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First edition of a Spanish newspaper. via Wikimedia Commons
Neglected and Loved Treasures of Ancient and Modern Literature
What is Literature Good For?
Regardless of genre or style:
The eternal virtues of literature are sincerity, clarity, breadth, force, and subtlety.— Sir Walter Raleigh (the literary critic, not the Elizabethan courtier), in Romance
The Week in Genres
- Monday: Children's Literature / Romance
- Tuesday: Contemporary / Premodern
- Wednesday: Mystery / Thriller
- Thursday: Classics
- Friday: Fine Quotations
- Saturday: Newspapers and Magazines
- Sunday: Some Theology
Little Reads
Little Reads
by Dirk Knipphals (March 24, 2024) [Taz]
A German-language retrospective of this year's Leipzig Book Fair. [Warning: You may encounter a paywall.]
"Es ist sicher nicht leicht, für so eine Mischung aus echtem Interesse und bloßer Neugier, Business und Debattenkultur, Promi-Begegnung und Literaturbegeisterung passende Slogans zu finden. Festzuhalten ist aber schon erst mal, dass zu defensiven Untergangsszenarios [...] kein Anlass besteht."(Rough translation: It is certainly not easy to find fitting slogans for such a mix of genuine interest and mere curiosity, business and debate culture, celebrity encounters and literary enthusiasm. But one thing is already clear: there are no grounds for defensive scenarios of an imagined downfall [of the book industry].)
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Black Lives Matter:
by Victoria Alexander [Victorialynnalexander.com] (updated throughout June 2020)
An American academic has put together a reading list for fledgling anti-racists that is the best-rounded, most thoughtful one I have seen so far.
It ranges from calls to action, and films and magazine articles and non-fiction books and more, to novels about African-American experiences.
I am working through the list. It's a gradual process; I only wrapped up New York Times Magazine's 1619 project on June 21st, and have read Ta-Nehisi Coates's article for The Atlantic: "Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular" (October 23, 2017).
About Me
- Edithor
- Canadian-raised Berliner. 38 years old. Formerly, data entry. Outside of working hours I am interested in literature, languages, classical music, and many other things.
Literary Pages
- Hathi Trust (free public domain books)
- Project Gutenberg (Online Book Catalogue)
- Distributed Proofreaders (Project Gutenberg)
- Anti-Racist Resource Guide (PDF, 2020)
- Harper's Magazine
- Ms. Magazine: Arts & Entertainment
- New York Review of Books
- New Yorker
- Oprah Magazine: Books
- Im Dickicht (Wordpress Blog)
- Times Literary Supplement
- The Guardian⎮Books
- Our Shared Shelf: Emma Watson's Group on Goodreads
Little Read
First edition of a Spanish newspaper. via Wikimedia Commons
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