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Matthew Kollmer
@matthewkollmer.com
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PhD student (info sci at UIUC). Research in DH, NLP, AI, cultural analytics. Background in 19th/early 20th century US lit, creative writing, writing studies: https://matthewkollmer.com

I also own and operate a rare book firm: https://eveninglandbooks.com
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Currently in las vegas. Yes, this city is tacky. And dumpy and gaudy. There’s def something dystopian about it. But I love it—it’s a postmodern stew of wtf America, a mix of everything we’ve got
November 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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There will be very serious announcements @eveninglandbooks.com later this week!

Very serious!!!! Stay tuned!!!
A selfie of the owners of evening land books. They’re sitting together in the airport terminal. Matthew is feigning his most serious face—squinting eyes, but he can’t help but smile a little. Kristina turned just in time so she looks surprised!
November 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Assistant Professor of English Education, career track, at Washington State University: wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...
Assistant Professor of English, Career Track (Scholarly Sub-track)
Online applications must be received before 11:59pm on: December 10, 2025 If a date is not listed above, review the Applicant Instructions below for more details. Available Title(s): 161-NN_FACULTY - ...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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I haven't been watching the World Series, just keeping up with headlines. But I've gotta say, I just love love love that Canada might win this year, and the best player is a Japanese immigrant.
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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The Movement. Inscribed by Danny Lyon. Text by Lorraine Hansberry. First Edition, First Printing, Softcover Issue. Simon & Schuster. New York, 1964.

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The front cover in the original wrappers featuring a black and white photograph of a Black person being grabbed by a police officer from behind. The police officer is wearing riot gear from the 1960s–a helmet with a visor. A crowd of white bystanders are in the background, looking serious but relatively undisturbed. Danny Lyon's inscription. It reads: No "s" in my name / Danny Lyon / Tucson, 1997. Two pages from the text. The verso shows quotes from notable historical figures from previous generations. The recto shows a photo of a young James Baldwin speaking at a pulpit. A photo of protestors marching and holding signs. One reads: "Like, Man, I'm Tired (of waiting)". Another reads: "Liberty for all or death for America / This we mean"
October 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Cornell Information Science is hiring a Teaching Professor! Apply this week for full consideration:

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30763
Cornell University, Information Science
Job #AJO30763, 2025-2026 CORNELL INFORMATION SCIENCE FULL-TIME TEACHING FACULTY SEARCH (OPEN-RANK TEACHING PROFESSOR), ITHACA CAMPUS  , Information Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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October 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Things were better a year ago.
October 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Need more proof we've regressed as a nation? Check out these broadsides from the 1936 campaign to reelect FDR. They cover policies like eliminating tariffs, bailing out farmers, supporting labor rights, establishing environmental protections... Maybe by 2036, we'll be right back where we started?
A broadside titled Through Tariff Walls It points out the damaging impact of the Smoot-Hawley tariffs and the progress in removing tariffs and establishing free trade. A broadside titled Farmers—Make Your Choice It highlights how FDR bailed out farmers and improved produce markets in the New Deal. A broadside titled Our Wealth of Earth and Water It highlights the National Conservation Army and the environmental protections of FDR's first term. A broadside titled Collective Bargaining - Which? - Industrial Strife It highlights how FDR passed the Labor Relations Act.
October 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Almanac of the Dead. Signed by Leslie Marmon Silko. First Edition, First Printing. Simon & Schuster. New York, 1991.

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The front cover of the first edition. It's in the original dust jacket featuring an image of a Southwest desert road going into a pink horizon with hills and cactus. Above the horizon is a blue night sky with Native imagery floating in the stars. The title page showing Silko's signature.
October 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Chambana showed up for #nokings
October 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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We've been busy listing dozens of etching prints from the early twentieth century! They're from a series called the Modern Masters of Etching, for subscribers only.

They're just $12 apiece. Check them out here: eveninglandbooks.com?s=etching&po...
Etching print of a woman sitting with elbows on a table, holding up her head. She's wearing what looks like large ear muffs and she's looking to the left. Titled IV. “Le Beguin” by G.L. Brockhurst. Etching print of a man napping in a grassy spot with a cat nuzzling his leg. Titled III. “Purring and Snoring” by Edmund Blampied. Etching print of an abstract view of a bridge with wires and steel beams. In the background is a city skyline. Titled III. “Looking Through Brooklyn Bridge” by CRW Nevison. Etching of a city street in the rain with pedestrians walking with umbrellas and old cars driving by. Titled VIII. “Rain on Murray Hill” by Martin Lewis.
October 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Lehigh English is having a Graduate Open House: Tuesday October 28 @ noon ET.

Please forward to students interested in fully-funded M.A. or Ph.D. programs. Prospective applicants can register at the link below; feel free to DM me with questions.

lehigh.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Lehigh's graduate program in English will be holding a virtual (Zoom) open house on Tuesday, October, 28th, 12:00-1:00 pm. Recommended for people interested in pursuing an M.A. or Ph.D. in English. Highlights of the program include: Small classes led by research-active faculty engaged in both traditional and public-facing scholarship. A focus on literature and social justice, designed to provide our students with critical frameworks for evaluating the ethical, political, and formal aspects of texts within and across diverse historical contexts. Fully funded degree (i.e. you pay no tuition) plus an annual stipend of approximately $28,000/year. Intensive pedagogical training and hands-on experience teaching first year writing. Opportunities for student collaboration with faculty on research and public humanities projects. Post-graduate career-planning assistance from both departmental faculty and Lehigh staff.
October 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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The Essential Thomas Keller. With Facsimile Menu Signed by Keller. First Editions, Later Printings. Artisan. New York, 2009.

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The front cover of the first volume. It's in a white dust jacket with black calligraphic text that reads It's All About Finesse. The front panel of the facsimile menu showing Keller's scribbly signature in black marker. The menu folded open, showing the text on both sides.
October 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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UVA school of data science is hiring this year—searches are open to folks from all disciplines. We need humanists & social scientists to teach ethics/data & society courses + do research that supports school’s mission to be holistic in the study of data science: datascience.virginia.edu/faculty-jobs
Faculty Jobs — School of Data Science
School of Data Science at the University of Virginia.
datascience.virginia.edu
October 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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April Galleons. Signed by John Ashbery. First Edition, First Printing. Viking. New York, 1987.

Find it here: eveninglandbooks.com/product/0001...
The front cover of the first edition. It's in the original dust jacket featuring a painting of gray and white clouds with gaps of blue and a few birds silhouetted in the distance. The title page showing John Ashbery's signature.
October 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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A great URL explainer from Julia Evans's saturday comics, drawn from her http zine! wizardzines.com/zines/http/
A hand-written explainer on "how URLs work," with an explanation of various parts of the links' anatomy - scheme, domain, port, path, query, etc.
October 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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hell yeah
Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends. Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner. Text has been altered from original. It reads Fiftieth Anniversary Frog and Toad Are Antifa by Arnold Lobel Commemorative Edition
October 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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I'm getting married in a month?!!?! It's ONLY A MONTH AWAY?!!!
October 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Down the Great River. By Captain Willard Glazier. Early Reprint. Hubbard Brothers. Philadelphia, Circa 1895.

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The front cover of this early printing. It's in a maroon cloth with elaborate gilt stamping of the title text, a canoe and paddle, and the spine label of similar variation. The title page showing the lengthy full title similar to other travel and conquest narratives. A map of the waterways of northern Minnesota where Glazier purportedly discovered the actual source of the river (he was fabricating this claim).
October 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find. By Flannery O’Connor. First Edition, First Printing. Harcourt, Brace, & Co. New York, 1955.

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The front cover of the first edition. It's in a second-issue dust jacket with the same design as the first issue: yellow with vibrational patterns in red where the title text appears. The copyright page showing the first edition statement.
October 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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If you, like me, sometimes need to generate thousands of clipping images from Chronicling America, then you may find this post helpful.

It provides my pipeline (code and explanatory text) for programmatically generating newspaper clipping images via the Chronicling America API.
How to Create Newspaper Clipping Images in Chronicling America, Programmatically – Matthew Johannes Kollmer
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October 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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One Battle After Another = best movie I’ve seen this year
October 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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The Dead Zone. By Stephen King. First Edition, First Printing. Viking. New York, 1979.

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The front cover of the first edition. It's in the original dust jacket with black background and large title text in a bronze gold. Below the text is an image of a man's face staring straight at the camera. Half of his face is shrouded by shadow. From the shadow a talisman of some sort emerges. The talisman is gold and circular. The copyright page showing the Viking "First Published" statement.
October 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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At the gym, about to do deadlifts until existential dread goes away!
October 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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The Wicked Series: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, Out of Oz. All Signed by Gregory Maguire. First Editions, First Printings. HarperCollins. New York, 1995-2011.

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All four volumes arranged in a row. At the front is the first edition of Wicked. It's in the original dust jacket featuring a leafless vine framing a pink space with the title text in a circular frame. Inside the circular frame the dust jacket has a gap showing the pictorial board underneath. The pictorial board shows the image of the Wicked Witch of the West in cap and robes, looking downward. The title page of Wicked showing Gregory Maguire's signature in sharpie.
October 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM