A new memoir tries to mend the pieces of the author's broken Cuban-Jewish family ( www.jta.org )
Read Your Way Through Hanoi ( www.nytimes.com )
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The Booker Prize Foundation is partnering with Prisons in the UK to support reading groups ( lithub.com )
Working with the Booker Prize Foundation, Dua Lipa recently visited HMP Downview, a women’s prison in Surrey, to get a firsthand glimpse of Books Unlocked, a program set up by the BPF and the National Literacy to foster a culture of reading for incarcerated people. Lipa, who recently launched a book club of her own, said of...
Help identifying source of a Lytton Strachey quote
Hi guys, how’s it going? I’m trying to identify the source of a commonly cited quote by Lytton Strachey that goes as follows: “Perhaps the best test of a man’s intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.”...
Gogou, Katerina: Athens' anarchist poetess, 1940-1993 ( libcom.org )
e-book from Evie Snow, free today ( sunny.garden )
Writer George Penney (who also writes wonderful posts about house-sitting adventures with feline overlords in various countries and is an entertaining follow) just posted this on Mastodon:...
[ITA] Canale Telegram per riassunti di letteratura e panieri compilati eCampus ( t.me )
Fathers and Sons by Turgenev: Portrait of a self-proclaimed Nihilist
Fathers and Sons by Turgenev (Richard Freeborn translation) is an interesting character study of Bazarov, a self-proclaimed nihilist in the backdrop of the ideological differences between the “fathers” and “sons”. The “fathers” and “sons” in the title refer to the two different generations of the liberals and the...
The Best Books of 2023 (So Far) ( www.vulture.com )
When Your ‘Doppelganger’ Becomes a Conspiracy Theorist ( www.nytimes.com )
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Deleuze on Palestine: "The Grandeur of Yasser Arafat" and "Stones" ( www.youtube.com )
Two of Deleuze’s essays read by Acid Horizon....
US Nobel-winning poet Louise Gluck dies at 80 ( www.reuters.com )
LeVar Burton to replace Drew Barrymore as host of National Book Awards ( www.npr.org )
Anyone has the Linux app image of Restream chat app running? (Need transparent chat for single screen)
I reported it as not working a day or two ago. They last updated it in 2021 or before but their support claims it’s still working. I stream using a single screen and so far I’ve been using the Steam overlay browser with some transparency but I’d like to be able to view chat without background with the text having borders...
Anyone got a single screen twitch chat working?
I reported it as not working a day or two ago. They last updated it in 2021 or before but their support claims it’s still working. I stream using a single screen and so far I’ve been using the Steam overlay browser with some transparency but I’d like to be able to view chat without background with the text having borders...