#Literary

Clara Foster

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You know what phrase I hate in reviews? 'Easy to read'. As though in order to have true value a piece of writing needs to be complex to the point

Saint (S.T.) Gibson

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Personally I love reading the occasional piece of unwoke literature by a dead rich white man. I love sucking the marrow of everything good and beautiful out of it, tossing

Jenny Bhatt

jennybhatt

Looking for South Asian literary crime noir fiction recommendations, friends. Not horror, mind you.I know of a handful of Indian writers and one Pakistani writer. Surely there are more?I'm thinking

mandle in the wind

dmbutopia

The new Kim Stanley Robinson novel looks as if it's been scientifically calculated to irritate me. KSR's often touted as a utopian, but one who tends to realism. But it's

Ryan Boyd

ryandroyd

i love it when writers are like “buhhh i should just write ROMANCE, it would be so much EASIER” as though writing a good sex scene isn’t the hardest and

The Wild Gees

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As it's #BookShopDay let's have another book thread :) The Art of the Glimpse, a new anthology of Irish short stories collected and edited by #WildGees fav @sineadgleeson includes lesser

Alex de Campi

alexdecampi

Gather round, writers. Let’s talk about what literary agents do and whether you need one. This is mainly going to be oriented towards comics/graphic novel people but prose folks, I’ll

the notorious liz

LizzezFaire

Do y’all want to talk about “Shoulder Lean”? The fucking classic! The slant rhymes all in the lyrics would impress any literary genius. “I take breath. The opposite of Primatine

Gondal

XGONDALX

1-FAMOUS EPILEPTICSIf stated Muhammad suffered from TLE, many reply that an Epileptic could not have authored the Quran or led armies. We will analyze historical figures with Epilepsy to dispel

Quenby Olson's Mom Has Notes

QEisenacher

So here's the thing about those light, fluffy books that some people like to look down upon. I'm writing a dragon rescue scene right now. With comedic elements. Will this

Lisa Factora-Borchers

LFB27

An Editorial Note about Disability Justice A few years ago, I was asked to step in as a book editor for CARE WORK: DREAMING OF DISABILITY JUSTICE by Leah Lakshmi

chica marx

mckenziewark

The defining characteristic of bourgeois literature its claims to property rights over other people's pain. (aka the Maggie Nelson effect) You can read it via gender as well. Kate Zambreno's

Clare Mackintosh ✈️ #HostageBook

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There's a lot I think I can do differently to support #BlackLivesMatter in publishing, so I've drawn up an action plan. I've spoken to lots of white authors who

Suyi Davies Okungbowa

IAmSuyiDavies

I'm curious: when you rate a book, what exactly does your rating mean?Is it, "I'm rating this according to how it suits my own tastes" or is it "I'm rating

The Irrational Investor

position_trader

A thread consolidating all the book reviews, notes and highlights I have posted on Twitter in the past one year. Hope to keep on adding to this list as we

Kathleen Fitzpatrick

kfitz

A thread in which I admittedly crow a bit about something I figured out this semester but am mostly grateful to those who helped me along the way: I’ve mentioned