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Elyse Graham
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Spies and the archives.

Professor, Stony Brook University. Four books, including the New York Times bestseller BOOK AND DAGGER (Ecco, 2024).
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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · Nov 20
This is the song "Boo Boo, Baby, I'm a Spy," which featured in casinos and nightclubs in Istanbul in the 1940's:

soundcloud.com/wartimeistan...
Boo Boo, Baby, I'm a Spy
Listen to Boo Boo, Baby, I'm a Spy by Wartime Istanbul #np on #SoundCloud
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The Bruce Peel special collections library at UAlberta recently acquired a Bible in moon, and I'm so excited—you might even say that I'm over the moon about it.

It's a 1960s reproduction of a mid-1800s volume (moon was invented in the 1840s). Unfortunately. It's only volume 1 (of 3).
Title page of the moon bible, which is embossed in the moon tactile code. It says that it is volume one of three and that it was published by the Moon Society, a branch of the Royal National Institute for the Blind in London. The opening page in the moon bible, which just says "moon" repeatedly across the whole page, embossed in the moon tactile code. A close-up of the interior spine and margin on a page, which shows the running head that is embossed vertically in the inside margin rather than at the top of the page. The page is embossed in the moon tactile code. A close-up of the outside margin and top right corner of a recto page, which shows a page number in the very top corner. It also shows parantheses-like markers at the edge of the page, which are used to guide the finger as you read lines back-and-forth. The page is embossed in the moon tactile code.
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
The cover of a book. Title reads TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE. The illustration shows black embroidery of flowers, fruit, animals and insects on a stained cream ground.
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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The oldest hath borne most: we that are young
Shall never see so much, nor live so long.
Photograph of a field of poppies
November 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Pizza, Pretzel, Donut, Dog
Drawing of a flock of pigeons - including pizza, pretzel, donut, dog
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Happy University Press Week! Have you told your university press how much you love them lately?? 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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"What the hell do you think spies are?...They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me."
Born today, Richard Burton. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965).
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Edgar Allan Poe with a speech bubble making it look like he's saying what Reb said in her post.
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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A reminder to other lochs to abandon the pressure to be perfect
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November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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10/10 NO NOTES
ddiamond.bsky.social Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 3d
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
What we're watching: A new take on "Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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New news!
The cover of the book "Book and Dagger," with a red arrow indicating a new element: a splash reading, "New York Times Bestseller."
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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ummm it was actually Walt Whitman who first called a NYC ferry the friendship express
Picture of an instagram post that says “ Obsessed with the fact that all the NYC ferries were named by the city's second graders”
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Job alert!

@ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year

Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Long Island friends! I'm heading back to where I grew up for 3 great book tour events this weekend!
Sat 11-1pm Barnes & Noble Stony Brook book signing
4-6pm Northport Books w/ bookstore owner Jenn McAuliffe
Sun 2pm Emma S. Clark Library event "Scholars & Spies" w/ Elyse Graham (Book & Dagger)
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Tag yourself, I'm Twelfth Night.
November 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Excited to reveal the cover of my book, MIDDLEMEN: LITERARY AGENTS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN FICTION, which is available for pre-order now!
November 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here

Please share!
Humanities Librarian - (African American Studies and English Literature)
Duties & Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Very pleased that I was able, while at the copyediting stage for an article, to use my college notebooks to confirm an anecdote from college.
A comment on a document saying, "As this is anecdotal, I could not confirm the quotation," and a reply comment saying, "I actually can confirm this quotation. Hang on, let me get my college notebooks... here." Below that is an image of an open college notebook.
November 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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“Selma van de Perre, a valiant Jewish secretary who during World War II covertly transported suitcases bulging with cash, seditious newsletters, identity cards and ration books to Dutch resistance agents, even penetrating Nazi headquarters in Paris, died on Oct. 20 in London. She was 103.”
Selma van de Perre, Dutch Jew Who Resisted Nazis, Dies at 103
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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The kids made bar graphs of their remaining Halloween candy, which look like unusually delicious data visualizations. <a href="http://t.co/ugcfi0KOiJ" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://t.co/ugcfi0KOiJ
November 9, 2014 at 9:24 PM
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'Alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits.' Tennyson was a great fan of William Webbe who painted this exquisite picture in 1856. Though Webbe is included in Percy Bate's early study of the Pre Raphaelite movement, he remains a mysterious figure.
November 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Arthur Sze, "Library of Congress," 2025. (Reblogged from the Irish Centre for Poetry Studies)
The text of the poem "Library of Congress," by Arthur Sze.
November 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Delighted to share that "Book and Dagger" is Barnes & Noble's monthly nonfiction pick!

www.barnesandnoble.com/b/books/awar...
A cover image of the book "Book and Dagger," with the text, "Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II. By Elyse Graham. Using letters, personal stories and declassified files, Elyse Graham highlights the brave efforts of the real-life academics-turned-spies who bravely challenged the Nazis during World War II."
November 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM