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Matthew Kirschenbaum Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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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.

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Book Cover for: The Textual Condition, Jerome J. McGann

The Textual Condition

Jerome J. McGann
Matthew KirschenbaumMatthew Kirschenbaum

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)
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Book Cover for: Experiment 116, Rena J. Mosteirin

Experiment 116

Rena J. Mosteirin
Matthew KirschenbaumMatthew Kirschenbaum

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

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Book Cover for: The Book: A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time, Keith Houston

The Book: A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time

Keith Houston
Matthew KirschenbaumMatthew Kirschenbaum

@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
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Book Cover for: Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, Greil Marcus

Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century

Greil Marcus
Matthew KirschenbaumMatthew Kirschenbaum

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
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Book Cover for: The Long Game: A Memoir, Mitch McConnell

The Long Game: A Memoir

Mitch McConnell
Matthew KirschenbaumMatthew Kirschenbaum

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
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Book Cover for: Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study, John Guillory

Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study

John Guillory
Matthew KirschenbaumMatthew Kirschenbaum

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
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Book Cover for: The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making, Adrian Johns

The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making

Adrian Johns
Matthew KirschenbaumMatthew Kirschenbaum

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
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Book Cover for: Writing: Mastering ACT, SAT, GRE, PRAXIS, MCAT, LSAT, and College Essays, William J. Long

Writing: Mastering ACT, SAT, GRE, PRAXIS, MCAT, LSAT, and College Essays

William J. Long
Matthew KirschenbaumMatthew Kirschenbaum

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
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Book Cover for: The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World, Jerome McGann

The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World

Jerome McGann
Matthew KirschenbaumMatthew Kirschenbaum

"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
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Book Cover for: Chapterhouse: Dune, Frank Herbert

Chapterhouse: Dune

Frank Herbert
Matthew KirschenbaumMatthew Kirschenbaum

@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
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