#Literary

Faraz Khalid

farazfaraz

Nobel Prize Winners from Lahore - A thread:Very few people know that Lahore produced as many as 4 Nobel prize winners in its history. This is, if we are taking

Kilgore Salmon

africlubguy

Democracy is interesting. It's a claim that everyone has an equal right to influence government of the polity. But does it also claim that everyone has a majority to be

Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

lhkuroda

For the past few months I’ve been working with a team of translators on the Heart Mountain Translation Project courtesy of the @HeartMountainWY Our task was to translate the

Sudhir Suryawanshi

ss_suryawanshi

Breaking: Politics in time of pandemic. Central circular asking state govts not to do any procurement of PPE, Mask, gloves, ventilators, at their level. Central govt will buy & distribute

Swordo

Swordo9

Literature, in a non-trivial sense, is inherently reactionary at heart. For instance, the great authors and artists of the twentieth century were considered reactionaries - and for good reason. Pound,

Scott B. Weingart

scott_bot

I'm going through old DH conference abstracts, and I love the William Gibson-esque details that go into some descriptions. From 1989:"The UWJ Project is currently being developed on Macintosh computers,

briar the seventh

leybeaver

my ninth grade english teacher is my friend on facebook, and the only time we ever interact is if I post something about writing. like, she bursts out of the

Anya Palmer

anyabike

Another woman summarily dismissed by a literary agency for daring to tweet her opinions on sex and gender. This is Sasha This is who she worked for. Note the slogan.

Angie Thomas

angiecthomas

You know what, a question for all of the aspiring authors out there.Do you know how to get traditionally published? Do you know what a literary agent is? A query

Dr. Rachel Schine is Booing and Hissing

RachelSchine

Ok folks, we're doing it. After a brief distraction (re: lots of stuff and little motivation) we're cracking open Beowulf, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley... ...so far the best part

stay at home nerd

alovablenerd

quarantine is just teaching my daughter that she needs to announce her favorite contestant at the beginning of a cooking show with zero knowledge of their ability and stick with

Jonny Geller

JonnyGeller

Here is a thread about What Literary Agents are looking for in New Writers:1/ A clear idea. However complex the story, a debut novel must offer a simple proposition of

Marijn "i before j" van Putten

PhDniX

Here's a very nice infographic on the development of the canonization of the Quran by @NaqadStudies. In the comments an interesting discussion developed on what "Semi-canonical Qurans" means and how

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roiroisey

I would unfollow kittydog if I were you like, I’m not even referring to stupid callout posts. You can literally go to her twitter and see a very VERY recent

jade // purple kinoko komori

catdragon16

thread of questions on literary tropes and dramatic conventions and stuff like that!! - please qrt, don't reply- keep it sfw- please put your reasons if possible and maybe rec

Katy Harvey

katyeharvey

okay literally no one asked for this but I’m drunk for the first time in over a month so here is my list of unpopular literary opinions (thread) Hillbilly elegy