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, and am blessed with the coolest fam on the plane
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:
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Whenever I my head hurts about Left and Right, the scourge of Political Violence and Who's to Blame, I am always reminded of the credo of my favorite fictional Angelino, Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch: "Everybody counts or nobody counts."
a man says " everybody counts or nobody counts " in front of a sign that says prime video
ALT: a man says " everybody counts or nobody counts " in front of a sign that says prime video
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September 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Whenever I my head hurts about Left and Right, the scourge of Political Violence and Who's to Blame, I am always reminded of the credo of my favorite fictional Angelino, Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch: "Everybody counts or nobody counts."
"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:
bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/how-to-rek...
Latest from Boze on Biblioll College:
bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/how-to-rek...
How to Rekindle Your Love of Reading
I read 186 books in six months. Here's how.
bibliollcollege.substack.com
August 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"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:
bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/how-to-rek...
Latest from Boze on Biblioll College:
bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/how-to-rek...
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Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.
August 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.
It's that time of the month!
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Biblioll College's Monthly Miscellany No. 5
Notes and highlights from July 2025
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August 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
It's that time of the month!
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One of my favorite thrillers, both novel and movie (the one with Edward Fox), is DAY OF THE JACKAL. RIP Mr. Forsyth.
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Frederick Forsyth, Day of the Jackal author and former MI6 agent, dies aged 86
Writer used his experience reporting on De Gaulle’s France to plot his thriller, and continued to draw on real-world research for subsequent bestsellers
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June 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
One of my favorite thrillers, both novel and movie (the one with Edward Fox), is DAY OF THE JACKAL. RIP Mr. Forsyth.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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An amazing literary reflection by Boze on Biblioll College: bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-shadow...
An amazing literary reflection by Boze on Biblioll College: bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-shadow...
The Shadow Canon 03: Moby-Dick & the Book of Job
The Mystery of Suffering and a Hostile Universe
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May 31, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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An amazing literary reflection by Boze on Biblioll College: bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-shadow...
An amazing literary reflection by Boze on Biblioll College: bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-shadow...
Brooks should get angry more often.
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Opinion | I’m Normally a Mild Guy. Here’s What’s Pushed Me Over the Edge.
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May 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Brooks should get angry more often.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...
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Rach's latest from Biblioll College: Encountering the mind of the past: reflections on first reading Aeschylus & his Oresteia #AncientBlueSky #BookSky open.substack.com/pub/biblioll...
Encountering the mind of the past: reflections on first reading Aeschylus & his Oresteia
Post 10 of series, Library-Educated: St. John’s College Great Books Challenge
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May 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Rach's latest from Biblioll College: Encountering the mind of the past: reflections on first reading Aeschylus & his Oresteia #AncientBlueSky #BookSky open.substack.com/pub/biblioll...
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Tree of the Day, New College, Oxford
May 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Tree of the Day, New College, Oxford
Boze's latest on Biblioll College:
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The Shadow Canon 02: Inanna's Journey to Hell
Infernal Visions in Ancient & Medieval Literature
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May 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Boze's latest on Biblioll College:
bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-shadow...
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About to see JULIUS CAESAR at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival!
May 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
About to see JULIUS CAESAR at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival!
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Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, slams Trump for posting an AI image of himself as the Pope:
“This is deeply offensive to Catholics, especially during this sacred time that we are still mourning the death of Pope Francis…He owes an apology”
“This is deeply offensive to Catholics, especially during this sacred time that we are still mourning the death of Pope Francis…He owes an apology”
May 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, slams Trump for posting an AI image of himself as the Pope:
“This is deeply offensive to Catholics, especially during this sacred time that we are still mourning the death of Pope Francis…He owes an apology”
“This is deeply offensive to Catholics, especially during this sacred time that we are still mourning the death of Pope Francis…He owes an apology”
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Even the AI knew to give Trump a red lightsaber.
May 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Even the AI knew to give Trump a red lightsaber.
May the 4th be with you!
And given we have a wannabe Palpatine perjuring the oath he swore, to uphold the Constitution of our own little Republic, it may be time to break out those lightsabers and ring up Mon Mothma @markhamillofficial.bsky.social
And given we have a wannabe Palpatine perjuring the oath he swore, to uphold the Constitution of our own little Republic, it may be time to break out those lightsabers and ring up Mon Mothma @markhamillofficial.bsky.social
may the 4th be with you is written on a blue and black background
ALT: may the 4th be with you is written on a blue and black background
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May 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
May the 4th be with you!
And given we have a wannabe Palpatine perjuring the oath he swore, to uphold the Constitution of our own little Republic, it may be time to break out those lightsabers and ring up Mon Mothma @markhamillofficial.bsky.social
And given we have a wannabe Palpatine perjuring the oath he swore, to uphold the Constitution of our own little Republic, it may be time to break out those lightsabers and ring up Mon Mothma @markhamillofficial.bsky.social
Rach's beautiful post on re-reading THE ODYSSEY. #AncientBlueSky 💙📚
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"I am a part of all that I have met"
Homer, Tennyson, and the Living Memory of Odysseus
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May 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Rach's beautiful post on re-reading THE ODYSSEY. #AncientBlueSky 💙📚
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Yes. We keep writing headlines that assign powers to the president that he does not have.
May 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Yes. We keep writing headlines that assign powers to the president that he does not have.
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
May 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
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