#Literary

So @Damian_Barr is dropped by Brighton Festival & the Savoy is looking at its affiliation. His transphobia and not his misogyny have brought him down, nevertheless @TheBookerPrizes must now answer
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Why I've Stopped Teaching Of Mice And Men.I made the decision this year not to teach OMAM any more. The book still flourishes in other schools at KS3, no doubt
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It’s a new year, and I have plenty of room in my heart and on my list for new voices!it’s also been a while since I paid tribute to queen
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LOTS of good 2019 reading; here's 10 books I really enjoyed (various genres, in no clear order):1. @dwallacewells' The Uninhabitable Earth (#ClimateChange)2. @sarahkendzior's Hiding in Plain Sight (Politics, Current Events,
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If your defense of the thesis "trans people deserve human rights" literally cites "well, actually, sometimes, 2 plus 2 really *is* 5" as support, you are not helping. You are
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For the paperback of Growing Things I wrote a favorite short fic collection list. It's long but not meant to be exhaustive. Alphabetized by author. (1/many) @NBallingrud: North American Lake
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What I want so badly for comics readers is for them to have confidence enough in the value of their favorite medium that they 1) don't feel the need to
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1) This is an interesting thread about which I have some further thoughts, and the power’s out here so by god I will supply them! ...https://twitter.com/schlemiel_zola/status/1248335438521217025 2) I have always
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1. Short thread on how a writer failed to file his @TheAtlantic story by the assigned deadline, and we all ended up with “Mutiny on the Bounty." 2. In 1916,
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Malice by Keigo HigashinoThis is, in short, a murder mystery that doesn't ignore the heart.#07threads Keigo Higashino is a writer who mastered the concept of the unreliable narrator. There are
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In my fruitless efforts to work in literary translation, I have attended conferences and had conversations with translators, read blogs and books to learn what the secret formula is. To
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It's October 16th, 2020. That means today is the 52nd anniversary of the moment when John Carlos and Tommie Smith raised their fists to the heavens - and Peter Norman
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It's All Saints Day today, so here's the Spanish saint Simone de Beauvoir claimed was "one of the only women to have lived the human condition for herself, in total
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Alright guys this is important!!!Thread on why Shooky of Bt21 should be cancelled and kicked out of bt21!! Shooky is known as the one of the members of BT21,
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This is perhaps overdue.I'm posting this as I know many Tianguan mains follow me, and I have, over time, seen some Tianguan mains post certain takes which I disagree with
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Cool places you can travel to in the UK (a thread) Alderney. This is in the Channel Islands. It was invaded by the Germans in WW2 and has lots of
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