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Chris Wolak
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Reader, writer, podcaster (Book Cougars). Reference & instruction librarian.🏳️‍🌈 Book/library/history blog: chriswolak.com
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We spent today at Book Cougars HQ recording Ep 204 which includes an Author Spotlight with Allison Pataki. Her novel FINDING MARGARET FULLER is available now. Episode drops on 3/26. #bookcougars#recordingday#historicalfiction#allisonpataki#findingmargaretfuller#womenshistorymonth

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“Consequences” is more psychological suspense than paranormal, although it has horror elements. Shades of James, Hawthorne, and Poe, to which I would add Oscar Wilde (and fast forward with a dash of Stephen King).

"Consequences" by Willa Cather • Response Post #WCSSP2024 • Chris Wolak • Stay Curious
"Consequences" by Willa Cather • Response Post #WCSSP2024 • Chris Wolak • Stay Curious

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Yesterday, I visited one of my favorite places in New Haven, The Institute Library. It was founded in 1826 as the Young Men's Institute. It is a membership library, but everyone is welcome to come inside to browse, read, or work at a table. You just have to be a member to check out books.

View inside of a library looking through an arch with the words "instructions: create what you long for" written above. Books line the walls and decorated canoe paddles hang from the ceiling.
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It is SO good!

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Is that a headboard??

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The Fall/Winter 2023 issue of The American Archivist just published. It features a Special Section on Middle Eastern and North African Archives.  There’s also a book review by yours truly. This link takes you to my review, and you can explore the issue from there. doi.org/10.17723/232...

Archives 101
Archives 101

Archives 101 by Lois Hamill is part of the American Association for State and Local History Book Series co-published with Rowman & Littlefield, which currently includes 84 titles. This relatively slim...

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Only eight more stories to go in The Willa Cather Short Story Project. We started reading one Cather short story a month way back in February 2019. Who knew Cather published so much short fiction?!

January Reminder #WCSSP2024 • Chris Wolak • Stay Curious
January Reminder #WCSSP2024 • Chris Wolak • Stay Curious

Reading reminder for the Willa Cather Short Story Project, January 2024. "Behind the Singer Tower," published in Collier's on May 18, 1912

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BiographyLab Returns in January! Join biographers James McGrath Morris, Janice P. Nimura, and Ray A. Shepard for an online forum on the craft of biography. BONUS: Kai Bird’s plenary session, “My Wild Ride as a Biographer.” Free for BIO members and students. $60 General Admission. Register here:

Biography Lab 2024
Biography Lab 2024

BIO invites participants at all levels of interest in the craft of biography to participate in three forums led by prize-winning biographers

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Chris Wolak
@chriswolak.bsky.social
Reader, writer, podcaster (Book Cougars). Reference & instruction librarian.🏳️‍🌈 Book/library/history blog: chriswolak.com
67 followers72 following37 posts