#Literature
I don't mean to alarm anyone, but I used what I've learned in my English master's program about doing fast-paced yet reliable research at work this week.
Why not ask a building or a park the questions we would ask a poem or a painting: questions about the histories they tell about this place, and about how they accommodate it to our gazes and our bodies so that we can inhabit it? https://tinyurl.com/2s4khnuz #landscape #anthropocene #wasteocene #capitalocene #latinamerica #books #academia #art #film #literature
#ReadTheRainbow: #LGBTQ+ #books for all ages, #recommended by #KansasCity’s #librarians
In honor of #PrideMonth, we asked #librarians at the #KansasCity #PublicLibrary (KCPL) for their #LGBTQ+ #book #recommendations for #readers of all ages.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Missouri #Pride #PrideMonth #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Representation #Culture
https://www.kansascity.com/kc-city-guides/tips/article276240696.html#storylink=cpy
Rock Me On the Water: 1974, the Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics by Ronald Brownstein #books #literature #dedication
I've just read this #novel by Vladimir #Zazubrin and I feel I should preach about it. A thing that shocks me is how poorly known it is. As far as I can find, these are the only #translations in Western European languages, the #Wikipedia page about the author doesn't even have an English version. Decades of #censorship by the #USSR worked.
This should be a classic of mandatory reading, the other side of "If this is a man" by Primo Levi, the point of view of the executioner.
I read Gravity’s Rainbow in the year 2000 and the only thing I really remember about it is how good the banana pancakes sound in that one scene. Thank you for hipping me to what is truly the best pancake variety, Mr. Pynchon. #literature #pancakes
Book 28, 2023: All the Birds Singing by Evie Wyld. Really liked this, and the way she told two stories in two timelines. Suspenseful and intriguing. And sheep. Lots of sheep. #books #reading #fiction #literature Right, back to Ducks, Newburyport now…
**Wow! Just did a bit of a deep-dive into my Writing summaries/notes/journals going back some 10-15 years**
Amazingly I used to actually get stuff done. LOL! This was back when I was seriously trying to make a living as a writer.
Kinda shaking my head.... gonna have to go take a walk and mull this all over....or maybe even cogitate it a bit...
Enjoy!
#writing #literature #life
'These novels remain, at their core, beholden to a vision of liberatory combat against the exploiters and the expropriators.'
Fascinating. Get stuck in!
#literature #sciencefiction #fantasy
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/02/the-global-class-war-in-five-novels/
@gutenberg_org. Many moons ago, my mother insisted I read a #Dickens novel before reading what I really wanted to read -- #LoveStory. I chose #DavidCopperfield. Thanks mom for helping me to become someone who loves #reading (no matter what!) and #literature and writes about it for a living!
The Sergeant-Major warned me not
To wish, but like a fool I thought
No harm would come from trying it.
And though it’s true, I must admit,
That I received two hundred pounds,
I can’t ignore those knocking sounds
That make me wish I’d never wished
Upon that little mummy’s fist.
#poetry #smallpoems #riddlepoems #classic #victorian #ghoststory #ghosts #horror #shortstory #literature #poetrycommunity
Antonio Machado House-Museum in Segovia, Spain
Poet Antonio Machado's former residence offers the quintessential Castilian lifestyle of the provincial towns in the early 20th century.
Antonio Machado House-Museum
A River's Ruse
Four Short Stories
June 9-11
Author Sale 50-75%
US, UK, CA, EU, AU and NZ
Promo for eBooks: Tolino, Nook, Apple Books, Kobo and Vivlio.
https://www.thalia.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1068904818
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-rivers-ruse-chris-handrahan/1143594367?ean=2940167397040
Find the book,
https://books2read.com/ariver-s-ruse
#StitchedInkMedia #StitchedInkBooks #books #Fiction #Writing #Creativity #StitchedInkBooks #Publishing #Art #Environment #bookstodon #BooksofMastodon #Fediverse #Literature #Time #shortstory #artistsonmastodon #Fediart
The first dime novel was published #OTD in 1860. It was called "Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter", by Ann S. Stephens, and it was the 1st of 321 novels published by Beadle & Adams in their series Beadle's Dime Novels.
The term dime novel has been used as a catchall term for several different but related forms, referring to story papers, five- and ten-cent weeklies, "thick book" reprints, & sometimes early pulp magazines. via @wikipedia
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
Read the first reviews of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
By Dan Sheehan via @LitHub
"For Mr Orwell, the most honest writer alive, hypocrisy is too dreadful for laughter: it feeds his despair."
https://lithub.com/read-the-first-reviews-of-george-orwells-nineteen-eighty-four/
Take a look at at Rimbaud's only known draft of "A Season in Hell" right now @𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞́𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐥𝐚 𝐁𝐧𝐅. https://twitter.com/laBnF/status/1666807296763019264
"Une saison en enfer" by Arthur Rimbaud is available at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56668
‘Force does not work the way its advocates think in fact it does.
It does not, for example, reveal to the victim the strength of the adversary.
On the contrary, it reveals the weakness, even the panic of the adversary.’
—James Baldwin
#blackmastodon #BlackFedi #quotes #activism #literature #politics #news
Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine's Unbecoming by Lyle Jeremy Rubin #books #literature #dedication
Novelaza 🖤
#literature #literatura #novel #sextopiso #giuliacaminito #italian
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else."
Charles John Huffam Dickens died #OTD in 1870.
Dickens edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed readings extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, for education, and for other social reforms.
Charles Dickens at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37
Bertha von Suttner was born #OTD in 1843.
In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate (after Marie Curie in 1903), the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first Austrian laureate.
Books by Bertha von Suttner at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7643
PISTOL: Why, then the world's mine oyster.
Which I with sword will open.
— The Merry Wives of Windsor, II, ii
I feel like my middle age has been about reading fewer #books, older and older ones, and reading them repeatedly. Gawain and the Green Knight is another classic I’ve become slightly obsessed by in the last five or six years. Armitage’s translation seems excellent to me: musical and lively, its occasional anachronistic language not disruptive or heavy-handed. #literature #classics
#BernardineEvaristo’s ‘vitally important’ #queer #novel #MrLoverman to become new #BBC #drama
#Women #LGBTQ #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #TV #Representation #Culture #RoleModels #BlackMastodon
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/08/mr-loverman-bernadine-evaristo-bbc-adaptation-lennie-james/
#MyOwnWorstEnemy is out today, 8 June
The #book is a #gift for the #butch #community, offering up an unheard of dose of #representation. The second of #LilyLindon’s #novels, the book follows the mid-twenties, drama-filled existence of aspiring #actor and #butch #lesbian, #EmmyClooney (no relation)
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Representation #Culture
https://diva-magazine.com/2023/06/08/meet-lily-lindon-author-of-butch-centred-romcom/
Despite #BookBans, #LGBTQ+ #Fiction #Sales Soar.
Between May 2022 and May 2023, 6.1 million #LGBTQ+ #fiction #books were #sold.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Representation #Culture
Nearly half #UK #adults believe #LGBTQ+ #representation #important in #storytelling – #study
This number almost doubles (82%) among those #surveyed from the #LGBTQIA+ #community.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Business #Audible #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Poetry #Books #Memoirs #Speeches #Pride #PrideMonth #Representation #Culture
Ein Buch, das ich mit großer innerer Beteiligung gelesen habe und zwei der Bücher, die ich beim Lesen aus dem Regal nehmen konnte, um die von Mark Yakich nur teilweise zitierten Gedichte vollständig lesen zu können. (Inklusive meines Lesebestecks – Drehbleistift, Textmarker, Lineal) (Bücher selbst gekauft und gelesen. Keine Kooperation. Kein Honorar. Keine Werbung.) #literature #poetry #books #bücher #gedichte #lyrik #fedilz #deutsch #english
A book that I read with great inner involvement and two of the books that I was able to pull off the shelf while reading, to read in full the poems that Mark Yakich only partially quoted. (Including my reading kit - mechanical pencil, highlighter, ruler). (Bought and read books myself. No cooperation. No payment. No advertising. ) #literature #poetry #books
The Happiest Toddler on the Block: How to Eliminate Tantrums and Raise a Patient, Respectful, and Cooperative One- to Four-Year-Old by Harvey Karp, M.D. #books #literature #dedication
Kotaku: Your First Look At Henry Cavill's Last Season As Netflix's Witcher https://kotaku.com/netflix-henry-cavill-the-witcher-trailer-ciri-season-3-1850515337 #gaming #tech #kotaku #theladyofthelake #timeofcontempt #creativeworks #geraltofrivia #liamhemsworth #henrycavill #thewitcher #literature #warnerbros #yennefer #thehexer #netflix #witcher #fiction #geralt #emhyr #ciri
The Moncrieff edition of À la recherche du temps perdu is now on Standard eBooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/marcel-proust/in-search-of-lost-time/c-k-scott-moncrieff #theLibrary #Proust #literature
Still wet with seaweed, muck and brine,
The Oracle speaks: “Now leave this shrine
With veiled heads and dress unbound,
And cast behind you on the ground
Your mother’s bones.” We can’t profane
Our ancestors—we must explain
This riddle in some other way.
So we throw stones and walk away.
#poetry #smallpoems #riddlepoems #mythology #literature #classic #epic #poem #ancientrome #roman #ancientgreece #metamorphosis #poetrycommunity
As today is the anniversary of its first publication in 1949, I thought I'd share one of my favourite book cover designs for one of my favourite books
The redacted title can be read if held at a certain angle revealing Nineteen Eighty-Four beneath
I'm not sure if this is by design or poor quality printing but the black boxes wear off the book as you read it. I like to think this is on purpose
**Becoming a Writer at Shakespeare & Co.**
https://themillions.com/2023/06/becoming-a-writer-at-shakespeare-co.html
The Soulmate Equation by Christina LaurenMy rating: 4 of 5 stars“People who believe in soulmates commonly accept that one will feel 'complete' once they have found their soulmate, as it is partially in the perceived d
https://turing.mailstation.de/the-soulmate-equation-by-christina-lauren/
#BookReview #Book #Family #Humour #Review #Romance #bücherliebe #booklove #buchblog #bookblog #lesen #reading #literatur #literature #BooksOfMastodon #Bookstadon @bookstodon #bookstodon #BookReview
Even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.
#GeorgeOrwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four
8 Jun 1949
#literature #authors #dystopia
https://youtu.be/vhXfln33DVA
"L'amour-propre est un si étrange conseiller qu'il nous arrive cent fois par jour d'être, grâce à lui, en pleine contradiction avec nous-mêmes."
Lavinia , 1833
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil died #OTD in 1876.
Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era, with more than 50 volumes of various works to her credit, alongside her 70 novels. via @wikipedia
Books by George Sand at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/851
"When men yield up the exclusive privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."
Thomas Paine died #OTD in 1809.
Paine's critique of institutionalized religion and advocacy of rational thinking influenced many British freethinkers in the 19th and 20th centuries, such as William Cobbett, George Holyoake, Charles Bradlaugh, Christopher Hitchens and Bertrand Russell. via @wikipedia
Books by Thomas Paine at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/91
John Everett Millais was born #OTD in 1829.
He was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The Brotherhood believed the Classical poses and elegant compositions of Raphael in particular had been a corrupting influence on the academic teaching of art, hence the name "Pre-Raphaelite".
Books about John Everett Millais at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41648
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published #OTD in 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime.
Nineteen Eighty-Four has become a classic literary example of political and dystopian fiction. It also popularised the term "Orwellian" as an adjective, with many terms used in the novel entering common usage. via @wikipedia
Reading the newest TC Boyle novel coincides with the news of "worst air quality ever" in NYC. That's the exact scenario Boyle explains as the new normal..
"Queen Camilla has been revealed as a page-folder. But that’s nothing compared with the punishments some people inflict on their paperbacks." #books #literature #reading #novels #bookmark #paperback
Novel crimes: which is worst – folded corners, cracked spines, marginalia or cheese bookmarks? | Books | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/07/novel-crimes-which-is-worst-folded-corners-cracked-spines-marginalia-or-cheese-bookmarks
PLANTAGENET: I'll note you in my book of memory,
To scourge you for this apprehension.
— 1 Henry VI, II, iv
Turns out that the #NYT #bookreview did an experiment on LLM. As expected, the result is not exceptional (probably just derivative).
What I found enlightening, the person who used the software did had extensive writing knowledge, and that was needed to accomplish the feat.
So, maybe the LLMs don't kick out of a job the writers who make simple serialized books, just make their lives easier?
If we consider “War and Peace” a single book, it’s the longest I’ve read too.
Otherwise, it would be “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Lord of the Rings” (tied if TLOTR is a single book), and then “Ulysses”, the third volume of “In Search of Lost Time”, “Dune”…
Bookstodon, where do you purchase your books now that Bookdepository is gone?
4 sketches for #book cover —
all #art is by Egon Schiele
https://www.amazon.com/author/yahialababidi
@bookstodon #book #artist #philosophy #literature #poetry #WritingCommunity
"By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying,
Lady, make a note of this —
One of you is lying."
Unfortunate Coincidence, First printed in Life, (April 8, 1926) p. 11
Dorothy Parker died #OTD in 1967.
She was known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. via @wikipedia
Books by Dorothy Parker at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5625
"It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher."
Amelia Edwards was born #OTD in 1831.
She bequeathed her collection of Egyptian antiquities and her library to University College London. Her dedication to this science earned her the nickname of "the Godmother of Egyptology". She also supported Somerville College Library having left many books, papers and watercolours.
Books by Amelia Edwards at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2716
If This Book Exists, You're In the Wrong Universe by Jason Pargin #books #literature #dedication
From 06 Jun: J. R. R. Tolkien Writes & Speaks in Elvish, a Language He Invented for The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien was undoubtedly a storyteller, but he was even more of a world-builder. One... https://www.openculture.com/2023/06/j-r-r-tolkien-writes-speaks-in-elvish.html #language #literature
#ElliotPage’s #memoir is also an #urgent #call for #trans #rights
In ‘#Pageboy,’ the #Oscar-#nominated #actor reflects on the arc of his #career and the persistence of #antiqueer #attitudes in #hollywood
#TransMen #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #TV #Literature #Books #Representation #Culture
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/06/06/pageboy-elliot-page-memoir-review/
30 must-read #books for #NationalIndigenousHistoryMonth that'reach under the myth of #NorthAmerican #history', @bookstodon https://www.cbc.ca/books/books-to-read-national-indigenous-history-month-michelle-good-1.6860760
"Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world."
Gerhart Hauptmann died #OTD in 1946.
He is counted among the most important promoters of literary naturalism, though he integrated other styles into his work as well. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912. via @wikipedia
Books by Gerhart Hauptmann at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3226
"Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject — the actual enemy is the unknown."
Thomas Mann was born #OTD in 1875.
His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. via @wikipedia
Books by Thomas Mann at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4200
"Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world."
The Queen of Spades (1833)
Alexander Pushkin was born #OTD in 1799.
His poetic short drama "Mozart and Salieri" was the inspiration for Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus" as well as providing the libretto to Rimsky-Korsakov's opera "Mozart and Salieri." via @wikipedia
Books by Alexander Pushkin at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1457
"À vaincre sans péril on triomphe sans gloire."
Le Cid (1637)
Pierre Corneille was born #OTD in 1606. Corneille's extensive and rich work gave rise to the adjective "Cornelian", which in the expression "a Cornelian dilemma" which means an irreducible opposition between two points of view, for example an emotional or amorous option versus a moral or religious one. via @wikipedia
Books by Pierre Corneille at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/960
Today we have a replay of one of my all time favorite episodes of one of my absolute favorite podcasts.
Evolution of libraries as a friendly place for children, history of children’s literature, a historic female key player that you’ve probably never heard of and a bonus creepy doll bit. What’s not to like?!?
#99pi #bookstodon #books #literature #library #librarian #reading
Today, June 5, 1832, the Friends of the ABC erect a barricade. Éponine gives Marius a letter. Valjean sets Javert free (Les Misérables, 2012)
#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Musicals #Literature #LesMiserables
"Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature."
Stephen Crane died #OTD in 1900.
Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. via @wikipedia
Books by Stephen Crane at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/55
"A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind."
Essays in Persuasion (1931)
John Maynard Keynes was #OTD in 1883.
His ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. Originally trained in mathematics, he built on and greatly refined earlier work on the causes of business cycles. via @wikipedia
Books by John Maynard Keynes at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6280
"Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm."
"Uncle Tom's Cabin " a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, first appeared as a 40-week serial in "The National Era", an abolitionist periodical, starting with the #OTD, 1851, issue. It was originally intended as a shorter narrative that would run for only a few weeks. The final installment was released in the April 1, 1852, issue of "Era". via @wikipedia
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/203
![Title-page illustration by Hammatt Billings for Uncle Tom's Cabin [First Edition: Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1852]. Shows characters of Chloe, Mose, Pete, Baby, Tom. via @wikipedia](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/110/490/805/124/501/147/small/05d2d95c37ce74c3.jpg)
Hay Festival: Dua Lipa fan travels 3,000 miles to meet idol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-65803931
#HayFestival #Books #Literature @bookstodon #Festival #Culture #Cultural #Hay-On-Wye #Powys #Wales
I'm starting to wander if I stumbled onto a new genre of #literature or #art.
I'd sum it up in "Heirloom Fiction".
A work of art that combines some of your life experiences and lessons that you want to pass on. It can be collected and added to over the generations. Resulting art and commentary would be like a conversation through the generations.
Have you heard of or read something similar?
What do you think of it?
Want to start your own? Let's figure out what that even means!
#TVAC # ArtFED
#Heirloom #Fiction
#HeirloomFiction
I found it!
"All the Electric Things by Francine Witte"
#ShortStory #WritingCommunity #Literature #SciFi #Fantasy #Horror
https://www.ellipsiszine.com/all-the-electric-things-by-francine-witte/
"Critical philosophy implies above all historical criticism. It dissolves the rigid, unhistorical, natural appearance of social institutions; it reveals their historical origins."
György Lukács died #OTD in 1971. As a critic, Lukács was especially influential due to his theoretical developments of literary realism and of the novel as a literary genre. via @wikipedia
Die Theorie des Romans is available at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26972
Nictzin Wilstone Dyalhis was born #OTD in 1873.
He was specialized in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. He wrote as Nictzin Dyalhis. During his lifetime he attained a measure of celebrity as a writer for the pulp fiction magazine Weird Tales. via @wikipedia
Weird Tales magazine are available at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Weird+Tales+magazine&submit_search=Go%21
#ProjectGutenberg #books #literature #sciencefiction #fantasy #pulpfiction
The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded #OTD in 1917:
Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe).
Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days.
Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World. via @wikipedia
#ThirtySecondHaiku
Pizza is the best.
It's delicious, and you don't
Have to wash dishes.
🍕
OK, now you folks go!
#poetry #poems #poets
#literature
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan #books #literature #dedication
Topic: Contrarian Barbarian's Book Club (Of greatness!)
@bookstodon I'm popping this up once more, just in case anyone else wants to join before our first meeting in late June.
Is anyone out there interested in being a part of a Contrarian Barbarian's Book Club where we read whatever the hell we want individually and meet up once a month on the newly formed Contrarian Barbarian Discord server to tell each other about it for a couple of minutes each and then discuss? (All genres/fiction/non-fiction on the table.)
The key focus would be sharing books we love with other people in a positive way. It'd have the diehard rule that if you freakin' love a thing, no one can be negative about it because that would be raining on your parade and your parade is spectacular dammit!
All time zones welcome to say hi!
LGBTQIA++, disability and neurodivergent friendly, with a structure with set rules of conduct--meaning that boorishness (repeatedly talking/typing over people and not respecting boundaries) or trollishness gets booted with the might of Gandalf warding off the Balrog.
If you like the sound of this, reply to this and tell me about the book you love most with the power of the sun.
We've already got a bunch of amazing people and the more the merrier! :blobsmilehappyeyes:
#books #bookstodon #sff #horror #scifi #crimefiction #nonfiction #reading #genrefiction #scifi #mystery #literature #history #botany #romance #science #reading
Boys should be encouraged to read books about girls, says author @joannechocolat because “a boy who is afraid to read a book with a girl protagonist will grow up into a man who feels that it’s inappropriate for him to listen to a woman’s voice”.
#Literature #HayFestival
Complex systems researchers in Poland studied works of #literature across eight European languages and showed that the placement of #punctuation was very consistent within each language. #WroteThis #mathematics #writing https://www.forbes.com/sites/evaamsen/2023/05/29/punctuation-in-western-language-literature-follows-predictable-patterns/?sh=1bc643ea55c6
It's alive! The 2023 conference “#Witchcraft and the #Supernatural in Belief, Practice, and Depiction”!
Online. 26th-27th August. All day to hit different time zones. Talks recorded so you don't miss anything. Get discounted tickets for the first month.
#OnlineEvent #Conference #Academics #AcademicMastodon #Gothic #Literature #History #Horror #PopularCulture #Victorian #EarlyModern #GhostStories #Film
“This is punch-the-air poetry, the knowing in that feeling place in your gut that someone understands and can put it in words so much better than your own.”
—Alison Craig reviews Roddy Lumsden’s SO GLAD I’M ME
#Scottish #literature #poetry
3/3
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2018/07/so-glad-im-me-by-roddy-lumsden/
From 2017: Roddy Lumsden talks about his work & his collection SO GLAD I’M ME, published by Bloodaxe Books & shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize
#Scottish #literature #poetry
2/3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqcnGeFxOqM
Into perplexity: as an itch chased round
an oxter or early man in the cave mouth
watching rain-drifts pour from beyond
his understanding…
—“The Beautiful”, by Roddy Lumsden (1966–2020) – born #OTD, 28 May
Published in POETRY magazine, Dec 2008
#Scottish #literature #poetry
1/3
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/51938/the-beautiful
I am sharing this one because POSSIBILITIES
Thank you, for this fine #introduction, erudite friend.
For the love of #literature, perhaps, this new #book will interest you:
I have, in the past, described this book as the Whitechapel and Spiritbox of #literature. You'll find a have a very unconventional faith in #Jesus through this text, but most are going to assume I worship #Satan after reading it.
It's too in support of #LGBTQ rights, #antiracism, and #antifascism. It's also got some sexy bits about #ethics in the SW industry that will always seem demonic to them.
I confess the worst things I've ever done in this book.
https://jamilagebara.wixsite.com/jamgebaraisthedevil/about-5-1
If you happen to think about Argentinean #literature (probably never, but let's assume, you did), there are a couple of names, you might think of:
Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Sábato, Julio Cortázar and, just in case, you're a huge fan of #SF and #Westworld, Adolfo Bioy Casares (The Invention of Morel).
You would probably not think of Osvaldo Soriano, one of the country's most successful writers of the late XXth century, despite most of his works have been translated to English and German.
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Aphorisms, from my forthcoming #book, appeared in Tiferet #Journal — at the nexus of #literature & #spirituality — alongside #poets that I admire, such as Paul Muldoon.
https://m.youtube.com/@Yahia.Lababidi
@bookstodon #books #poetry #wisdom #SilentSunday #publishing #WritingCommunity #reading #meditation #art #peace #reading
Here’s our article on Kingsolver and the #literature of the #opioid epidemic: https://theconversation.com/barbara-kingsolvers-demon-copperhead-and-the-enduring-devastation-of-the-opioid-crisis-205378
in terms of civil & human rights, lorraine said that everyone 'must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non-violent...they must harass, debate, petition, give money to court struggles, sit-in, lie-down, strike, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps—and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.'
#theatre #literature #art #lorraineHansberry
when, at the age of 34, she died of pancreatic cancer, james baldwin said, 'it is not at all farfetched to suspect that what she saw contributed to the strain which killed her, for the effort to which Lorraine was dedicated is more than enough to kill a man'.
although she’d criticised existentialism, lorraine admired simone de beauvoir's 'the second sex' & said that women twice oppressed might be twice militant.
#art #history #lorraineHansberry #author #literature
'stop being a liberal & become an american radical.'
it's another #art #history thread for you - whether you like it or not. this one celebrates lorraine hansberry (born #otd in 1930), so what's not to love?
i'd seen a copy of her play, 'a raisin in the sun', lying on my mum's nightstand & have been intrigued ever since by its author. the work itself serves up a heap of quandaries about prejudice & social hierarchy.
#illustration #lorraineHansberry #literature #playwright #chicago
Medieval (Scottish) Gaelic literature: the case of Finn mac Cumaill
23 May, 5–6:30pm BST (6–7:30 CET), free online
Introducing the corpus of #medieval works centred on the legendary hero Finn mac Cumaill. The earliest texts are #Irish – yet, outwith the #Gaelic tradition, Finn is often seen as a #Scottish literary creation, not least because of James Macpherson’s imagining of him as Fingal in the #18thcentury
#literature #CelticStudies
@litstudies https://www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/
Edwin Muir and a Story of Europe
“Muir’s contact with Europe is significant, however, not only in a personal and literary sense, but also in a wider political context which resonates with our own early twenty-first century times. His travels in the 1920s immediately after the end of World War One, and again at the end of World War Two, tell a story of Europe itself at critical points in its history.”
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Orkney #Modernism #20thcentury
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https://blog.oup.com/2017/05/edwin-muir-story-europe/
One foot in Eden still, I stand
And look across the other land.
The world’s great day is growing late,
Yet strange these fields that we have planted
So long with crops of love and hate…
—Edwin Muir, “One Foot in Eden”
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Orkney #Modernism #20thcentury
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Old gods and goddesses who have lived so long
Through time and never found eternity,
Fettered by wasting wood and hollowing hill,
You should have fled our ever-dying song…
—Edwin Muir, “To the Old Gods”
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Orkney #Modernism #20thcentury
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“Edwin Muir (1887–1959) is a mysteriously neglected, gorgeous, and emotionally penetrating poet. Of all the many pieces of writing spurred by the Cold War and the threat of nuclear apocalypse, and of the other kinds of 20th century apocalyptic writing, his poem ‘The Horses’ may be the most effective, perhaps because it is the most calm and gentle.”
—Robert Pinsky
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Orkney #Modernism #20thcentury #postapocalypse
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https://slate.com/culture/1999/01/the-horses.html
On the second day
The radios failed; we turned the knobs; no answer.
On the third day a warship passed us, heading north,
Dead bodies piled on the deck…
—Edwin Muir, “The Horses”
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Orkney #Modernism #20thcentury #postapocalypse
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I never felt so much
Since I have felt at all
The tingling smell and touch
Of dogrose and sweet briar,
Nettles against the wall,
All sours and sweets that grow
Together or apart
In hedge or marsh or ditch…
—“A Birthday”, by Edwin Muir (1887–1959)—born #OTD, 15 May 1887
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Orkney #Modernism #20thcentury
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Fuck Amazon. It was so much easier to buy books from Book Depository.
Amazon to close Book Depository online shop https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/04/amazon-to-close-book-depository-online-shop
#Amazon #BookDepository #Books #Literature #BookStore #Bookstodon
I (Editor) love quoting #GKChesterton. He was a great #journalist whose #essay(s) are still loved today. Advocated #Distributism #Economics. What he noticed about #Millionaires 100 years ago still apply to #Billionaires today.
#HistoryRepeats. #Chesterton was a huge influence on #Fantasy #Literature today, inspiring such #Authors as #Tolkien, #Pratchett, #CSLewis, and #Gaiman, with his thoughts on #Myth, #Story, #Art, and #Narrative.