Top 10 books about solitary living ( www.theguardian.com )
The Artful Imperfection of Medieval Manuscript Repair ( www.atlasobscura.com )
e-book from Evie Snow, free today ( sunny.garden )
Writer George Penney (who also writes wonderful posts about house-sitting adventures with feline overlords in various countries and is an entertaining follow) just posted this on Mastodon:...
The Essential Ursula K. Le Guin ( www.nytimes.com )
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The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco. ( www.nytimes.com )
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[ITA] Canale Telegram per riassunti di letteratura e panieri compilati eCampus ( t.me )
‘What we publish will stay with you’: inside a small but mighty literary hit factory ( www.theguardian.com )
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Read Your Way Through Hanoi ( www.nytimes.com )
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The Booker Prize Foundation is partnering with Prisons in the UK to support reading groups ( lithub.com )
Working with the Booker Prize Foundation, Dua Lipa recently visited HMP Downview, a women’s prison in Surrey, to get a firsthand glimpse of Books Unlocked, a program set up by the BPF and the National Literacy to foster a culture of reading for incarcerated people. Lipa, who recently launched a book club of her own, said of...
Nobody Ever Read American Literature Like This Guy Did ( www.nytimes.com )
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Booksellers sue over Texas law requiring them to rate books for appropriateness ( www.texastribune.org )
Gogou, Katerina: Athens' anarchist poetess, 1940-1993 ( libcom.org )
50 Books | 50 Covers ( www.aiga.org )
2022 winners of the AIGA competition for best designed books and covers of the year. I’ve bought more than a few books specifically because of the cover design and there are several of the winners here that I’ve added to my “to read” list. As much as I read digitally, I still love the physicality of books and think that...
Frankenstein Everyday Just Started ( frankensteineveryday.substack.com )
A Dracula Daily fan made a substack for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which comes to your inbox on the days that Dracula Daily doesn’t. It’s just getting started, so I wanted to share the link for anyone who might want to get onboard before the plot picks up! Frankenstein / The Modern Prometheus really is so good. Sci fi...
Masha du Toit's ebooks available across platforms, free until 31st July ( masha.co.za )
Masha du Toit is celebrating the release of their books on 7 new platforms by making them free until 31st July (except on Amazon because Amazon has other ideas). Sci-fi and fantasy, LGBTQ....
The Far Invisible: Thomas Pynchon as America’s Theologian | Alan Jacobs ( hedgehogreview.com )
A master class in close reading, and a towering analysis of novelist Thomas Pynchon. Really good piece for being an essay published in a relatively laid-back periodical.
2023 Hugo Awards Finalists ( www.thehugoawards.org )
Before she was killed by a Russian missile strike, novelist Victoria Amelina wrote about Ukraine and the meaning of home ( web.archive.org )
The Most Popular Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Horror Books of the Year (So Far) ( www.goodreads.com )
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Beatrix Potter, the unlikely hero of the anti-hustle culture movement ( www.vox.com )
The Virtue of Owning Books You Haven’t Read: Why Umberto Eco Kept an “Antilibrary” ( www.openculture.com )
[…] Eco separated his visitors into two categories: “those who react with ‘Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have. How many of these books have you read’ and the others — a very small minority — who get the point is that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendages but a research tool.”
‘Journalism mustn’t be silenced’: colleagues to complete slain reporter’s book ( www.theguardian.com )
