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Postcards
Here is a postcard written on 15th August 1931 by Mary, sent to Miss Lenton in south-east London. The front of the card is a view of the crescent of…
Adam Smyth
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Tearing out pages from a book
In A Passage (Granary Books, 1994), Buzz Spector printed the same passage of text on every page of a 181-page book that was bound in a conventional…
Adam Smyth
Jul 31
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Diary Writing: Three Experiments
1. Pavel Büchler (b. 1952) Pavel Büchler’s Idle Thoughts is a collection of the artist’s diaries covering the years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007-8, and…
Adam Smyth
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I have never / I remember
Histories of autobiographical writing traditionally point to a few key works to describe the emergence of a particular kind of narrative in which the…
Adam Smyth
Jun 18
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Blotting out
The descrypcyon of Englonde, ‘Enprynted in flete strete in ye sygne of the sone By me Wynkyn de Worde’ in 1502, is a history of Britain. It’s a mix of…
Adam Smyth
Jun 2
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Self-narrating books: Henry Dugdale Sykes and Wynkyn de Worde
One of the features of books is their tendency to describe their own history: as the bibliographer and literary critic D.F. McKenzie wrote, ‘every book…
Adam Smyth
May 24
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Preamble the churl’s banshee
One form of creativity-through-constraint practised by Jean Lescure and Raymond Queneau and those French writers who in the 1960s styled themselves…
Adam Smyth
May 17
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Cutting up Spenser and Shakespeare
A brief experiment in cutting up poetry. I wondered what would happen if I tried to patch together an Edmund Spenser poem using William Shakespeare’s…
Adam Smyth
May 5
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Slicing the page: Christophe Leutbrewer and Raymond Queneau
If you are having trouble remembering your sins in seventeenth-century France – if you feel you need some kind of spiritual prompt – then you could do…
Adam Smyth
Apr 22
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Concurrency
In an article called ‘Printers of the Mind’, published in 1969, the bibliographer D.F. McKenzie unraveled certain fundamental assumptions imagined and…
Adam Smyth
Mar 31
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Library stamps
In a hands-on ritual that has now largely been replaced by the beep of a bar code reader, borrowing a library book for many decades involved the…
Adam Smyth
Mar 4
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Place through time (where New Oxford Street meets Museum Street)
If you are a bibliophile in London in the second half of the nineteenth century – or if you are any kind of reader at all – it’s likely you spend a good…
Adam Smyth
Feb 23
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