On Essays
Gwint has posted the excellent, feature-rich Montaigne's Essays from Hyperessays.net, with 107 texts, including "On Cannibals," "On the Custom of Wearing Clothes," and "On Smells." What a good find!
Gwint has posted the excellent, feature-rich Montaigne's Essays from Hyperessays.net, with 107 texts, including "On Cannibals," "On the Custom of Wearing Clothes," and "On Smells." What a good find!
clavdivs posts in praise of the entirely fascinating human and poet, Marianne Moore, who once wrote When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use. It is time well-used here, if this sort of thing is the sort of thing you like.
"She was all but forgotten. Now the 18th-century author's republished novels reveal why she made such an extraordinary contribution to literature." Kliuless posted about author Anne Radcliffe, credited with inventing the psychological novel of suspense (plus two more women in publishing who have virtually been written out of the popular genres they helped create).
chavenet's post on I Understand Thee, and Can Speak Thy Tongue: California Unlocks Shakespeare’s Gibberish, is not only a cool theory about the mystery language in "All’s Well That Ends Well," it also sets the stage (the STAGE, get it?) for the official winner of this week's Best Dad Joke Pun Using Third Person Plural Present Tense Latin in 16th Century Stage Instruction. Congratulations, Ishbadiddle!
In the Paul Auster obit thread, Kattullus commented with a lovely personal remembrance of the author, and the enduring resonance Auster has had in his life.
Have you ever heard of the book, “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” ? Part philosophy, part woodworking guide, it's about building an ethical life by creating furniture that will last for generations. It is now free to download, as noted in this post by slogger!
Cupcakeninja posted a link to 30 of the best fantasy novels of all time and we're drawn in by the comments. There's various opinions about what is and isn't on the list, come share your thoughts!
Please allow autopilot to introduce you to Margaret Cavendish, science researcher, fashion designer, and writer, who crafted science fiction stories back in 1666! Come explore her "Blazing World"!
"Kathleen Sully's name appears in no encyclopaedia, in no dictionary of biography, in no other survey of the English novel" ... BenAstrea posted Brad Bigelow's NeglectedBooks.com article "Kathleen Sully, the Vanished Novelist," a nice bit of detective work on an author who seemed to continually mystify her contemporaries.
Love in an Orchard, as Written by the Trees. Donating Kittens to the Goddess Bastet. Parental Grief. Same-Sex Love Spells. A Runaway Child Bride. Rumple's post highlights various vignettes of ancient Middle Eastern life from the Papyrus Stories Group Blog.
Literaryhero posted a story about plumbing and people, and a man called Fran by John Jeremiah Sullivan, and it's a great plunge into life, the loo, and everything.
Come take a moment or more with the collaborative post created by brainwane and JHarris about the online poetry magazine called Light.
I'm reading Moby Dick. It's fun! But I'm sure I'm missing a lot. This is where you come in ... wooh is looking for good explanations and analyses for our favorite great white whale.
In Ask Metafilter, sonofsnark is looking for "recommendations for amazing fiction writers that I am unlikely to have heard of before"
An interesting discussion on the origins of some printed mystery notations in a 1966 Penguin book: "The bottom of page 33—and only page 33 – in my 1966 Penguin edition of Saul Bellow’s “Seize the Day” has “T—S.T.D.—B” written on the bottom left, opposite the page number. What does it stand for?"
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