Adam Smyth
@adamwithbooks.bsky.social
lit+material texts. balliol, oxford + london.
Rep'd RCW Literary Agency
THE BOOK-MAKERS (2024)
co-ed Inscription: The Journal of Material Text
president Oxford Bibliographical Society
micro-essays adamsmyth.substack.com
Rep'd RCW Literary Agency
THE BOOK-MAKERS (2024)
co-ed Inscription: The Journal of Material Text
president Oxford Bibliographical Society
micro-essays adamsmyth.substack.com
Hooray to @thespectator1828.bsky.social and to Frances Wilson for nominating THE BOOK GAME, by elusive but deserving (and unrelated) Frances Wise, as a Book of the Year for 2025!
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November 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Hooray to @thespectator1828.bsky.social and to Frances Wilson for nominating THE BOOK GAME, by elusive but deserving (and unrelated) Frances Wise, as a Book of the Year for 2025!
@4thestatebooks.bsky.social @chloehouston.bsky.social
@4thestatebooks.bsky.social @chloehouston.bsky.social
Pipping EM Forster and a book about ultra processed foods to number one spot — just as we had planned.
September 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Pipping EM Forster and a book about ultra processed foods to number one spot — just as we had planned.
For one day only! The Book Game on Kindle for just 99p!
September 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
For one day only! The Book Game on Kindle for just 99p!
How to learn: new micro essay at
adamsmyth.substack.com/p/how-to-learn
adamsmyth.substack.com/p/how-to-learn
September 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
How to learn: new micro essay at
adamsmyth.substack.com/p/how-to-learn
adamsmyth.substack.com/p/how-to-learn
LOVED this youthful, hurtling, music-rich production @thersc.bsky.social Try to see it! And congrats Joanna Bowman, Sian Stephens, Lance West and all.
August 31, 2025 at 10:56 AM
LOVED this youthful, hurtling, music-rich production @thersc.bsky.social Try to see it! And congrats Joanna Bowman, Sian Stephens, Lance West and all.
Thanks to the brilliant Frances Wilson (author of Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark) for these kind words about THE BOOK GAME
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@4thestatebooks.bsky.social
@chloehouston.bsky.social
@4thestatebooks.bsky.social
July 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Thanks to the brilliant Frances Wilson (author of Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark) for these kind words about THE BOOK GAME
@chloehouston.bsky.social
@4thestatebooks.bsky.social
@chloehouston.bsky.social
@4thestatebooks.bsky.social
Korean edition of THE BOOK-MAKERS!
July 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Korean edition of THE BOOK-MAKERS!
Enjoyed this sentence from Eric Marshall White's Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books
June 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Enjoyed this sentence from Eric Marshall White's Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books
The Book Makers in Korean!
June 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The Book Makers in Korean!
Who doesn’t love Good Housekeeping? Especially when they make the Book Game by enigmatic Frances Wise one of the 50 best beach reads *ever*!
June 24, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Who doesn’t love Good Housekeeping? Especially when they make the Book Game by enigmatic Frances Wise one of the 50 best beach reads *ever*!
Here "we" are -- that is, the two sides of Frances Wise -- signing THE BOOK GAME at beautiful Goldsboro Books off Charing Cross Road.
Fast work. We got through a *lot*.
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Fast work. We got through a *lot*.
@goldsborobooks.bsky.social @chloehouston.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Here "we" are -- that is, the two sides of Frances Wise -- signing THE BOOK GAME at beautiful Goldsboro Books off Charing Cross Road.
Fast work. We got through a *lot*.
@goldsborobooks.bsky.social @chloehouston.bsky.social
Fast work. We got through a *lot*.
@goldsborobooks.bsky.social @chloehouston.bsky.social
INSCRIPTION 5 launch!
If AT LEAST 2 of the following apply to you, do drop by.
(a) you like odd, experimental books (b) you are enthusiastic about the concept of containers (c) you like articles on material texts with holes in (d) you are around London on May 14 May (e) you fancy a glass of wine.
If AT LEAST 2 of the following apply to you, do drop by.
(a) you like odd, experimental books (b) you are enthusiastic about the concept of containers (c) you like articles on material texts with holes in (d) you are around London on May 14 May (e) you fancy a glass of wine.
May 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
INSCRIPTION 5 launch!
If AT LEAST 2 of the following apply to you, do drop by.
(a) you like odd, experimental books (b) you are enthusiastic about the concept of containers (c) you like articles on material texts with holes in (d) you are around London on May 14 May (e) you fancy a glass of wine.
If AT LEAST 2 of the following apply to you, do drop by.
(a) you like odd, experimental books (b) you are enthusiastic about the concept of containers (c) you like articles on material texts with holes in (d) you are around London on May 14 May (e) you fancy a glass of wine.
April 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This is amazingly good. Time repeating. Diaries. Even antiquarian books. All my favourite things.
April 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This is amazingly good. Time repeating. Diaries. Even antiquarian books. All my favourite things.
Paperback unboxing!
April 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Paperback unboxing!
BOOK MAKERS UK paperback out in April! On pre-order at a discount at Hive.co.uk, and Bookshop.org.
March 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
BOOK MAKERS UK paperback out in April! On pre-order at a discount at Hive.co.uk, and Bookshop.org.
Ronald Blythe’s Akenfield is astonishingly good. It took the obituaries of the author to prompt me to read it. Here is Blythe on working life in his Suffolk village in 1914:
March 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Ronald Blythe’s Akenfield is astonishingly good. It took the obituaries of the author to prompt me to read it. Here is Blythe on working life in his Suffolk village in 1914:
Astonishingly good Hamlet at Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford with Luke Thallon. Elsinore as the deck of the Titanic.
February 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Astonishingly good Hamlet at Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford with Luke Thallon. Elsinore as the deck of the Titanic.
Lovely + generous review of The Book-Makers in the latest Book Collector. Thanks for ASG Edwards for his care and enthusiasm!
December 11, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Lovely + generous review of The Book-Makers in the latest Book Collector. Thanks for ASG Edwards for his care and enthusiasm!
Short films of books I like -- number 1.
Ian Hamilton Finlay's periodical, Poor Old Tired Horse.
The whole series is at www.ubu.com/vp/Poor.Old.Tired.Horse.html
Ian Hamilton Finlay's periodical, Poor Old Tired Horse.
The whole series is at www.ubu.com/vp/Poor.Old.Tired.Horse.html
December 4, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Short films of books I like -- number 1.
Ian Hamilton Finlay's periodical, Poor Old Tired Horse.
The whole series is at www.ubu.com/vp/Poor.Old.Tired.Horse.html
Ian Hamilton Finlay's periodical, Poor Old Tired Horse.
The whole series is at www.ubu.com/vp/Poor.Old.Tired.Horse.html
Okay. Got this. So how do I start? Sort cards into picture piles of ten?
November 23, 2024 at 10:30 AM
Okay. Got this. So how do I start? Sort cards into picture piles of ten?