In Dark Archives-captivating and macabre in all the right ways-she has crafted a narrative that is equal parts detective work, academic intrigue, history, and medical curiosity: a book as rare and thrilling as its subject. Along the way, Rosenbloom tells the story of how her team of scientists, curators, and librarians test rumored anthropodermic books, untangling the myths around their creation and reckoning with the ethics of their custodianship.Ī librarian and journalist, Rosenbloom is a member of The Order of the Good Death and a cofounder of their Death Salon, a community that encourages conversations, scholarship, and art about mortality and mourning. Dark Archives exhumes their origins and brings to life the doctors, murderers, and indigents whose lives are sewn together in this disquieting collection. Dozens of such books live on in the world's most famous libraries and museums. In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy-the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? All specialties of the Book Arts are welcome.On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin.

The primary purpose is simply to encourage the participation of BIPOC individuals in book arts education, either as students or teachers.

This may include: Tuition for a workshop at an institution or to pay for private study, funds for materials needed to teach a class, travel expenses for classes, etc. Proposals should be specific and include how you plan to use the requested funds. The grants will be awarded in sums up to $800. The Dark Archives Scholarship Fund, is funded by the organizers (Ian Kahn of Lux Mentis Books and the author of Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom) and the six binders invited to create design bindings of the book, Dark Archives. “The Guild of Book Workers is pleased to offer several micro-grants or scholarships to any individual identifying as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) to be used to take or teach a book arts class. My hero, Mary Roach, gave my book, Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science & Megan Rosenbloom on LinkedIn: During these quarantimes, happy tears are most welcome. Please share with anyone you feel might be able to benefit.

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