Jonathan
@jsench.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of Book History UWMadison. Dir., Center for History of Print & Digital Culture. Author: Intimacy of Paper @UMassPress. Summers @CalRBS. Assoc Editor @ PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. Mediocre triathlete. Episcopal. Little League ⚾️ coach. #BillsMafia 🦬 ♾️
I learned to love poetry and Robert Frost because the Microsoft Encarta CD-ROM Encyclopedia had audio of him reading this poem. It might be the first poem I ever memorized as a result!
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I learned to love poetry and Robert Frost because the Microsoft Encarta CD-ROM Encyclopedia had audio of him reading this poem. It might be the first poem I ever memorized as a result!
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books don’t require subscriptions and licenses
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
books don’t require subscriptions and licenses
(Following @loriemerson.net I built a unit into the library school intro seminar that proposes libraries as a way of building the electronic/digital world we need outside of oligarchic control… but that we will need to know HOW to built it ourselves… literally.)
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
(Following @loriemerson.net I built a unit into the library school intro seminar that proposes libraries as a way of building the electronic/digital world we need outside of oligarchic control… but that we will need to know HOW to built it ourselves… literally.)
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do the highest reaches of literary studies know about this, for instance www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Falkenberg: Mike Miles takes story books from HISD kindergarteners
First HISD took the libraries. Now teachers say the district’s curriculum leaves no room for storybooks and some are secretly reading to students anyway.
www.houstonchronicle.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
do the highest reaches of literary studies know about this, for instance www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Oh I loved this book when I read it in 2018. It really helped me work through some things about making art/writing in middle age, about understanding adulthood and even being Old as a thing that merits paying attention to, and about creativity and/in life!
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Oh I loved this book when I read it in 2018. It really helped me work through some things about making art/writing in middle age, about understanding adulthood and even being Old as a thing that merits paying attention to, and about creativity and/in life!
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A different kind of "black page" that has always fascinated me - the ink blot in Ignatius Sancho's Letters - Samcho was a big fan of Sterne
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
A different kind of "black page" that has always fascinated me - the ink blot in Ignatius Sancho's Letters - Samcho was a big fan of Sterne