#Literary

DPL staff were challenged to create interpretive “art” using household objects inspired by a literary work! Take a look at all of their creations and vote for your fave. Feeling
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I am reviewing manuscripts for academic publishers – a few thoughts. 1) For scholarly books the most important chapter is the intro. This cannot be stressed enough. It lays down
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okay it’s apparently time for me to read this and get mad on behalf of myself and everyone else who has been writing about asexuality in books for yearshttps://twitter.com/ElectricLit/status/1308435889261916160 I’d
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Today I'm giving a shout out to a bunch of awesome Aussie authors on my TBR pile, so I did literal interpretations of their titles PS. I'm sorry. First
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To celebrate #StGeorgesDay / #WorldBookDay, I'm giving away 6 books that I've enjoyed in 2021—plus one bonus gift!To enter the drawings, just retweet this and click "like" on at least
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I’m skeptical of this. C19 authors were not *forced* to use masculine pseudonyms; literary writing has always been a practice of imaginative self-fashioning. However well intentioned, this project undermines the
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Hm, people are always alright with BingQiu until the topic of their dubcon First Time appears.I want you to first consider: what narrative purpose does it serve, for mxtx to
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A thread of Lil's CQL/MDZS translation notes! *Translation is a slippery art, so these are not objective facts. These are literary interpretations. *I do not work as a translator. I
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Please sign this about the Leipzig Book Fair and its inability to include any Black or PoC finalists in their book prize this year. Structural racism in Dland remains. #AllzuWeiss
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There's a whole pseudo post modern style of writing that just uses obnoxious spacing "clackety clack" onomatopoeias&references alt to unknown acquaintances (Red Sullivan and C Houstom) &giants ( the advertised
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I don't think I have much ability and talent which has often prevented me from writing more or pushed me to try write better I have fairly modest writing ambitions
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#Thread. I took time to think this through. As a contracted writer with @BloomsburyIndia, I am aghast at the crass, unethical way in which @BloomsburyIndia has behaved with @advmonikaarora ,
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1. I have a few thoughts on the CIA, literary modernism, abstract expressionism, Nina Simone, heavy metal music, torture podcasting, and, for old times sake, Jack Kirby. 2. There's been
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László Krasznahorkai in an interview he gave while attending a literary festival in Romania a few years ago:"I do not believe in short sentences, because, in my opinion, short sentences
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I've never felt defensive about the enterprise of criticism. I understand critical essays to be just that—a subspecies of essay, and the essay is a literary art. Unlike most forms
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It has come to my attention that there is someone out there impersonating me on the phone and calling hopeful authors to offer them "contracts." I'm trying to get to
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