Literature

The Golden Notebook is a blueprint, a dazzling experiment, and its flaws are life’s flaws – there to be interrogated and worked though. That is the take-it-or-leave-it dichotomy that Lessing explores. Looking back on the book’s initial reception, in her preface to the 2007 edition, Lessing acknowledged: ‘Apparently what many women were thinking, feeling, experiencing came as a great surprise.’ However, she repeatedly distanced herself from any claim on the novel as a foundational feminist text; as she told The Guardian in 2007: ‘I’m not interested in being a feminist icon. If you are a woman and you think at all, you are going to have to write about it, otherwise you aren’t writing about the time you are living in.’

The site was Kinabatangan, Malaysia. The joke is based on a sequence from Tintin #22, Flight 714 to Sydney.

I was not expecting a this qmong the countless harmony romance books. Paperback copy, behind a short comment from Bertrand Russel - it is all too likely to come true. Edition for the UK, AUS and New Zealand market, reprint of 1981. Yellowed out but in decent conditions.

The drawdown has begun, but the occupation isn’t over. Before Metro Surge, there were already 150 ICE agents here in Minneapolis, and presumably they will stay on and maintain the recent violence, in shrunken form. The others will direct their terror elsewhere, driving other families inside. But in the near future, those who have been sheltering will finally be able to emerge. Marisol, when she’s healed, will return to work, and before then, she will have physical therapy appointments. Pedro will start accepting deliveries, and Luz will drive to clients’ homes to clean. But like the organizer said to me, we’ve been changed. We can’t go back.

If you know what NAMI is you can imagine the hard time my wife and I are having with our youngest, who turns out has BPD. They are med non compliant as is their partner the best we can tell.

Finnish artist, now living in Canada. More like this at her site: https://www.evelmiina.com/

At least, that’s what I assumed happened. It’s a first edition copy from 1999 as well.

A web of EEG electrodes covered Anton Bilton’s scalp like a jeweled headdress.

Bluntly, I can spend my days sorting “book club” spam, or I can write books. One pays me money. The otherff does not. So until further notice, I’m not entertaining book club invitations from anyone, and I likely won’t respond to your invitation at all. I’m sorry but this is the reality of the moment.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42680/after-making-love-we-hear-footsteps

Have they missed any good ones?

The best argument I can make for why I like reading fiction in translation is because it facilitates the psychedelic experience of encountering someone else’s subjectivity twice over. The translator must act as a prismatic filter, faithfully attempting the impossible task of replicating someone else’s experiences and ideas. To read in translation is to read two stories in harmony with each other: The one the author wants to tell and the one the translator has brought into your linguistic world.

We did a bonus podcast episode discussing three of the stories from Susanna Clarke’s short story collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu - the stories are all set in the Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell universe but its not vital you’ve read the novel before reading these stories.

This post is kind of a ’next man up’ response to Sergio’s fun post from earlier today, in which Haddock is stumbling around in a theatre set, wearing a huge cattle head.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Crystal_Balls

March is lining up to be packed with treats for science fiction fans. For starters, we get to return to the universe of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series, this time in the company of a huge mantis shrimp. We’re also being offered a take on Moby-Dick, set in space, and what sounds like a must-read: a forgotten speculative novel from 1936, which imagines the last woman left alive in Britain after a pandemic. If instead you’re after a cosy sci-fi mystery, a slice of horror or a mission to Europa, then you’re in luck, because all of those are on offer too.

“The Island without Kings” (could be stated more elegantly than that, oh well)

It was out of this diverse mix of musical and linguistic influences that reggaeton was born, a genre that features the looping drum pattern – called “dembow riddim” – of Jamaican dancehall, the tropical vibe of reggae and a mixture of rapping and singing. Like reggae and hip-hop, reggaeton lyrics often emphasize Black solidarity and speak out against racial oppression and police violence.

Yet at the same time Mœbius can create these amazingly simplistic scenes, that show so little and say more with what’s missing.

I’ve always been amazed by how much detail Mœbius can cram into an image yet still keep it readable.

An alternative answer to this question that has so far received little attention is the possibility that psychopathy may be an instance of what scientists colloquially refer to as a zombie idea: ideas that have the quality of being intuitively appealing, but the idea itself is essentially a fallacious misconception of reality. Just like zombies, when these ideas have been falsified – shown to be dead ideas – they somehow still manage to stubbornly stick around in the halls of prestigious universities, only to once again infect another generation of young scientists.

The prompt for the contest asked only that entries have at least a tenuous connection to the Bulletin’s mission; some of those connections were pretty tenuous.

Just watched Marooned as a tribute to him. For the brits: it is all on the iplayer and Rob was involved til season 6

That’s the beginning to this superb, crime / heist / noir series, created by writer Fabien Nury (France) and artist “Brüno” (Germany). It’s called “Tyler Cross,” and is set in the fifties.

The next book posted from this account will be Edith Wharton’s Summer.

Some of Ireland’s top authors today reflect on the power of reading – and the books that inspired them.

Willy Pogány was a Hungarian artist who lived from 1882 to 1955. I hardly know a thing about him, but HERE’s more of his art.

Until now, every reading app I’ve found has been a compromise. There are closed source apps like Moon+ Reader with plenty of features and beautiful design. Some people don’t mind the one-time purchase. There are beautiful apps like Book’s Story with a clean, modern design and simple library management, but with little beyond the core features. There are apps like KOReader designed for e-readers with little design consideration for tablets or phones, and a somewhat cluttered design. Each of these apps are beloved by their users for different reasons.

cross-posted from !lll@quokk.au

Berg and Hudson, as well as Williams, give an outline of the pathways and linkages among different industries and events, which are displayed in Diagram 1. The slave trade helps to develop the sugar, textiles (via cotton), coffee, tobacco, and the banking and finance industries (via financing of overseas trade and operations). The growth of these industries in turn spur the demand for more enslaved persons, thereby creating a recursive and growing cycle of commerce across the Atlantic Ocean. The growth of these industries then leads to greater demand for metals, leading to increased mining for tin and iron; more demand for coal; and, with greater goods being produced, greater shipping and transportation needs. As these industries grow, so does the demand for labor that traditionally worked on farms, but moved to urban areas as a result of enclosure movements that displaced people from their land. Finally, the confluence of the growth of these industries lead to greater investment, output, and income in the British economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_of_the_Sun

Listened to the audiobook version narrated beautifully by Michael C. Hall, this is the first Stephen King book I have listened to and the first by this narrator.

Mssr Poirot, You pride yourself on solving mysteries too difficult for our poor, brainless British police force

I just started writing. This is my first post.

For those unaware, they take public domain books and create really high quality, free versions that can be read on any ereader or online. Every book also has an oil painting that is also public domain chosen to be its cover.

Who’s read the original novels? This could be lots of fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTDdIO74BuA

Lord Soth. I’m 32 years clean from D&D but I still appreciate the good times.

@Poetry @Saiwal

New episode of the podcast is out now wherever you get your podcasts from.

Putting up new curtains, other windows intrude. As though it is that first winter in Cambridge when you and I had just moved in. Now cold borscht alone in a bare kitchen.

Has anyone read any of her Lieutenant Bak series? “Right Hand of Amon”, “A Face Turned Backwards”, and those?

From what I’ve been able to gather, I think they just have the writer wrong, it’s Isaac Asimov, and the book those two did together is The Space Merchants, which doesn’t appear to have to with crime at all.

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-87755-BD-Au-Chant-des-Grenouilles.html