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An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (@sharpweb.org). Read Bookish Feature Articles, Book Reviews, Pedagogical Materials, and Bibliographies here: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews

A white background with blue and green stripes at the bottom; the SHARP News logo is in the center of these stripes. The text reads: Announcing: The SHARP News “SHARP in the Classroom” Editor. The SHARP News team is delighted to welcome Anushmita Mohanty as our incoming “SHARP in the Classroom” editor. Anushmita is a PhD Candidate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Welcome Anushmita! We want to thank our outgoing “SHARP in the Classroom” editor, Maureen Maryanski, for all of her work with the “In the Classroom” section. Thank you!
Call for Applicants for "SHARP in the Classroom" Editor. Applications due by 18 May 2026. The photo is of black text on a white background with the call details. See link in main post for full call details.
An announcement for the new SHARP News Bibliography Team. The text is in black on a white background with the SHARP News logo at the bottom of the photo. The text reads: The SHARP News team is delighted to welcome Julie Boechat Machado and Shu Wan as our incoming collaborative team of Bibliographers. They will be formally taking over Bibliographies starting in January 2026. Julia Boechat Machado is a PhD Candidate at Central European University in Vienna, researching Tamizdat publishers and book history in Soviet Russia. Shu Wan is currently matriculated as a doctoral student in history at the University at Buffalo.
Cover of Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650-1750.
Cover of If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi.
Cover of The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2020.
Cover of The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper.
Cover of The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623-2023: Copy, Print, Paper, Type.
Cover of Words to the Wives: The Yiddish Press, Immigrant Women, and Jewish-American Identity.
Call for Applications: SHARP NEWS Editor in Chief (2026-2032). Details of the call for Applications, which has a deadline of November 28, 2025. The role begins January 1, 2025. See the link for full call details.
Call for Applicants: SHARP News Bibliographers. The text details the call for applications for the new SHARP News Bibliographer. Please see the link in the post above to view the call, in detail, on our website.
Call for Applicants: SHARP News Bibliographers. The text details the call for applications for the new SHARP News Bibliographer. Please see the link in the post above to view the call, in detail, on our website.
Cover of the zine "Queer Book History: A tasting from SHARP's 2025 Queer Book History Bibliography." The text is in white, purple (with a 3D effect drop shadow). The background is a kind of pixel-style-black-out-poetry or redaction-looking text, with a purple printer's fist pointing down.