#Books

Comparing "winning" in the arts to winning in sports is a false equivalency. There is no "win" in art: there is only make art & connect or not with an
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World Book Day 2021 If you are looking for ideas on virtual WBD, here's what I am [probably] going to do @Team_English1 I'd LOVE to know what you are all
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I've seen a bunch of discussions today about how reviews are for reader's and tbh that's not completely true. Imho, reviews are for EVERYONE. Follow me on this...(1/8)#Read #Review #BookTwitter
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Not that my opinion matters, but this may or may not turn out to be a long thread. So before this COVID pandemic began scientist were sitting back down science,
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"Literary" vs SFF beef is fugazi and intentional market segregation that readers/writers got tricked into taking personally. If more SFF presses subbed books for the Booker and more "realist" imprints
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After 9/11, my industry collapsed. Was working as a technical writer (writing software manuals) in NYC while playing music in the jazz clubs downtown. Feeling like I’d already failed at
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I used to feel ashamed of being a "slow" reader — now I'm grateful for how naturally my mind interrogates or befriends an interesting text. It's a shame most of
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Today, for #ScholarStrike, I’m wearing my higher ed hat. I’m working on a book right now, #InsurgentAcademics, that examines the unsung work of Black, brown, and Indigenous scholars in public
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the addicted series: question thread favorite book? favorite character? least favorite character? favorite ship? which book is your least favorite? rank the core eight? what character do you want to
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My daughter is learning to play "what shall we do with the drunken sailor". I thought sailors may have been working on slave ships. Not an original thought, James Fenton
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You know, @jtlevy ought to talk more about his book in relation to contemporary politics. It seems relevant to these interesting times. 1/ https://books.google.com.sg/books/about/Rationalism_Pluralism_and_Freedom.html?id=uqGbBQAAQBAJ&pr
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Not many have written a great cricket book before turning 35.But there's one person who wrote FOUR of them before turning 35.This is a thread on him.One of the great
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I've been sitting on this news since last summer, so I'm excited to finally share that @MidworldP is publishing a signed illustrated limited edition of BITTER SEEDS, the first volume
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Putting on my galaxy look this morning to tell you more about literary translators' working conditions. Got your attention? Please follow along and RT... #NameTheTranslator *This is how I often
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“No mention is made of Dahl’s antisemitic views in the author’s official biography on the site. The family’s apology was not sent to Jewish organisations.”Almost as if.... https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/06/roald-dahl-f
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With all the interest in statue removals & renaming these days, I thought some might find further inspiration from our book, "The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes: Naming, Politics, &
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