Protesting the Decline of Reading (www.millersbookreview.com)
Bookish Diversions: Do Audiobooks Count? (www.millersbookreview.com)
Zodiac, a Graphic Memoir (u.osu.edu)
The 2023 Hugos: When Science Fiction Meets Political Fact (chinamediaproject.org)
Wrote my 2023 reading retrospective! (alexsirac.com)
Including:...
My books of the year (some of them). Let's discuss what we read this year. (literature.cafe)
The murky math of the New York Times bestsellers list (thehustle.co)
The booming business of audiobooks (qz.com)
Goodreads Is Terrible for Books. Why Can’t We All Quit It? (thewalrus.ca)
Do you use Goodreads or something similar like Fantastic Fiction?
“Transegmentals”: a prose poem by Zed Ander (1999) (digitalcommons.providence.edu)
She didn’t look forward to going out to meet her friend for lunch. It was two degrees, and wasn’t the fire inviting?...
“The Metaphor”: a prose poem by Douglas Blazek (1999) (digitalcommons.providence.edu)
One word is busy constructing the others. It is a carpenter creating props for a play. It takes a rock and makes it a hat. Thus there is now a rock-hat. This stuff becomes real. All that is real becomes props while all that’s not becomes the play. And somewhere in the performance the words start whispering back to us a...
Literature.cafe got mentioned in - Last Week in the Fediverse – episode 32 (fediversereport.com)
In another conversation about the server literature.cafe potentially defederating from the Hexbear server, I found this comment chain by @Janvier to be a worthwhile read. He makes the case for smaller servers to defederate from many large servers, and not only Hexbear, as a way for smaller communities to grow organically. It is...
