✦ a digital literary archive ✦
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November 8, 2014. That’s when I posted my first photo of a stack of books on Instagram under the username @cityofdeja and joined a book-centered community aptly named ‘Bookstagram.’ In 2014, I was reading anything and everything labeled “young adult” and consuming BookTube video reviews on those very YA novels. Fast forward to 2024, and