Matthew P. Brown
@mpbrown.bsky.social
english & the center for the book, uiowa / ed, ui press / author, *the pilgrim & the bee* (penn, 2007) and *the novel & the blank* (jhup, 2025) / opinions about drink are, in a certain sense, from my employer
https://english.uiowa.edu/people/matthew-brown
https://english.uiowa.edu/people/matthew-brown
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Matthew P. Brown
@mpbrown.bsky.social
· Oct 20
in my book, books talk to other books.
grab *the novel and the _____* now at the @hopkinspress.bsky.social website with the discount code HTNAB25 #vastearlyamerica #bookhistory #18c #c18
grab *the novel and the _____* now at the @hopkinspress.bsky.social website with the discount code HTNAB25 #vastearlyamerica #bookhistory #18c #c18
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When troops are deployed overseas in places they absolutely should not be because of a warmonger ass president, and they are killed by someone who acted on their own accord, we typically don’t have a problem blaming the U.S. commander in chief
"In the months leading up to the D.C. deployment, Beckstrom worked for a community health center that serves people with mental illness and substance abuse disorders." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
When troops are deployed overseas in places they absolutely should not be because of a warmonger ass president, and they are killed by someone who acted on their own accord, we typically don’t have a problem blaming the U.S. commander in chief
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“[T]hrifty sheet printing manages risk: the almanacs selling steadily, the devotional tract perpetually reprinted, the blank form to keep one afloat, the fugitive ad of merciless gain,” writes Matt Brown in his cultural history of eighteenth-century British American print shops. #TheNovelandtheBlank
November 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“[T]hrifty sheet printing manages risk: the almanacs selling steadily, the devotional tract perpetually reprinted, the blank form to keep one afloat, the fugitive ad of merciless gain,” writes Matt Brown in his cultural history of eighteenth-century British American print shops. #TheNovelandtheBlank
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One of the nine things I admire about Matthew P. Brown’s The Novel and the Blank: A Literary History of the Book Trades in Eighteenth-Century British America is how he makes printed ephemera—legal forms, manuals, advertisements, militia directions, almanacs, jestbooks—seem as interesting as novels.
November 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
One of the nine things I admire about Matthew P. Brown’s The Novel and the Blank: A Literary History of the Book Trades in Eighteenth-Century British America is how he makes printed ephemera—legal forms, manuals, advertisements, militia directions, almanacs, jestbooks—seem as interesting as novels.
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Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
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In a fascinating chapter of The Novel and the Blank, Matthew P. Brown argues that jokebooks, a staple of the eighteenth-century book trades, “are a species of conduct literature, of self- and soul-fashioning, existing at one extreme along a continuum of character formation” (128).
November 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
In a fascinating chapter of The Novel and the Blank, Matthew P. Brown argues that jokebooks, a staple of the eighteenth-century book trades, “are a species of conduct literature, of self- and soul-fashioning, existing at one extreme along a continuum of character formation” (128).
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Died (alas!) on this day in 1625, the remarkable painter Sofonisba Anguissola. Here, self portrait as a young woman, showing off her talents in 1556.
November 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Died (alas!) on this day in 1625, the remarkable painter Sofonisba Anguissola. Here, self portrait as a young woman, showing off her talents in 1556.
i hate with the heat of a thousand suns the little ai icon now in the lower right hand corner of my word documents
November 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
i hate with the heat of a thousand suns the little ai icon now in the lower right hand corner of my word documents
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if the dems cave now with nothing to show for it then all of the misery the shutdown has caused instantly becomes all their fault as it achieved nothing
November 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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sometimes i’m like what the hell is with cricket and then sometimes i’m like people feel about cricket the way i feel about baseball and all is well
November 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
sometimes i’m like what the hell is with cricket and then sometimes i’m like people feel about cricket the way i feel about baseball and all is well
kike hernandez is basically a morrissey song in these past few innings
November 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
kike hernandez is basically a morrissey song in these past few innings
sixers peaking too early smdh
October 29, 2025 at 3:41 AM
sixers peaking too early smdh
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Spotify is now running ICE recruitment ads. We asked them to stop. They ignored us. Let's show them what we showed Disney. No Kings, No Collaborators, No Capitulators. indivisible.org/cancel-spotify
Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
indivisible.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Spotify is now running ICE recruitment ads. We asked them to stop. They ignored us. Let's show them what we showed Disney. No Kings, No Collaborators, No Capitulators. indivisible.org/cancel-spotify
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Donate locally and if you want to help Iowa City, here is ours: foodpantry.org.uiowa.edu/donate-pantry
Donate to the Pantry
If you're interested in donating items to the Food Pantry at Iowa, you can drop off closed, non-perishable food and hygiene products at the cart in front of the Food Pantry on the ground floor of the ...
foodpantry.org.uiowa.edu
October 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Donate locally and if you want to help Iowa City, here is ours: foodpantry.org.uiowa.edu/donate-pantry
myles straw question mark
October 28, 2025 at 6:04 AM
myles straw question mark
108 days til spring training
October 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
108 days til spring training
in my book, books talk to other books.
grab *the novel and the _____* now at the @hopkinspress.bsky.social website with the discount code HTNAB25 #vastearlyamerica #bookhistory #18c #c18
grab *the novel and the _____* now at the @hopkinspress.bsky.social website with the discount code HTNAB25 #vastearlyamerica #bookhistory #18c #c18
October 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
in my book, books talk to other books.
grab *the novel and the _____* now at the @hopkinspress.bsky.social website with the discount code HTNAB25 #vastearlyamerica #bookhistory #18c #c18
grab *the novel and the _____* now at the @hopkinspress.bsky.social website with the discount code HTNAB25 #vastearlyamerica #bookhistory #18c #c18
yeah but i’m really good at keeping my personal assistant out of sketchy gambling situations
October 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
yeah but i’m really good at keeping my personal assistant out of sketchy gambling situations
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Love this new post fr @mollyhardy.bsky.social for @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social about the need for x-discipline data curation and preservation! Plus, love the 1790 census jug as the exemplar of thinking across domains. 🤓 scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/08/g...
Guest Post - Rethinking Disciplinary Data Regimes - The Scholarly Kitchen
Between a political policy environment focused on defunding and deleting data collections – an environment in which little can be trusted – and an onslaught of new AI tools that feed indiscriminately ...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
October 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Love this new post fr @mollyhardy.bsky.social for @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social about the need for x-discipline data curation and preservation! Plus, love the 1790 census jug as the exemplar of thinking across domains. 🤓 scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/08/g...
*the novel and the _____* available now from mighty @hopkinspress.bsky.social use discount code HTNAB25 #bookhistory #skystorians #18c #vastearlyamerica #c18 #c19
guys come for the book trades yawning, stay for the sex-gender system critique, THE NOVEL AND THE BLANK forthcoming august 2025 from big ups publisher @hopkinspress.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
*the novel and the _____* available now from mighty @hopkinspress.bsky.social use discount code HTNAB25 #bookhistory #skystorians #18c #vastearlyamerica #c18 #c19
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imagine emailing a senior research fellow at the Moneybags Institute of Wealth Creation to let him know that there's $500 and a lunch catered by Sodexo waiting for him if he's willing to fly coach cross-country to give a talk
More than anything, they want to be patted on the head and told they're a good boy by the liberal elites
September 27, 2025 at 2:02 AM
imagine emailing a senior research fellow at the Moneybags Institute of Wealth Creation to let him know that there's $500 and a lunch catered by Sodexo waiting for him if he's willing to fly coach cross-country to give a talk
*the novel and the blank* available now, use discount code HTNAB25 at @hopkinspress.bsky.social #skystorians #bookhistory #vastearlyamerica #18c
what if we have benjamin franklin all wrong? stay tuned for *the novel and the _____*, coming this fall from @hopkinspress.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
*the novel and the blank* available now, use discount code HTNAB25 at @hopkinspress.bsky.social #skystorians #bookhistory #vastearlyamerica #18c
i miss the beloved, viral ew&f guy on this day
September 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
i miss the beloved, viral ew&f guy on this day
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September 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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i wanna watch three days of the condor but i only have two hours
September 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
i wanna watch three days of the condor but i only have two hours