A new memoir tries to mend the pieces of the author's broken Cuban-Jewish family ( www.jta.org )
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Hi, I read a lot of poetry in several different languages and for a while now I’ve been looking for poetry (preferably in Spanish) by contemporary uruguayan poets. I’ve read a lot of dead uruguayan poets, but I would like to get a better understanding for what is out there that is more current. I wonder if anybody has any...
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:...
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I reported it as not working a day or two ago. They last updated it in 2021 or before but their support claims it’s still working. I stream using a single screen and so far I’ve been using the Steam overlay browser with some transparency but I’d like to be able to view chat without background with the text having borders...
I reported it as not working a day or two ago. They last updated it in 2021 or before but their support claims it’s still working. I stream using a single screen and so far I’ve been using the Steam overlay browser with some transparency but I’d like to be able to view chat without background with the text having borders...
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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...
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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...
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 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....
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.