I can hardly wait until the release of 'The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: Volume 5', with haiku, poems and a short (fictional) story by me. Pre-orders of this beautiful e-book until 3 June for just $ /€ 4,99 instead of $/€ 9,99.
I can hardly wait until the release of 'The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: Volume 5', with haiku, poems and a short (fictional) story by me. Pre-orders of this beautiful e-book until 3 June for just $ 4,99 instead of $ 9,99.
People have always rewritten Shakespeare’s plays—let's discuss the fascinating history of adapting and altering the Bard's immortal verse... via @tordotcom
Poor Things, Rich Adaptation? Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel & Yorgos Lanthimos’s 2023 film
28 May, 6–7:30pm CEST (5–6:30 BST)
Free online
Dietmar Böhnke will assess what is arguably the highest-profile #adaptation of a #Scottish novel since TRAINSPOTTING (1996) – & will touch on Gray’s works & reputation more generally, including a #film script he wrote for #PoorThings in 1993…
American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement Margaret Fuller was born #OTD in 1810.
She was the first American female war correspondent and full-time book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States.
"The pencil moved prophetic: together now men read
In the fair book of nature, and find the hope they need.
The wreath woven by the river is by the seaside worn,
And one of fate's best arrows to its due mark is borne."
Life Without and Life Within (1859) - Prophecy and Fulfilment
"The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — these are the pillars of society."
The Pillars of Society
Norwegian Dramatist & Poet Henrik Ibsen died #OTD in 1906.
Ibsen is renowned for his pioneering work in realism, a movement in theater that sought to depict everyday life & societal issues with honesty and accuracy. He moved away from the romanticized and melodramatic styles that dominated the 19th century.
Question for fellow library nerds: I recently found a book from the 70’s which has “Return to Morgue” printed on the side no less than four times.
I’ve see this on correspondence before, but never understood what it meant. Surely they don’t mean an actual morgue (why send a book or letter there?) so I was wondering if this was a library or archivist term.
This particular one is “Investigative Reporting and Exiting” by Paul Williams, which is out of print.
Only a few pages in, this is already one of my favorite books of the year. Brilliantly written, an easy read yet so full of crucial perspective. #books#bookstodon#reading#literature#feminism
How do writers become famous? It's clear that talent is not enough. Cass R. Sunstein looks at the factors and trends that lead to literary recognition, from Oprah's Book Club to premature death. This extract from his book, "How to Become Famous: Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be," appears on LitHub.
British writer and physician Arthur Conan Doyle was born #OTD in 1859.
Doyle was a prolific writer; other than Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.
"Un jour, espérons-le, le globe sera civilisé. Tous les points de la demeure humaine seront éclairés, et alors sera accompli le magnifique rêve de l'intelligence : avoir pour patrie le Monde et pour nation l'Humanité."
Les Burgraves, 1843
"How immense the universe is!
How eternal history is!
I wanted to measure the immensity with this puny five-foot body.
What authority has Horatio's philosophy?
The true nature of the whole creation.
...
I have no anxiety.
I recognize for the first time.
Great pessimism is nothing but great optimism."
Four pages to go. Karen Tei Yamashita’s ‘I Hotel’. 605 pages, what a book! Historical fiction depicting the lives of Asian Americans in San Francisco from 1968-1977. Recommended!
Belgian poet and art critic Émile Verhaeren was born #OTD in 1855.
Verhaeren's early work was heavily influenced by the Symbolist movement, which sought to express the unseen forces and emotions behind everyday experiences through symbolic imagery and metaphor. "Les Flamandes" (1883) is his first major collection, depicting the life and customs of Flemish people.
"The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest."
English poet, translator, and satirist Alexander Pope was born #OTD in 1688.
He is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. An exponent of Augustan literature, Pope is best known for his satirical and discursive poetry including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism, and for his translations of Homer.
American activist and author Jane Addams died #OTD in 1935.
Addams co-founded Hull House, one of America's most famous settlement houses, in Chicago, Illinois, providing extensive social services to poor, largely immigrant families. In 1910, Addams was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree from Yale University, becoming the first woman to receive an honorary degree from the school.
The sound design and graphical arrangement is minimal, the (often randomly chosen) texts are written greatly – they are highly poetic, beautiful, fey ...In „A row of chairs abandoned on the beach“, humans do consequently become coast, night, and sky – but the world is turned into a living, equitable, and vivid instance in return.