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Register for a webinar on The Finances of Open Access Book Publishing: A @Lever_Press Case Study, Tuesday, September 3rd at 2 pm (US Eastern Time), with presenters @curtisbrundy , Anne Houston and @doc_chocula :
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Program information for the Hip Hop Hurston, February 15 and 16, the 2024 Virtual Zora Neale Hurston Conference hosted by Bethune-Cookman University, with keynote speaker @iamdrjoycelyn and Craft Lecturer @SohrabFracis
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Happy birthday to Jane Austen, born #OTD in 1776 in Steventon, Hampshire.
Deborah Kaplan's Jane Austen Among Women (@JHUPress is available to download or read online #OpenAccess
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Lt.-Colonel John McCrae, a medical officer in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, wrote "In Flanders Fields" in 1915 in Belgium following the death of a friend at the second battle of Ypres. A haunting reading of the poem by Leonard Cohen
#RemembranceDay
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ALT Trench warfare in World War I, via Wikimedia Commons. Today, November 11 is the 105th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice between Germany and the Allies which brought an end to combat in the First World War
Sylvia Plath: New Views on the Poetry, ed. by Gary Lane (@JHUPress , 2019), is free to read/download via @ProjectMUSE ) The essays on Plath, born in Boston #OTD in 1932, "offer insights into a violently interesting poet, one who despite, or perhaps because of, her suicide" (1/2)
ALT English Heritage plaque that reads Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, poet, lived here 1960-1961, on a house in Camden, London. Via Wikimedia Commons
The shortlist for the Irish Book Awards has been announced. Dr @katrionaos 's memoir Poor traces her journey from homelessness to academia. @paullynchwriter 's novel Prophet Song, also shortlisted for the Booker Prize, portrays a dystopian Ireland where a mother faces (1/2)
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A great resource: Harvard's Black Teacher Archive (BTA) is a freely available digital portal centralizing materials created by professional organizations of African American educators, historically referred to as Colored Teachers Associations
curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/bl…
ALT Image shows students reading during class in Montgomery, Alabama, April 1939. (Library of Congress)
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The engrossing work of Paul Strand (born in Brooklyn #OTD in 1890) is the focus of a 1945 catalogue from a MoMA exhibition by Nancy Newhall, Photographs, 1915-1945: Paul Strand -- the PDF is free to view online:
moma.org/documents/moma_cata…
ALT Image shows a photograph by Paul Strand, Portrait, Washington Square Park (1917) (via Wikipedia)
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on Remington’s nocturnes, this volume pairs large reproductions of these stunning paintings . . . with excerpts from his personal diaries and letters and commentary from contemporary critics." (Publisher's note) (2/2)
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Frederic Remington: The Color of Night, by Nancy K. Anderson (National Gallery of Art, 2003) is available to view for free as a PDF online. Remington (born #OTD in 1861) produced a series of some 70 paintings focusing on the color of night. "As the definitive resource (1/2)
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In a recent poll, 87% of @LtlFreeLibrary stewards said they share banned books in those familiar boxes. According to a @PENamerica 2023 report, nearly 40% of book challenges have happened in Florida. Little Free Library have partnered with @VenablesBell to launch (1/2)
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Published to mark the centennial of the actor's birth, Charles Chaplin; An Appreciation, by Charles Silver (Museum of Modern Art, 1989) is free to download or read online #SilentMovieDay #FridayReads
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ALT Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance, his regular leading lady, in the film Work (1915) Wikipedia, Public Domain
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Arp, edited by James Thrall Soby, Museum of Modern Art, 1958 is an #OA collections of essays on Hans (Jean) Arp, the Dadaist artist born #OTD in 1886, with articles by Richard Huelsenbeck, Robert Melville, Carola Giedion-Welcker and the artist himself:
moma.org/documents/moma_cata…
ALT Photo of artist Hans (Jean) Arp. Wikipedia, public domain
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For more than a century, the image of an enslaved child was erased from a painting now in the Met. Katy Shannon discovered the history of the enslaved child in the painting, who was named Bélizaire. It is now known as Bélizaire and the Frey Children:
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Book talk w/ Dipti Desai, Gary Anderson, Ana I. Heras, & Carol Anne Spreen, authors of Creating Third Spaces of Learning for Post Capitalism: Lessons from Educators, Artists, and Activists (@routledgebooks), sponsored by @nyusteinhardt, @nyu_ipk, @CLACS_NYU & @metronyu on 9/18
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