Matthew Kirschenbaum Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Newest book: BITSTREAMS: THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL LITERARY HERITAGE, @PennPress (2021). @UMDEnglish and @UMD_BookLab. Tweets are in my own personal capacity.

The Textual Condition
Jerome J. McGann
Jerome McGann’s The Textual Condition and Black Riders. https://t.co/qpnQnQpLNA
Paperback, 1991
$53.00$28.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Experiment 116
Rena J. Mosteirin
Really happy to find these beautifully printed books of computationally deformed textual projects in my box, via @CpPress. BLANKS (blurbed by @CatIrrational!) and EXPERIMENT 116 (named for the Shakespeare Sonnet). @nickmofo @xfoml https://t.co/1TFqZMzzeS
Out of stock

The Book: A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
Keith Houston
@natmcgartland @atrubek (Or if it’s more book history, Keith Houston’s THE BOOK.)
Paperback, 2025
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
Greil Marcus
Embarrassing, but reading Greil Marcus’s LIPSTICK TRACES as an undergraduate. https://t.co/vQw473svtj
Paperback, 2009
$33.50$16.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Long Game: A Memoir
Mitch McConnell
Serious question: what would it mean for the left to acknowledge that this is the long game Mitch McConnell and the establishment GOP, in conjunction with dark money forces, the Federalist Society, and the Christian Right, have been playing for decades— and to admit we have lost?
Paperback, 2019
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study
John Guillory
Like this 2004 essay on the memo, John Guillory’s chapter on “Composition and the Demand for Writing” (in PROFESSING CRITICISM) is essential to understanding the institutional situation of writing programs, and why LLMs are an existential threat. https://t.co/tlYkRQnOvN
Paperback, 2022
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making
Adrian Johns
Final paragraph and final slide from my McKenzie lecture at @bodleianlibs today: “The New Nature of the Book: Publishing and Printing in the Post-Digital Present,” also part of the fabulous #Agrippa2023 symposium. https://t.co/tRTBHoDiCP
Paperback, 2000
$46.00$23.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Writing: Mastering ACT, SAT, GRE, PRAXIS, MCAT, LSAT, and College Essays
William J. Long
So glad to do this hour-long interview about William Dickey‘s HyperCard poetry with @being_on_line for the Sometimes Show. There is a particular focus on his identity writing as a gay poet and on his #elit erotica. Episode here: https://t.co/Lh2iHi3H99 @eliterature
Paperback, 2013
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World
Jerome McGann
"Not only are Sappho and Shakespeare primary, irreducible concerns for the scholar, so is any least part of our cultural inheritance that might call for attention." --Jerome McGann, The Scholar's Art https://t.co/UepjAosExw
Paperback, 2006
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Chapterhouse: Dune
Frank Herbert
@stevesi Includes a section on Frank Herbert! He didn’t write DUNE on a computer, but he did collaborate on a now-forgotten non-fiction book *about* computers entitled WITHOUT ME YOU’RE NOTHING. https://t.co/KPDSW6as4T
Paperback, Mass Market, 2019
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book