Laura J. Snyder
@laurajsnyder.bsky.social
Writing Oliver Sacks #biography @AAKnopf. Philosophical Breakfast Club. Eye of the Beholder. NEH Public Scholar, Sloan/Leon Levy Fellow. Website: LauraJSnyder.com. Working my way through entire run of Murder She Wrote. Proud mom @UChicago ‘26
I’ve always wanted to use the word littoral literally, and in the chapter I’m revising today I just did. We all have to get our pleasures when we can, especially in these terrible times, eh? 🗃️✍🏻
November 11, 2023 at 10:02 PM
I’ve always wanted to use the word littoral literally, and in the chapter I’m revising today I just did. We all have to get our pleasures when we can, especially in these terrible times, eh? 🗃️✍🏻
I just *found* the one friend of #OliverSacks from his school days whom no one has ever interviewed bc “he just disappeared”—and he emailed me immediately, offered to transcribe or scan the letters he has from Sacks (that are not in Sacks’ archive) & is willing to Zoom w/me. PS he’s 90 years old! 🗃️✍🏻
November 10, 2023 at 6:22 PM
I just *found* the one friend of #OliverSacks from his school days whom no one has ever interviewed bc “he just disappeared”—and he emailed me immediately, offered to transcribe or scan the letters he has from Sacks (that are not in Sacks’ archive) & is willing to Zoom w/me. PS he’s 90 years old! 🗃️✍🏻
🙏🏻Thanks for putting together my book with Vermeer & the Delft School, which is not only fantastic on its own but was an important source for me while writing Eye of the Beholder!!!
Another perfect combination:
Laura J. Snyder's ( @laurajsnyder.bsky.social ) fantastic book "Eye of the Beholder. Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing".
And the MET's "Vermeer and the Delft School"
(free to download here: www.metmuseum.org/art/metpubli...)
Laura J. Snyder's ( @laurajsnyder.bsky.social ) fantastic book "Eye of the Beholder. Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing".
And the MET's "Vermeer and the Delft School"
(free to download here: www.metmuseum.org/art/metpubli...)
November 10, 2023 at 1:54 AM
🙏🏻Thanks for putting together my book with Vermeer & the Delft School, which is not only fantastic on its own but was an important source for me while writing Eye of the Beholder!!!
Ghosts & goblins, we are ready for you! Can’t open the door & breathe your maskless air, sadly, but you’ll be happy with all the spooooky stuff in your bags!
October 31, 2023 at 9:37 PM
Ghosts & goblins, we are ready for you! Can’t open the door & breathe your maskless air, sadly, but you’ll be happy with all the spooooky stuff in your bags!
Got the Halloween bags ready to go for tomorrow! 🎃👻🧛♀️
October 30, 2023 at 11:15 PM
Got the Halloween bags ready to go for tomorrow! 🎃👻🧛♀️
I have spent a ridiculous number of days searching for the unmarried surname of #OliverSacks’ maternal grandfather’s 1st wife (his mother was a child of the 2nd wife). Why? It just annoyed me that, like so many women in history, her name was lost, unknown even by her descendants. I JUST FOUND IT!! 🗃️
October 18, 2023 at 7:07 PM
I have spent a ridiculous number of days searching for the unmarried surname of #OliverSacks’ maternal grandfather’s 1st wife (his mother was a child of the 2nd wife). Why? It just annoyed me that, like so many women in history, her name was lost, unknown even by her descendants. I JUST FOUND IT!! 🗃️
@rauchway.bsky.social Hi Eric! Could you please add me to the What’s History feed? I’d love you to join you folks.
October 6, 2023 at 1:54 PM
@rauchway.bsky.social Hi Eric! Could you please add me to the What’s History feed? I’d love you to join you folks.
My desk after a day of “light editing” 😱
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October 2, 2023 at 10:09 PM
My desk after a day of “light editing” 😱
#skystorians 🗃️
#writers
#biography
#skystorians 🗃️
#writers
#biography
I just discovered that 2 of my books were used—w/o my consent & w/no payment—to train AI programs hoping to make authors superfluous. Read this article & sign the petition against such unfair usage. The article has a link to search if your work was used (a class action suit has been filed). 😤
If you recently learned that your book (or books) were used without your knowledge or consent to train AI, here's what you can do next, according to the Authors Guild (which has already filed a class action suit against OpenAI, representing more than a dozen writers)
You Just Found Out Your Book Was Used to Train AI. Now What? - The Authors Guild
If you’re an author, you may have recently discovered that your published book was included in a dataset of books used to train artificial intelligence systems without your permission. (Search the...
authorsguild.org
September 30, 2023 at 1:37 PM
I just discovered that 2 of my books were used—w/o my consent & w/no payment—to train AI programs hoping to make authors superfluous. Read this article & sign the petition against such unfair usage. The article has a link to search if your work was used (a class action suit has been filed). 😤
#TwitterHistorians #Academics w/database access: cld any kind soul send me a PDF via my website of Isobel Watson “Rebuilding London: Abraham Davis & his Brothers, 1881-1924,” The London Journal 29 2004 pp. 62-84? Bc yes, I must know if #OliverSacks’ parents’ 1st home had an indoor privy.🙄Pls share.
September 28, 2023 at 9:46 PM
#TwitterHistorians #Academics w/database access: cld any kind soul send me a PDF via my website of Isobel Watson “Rebuilding London: Abraham Davis & his Brothers, 1881-1924,” The London Journal 29 2004 pp. 62-84? Bc yes, I must know if #OliverSacks’ parents’ 1st home had an indoor privy.🙄Pls share.
Now signing off for two weeks to make brisket, celebrate the Jewish holidays (L’shanah tovah to others who celebrate) and send my son off to college. Hopefully squeeze in a little work too. See you again in October!
September 14, 2023 at 2:04 PM
Now signing off for two weeks to make brisket, celebrate the Jewish holidays (L’shanah tovah to others who celebrate) and send my son off to college. Hopefully squeeze in a little work too. See you again in October!
My most recent published work was the cover story for the summer issue of The American Scholar to mark the 300th anniversary of the death of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the discoverer of microscopic life.
September 13, 2023 at 7:55 PM
My most recent published work was the cover story for the summer issue of The American Scholar to mark the 300th anniversary of the death of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the discoverer of microscopic life.
Hi everyone! I’m here for interesting history of science, intellectual, cultural, & art history, etc., but will only be dropping by as my enormous Oliver Sacks WIP allows.
September 13, 2023 at 7:21 PM
Hi everyone! I’m here for interesting history of science, intellectual, cultural, & art history, etc., but will only be dropping by as my enormous Oliver Sacks WIP allows.