Can't quite get my head round it, but INDEX was the second most critically-acclaimed nonfiction book in the States this year! (Pipped by Elena flipping Ferrante!?!) 🍾🥳🤩 https://t.co/dRg9J80pdb

I really enjoyed answering @MathewJLyons questions about my favourite books, which brought out patterns I hadn't noticed in the things I like. I'd recommend to anyone having a think about how you'd answer. https://t.co/YHtWbBSf10

Did the Middle Ages really happen? Couple of recent reviews of Marcus Glatt's "The Greatest Hoax in History".

A blog about Perec, cafes, and what I did on my birthday https://t.co/ZGlWRyvvLo

A little blog about Posh Spice and What We Talk About When We Talk About Reading https://t.co/rU4kxjHXO3

Would *you* return a puppy to a Mr D'Wolf? Some thoughts on a two-hundred-year-old lost dog poster. https://t.co/cCDjVp44wT

Still circling around scraps, a blog about Donne, Hamlet, Virginia Woolf and metaphors of people as books. https://t.co/RW1thHebLF

I did a little diary for the @Lit_Review about picking up scraps in the street. https://t.co/6kgF5msULQ

I've written a blog on HOW TO DO THE UFFIZI (and St Augustine's wastepaper basket) https://t.co/GbLOjlGHsm

"Don't Eat the Trifle!" A little thing I wrote about Freud, Agatha Christie & Dorothy L. Sayers https://t.co/zdOI9jNoQZ

Looking at guitars on the internet. Here’s a brand I hadn’t heard of before.

A short blog I wrote on the things people have in their pockets. Also contains instructions on how to look after a duck. https://t.co/OoBfl6kzl3

"Why did everyone think it was so funny?" A little blog I wrote about The Bill-Poster's Dream - an example of the nineteenth-century genre of art depicting walls covered in posters. https://t.co/XxkoYeTWgB

You know that thing in detective films/stories where the sleuth makes a pencil rubbing from the top sheet of a notepad to reveal the impression of the last message written? Where have you seen this? Is it ever in Agatha Christie?

“Almost every second person on Earth speaks Indo-European.” I reviewed “Proto” by @lfspinney, all about the spread of the biggest language family on Earth.

On "The Importance of Being Ernst". (I've started blogging some thoughts for my book on ephemera. Please do take a look.) https://t.co/bCtK0u80nd

If you pick up a @nytimes today, have a look at the books section. I’ve got a fun piece in it about spelling reforms.

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“At what point do you find yourself saying, ‘Oh, stop it!’?”—@djbduncan https://t.co/uIXngpjrXo

I rivyood a kupl uv fun buks abowt thee Inglish langwij

… then this a few pages later. If only the @Lit_Review’s editors had used *this* headline for *that* article!