@Bugg_JW

Romanticism, book culture, peace studies. Currently writing a cultural history of City Lights Books for Scribner.

 New York, USA
fordhamromanticism.org
Joined January 2015
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So honored to learn that my book British Romanticism and Peace has received the 2023 Marilyn Gaull Book Award from the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association. Many thanks to the WCA and The Wordsworth Circle as well.
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"Occasionally, very occasionally, a book comes along that reorients one’s views about the Romantic Period ... John Bugg’s book, Romanticism and Peace, is such a book." Thank you to Heidi J. Snow for this review in the latest edition of ERR. tinyurl.com/yzce43p8 @OUPAcademic
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Parisian vibes on the Upper East Side today
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Venice beach courts on Boxing Day
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Magic in Laurel Canyon
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John Bugg retweeted
ZYZZYVA@zyzzyvamag15 Nov 2023
We’re pulling for Paul Yamazaki, the revered @CityLightsBooks book buyer who will receive the Literarian Award at tonight’s @nationalbook Awards. In 2017, we published a lively conversation between Paul and bookseller @rs_sparks. You can read it here: zyzzyva.org/2020/10/19/passi…
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Autumn issue of the Keats-Shelley Review now out, marking the bicentenary of Mary Shelley's Valperga. Guest edited by @Bugg_JW, with contributions from Lilla Maria Crisafulli, Keir Elam, @drlaurakirkley and Elisabetta Marino, and latest from @Keats_Shelley tandfonline.com/toc/yksr20/c…

The Keats-Shelley Review

Volume 39, Issue 2 of The Keats-Shelley Review

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Come work with us as an Editorial Assistant to the Editorial Director! Learn how to apply: groveatlantic.com/careers
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Paul is an absolute hero to so many of us in publishing. His ceaseless curiosity, adventurousness, moral courage, alertness to subterranean currents, and, above all, sense of fun will always be an inspiration to readers, writers, and publishers alike.
National Book Foundation@nationalbook6 Sep 2023
We are thrilled to announce that Paul Yamazaki, principal buyer at @CityLightsBooks, will receive the 2023 Literarian Award at the 74th National Book Awards Ceremony, presented to him by @mitchellakaplan of @BooksandBooks! | @latimes @latimesbooks latimes.com/entertainment-ar…

The quintessential California bookseller behind City Lights gets his moment

Van Nuys native Paul Yamazaki, a longtime veteran of San Francisco landmark City Lights, will receive a lifetime honor at the National Book Awards next month.

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Coming soon… a new article cluster in the Keats-Shelley Review on Mary Shelley’s novel Valperga, published 200 years ago! Many thanks to KSR editor @james_grande @Keats_Shelley
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View of the Strand from the mezzanine / we need some Bronx postcards
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Underwood Universal “Golden Touch” (1950s) My goodness…
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Upcoming #Byron200 event: "Byron and the Mediterranean 'Cult of the South': A bicentennial Symposium." Fantastic keynote speakers include K-SAA's very own @OmarFMiranda and Distinguished Scholar Award winner Greg Kucich. More on the blog: k-saa.org/blog/byronsymposiu…
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Heavenly day in Hell’s Kitchen
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In his first lecture as the Mullarkey Chair, Stephen Hong Sohn noted that “Asian American literature always responds to the historical moment"—from the incarceration of Japanese Americans to 9/11 to COVID. news.fordham.edu/university-…

Asian American Literature: Responding to the Moment

How did COVID-19 impact Asian American literature and Asian American lives? That was the question Professor Stephen Hong Sohn explored in his inaugural lecture as the newly installed Thomas F.

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This is great news for locals and anyone visiting #SanFrancisco! Visit @CityLightsBooks pre or post-theatre, before or after your favorite pizza or trip to Specs'!
City Lights Books@CityLightsBooks19 Apr 2023
Starting today, City Lights will be open seven days a week from 10am-10pm. We’re so delighted about our new schedule since part of our mission is to ensure all readers with a number of daily obligations would still be able to find some time to stop by for a visit.
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Happy National Poetry Month! To celebrate, our booksellers created a Jewel box window display that is a tribute to City Lights’s Pocket Poet Series. Just one of the ways we are looking back on our successes as we turn 70! You can shop the series here: citylights.com/pocket-poets-…
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"British Romanticism and Peace is a timely, pathbreaking book, arriving at a moment when peace, past and present, remains a pressing matter." Many thanks to Andrea Haslanger for this thoughtful review of my latest book, British Romanticism and Peace. tinyurl.com/2p8an6m9
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Over the last two years, our Norton Literature Team surveyed over 2,000 current & former English students to ask what their English degree has meant to them. While you can go to seagull.wwnorton.com/NSEM to see the full report, here are some highlights #iwasanenglishmajor
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Stunning sky in the Bronx this evening.
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