#Literary

Claire G. Coleman

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Want a summary of the history of prejudices in publication and reviewing of books?Miles Franklin's full name was Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin but she used male sounding pseudonyms to

Honest Injun

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All Indian languages should be and are National languages with equal weight. Just as Canada does with it's 2 languages. The lingua franca by virtue of being a historical given,

Ruth Franklin

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I declined to review Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth biography because of the grossly sexist review he gave to my Shirley Jackson bio (more below). This is clearly far from the

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

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When conceived rigorously as a literary and cinematic craft, horror is indistinguishable from a singular task: to make an object of the unknown, as the unknown. Only in these terms

Elizabeth McCracken

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On this Independent Bookstore Day, love letters to some of my favorites: The business I think I've walked into most often during the pandemic: @bookwomanaustin. A beautiful bookstore filled with

Ananya Chakravarti

achakrava

1/ Pollock's model of South Asian language history, which privileges the written form, blinds us to the creation of literature outside writing and by extension, their creators (the class, caste

Charlie Jane "VICTORIES GREATER THAN DEATH" Anders

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A couple of hacks that I developed for Writers With Drinks, the long-running spoken word show that I've been hosting forever:1) Ask every participant the pronunciation of their name. Even

Ugly Anarchist (ACAB)

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I think one of the reasons D&D has historically struggled breaking with a really Eurocentric model is that it doesn’t really believe in cultural differences just alignment ones so most

Annie Frazier

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Writer friends! Some of y’all know I’m a cheerleader for writer websites. I want to share as many examples as possible with my Social Media for Writers students this Wednesday

Praying Medic

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If you want to ask Q a question, it's not necessary to post it on the board.The Q uses an AI program that aggregates & categorizes internet data. Regardless of

شيتوس كرايست

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Beginning on May 10, 1933, Nazi-dominated student groups carried out public burnings of books they claimed were “un-German.” The book burnings took place in 34 university towns and cities. Works

Pulp Librarian

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Today in pulp: what were the top 10 causes of death in Victorian Britain*? Let's see...(*according to the Victorian Illustrated Police News: "the worst newspaper in England!") #WednesdayWisdom No 10:

Pencil

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#HumansofLiterature: A thread By the age of 8, @samarni was already writing and illustrating her 1st book, The Mahabharata: A Child’s View. 1/n Released in 1996, it went on to

Jenny Bhatt

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As horrific as things are in India, I hope people are also seeing the countless good souls working hard online and offline to help those in need. Easy to read

Jael Richardson

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A publisher just sent me a Fall 2020 catalogue FULL of stories where all of the books with Black people on the cover (there were about six in a catalogue

Vincent Kirk

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Let’s talk about the seven books that I posted over the last week. They’re all written by women of color. Four are African-American, one is Latinx, one Japanese-American, and one