It is #WorldBeeDay ! Here is the Bee-ing Human project's contribution to today's celebrations. We are bringing this sonic, bookish bee-hive to life to explore bee emotions 🐝🐝🐝 Vivek Nityananda Olivia Smith Tiago Sousa Garcia The Leverhulme Trust

When Dennis Duncan notices the text for a literary jigsaw puzzle had been written by a former colleague, his head spins. A wild surmise. Are jigsaws REF-able?

literaryreview.co.uk/the-w-factor

Deadline approaching! Fully funded £19,237/year + tuition fees covered. PhD project in partnership with Bodleian Libraries
Atlantic Stories, Colonial Legacies and the Bodleian Library, 1650-1800 #PhDlife coventry.ac.uk/research/resea…

Print historians, assemble! What a lovely find.

Two BOOK-MAKERS walk into a pub.

US edition (left) out with Basic Books at end of May.

US - rb.gy/zb373v

UK - rb.gy/yy171v

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I was asked last week how a book is made. Here is a photo of the running sheets of our brand new summer book - The house in Cornwall by Noel Streatfeild - which is at the printer right now, about to be bound in cloth. Note the components - endpapers, covers and interior pages.

Hannah Höch
Schnittmuster-Konstruction
1924

29.9 x 21.2 cm

one of several collages from this period repurposing copies of sewing patterns, acquired during her day job as a designer at Ullstein Press in Berlin

Published today (open access): my article on Christine Brooke-Rose, Anne Garréta, & the gender politics of constrained writing. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Oh great! Now I’m not sure whether the traffic is really diverted or not.

So it seem THE BOOK FORGER is on today's Kindle Daily Deal on Amazon. Get the disembodied text for just £1.99 , today only! amazon.co.uk/Book-Forger-st… ALTERNATIVELY...

Some kids are filming a horror movie next to me on the train.

The W Factor by Dennis Duncan - lovely diary piece by ⁦Dennis Duncan⁩ lifting the lid on what he rather brilliantly termed “Big jigsaw” in conversation with “a friend” who is currently working up a diagram of the connections on a pinboard in his office literaryreview.co.uk/the-w-factor

Win a FREE copy of Inscription 4 (on touch) w. all the trimmings (vinyl LP, Yoko Ono print, posters galore).

Just reply to this tweet with a photo of your hands and a book. Best image wins!

(Image: Inscription 4 cover, Natalie Czech (2020), 'A poet’s question by Frank O’Hara')

“Aldus issued more editiones principes (first editions) of classical texts than any publisher before or since.”

Dennis Duncan on the Renaissance printer who made reading a pastime the-tls.co.uk/articles/aldus…

The Book-Makers by Adam Smyth review – bound to be brilliant theguardian.com/books/2024/may…

I wrote a thing about literary jigsaws for this month's Literary Review literaryreview.co.uk/the-w-factor

The May issue of Literary Review is out now: literaryreview.co.uk

Antony Spawforth on forgotten Cleopatras
Daisy on ancient poetry
Dennis Duncan on jigsaws
Rhodri Lewis on Shakespearian fiction
Georgina Adam on art world fraud

and much, much more

I reviewed a short, excellent biography of Aldus Manutius for the The TLS this week: the-tls.co.uk/articles/aldus…

Briefly Noted in The New Yorker: A TRAVEL GUIDE TO THE MIDDLE AGES by Anthony Bale 📚🐈‍⬛🏳️‍🌈, an 'immensely entertaining history, which is constructed around medieval guidebooks and travelogues.'
newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Elizabeth II, Queen
audience with Truss 1-3
death 3-8