Undine Spragg, heroine

the world is ever mystifying

This framing seems absolutely wrong?

Murderboard/Copyright cases crossover chatgptiseatingtheworld.substack.com/p/latest-map...

doing some reminiscing

This remains my all time fave and encapsulates one core part of our vibe (I want to say our aesthetic but realize smoking seagulls in the snow are more vibes)

Someone heard a thing somewhere, maybe, and someone famous repeated it, and then someone reported what the famous person said, and flocks now quote it as fact and reorganize their lives around the thing

you never expect the morning paper to tell you tomatoes are carnivores 😱https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/science/darwin-was-right-these-plants-are-carnivores.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3FA.Tjj-.zGmeh6HW5gYB&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Cambridge not looking great in this article in The Times

Take that, other Regional Architecture books

Here’s her headshot 😱

Oh that’s gorgeous! Here’s mine

Reading the query inbox

ISBNs were introduced in 1970

This is kinda funny b/c it’s about how reading is back b/c ticket sales for events are up. Reading and going to an event aren’t the same thing (as I often explain when I decline to attend events b/c I’d rather read lol)

before AI we had

!!!

Recently discovered & slightly obsessed with Moscow’s Progress Publishers

screw inflated advances; here's a backwards way to level the playing field

shorter prison terms for books please! notesfromasmallpress.substack.com/p/actual-sal...

f-Stop Fitzgerald

the bedfellows get stranger

What will you do with your one precious class settlement check?

what the fuck, NYTBR.

Huge moment for many of us

Cover of the day

I spent the longest time confused by this 1968 cover until I finally realized I was seeing a reflection

They absolutely did this for the screenshots