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1 week agoLet a Book Annoy You
Annoying characters in literature reflect human nature and can enhance the reading experience.
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fromMedievalists.net
3 weeks agoNew Medieval Books: Widow City - Medievalists.net
Late medieval Italian widows mourned their spouses and navigated their lives through religious or secular paths, evolving from allegorical subjects to prominent authors who reshaped public discourse on widowed identity.
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fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks agoBriefly Noted Book Reviews
Two literary works explore complex themes through innovative narrative techniques: Morrison's essays examine challenging craft elements in Toni Morrison's writing, while Nganang's memoir uses the scale as a metaphor connecting personal experience to colonial history.
Writing
fromDefector
1 month agoWhat I Learned From My Annoyingly Long Correspondence With "Elena Ferrante" | Defector
An AI-generated scam email impersonating Elena Ferrante used phrases from published book descriptions to deceive an author, revealing how AI can convincingly mimic famous writers while containing telltale signs of fabrication upon scrutiny.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoThe National Year of Reading celebrates the joy' of books. But let's not forget they can also be deeply troubling, too | Charlotte Higgins
Research has linked reading for pleasure in childhood to a host of positive educational and socioeconomic outcomes. But now 14 years after the Department for Education, in a more innocent time, commissioned a chunky report on the matter—reading books for pleasure is an activity in crisis. The culprit usually blamed for this falling-off is the smartphone and its many short-term distractions; the mere presence of a smartphone in the room, recent research suggests, has an impact on our ability to concentrate.
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1 month agoWhen Did Literature Get Less Dirty?
Philip Roth's Zuckerman Unbound functioned as a response to the controversial reception of Portnoy's Complaint, with Roth's protagonist expressing regret over writing sexually explicit material that drew accusations of anti-Semitism and misogyny.
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1 month agoFan letter written by Charles Dickens goes on show
"Miss Havisham is a quite extraordinary figure" she said, "it's just so interesting to see this woman who decides 'I'm independently wealthy and I'm going to have a child even though I haven't got married.' "It's fascinating that a male author came up with the idea of a woman bringing up a beautiful young woman to break men's hearts, to get her revenge on men."
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2 months agoSusan Choi: For so long I associated Dickens with unbearable Christmas TV specials'
The book that changed me as a teenager Donald Barthelme's Sixty Stories, because he was having such a good time and seemed so so smart, but was also mischievous and irreverent. It may sound corny but these stories made me grasp the existence of a world of art and literature. And Barthelme lived in Houston, where I was growing up, yet he was a major world writer.
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