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ReadingsBooks

The six books on the #ReadingsPrize 2020 shortlist are: Lucky Ticket by Joey Bui“Each story thrusts the reader into a different world; in each story Bui harnesses a voice that

Ctrl.Alt.SciFi

ctrl_alt_scifi

This "lesser of two evils" idea invites a thread about the importance of realistic psychology in science fiction characterisation, and how badly-drawn real-life villains tend to be (in fictional terms).Put

𝓥𝓪𝓵é𝓻𝓲𝓮 𝓟é𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓮 ✨

lelelabr

J’ai enfin fini Querelle (fiction syndicale) de Kevin Lambert et bah j’ai quelques trucs à dire pour les intéressé.e.s: La filiation avec Genet est évidemment saisissante, son théâtre, sa prose,

Kinjal Shah

_kinjalbshah

Over the past few months, I became serious about improving my writing. The scariest part is always (1) hitting publish (2) comparing to others. I’ve found a few tactical tips

A.V. (Alex) Marraccini

saintsoftness

Dudes in positions of literary/academic power attacking female critics for [checks notes] actually reviewing their work *critically* is a problem. Having been on the receiving end of this type of

Claire Placial

claireplacial

On me demande si ça m'a servi, de me manger de la métrique en khâgne. La réponse est oui absolument ça m'a carrément servi. Et comme j'ai la flemme de

FB: Jacana Media

JacanaMedia

#Khamr by debut author @JamilFarouk is a hard-hitting and reflective memoir that saw many prominent voices in the arts and activist spheres endorse its publication on 3 April 20201/9#BuyTheEbook Now

Ash ✍🏼🌈📚

MixedClassicist

Have you seen the awful article published last week, by an Oxbridge senior lecturer in classics, which argues that racism doesn't exist in the discipline and that attempts to decolonise

Dígame Concejal

RSGAT

Are the Vows editors, who have, for weeks, been devoting their front page to numerous short obituaries of lavish weddings killed by the pandemic, jealous of the shine the news

djhedy

dejahedy

in an attempt to convert people to poetry, im going to ramble about poetry for a while you know how some abstract art is batshit and you look at it

Dasom Yang

ilsangdabaansa

I’m thinking about the criticism of mainstream nonfiction being a product of milk-fed MFA confessionalism. As an MFA grad myself, the first/most common advice I received was to write “candidly”

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Shayonnita15

Dear ma,I see you.I see you in the kitchen, wiping, cleaning, cutting, washing—embroiled in an endless list of tasks you manage to make this house our home.I see you sitting

charlotte

tambourine

1 like = 1 (made-up) much-buzzed about book 1. Egg Life: a novel. Stream-of-consciousness, from the perspective of a Tamagotchi (which can't be named for trademark reasons). Slowly starts to

Salvator R. Tarnmoor

s_r_tarnmoor

Up through Book II of #FaerieQueeneQuarantinerandom thoughts:I think what bugs me about the plot is just the combo of it being allegorical, the allegory not having an obvious structure, &

Elsa Sjunneson - BATtle Academic with fangs

snarkbat

OKAY. So I have sat down and taken a look at this whole "Helen Keller is a fraud" business on tiktok and I maybe have some Thoughts that I would

Kafka’s digital ghola on the couch

stratosmous

We don't always talk about the same thing when we talk about writing. When people tell me that they write, and indeed regularly, I never have a clue what they're