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Julie Park
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Paterno Family Librarian for Literature & Professor of English at Penn State | Editor, Penn State Series in the History of the Book, PSU Press | My Dark Room 2023 @uchicagopress

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo192110828.html
“and whether Nature has acted rightly or wrongly in destroying the mould in which she cast me, can only be decided after I have been read.”
October 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The lines:

“My name is [first and last name].
I have studied mankind and know my heart; I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality…”
October 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
“I hope this message finds you well” guarantees it’s a message you have no interest in receiving
September 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
From one of my favorite cookbooks, Beard’s American Cookery. Procured for $3 at a library sale from long ago and full of wonders, like—in addition to his cheese and tomato pie and various biscuit recipes—8 different recipes for fried chicken
September 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Is there no shame anymore?
August 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Those are the best!
August 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Reimagining the charcuterie board
August 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Love him. All I listen to now in all his incarnations.
August 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Thank you!
August 6, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The word after your name, “jee uhm,” means “wrote” or “written by.” Had to ask my Mom about that.
July 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Congratulations!! Your kimchi tho—made by “Vadasz”?? Love how your name was spelled out in Korean characters & syllables on the spine—“Eh dum Suh Mee Suh”
July 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Loved reading this, every single day of it.
July 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
“There is a simple word for this feeling, which we sometimes use too casually yet…is immortal in itself. ‘What will survive of us is love,’ the poet Philip Larkin wrote. Not the quick and fleeting kind of love, but rather love as an overwhelming embrace, a memorial of the heart.”
July 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM