Brian Harrington
@abbistani.bsky.social
Metadata wrangler. Sometime indexer/bibliographer. Minicomputer collector. Onetime early modernist. Baltimore, USA.
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Have been told that the BL manuscript I'm trying to look at - all letters from the mid-1700s - requires a 'letter of introduction' because it may contain correspondence from 'royal personages' and I think I'm radicalised now.
August 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Have been told that the BL manuscript I'm trying to look at - all letters from the mid-1700s - requires a 'letter of introduction' because it may contain correspondence from 'royal personages' and I think I'm radicalised now.
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Huge congrats to the workers at Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore for winning their first union contract in 142 years!
August 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Huge congrats to the workers at Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore for winning their first union contract in 142 years!
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I think we should all play at least one round of Humiliation today. Whoever gets fired first, wins.
No book ever gave me more pleasure than "Small World". (I told David Lodge that once at @bathfringe.co.uk and he was charmingly embarrassed.)
www.penguin.co.uk/articles/202...
www.penguin.co.uk/articles/202...
David Lodge, 1935–2025
We are deeply saddened to announce the death of David Lodge, CBE. He died peacefully with close family at his side. We have published David since 1975, when his seminal fifth novel Changing Places was...
www.penguin.co.uk
January 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I think we should all play at least one round of Humiliation today. Whoever gets fired first, wins.
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Bookseller question: does Bookshop tell you what books I've ordered where your store gets the affiliated funding? Thinking about it from the perspective of how do you know what titles are emerging interest.
December 23, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Bookseller question: does Bookshop tell you what books I've ordered where your store gets the affiliated funding? Thinking about it from the perspective of how do you know what titles are emerging interest.
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So excited to be able to announce this before putting 2024's work to bed: @celj.bsky.social has been awarded a $555,000 grant from the @mellonfoundation.bsky.social to assess and re-imagine peer review practices in humanities publishing. Absolutely stoked to be part of this incredible team.
Mellon Project — Council of Editors of Learned Journals
www.celj.org
December 23, 2024 at 5:52 PM
So excited to be able to announce this before putting 2024's work to bed: @celj.bsky.social has been awarded a $555,000 grant from the @mellonfoundation.bsky.social to assess and re-imagine peer review practices in humanities publishing. Absolutely stoked to be part of this incredible team.
This is a great article. And I love to see Archeophone getting press attention. www.archeophone.com
Fascinating bit of musical history associated with the discovery of a wax cylinder recording from 1891: wapo.st/41dd37s [gift link]
The earliest known ‘country’ recording has been found. The singer? A Black man.
A new release of an 1891 song by Louis Vasnier deepens what we know about the genre’s origins.
wapo.st
November 30, 2024 at 8:16 PM
This is a great article. And I love to see Archeophone getting press attention. www.archeophone.com
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Bonus points for radical worker-owned co-ops like @redemmas.org and @firestorm.bsky.social! It was my pleasure and honor to be able to do author events around the release of my book with them. 🥰❤️🔥
Out there, right now, is an indie bookstore and it is FULL OF BOOKS, and full of bibliomancers who know all the old book rites to ensure you get excellent books for you and your loved ones. Seek the indie bookstore! Give them coin in exchange for stories and ideas and art and romance and horror and
November 30, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Bonus points for radical worker-owned co-ops like @redemmas.org and @firestorm.bsky.social! It was my pleasure and honor to be able to do author events around the release of my book with them. 🥰❤️🔥
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The winner of the Exhibition of the Year award, supported by TM Lighting, is ‘Ethiopia at the Crossroads’ at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. https://buff.ly/3YYIFuW
November 21, 2024 at 8:55 PM
The winner of the Exhibition of the Year award, supported by TM Lighting, is ‘Ethiopia at the Crossroads’ at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. https://buff.ly/3YYIFuW
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Just learned about this wild 19th century Wilhelm Trübner painting titled “Caesar at the Rubicon”
November 22, 2024 at 1:27 AM
Just learned about this wild 19th century Wilhelm Trübner painting titled “Caesar at the Rubicon”
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The MIT Press releases report on the future of open access publishing and policy - MIT Press https://mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-press-releases-report-on-the-future-of-open-access-publishing-and-policy/
November 18, 2024 at 7:17 PM
The MIT Press releases report on the future of open access publishing and policy - MIT Press https://mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-press-releases-report-on-the-future-of-open-access-publishing-and-policy/
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It’s a mess out there, y’all. Glad to be here on this fresh platform, with all of you. Better South. Better America. Better World. Let’s get to work. Let’s go.
November 15, 2024 at 7:26 PM
It’s a mess out there, y’all. Glad to be here on this fresh platform, with all of you. Better South. Better America. Better World. Let’s get to work. Let’s go.
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When I want to feel bad about things, I can read the news; when I want to despair, I call up a trolley car timetable from the Gilded Age.
One annoying thing about historical research is looking up how long it took to get from A to B in the US by train in 1880 and then looking it up now and realizing it was faster in 1880.
November 12, 2024 at 7:27 PM
When I want to feel bad about things, I can read the news; when I want to despair, I call up a trolley car timetable from the Gilded Age.
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The best part so far of the exodus from the other place to here is that my feed is populated with new books — mostly academic history in my field, but some intriguing fiction + work outside of my immediate interests that looks great.
I didn’t realize how much I’d missed that.
I didn’t realize how much I’d missed that.
November 12, 2024 at 3:40 PM
The best part so far of the exodus from the other place to here is that my feed is populated with new books — mostly academic history in my field, but some intriguing fiction + work outside of my immediate interests that looks great.
I didn’t realize how much I’d missed that.
I didn’t realize how much I’d missed that.
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Former Baltimore City Councilwoman/City Council President Mary Pat Clarke died this am, per Baltimore Banner. I always thought she was a good egg.
November 10, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Former Baltimore City Councilwoman/City Council President Mary Pat Clarke died this am, per Baltimore Banner. I always thought she was a good egg.
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Happy 18th Brumaire to all who celebrate!
November 8, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Happy 18th Brumaire to all who celebrate!
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A good book rec for today www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/marth...
Vanguard
The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America.In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began i...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
November 5, 2024 at 2:58 PM
A good book rec for today www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/marth...
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I voted against shrinking the city council. my city councilman is the highest ranking politician who has ever known who I am.
November 5, 2024 at 3:32 PM
I voted against shrinking the city council. my city councilman is the highest ranking politician who has ever known who I am.
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they owe you 1 (one) Project Muse-branded Hydroflask and also money
August 19, 2024 at 8:54 PM
they owe you 1 (one) Project Muse-branded Hydroflask and also money
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The purpose of the post-menopausal female is to welcome her husband and his new girlfriend home by rolling out a long and expensive purple tapestry and delivering an extended speech full of insincere flattery and double-edged innuendo while her lover waits in the bathroom with the axe.
August 15, 2024 at 6:31 PM
The purpose of the post-menopausal female is to welcome her husband and his new girlfriend home by rolling out a long and expensive purple tapestry and delivering an extended speech full of insincere flattery and double-edged innuendo while her lover waits in the bathroom with the axe.
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This sucks. Doner Bros was a solid option. Everything I’ve seen about the rents in that complex point to them being prohibitively high. Maybe they should take the hint and help some of these businesses out
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August 15, 2024 at 1:07 PM
This sucks. Doner Bros was a solid option. Everything I’ve seen about the rents in that complex point to them being prohibitively high. Maybe they should take the hint and help some of these businesses out
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Y'all Baltimore's mayor is far from perfect, but I love what a nerdy lover of this city he is. The food at his surprise wedding this weekend was chicken boxes and snowballs. Oh so Baltimore.
August 12, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Y'all Baltimore's mayor is far from perfect, but I love what a nerdy lover of this city he is. The food at his surprise wedding this weekend was chicken boxes and snowballs. Oh so Baltimore.
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“they wanted to spend their lives surrounded by feminists and books more than they wanted money. As anyone who works in publishing will attest, a love of books can be as destructive to one's bank account as a drug habit”
~ June Thomas, A Place of Our Own
~ June Thomas, A Place of Our Own
August 9, 2024 at 1:20 AM
“they wanted to spend their lives surrounded by feminists and books more than they wanted money. As anyone who works in publishing will attest, a love of books can be as destructive to one's bank account as a drug habit”
~ June Thomas, A Place of Our Own
~ June Thomas, A Place of Our Own
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Spent an extremely long time today trying to figure out whether it was ok to wear a Mr Trash Wheel tshirt to the amateur comedic water ballet performance, or whether it was the Baltimore equivalent of going to a show wearing another band’s tshirt
August 4, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Spent an extremely long time today trying to figure out whether it was ok to wear a Mr Trash Wheel tshirt to the amateur comedic water ballet performance, or whether it was the Baltimore equivalent of going to a show wearing another band’s tshirt