I was stupidly thrilled while reading my e-newsletter from @elcultural to find the word "letraheridos" (more or less "people hurt by letters") to describe what English might call #bibliophiles or #literature lovers—and now I'm wondering if the origins of this newer term have anything to do with #Auden declaring #Yeats was hurt into #poetry ... Wherever it came from, I'm declaring it the best word I've heard in ages.
@Zwieblein@poetry@translators We are all "wounded by letters, by words, by poems," that's why we read and write. I agree, it's a beautiful Spanish variant of the Catalan word lletraferit. Wordstricken!
as someone who ran a fiction magazine for a decade i don't agree with the premise of that article. The future is in the slush pile, not in a network of who happens to know the right person.
and i suspect the issue is more that the slush pile usually outweighs the subscribers for most small magazines.
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There's not much poetry being written in Palestine, either...
Meanwhile, someone did a deep dive off the coast of Columbia and found an estimated $20B in gold & silver coins and 300 yr old artifacts of a sunken Spanish ship.
Humanity...always going in the wrong direction and damned proud of it...for some unknown insane reason.
Not exactly #books – they're #ShortStories but here are some highlights from the @fictionable archive of exclusive short fiction: Ali Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Diana Evans, Sarah Hall, Etgar Keret and Evie Wyld, not to mention #comics from Sabba Khan, Serena Katt, Lizzy Stewart and more…
Classicists, mythology fans, and others, I've been trying to read and/or round out my collection. I really prefer bilingual works, not simply translations. Is Loeb consistently my best bet? Are there other recommendations? Should I decide work by work?
Current work under consideration is Hesiod's Theogony, but the questions stand more generally, too.
[Feel free to tag in a Classics group if there is one]
Dive into the @fictionable archive with exclusive #ShortStories from Ali Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Diana Evans, Sarah Hall, Etgar Keret and Evie Wyld, as well as #comics from Sabba Khan, Serena Katt, Lizzy Stewart and more…
@fictionable@mjohnharrison@bookstodon Would love to hear this. Can’t find it in my podcast client. How about just posting the rss endpoint url, please?
Can fiction fight the lies of war? The #Ukrainian author, TV personality, punk and revolutionary Irena Karpa talks writing and making music in the shadow of conflict on the @fictionable#podcast
Our final mystery #author is pulling back the veil with before and after pictures – a writer's desk as it was, and a writer's desk as it aspires to be.
Well, what did you expect from a writer of #fiction?
This mystery #author from our #Autumn issue is keeping things on the down low with laptop, cushions and a sofa. Extra points for the excellent colour matching between the natty throw and the spreadsheet…