#Books

The Mythoversal Project

InMythology

A thread about our newsletter article by @tem2 on the 12/27 @WSJ Opinion piece by #kidlit book reviewer @MeghanGurdon about #DisruptTexts and an alleged banning of Homer's Odyssey.https://mythoversal.substack.com/p/banning-homer W

Maria Dahvana Headley

MARIADAHVANA

I’ve reached the point in the week where I’m arguing with strangers in comment sections about their insistence that Beowulf is a sacred text that cannot be adapted or performed

Jeff Sharlet

JeffSharlet

We knew covid would skyrocket. & still, I don't understand CNN, NYT, WaPo. 216 k cases today. Around 4,000 of those people will die. I want to see banner headlines.

Matthew Hall

MatthewJHall

"The Bible condemns all oppression. American slavery is systematically oppressive, as essential to its existence. Therefore the Bible condemns American slavery." (William Henry Brisbane, 1847) Brisbane's "Slaveholding Exa

Jennifer Rokaya

JRSedgewick

While we're [Native Twitter] on the topic of race shifting/pretendians, I thought I'd mention a really bad one in academia that I recently found.Last week, I was reading a book

Sarah McIntyre🦄🚀✨

jabberworks

Illustrators, take note of which publishers are crediting their illustrators on book covers and including their names in publicity. Those are much more likely to be the ones you want

David Nicholls

DavidNWriter

It's #TwitterBookLaunch part 2 and congrats to Rebecca Watson @rebeccawhatsun for UK publication of the acclaimed 'little scratch', 'a bullet of a novel, ricocheting between grief, anger and hope'. From

Amy Stanley

astanley711

Here’s my copy of the early eighteenth-century classic The Greater Learning for Women (Onna daigaku). (Don’t believe the modern cover - it’s almost certainly not the work of the famous

“Wear a Mask” Mélanie Poudevigne

Dr_Mela

Week 1 in the books. One lesson emerged: “If you don’t fit in, then you are probably doing the right thing.” Students listened to faculty: should not work while you

Jason Howerton

jason_howerton

It’s a lot easier to tear down some statues, burn books, and erase history than it is to do the hard fucking work of addressing our actual issues, starting with

Jeanne Thornton

manwhohatesfun

Re real unity: I think about this one reparenting affirmation. Rather than blame--"you ruined everything! What's wrong with you"--starting from a place of empathy. "I bet that hurts. I bet

𝐑𝐚𝐛𝐛𝐢 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐊𝐚𝐡𝐧

rabbiandykahn

THREAD: On Jewish Atheism. People frequently ask whether you can be a Jew and be an atheist. When speaking to Jews about atheism, Rabbi Zalman Schacter-Shalomi would famously say “I

Mubashir Zia 🛡

Green85th

Competition in Pakistan Army, a short #Thread:The selection rate at ISSB varies from arm to arm. Although there is no difference between methodology of selection, quantity selected from let's say

NateReviewsThings

things_nate

I was a big Dilbert fan as a kid. I had probably a dozen books, both collections of the comic and Adams' longer-form hardcover books that were meant to satirize

Ryan Hammond

hamdesign

A lot of people are talking about how they got into the publishing industry and their privilege. So I wanted to talk about my experience from a working-class, northern background

phenos

basstardoc

Vocaloid is the 'book' of the music industry: It all comes down to production. Movies, TV shows require a huge budget, the approval of different parties, the promise of getting

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