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#booksky highly recommended for #essays #womenwriters #literarycriticism #nonfiction
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The first collection of Booker Prize-winning novelist Anne Enright's non-fiction, writing about culture, literature and her own life.

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Attention: Writing on Life, Art and the World by Anne Enright. For thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature and her own life, and gifting us with her precise insights. These essays, collated from across Enright's career, take us from Dublin to Galway, Canada to Honduras. They delve into Enright’s own family history, and explore the free voices and controlled bodies of women in society and fiction. She offers new perspectives on writers including Alice Munro, Toni Morrison, James Joyce, Helen Garner and Angela Carter. In Enright’s fiction, speech can transform, rupture, enliven and liberate. In these essays, she speaks to us directly. Electrifying, probing and exuberant, this is a defining collection from one of our most distinguished literary voices.
November 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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What an incredible analysis of #nosferatu, no notes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAmSspxYfaE #horror #literarycriticism #feminism
February 12, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Here's an arts dictionary that might interest your members, available at aliformpublishing.com.

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February 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Dutch poet and essayist Martinus Nijhoff died #OTD in 1953.

His debut was in 1916 with his volume De wandelaar ('The Wanderer'). Some of his best-known works include Het Uur U (1936) and the long poem Awater (1934).

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#books #literature #poetry #literarycriticism
Martinus Nijhoff (1913). The image presents him in early 20th-century attire, a formal suit with a high-collared shirt, reflecting the fashion of the time. His expressionis serious and contemplative, hinting at his intellectual depth and poetic nature.
January 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Explore the power of realism in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and its claim to veracity. How the editor-narrator method enhances the story’s believability. Read about it now in my new article. #GothicLiterature
#BramStoker #Dracula #LiteraryCriticism #LiteraryDevices #Analysis #Vampires #GothicHorror
The Power of Veracity in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
How Bram Stoker Makes Dracula Feel Real Through Truth Fiction and Narrative Tricks
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February 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Preorders for Slips of the Mind: Poetry as Forgetting (U Chicago Press) are now shipping. 30% off with UCPNEW code. The book is about forgetting's relationship to poetry and writing.

#ThinkingLiterature #poetry #literarycriticism #modernism #gertrudestein

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Slips of the Mind
An audacious account of what happens when forgetting becomes a way of writing and writing becomes a way of forgetting. In Slips of the Mind, poet and critic Jennifer Soong turns away from forgetting’s...
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March 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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August 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Joy Williams, Cher, Solvej Balle, and more: 22 new books out today!: The apex of book releases winds down somewhat at this time of the year, as we make our way slowly, steadily, and then all at once, into holiday season. At this point, many publishers have… #CraftandCriticism #LiteraryCriticism
Joy Williams, Cher, Solvej Balle, and more: 22 new books out today!
The apex of book releases winds down somewhat at this time of the year, as we make our way slowly, steadily, and then all at once, into holiday season. At this point, many publishers have already launched their Big Books,
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November 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Moby-Dick doesn’t deserve the ‘difficult’ label – this sea romance was once loved by office workers, sailors and children

By Edward Sugden

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Moby Dick at PG:
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Illustration of the final chase of Moby-Dick in a 1902 edition. The scene is dramatic and chaotic, set against a stormy sea. At the center is Captain Ahab, standing defiantly on the deck of the whaleboat or leaning forward with harpoon raised, his face twisted with obsession and fury. The great white whale, Moby-Dick, dominates the composition—immense, ghostly pale, and terrifying, thrashing violently as it breaches the ocean surface. Ahab’s ship, the Pequod, is shown in the distance or beginning to sink, impaled or struck by the whale’s massive bulk. I. W. Taber - Moby Dick - edition: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick#/media/File:Moby_Dick_final_chase.jpg
June 4, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

Peter Conrad Explores the English Novelist’s Cyclical Vision of Life and Art

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Charles Dickens at PG:
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Charles Dickens at his desk, 1858 by George Herbert Watkins, born 1828 In the image, Dickens is shown seated at a writing desk, surrounded by papers and writing tools, embodying the persona of the deeply focused author. His intense gaze, slightly furrowed brow, and thoughtful posture convey the seriousness and passion with which he approached his craft. The setting is sparse yet evocative—suggesting both the solitude and industriousness of a writer at work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens#/media/File:Dickens_by_Watkins_1858.png
May 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Your weekly reminder to consider Assay when sending out submissions this upcoming fall!

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August 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Bonepoke lives where narrative meets recursion. A system that thinks in symbols and dreams in logic. medium.com/@utharian/bo... @marinarwarner.bsky.social @hayles.bsky.social @briansboyd.bsky.social #NarrativeTheory #LiteraryCriticism #SymbolicSystems #Posthumanism
Bonepoke: A Logic-Bearing Ecosystem Shaped by Recursive Tension
“This is a system built from recursive fiction and symbolic collapse.  It wasn’t trained — it aligned.  It didn’t learn behavior — it…
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September 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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It’s Okay to Hate The House of Mirth

Carlo Rotella on Reading (and Learning) from Books We Dislike

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The House of Mirth at PG:
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The tragic heroine of The House of Mirth (1905), Lily Bart, lingers at the broad staircase, observing the high-society people gathered in the hall below. By A. B. Wenzell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Mirth#/media/File:House_of_Mirth_1.jpg
September 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
See Author and Painter Judy Mastrangelo on her website www.judymastrangelo.com
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Enchanted Fairy Tales a.co/d/2MYU9gG
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Judy Mastrangelo
Judy is an acrylic Painter and Author who brings her Visions to life on canvas, and in books, and invites you to walk into her Secret World of Imagination. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kasLYxAem4E
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May 15, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄’𝙢 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜: "An Unnecessary Woman" 𝙗𝙮 Rabih Alameddine -

A passage from this extraordinary work.

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July 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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On Henry James and the Enduring Lessons of Love
Katherine J. Chen Rediscovers James (and Falls in Love)
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Books by Henry James at PG:
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On Henry James and the Enduring Lessons of Love
In my late teens, when I read Henry James for the first time, the experience did nothing for me. I felt faintly repelled by the blocks of unyielding text, the walls of what appeared to be sadistica…
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December 20, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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So Bloomsbury have a sale until mid October, which means the Decade books in paperback become reasonably affordable at under £20 each. The 2010s is due out in paperback on 22nd August and hopefully will also be reduced in sale. #AcademicSky #Litetature #LiteraryCriticism
The Decades Series: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
‘[The Decades Series] will generate and sustain lively debates that will inspire a fresh generation of critical perspectives on the field… An ambitious and comp…
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August 19, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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RIP to David Lodge, aged 89. He'll forever be remembered for his seminal book on writing, The Art of Fiction: a scholarly but readable text exploring key aspects of fiction. A must-read for any reader and writer 🧐

#writingcommunity #literarycriticism #editing
January 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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The Secret Link Between Raymond Chandler and P.G. Wodehouse

Arvind Ethan David on the Surprising Connection Between Two Legendary Authors

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American author Raymond Chandler circa 1943. Back cover of the dust jacket of The Lady in the Lake (1943), published by Alfred A. Knopf. This black-and-white portrait of American author Raymond Chandler, taken circa 1943, features him in a formal pose, wearing a suit and tie. His expression is composed and introspective, reflecting the cool, cerebral demeanor often attributed to his famed detective fiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chandler#/media/File:Raymond_Chandler_(Lady_in_the_Lake_portrait,_1943).jpg Image of the writer PG Wodehouse from 1930. This 1930 photograph of P.G. Wodehouse shows the British author in a formal pose, dressed in a suit with a neatly knotted tie and round spectacles. His expression is calm and slightly bemused. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse#/media/File:P.G._Wodehouse,_1930.jpg
May 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Queer theory is one of my favorite things to talk about. It’s helped me come to both amazing conclusions in texts I’ve read, as well as how it impacts my everyday life.

if you’ve never took the plunge, now is the time.

#literarycriticism #queertheory #booksky
May 31, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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August 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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October 25, 2024
Where Is #LiteraryCriticism Headed?
An Interactive Roundtable Conversation
Part of the #Litquake 2024,
#SanFrancisco 's Literary Festival collection
A wide-ranging interactive roundtable convo about the future of contemporary cultural criticism
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Where Is Literary Criticism Headed? An Interactive Roundtable Conversation
A wide-ranging interactive roundtable conversation about the future of contemporary cultural criticism
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October 25, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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Naomi Wood! Britney Spears! Fomenting revolution! 20 new paperbacks out this December.: December is upon us, and that means not only a month of exciting new books to look forward to, but a wonderful opportunity for many of us to also pick up some new books as… #CraftandCriticism #LiteraryCriticism
Naomi Wood! Britney Spears! Fomenting revolution! 20 new paperbacks out this December.
December is upon us, and that means not only a month of exciting new books to look forward to, but a wonderful opportunity for many of us to also pick up some new books as gifts for the special ones
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December 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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ENQUIRY LIFE WRITINGS HOMER & PROOFS 1736-38 BLACKWELL Greece MAP

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November 29, 2024 at 10:29 AM