publishing
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In Defence of Publishing before Print
Can a medieval manuscript, or indeed any form of textual codification that happened prior to the printing press, be referred to as a form of publication? The aim of this…
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Andy Martrich. Shy of the Squirrel’s Foot: A Peripheral History of the Jargon Society as Told through Its Missing Books.
This history of the small Jargon Society press combines bibliography, literary history, and literary criticism to demonstrate that absence deserves study as a poetic form.
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Report: 25th Anniversary Fellowships
The SHARP 25th-Anniversary Fellowship supported the research of a case study in my doctoral thesis at The University of Queensland, which is examining minority-language publishing in Australia. The case study was…
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Passports as Books and Books as Passports
Even though there is, of course, no easy definition of what a book is exactly, a passport is an object that is very much like a book, without being usually…
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Report: 25th Anniversary Fellowships
My research project investigates the Traditional Market Agreement (TMA), a British publishing monopoly that divided the world into British and American markets in the 20th century. The SHARP Award enabled…
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Nicola Wilson et al., eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2020.
The companion disrupts traditional histories by attending not only to women’s work in publishing but also to the networks and collaborations that sustained so many women’s careers in the publishing…
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Debbie Berne. The Design of Books: An Explainer for Authors, Editors, Agents, and Other Curious Readers.
An insightful addition to the bibliography on book design, this book explains the critical role design plays in book publishing.
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SHARP 2024: Conversations with the Keynote Speakers
This chat celebrates and reflects on the work presented at SHARP 2024 by keynotes Asha Rogers and Swara Shukla. If you missed the in-person conference, you can watch recordings of Asha’s…