#Book

1) Thread for literature scholars and psychology researchers, both of whom will be cranky with me but for different reasons. Let’s talk about ‘Literary’ versus ‘Popular’ or ‘Genre’ fiction in
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My personal @PrizeRofc longlist from books I've read. Not a prediction - many books from wonderful publishers I haven't read, and the one-book rule means those I've listed may not
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free time and dreams being taken up with how to make the physical space of the archive real to students who can't leave their homes. the dust from Steedman's Dust
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It’s frustrating writing a middle grade book about 6-8 graders doing stuff kids do in 6-8 grade while knowing it’ll likely be flagged as inappropriate because 3-5 graders may read
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I really don't think stories really need conflict between everyone and I don't think characters always need to develop, and I'm really noticing that I don't want to watch movies
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book thread of "The New Totalitarians" by Roland Huntford The Swedish Social Democratic Party has been in power for 81 of the last 103 years.Their longest streak in power was
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There seems to be an assumption by many on both sides of the #DisruptTexts debate that there is a conflict between classic texts and diverse texts. I have to admit
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Pandemic-related school discourse illuminates the fact that public schooling is conceived for the adults' benefit, not the kids'.Thread, tagging fellow parents of young kids and folks with an interest in
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Recently @KishWidyaratna explained exactly why Amazon reviews are so important. I was just under the impression that lots of gold stars meant people were more inclined to buy books when
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As I have argued, conservative free enterprisers depicted the state and the trade union as the only forces constraining freedom. They underemphasized corporate power or denied it altogether by imagining
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I have a challenge for aspiring professional comic book writers:Write a script without any narrative captions at all. No running monologue. Nothing beyond location captions.Captions are often a crutch for
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Do you know who this man is?If you want to take the next step toward IDENTIFYING your false beliefs and PROTECTING yourself from being further brainwashed by people you trust,
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Literature is deeply personal, and books resonate with readers for MANY reasons. i had students who loved TSL; others hated it. Some LOVED Great Expectations; i HATE IT. Some loved
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Interesting information I read today.There lived a music prodigy from Madurai in late 1800sand early 1900s by name Pushpavanam Iyer.He lived for just 28 years. He had such voice culture
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In September, @APStylebook (AP’s rules book for Journos) tweeted that “focusing on rioting and property destruction rather than underlying grievance has been used in the past to stigmatize broad swaths
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If your home is safe, sanitary, and you can find your stuff, it is clean. Everything else is subjective. I promise. To figure out your minimum level of clean grab
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