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Associate Prof of Book History @UWMadison. Director @UW_CHPDC. Author: Intimacy of Paper @UMassPress. Summer class @calRBS. Printer. PhD @Cornell. #BillsMafia🦬

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Book Cover for: Poems on Various Subjects: Religious and Moral (Dodo Press), Phillis Wheatley

Poems on Various Subjects: Religious and Moral (Dodo Press)

Phillis Wheatley
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Today you can listen to @XineYaoPhD & @BrigField (and others!) talking about Phillis Wheatley on @BBCRadio3 on the occasion of this year's 250th anniversary of the publication of Poems on Various Subjects in London. https://t.co/kMUuB6h1eb

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Book Cover for: Censorship and the American Library: The American Library Association's Response to Threats to Intellectual Freedom, 1939-1969, Louise Robbins

Censorship and the American Library: The American Library Association's Response to Threats to Intellectual Freedom, 1939-1969

Louise Robbins
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Now is the time to read Louise Robbins' The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library. https://t.co/25FJfTtx9F https://t.co/vlJNN1oe4k

Hardcover, 1996

$131.95Member price:$125.35 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: Pineapple Street: A GMA Book Club Pick, Jenny Jackson

Pineapple Street: A GMA Book Club Pick

Jenny Jackson
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21 years ago I lived in a spartan studio in a weirdly chopped up & decrepit Hotel St George. My window overlooked the trash cans on Pineapple St. Havent spent much time in Brklyn Heights since then. Now this novel abt NY’s 1% is titled for my cross street. https://t.co/Vo2KVV7mky

Paperback, 2024

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library, Louise S. Robbins

The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library

Louise S. Robbins
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Now is the time to read Louise Robbins' The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library. https://t.co/25FJfTtx9F https://t.co/vlJNN1oe4k

Paperback, 2001

$21.95Member price:$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Enormous Room, E. E. Cummings

The Enormous Room

E. E. Cummings
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20 years ago I was writing an undergrad thesis on E.E. Cummings' WW1 novel The Enormous Room & in the process realized that the largest collection of EEC's paintings were up the road at Brockport. My thesis changed to ?s abt how literature, visual culture, & materiality interact.

Paperback, 2022

$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Enormous Room: World War I Novel: The Green-Eyed Stores, E. E. Cummings

The Enormous Room: World War I Novel: The Green-Eyed Stores

E. E. Cummings
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20 years ago I was writing an undergrad thesis on E.E. Cummings' WW1 novel The Enormous Room & in the process realized that the largest collection of EEC's paintings were up the road at Brockport. My thesis changed to ?s abt how literature, visual culture, & materiality interact.

Paperback, 2020

$7.40Member price:$3.70 + Free shipping50% off your first book