
Read more books. Just start, start small if that's easier, it all counts. We humans need books and trees and stars, always.
Read more books. Just start, start small if that's easier, it all counts. We humans need books and trees and stars, always.
Rach's latest Dickensian Dispatch from Biblioll College!
#Dickens #BookSky
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#Dickens #BookSky
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Dispatches from Dickens No. 8: Dickens’s Letters from March-May 1837
Dickens takes a break from Pickwick and Oliver Twist due to a profound personal loss
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November 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Rach's latest Dickensian Dispatch from Biblioll College!
#Dickens #BookSky
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#Dickens #BookSky
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As book lovers know, Portlandia is the home of Powells’ City of Books, the largest used book store in the world and a site of pilgrimage for this family.
This photo by Chiara Profenna was on the front page of the Oregonian today, in regards to the wee matter of—never mind—and I had to share.
This photo by Chiara Profenna was on the front page of the Oregonian today, in regards to the wee matter of—never mind—and I had to share.
September 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
As book lovers know, Portlandia is the home of Powells’ City of Books, the largest used book store in the world and a site of pilgrimage for this family.
This photo by Chiara Profenna was on the front page of the Oregonian today, in regards to the wee matter of—never mind—and I had to share.
This photo by Chiara Profenna was on the front page of the Oregonian today, in regards to the wee matter of—never mind—and I had to share.
Ah, for the days of my youth, when rock stars wrote songs inspired by this book:
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The Shadow Canon 07: Folklore, Myths, & Legends of Britain
The Book That Inspired a Jethro Tull Album
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September 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Ah, for the days of my youth, when rock stars wrote songs inspired by this book:
bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-shadow...
bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-shadow...