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- RT @roundmyskull new blog post: 1964 Czech collage illustrations for The First Men in the Moon by H.G.Wells http://ow.ly/hkPBabout 9 hours ago from twidroid
- Intelligent Design in the Boston Globe? http://bit.ly/aFz5F looking forward to op-eds on Flat Earth, Fake Apollo, & Holocaust Denial next.about 12 hours ago from bit.ly
- via @paleofuture: The weirdness of Apollo conspiracy theories http://tr.im/snnd (misbegotten attempts to put moon program in hist. context)about 23 hours ago from web
- @tcarmody Lib of Am, true... a great example is Chad Post's Open Letter Books http://catalog.openletterbo... (lit in transl)about 23 hours ago from web in reply to tcarmody
- Is anyone pursuing the old subscription model for book pubs? As w/ Audubon, Birds of America--an edition of a costly book sold b4 printing.about 24 hours ago from web
- I'll never get out of YouTube now. Insanely great CinemaHistory channel http://is.gd/1yJR2 500 early 20th c. films (via @alexismadrigal).12:24 PM Jul 14th from web
- £275,000 for a signed 1st edition of Ulysses that's NSFW http://bit.ly/QXX9l12:05 PM Jul 14th from web
- To everyone who contributed to my sister's 3-Day walk for breast cancer, our heartfelt thanks—she's made her goal! http://bit.ly/16KYIC11:56 AM Jul 14th from web
- Schama & thinking history http://bit.ly/yvZts
(also grand work blogging a book-to-be)10:37 AM Jul 14th from web
- @R_Nash re snobbery & loss of cover: you're right; the armamentarium of status display is only growing8:06 AM Jul 14th from web in reply to R_Nash
- Having been acquainted with unquiet libraries, I find Ed Park & friends' Invisible Library lovely & compelling http://invislib.blogspot.com/4:38 PM Jul 12th from web
- @expatina yes, & Talese is one of the last of a very special kind.2:54 PM Jul 12th from web in reply to expatina
- Unique Gay Talese in PR http://bit.ly/xmYG5 raised in tailor shop; writes on shirtboards. (For similar reasons, I write in crop circles.)1:06 PM Jul 11th from TweetDeck
- @mhsteger "The crowd is not us. It never is." (Bill Buford, Among the Thugs).9:40 PM Jul 10th from web in reply to mhsteger
- With #followfriday I'm always playing catch-up: for truly heady, omniconnective tweets, follow @mhsteger @otolythe @EliseBlackwell6:19 PM Jul 10th from web
- @otolythe @mhsteger & flash mobs are a manifestation of a secret mass desire to be the zombie horde...6:15 PM Jul 10th from web in reply to otolythe
- @dan4th or "singing to her"...9:51 AM Jul 10th from Power Twitter in reply to dan4th
- @otolythe and @rushkoff bust a move on Mammon; http://bit.ly/1bcxjr9:43 AM Jul 10th from TweetDeck
- @mhsteger reminding me that Emerson opened his 1st wife's casket some months after her consumptive death. Consumption = the Romantic zombie?9:37 AM Jul 10th from Power Twitter in reply to mhsteger
- @Britannica Hwæt! It does!9:07 AM Jul 10th from Power Twitter
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- Name Matthew Battles
- Location Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
- Web http://www.hilobr...
- Bio I write and teach about history, language, and nature. Author of Library: An Unquiet History (WW Norton), I'm working on a natural history of handwriting
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