#americanliterature — Public Fediverse posts

In my latest blog post you can get acquainted with Sara Teasdale's poem “Spring Rain”, first published in 1917.

In many ways typical of her style of writing, the poem is simple yet deep, using imagery from the natural world to reflect on the poet’s emotions and memories: stormy, thunderous, passionate.

https://grammaticus.blog/2026/05/13/spring-rain-by-sara-teasdale/

Image credit: Levi Guzman via Unsplash

#poetry #americanliterature #spring #englishteacher #blog

“Spring Rain” by Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) was an American poet, celebrated for her works that explored themes such as love, beauty, nature, and mortality. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she published her first collection of poems in 1907 as a member of “The Potters”—a group of young women authors. She quickly gained recognition for the clarity and simplicity of her writing. Notably, she won a Pullitzer prize in 1918 for the collection Love Songs. Sadly, her life was marked by severe personal struggles, including a lonely marriage, divorce, and declining health, ultimately leading to her tragic death by suicide. She is still remembered as an important voice of the early 20th-century American literature.

In this post we’ll get acquainted with her poem “Spring Rain”, first published in 1917. In many ways typical of her style of writing, the poem is simple yet deep, using imagery from the natural world to reflect on the poet’s emotions and memories. In the first stanza, the sounds of rain and thunder trigger a recollection of a past love; the rest of the poem takes us down the memory lane. You’ll notice that the poem itself is brief, just like a typical spring rain; and the weather described is stormy and intense—just like passionate young love.

I thought I had forgotten,
But it all came back again
To-night with the first spring thunder
In a rush of rain.

I remembered a darkened doorway
Where we stood while the storm swept by,
Thunder gripping the earth
And lightning scrawled on the sky.

The passing motor busses swayed,
For the street was a river of rain,
Lashed into little golden waves
In the lamp light's stain.

With the wild spring rain and thunder
My heart was wild and gay;
Your eyes said more to me that night
Than your lips would ever say...

I thought I had forgotten,
But it all came back again
To-night with the first spring thunder
In a rush of rain.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Love Songs by Sara Teasdale – free ebook, downloadable in various formats

Sara Teasdale’s biography – a Poetry Foundation page

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This Sunday is #MothersDay in the US & Germany. Here's a 🧵 on books celebrating #womanhood across all ages - beyond #motherhood
- starting w #Girlhood by Melissa Febos - a collection of texts at the intersection of #essay & #memoir about growing up as a girl under patriarchy

#AmericanLiterature

Today in #newbooks in our #library - 2 new #biofiction novels on #AgathaChristie 👑
The Queen of Crime disappeared for 11 days in 1926. These 2 novels by Marie Benedict & Nina de Gramont fictionalise this real #mystery in different ways

#AmericanLiterature #EnglishLiterature

100 Years of the Best American Short Stories "These forty stories represent their eras but also stand the test of time" Sale: $36 to $1.99 by Lorrie Moore, Heidi Pitlor Rating: 4.4/5 (1,081 Reviews) #ShortStories #Anthology #AmericanLiterature #Fiction #Reading #Books #BookSky

100 Years of the Best American...

I've read about Ayn Rand, and I've read short extracts from "Atlas Shrugged", supposedly her magnum opus.

Those extracts did not inspire me to plough through the whole of "Atlas Shrugged", but I thought to be fair I ought to read a complete work of hers, so I picked up a copy of her 1938 novella "Anthem".

In a repressive, techophobic, collectivist dystopia, a young man rebels, rediscovers electricity, and then escapes from captivity to be joined by his female lover. He hopes to rebuild a society based on individualism -- "Anthem" concludes with the protagonist determined to carve into the stone portal of his fort the "sacred word EGO".

Rand's writing is lifeless, with both characters and setting being little more than vehicles for the author's ponderous didacticism. The slight romance narrative smacks of sub-Hollywood teenage fantasy, with the protagonist renaming his lover "The Golden One", followed by her dubbing him 'The Unconquered".

The concluding pages are supposed to be a poetic invocation of egoism. Instead, they come across as Rand attempting to club the reader into submission.

I am pained to learn that this book is frequently assigned in US high schools, as it is devoid of literary merit and of no great significance in literary or cultural history. If teachers or school districts want to assign a mid 20C "antitotalitarian" work, why not press copies of "1984" into students' hands?

Nevertheless my afternoon was not entirely wasted, as I can now get through the rest of my life without having to read another word of this tiresome crank, yet have a clear conscience when I describe her as possessing not a shred of literary talent, because my judgment is based on a first hand acquaintance with her writing.

#Books #Literature #USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #AynRand #Anthem #RightWing

I've read about Ayn Rand, and I've read short extracts from "Atlas Shrugged", supposedly her magnum opus.

Those extracts did not inspire me to plough through the whole of "Atlas Shrugged", but I thought to be fair I ought to read a complete work of hers, so I picked up a copy of her 1938 novella "Anthem".

In a repressive, techophobic, collectivist dystopia, a young man rebels, rediscovers electricity, and then escapes from captivity to be joined by his female lover. He hopes to rebuild a society based on individualism -- "Anthem" concludes with the protagonist determined to carve into the stone portal of his fort the "sacred word EGO".

Rand's writing is lifeless, with both characters and setting being little more than vehicles for the author's ponderous didacticism. The slight romance narrative smacks of sub-Hollywood teenage fantasy, with the protagonist renaming his lover "The Golden One", followed by her dubbing him 'The Unconquered".

The concluding pages are supposed to be a poetic invocation of egoism. Instead, they come across as Rand attempting to club the reader into submission.

I am pained to learn that this book is frequently assigned in US high schools, as it is devoid of literary merit and of no great significance in literary or cultural history. If teachers or school districts want to assign a mid 20C "antitotalitarian" work, why not press copies of "1984" into students' hands?

Nevertheless my afternoon was not entirely wasted, as I can now get through the rest of my life without having to read another word of this tiresome crank, yet have a clear conscience when I describe her as possessing not a shred of literary talent, because my judgment is based on a first hand acquaintance with her writing.

#Books #Literature #USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #AynRand #Anthem #RightWing

I've read about Ayn Rand, and I've read short extracts from "Atlas Shrugged", supposedly her magnum opus.

Those extracts did not inspire me to plough through the whole of "Atlas Shrugged", but I thought to be fair I ought to read a complete work of hers, so I picked up a copy of her 1938 novella "Anthem".

In a repressive, techophobic, collectivist dystopia, a young man rebels, rediscovers electricity, and then escapes from captivity to be joined by his female lover. He hopes to rebuild a society based on individualism -- "Anthem" concludes with the protagonist determined to carve into the stone portal of his fort the "sacred word EGO".

Rand's writing is lifeless, with both characters and setting being little more than vehicles for the author's ponderous didacticism. The slight romance narrative smacks of sub-Hollywood teenage fantasy, with the protagonist renaming his lover "The Golden One", followed by her dubbing him 'The Unconquered".

The concluding pages are supposed to be a poetic invocation of egoism. Instead, they come across as Rand attempting to club the reader into submission.

I am pained to learn that this book is frequently assigned in US high schools, as it is devoid of literary merit and of no great significance in literary or cultural history. If teachers or school districts want to assign a mid 20C "antitotalitarian" work, why not press copies of "1984" into students' hands?

Nevertheless my afternoon was not entirely wasted, as I can now get through the rest of my life without having to read another word of this tiresome crank, yet have a clear conscience when I describe her as possessing not a shred of literary talent, because my judgment is based on a first hand acquaintance with her writing.

#Books #Literature #USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #AynRand #Anthem #RightWing

I've read about Ayn Rand, and I've read short extracts from "Atlas Shrugged", supposedly her magnum opus.

Those extracts did not inspire me to plough through the whole of "Atlas Shrugged", but I thought to be fair I ought to read a complete work of hers, so I picked up a copy of her 1938 novella "Anthem".

In a repressive, techophobic, collectivist dystopia, a young man rebels, rediscovers electricity, and then escapes from captivity to be joined by his female lover. He hopes to rebuild a society based on individualism -- "Anthem" concludes with the protagonist determined to carve into the stone portal of his fort the "sacred word EGO".

Rand's writing is lifeless, with both characters and setting being little more than vehicles for the author's ponderous didacticism. The slight romance narrative smacks of sub-Hollywood teenage fantasy, with the protagonist renaming his lover "The Golden One", followed by her dubbing him 'The Unconquered".

The concluding pages are supposed to be a poetic invocation of egoism. Instead, they come across as Rand attempting to club the reader into submission.

I am pained to learn that this book is frequently assigned in US high schools, as it is devoid of literary merit and of no great significance in literary or cultural history. If teachers or school districts want to assign a mid 20C "antitotalitarian" work, why not press copies of "1984" into students' hands?

Nevertheless my afternoon was not entirely wasted, as I can now get through the rest of my life without having to read another word of this tiresome crank, yet have a clear conscience when I describe her as possessing not a shred of literary talent, because my judgment is based on a first hand acquaintance with her writing.

#Books #Literature #USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #AynRand #Anthem #RightWing

I've read about Ayn Rand, and I've read short extracts from "Atlas Shrugged", supposedly her magnum opus.

Those extracts did not inspire me to plough through the whole of "Atlas Shrugged", but I thought to be fair I ought to read a complete work of hers, so I picked up a copy of her 1938 novella "Anthem".

In a repressive, techophobic, collectivist dystopia, a young man rebels, rediscovers electricity, and then escapes from captivity to be joined by his female lover. He hopes to rebuild a society based on individualism -- "Anthem" concludes with the protagonist determined to carve into the stone portal of his fort the "sacred word EGO".

Rand's writing is lifeless, with both characters and setting being little more than vehicles for the author's ponderous didacticism. The slight romance narrative smacks of sub-Hollywood teenage fantasy, with the protagonist renaming his lover "The Golden One", followed by her dubbing him 'The Unconquered".

The concluding pages are supposed to be a poetic invocation of egoism. Instead, they come across as Rand attempting to club the reader into submission.

I am pained to learn that this book is frequently assigned in US high schools, as it is devoid of literary merit and of no great significance in literary or cultural history. If teachers or school districts want to assign a mid 20C "antitotalitarian" work, why not press copies of "1984" into students' hands?

Nevertheless my afternoon was not entirely wasted, as I can now get through the rest of my life without having to read another word of this tiresome crank, yet have a clear conscience when I describe her as possessing not a shred of literary talent, because my judgment is based on a first hand acquaintance with her writing.

#Books #Literature #USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #AynRand #Anthem #RightWing

The final book in today's 🧵on Asia & the anglophone world: "American Koan" by Ben Van Overmeire - a study on the #zen #koan & self in #autobiographies by Natalie Goldberg, Peter Matthiessen, Philip Kapleau, Ruth Ozeki & others of #AmericanLiterature

#ReligiousStudies #buddhism

The final book in today's 🧵on Asia & the anglophone world: "American Koan" by Ben Van Overmeire - a study on the #zen #koan & self in #autobiographies by Natalie Goldberg, Peter Matthiessen, Philip Kapleau, Ruth Ozeki & others of #AmericanLiterature

#ReligiousStudies #buddhism

The final book in today's 🧵on Asia & the anglophone world: "American Koan" by Ben Van Overmeire - a study on the #zen #koan & self in #autobiographies by Natalie Goldberg, Peter Matthiessen, Philip Kapleau, Ruth Ozeki & others of #AmericanLiterature

#ReligiousStudies #buddhism

The final book in today's 🧵on Asia & the anglophone world: "American Koan" by Ben Van Overmeire - a study on the #zen #koan & self in #autobiographies by Natalie Goldberg, Peter Matthiessen, Philip Kapleau, Ruth Ozeki & others of #AmericanLiterature

#ReligiousStudies #buddhism

Today is #InternationalChildrensBookDay - so book 1 of this 🧵by Sybille A. Jagusch is on depictions of #Japan in 200 years of American #ChildrensBooks - from #travelogues to picture books, adventure stories #folklore & more

#ICBD #AmericanLiterature #Asia #interculturalexchange #LiteraryStudies

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner ★★★★☆
Two timelines, one quietly devastating story. Stegner tested my patience across 500 pages, then rewarded it with a spectacular ending. This Pulitzer winner might just be his most enduring.

#Books #BookReview #LiteraryFiction #AmericanLiterature #ClassicLit

https://books.robertbreen.com/2025/11/03/angle-of-repose-by-wallace-stegner/

Damn. I knew, and then temporarily forgot, that "The Nervous Set" was a beatnik / Beat Generation era (inspired) musical, but I failed to pick up on "The Ballad of the Sad Young Men" being a direct lift from F. Scott Fitzgerald - who, while not a Beat author, can definitely be considered to be a Beat precursor. Heck, the whole Lost Generation was a direct influence, once you see it.

I love finding these interlocking webs betwixt different eras and movements. (And feel a little silly for not catching it sooner.)

All sorts of things are wrong in my life, but all sorts of things are right too.

I can share an example of the latter. As I sit with a glass of White Horse, I am trying to decide which of these two books to read next:

Washington Irving -- Tales of the Alhambra

Franz Werfel -- The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

I'm lucky to be faced with such a choice.

#Books #TalesOfTheAlhambra #WashingtonIrving #AmericanLiterature #FranzWerfel #TheFortyDaysOfMusaDagh #GermanLiterature

Today would have been the 100th birthday of Frank O'Hara!
Celebrate the famous New York poet by reading some of his texts - we have a large selection of books by & on him in our collection!

#FrankOHara #QueerWriters #AmericanPoetry #AmericanLiterature #Poetry #BOTD #OTD

Today would have been the 100th birthday of Frank O'Hara!
Celebrate the famous New York poet by reading some of his texts - we have a large selection of books by & on him in our collection!

#FrankOHara #QueerWriters #AmericanPoetry #AmericanLiterature #Poetry #BOTD #OTD

Today would have been the 100th birthday of Frank O'Hara!
Celebrate the famous New York poet by reading some of his texts - we have a large selection of books by & on him in our collection!

#FrankOHara #QueerWriters #AmericanPoetry #AmericanLiterature #Poetry #BOTD #OTD

We added 2 new titles on #adolescence & processes of change!
Julia Pfeiffer's "Transforming Girls" talks about the #transformation from #backfisch to #womanhood within 19th c #youngadultliterature in German & #AmericanLiterature

#VictorianStudies #LiteraryStudies #girlhood #ChildrensLiterature #YA

Flannery O'Connor, born #OTD in 1925.

In my latest blog post, I'm sharing a short selection of films and other resources on this amazing Southern author - one of the best representatives of the Southern Gothic genre. (And one of my all-time favourite writers! ❤️)

https://grammaticus.blog/2026/03/25/films-flannery/

#flanneryoconnor #literature #americanliterature #southerngothic #englishteacher

Flannery O'Connor, born #OTD in 1925.

In my latest blog post, I'm sharing a short selection of films and other resources on this amazing Southern author - one of the best representatives of the Southern Gothic genre. (And one of my all-time favourite writers! ❤️)

https://grammaticus.blog/2026/03/25/films-flannery/

#flanneryoconnor #literature #americanliterature #southerngothic #englishteacher

Dawn Powell

https://www.columbusmonthly.com/story/lifestyle/features/2021/11/16/ohio-novelist-dawn-powell-a-time-to-be-born-my-home-is-far-away-author/6387725001/

>> "New Yorker" ... film critic Richard Brody became the latest media figure to celebrate Powell, declaring her nine novels written from 1929 to 1948 (including three about Ohio) “one of the most extraordinary outpourings of sustained literary artistry that the United States can boast.” <<

#Books #DawnPowell #USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #20thCenturyLiterature #NewYork #Ohio

Earlier this evening I enjoyed the satisfaction of coming to the end of a book I enjoyed very much, Dawn Powell's 1948 novel "The Locusts Have No King".

I've posted about this author before; this is the fifth novel of hers I have read, and it impressed me as possibly the best so far. Beneath the sharp observation of literary New York and mid-century Manhattan mores lies a tale full of insight about the relations between men and women. The author provides plenty of amused skepticism about what we tell ourselves and others about our motives and hopes in the ups and downs of love and friendship, but this skepticism never lapses into a shallow cynicism about human nature. Instead, as happens with a comedy at its best, we are left both amused and moved.

Andrew Wheeler had a slightly different but thoughtful take on the book here:
https://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-locusts-have-no-king-by-dawn-powell.html

As Wheeler notes, "The Locusts Have No King" is not a book for everyone; you must have a taste for adult satire that is never coarse but which can sting at times. If you are, or aspire to be, that adult, I would strongly recommend that you hurry along to your library or bookshop now!

#Books #DawnPowell #TheLocustsHaveNoKing #Fiction #Novels #AmericanLiterature #USLiterature #NewYork #LiteratureInEnglish #1940s

It's the spring equinox and the time for another quarterly ebook. This time it's a short story by Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941).

"Departure" is about a young man leaving his small hometown to begin a new life in a big city. As he sets off, thoughts about the familiar people and places fill him with melancholy.

It’s a bittersweet story that I hope you will enjoy! As always, there are vocabulary explanations in the footnotes.

Visit the Grammaticus website today to get you free PDF: https://grammaticus.blog/2026/03/21/free-ebook-departure-by-sherwood-anderson

#literature #shortstory #reading #americanliterature #englishteacher #learningenglish #books #ebooks

Free ebook: “Departure” by Sherwood Anderson

Dear all,

It’s the spring equinox and the time for another quarterly ebook. This time it’s a short story by Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941), American novelist and short story writer best known for his book ” Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life.”

Departure comes from that same collection of stories. It’s about a young man leaving his small hometown to begin a new life in a big city. As he’s leaving, thoughts about the familiar people and places fill him with melancholy. It’s a bittersweet story that I hope you will enjoy!

To get your PDF copy with vocabulary notes, please click on the link below:

CLICK HERE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD

If you’d like to access more ebooks, visit the English Library section of this website.

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... while Emma Roche analyses 6 popular #postmillennial #romance novels 2005-2015, - incl. #Twilight #FiftyShadesOfGrey & #GoneGirl
Read it to find out how #neoliberal #postfeminist attitudes in these works augment women's vulnerability to male violence

#AmericanLiterature #EnglishLiterature

Book 2) is Aanchal Vij's analysis of #nostalgia & repair in 20th-21st c #AmericanLiterature & #comics - with a focus on #traumatheory & #DisabilityStudies & the myth of American exceptionalism in works by Chabon, Spiegelman, Roth, Alan Moore & Ta-Nehisi Coates

#ComicsStudies #LiteraryStudies

Book 2) is Aanchal Vij's analysis of #nostalgia & repair in 20th-21st c #AmericanLiterature & #comics - with a focus on #traumatheory & #DisabilityStudies & the myth of American exceptionalism in works by Chabon, Spiegelman, Roth, Alan Moore & Ta-Nehisi Coates

#ComicsStudies #LiteraryStudies

Book 2) is Aanchal Vij's analysis of #nostalgia & repair in 20th-21st c #AmericanLiterature & #comics - with a focus on #traumatheory & #DisabilityStudies & the myth of American exceptionalism in works by Chabon, Spiegelman, Roth, Alan Moore & Ta-Nehisi Coates

#ComicsStudies #LiteraryStudies

Book 2) is Aanchal Vij's analysis of #nostalgia & repair in 20th-21st c #AmericanLiterature & #comics - with a focus on #traumatheory & #DisabilityStudies & the myth of American exceptionalism in works by Chabon, Spiegelman, Roth, Alan Moore & Ta-Nehisi Coates

#ComicsStudies #LiteraryStudies

Book 2) is Aanchal Vij's analysis of #nostalgia & repair in 20th-21st c #AmericanLiterature & #comics - with a focus on #traumatheory & #DisabilityStudies & the myth of American exceptionalism in works by Chabon, Spiegelman, Roth, Alan Moore & Ta-Nehisi Coates

#ComicsStudies #LiteraryStudies

Image by John Quidor #BookChatWeekly #GothicSpring #NationalReadingMonth #ReadingCommunity #Book #BookSky #Fiction #FictionSky #AmericanFiction #Literature #LiteratureSky #AmericanLiterature #WashingtonIrving #Disney #SleepyHollow #HeadlessHorseman #Ghost #GhostSky #Monster #MonsterSky

William Carlos Williams, died #OTD in 1963.

Visit the Grammaticus blog today and enjoy his short poem "Winter Trees" - it may appear to be about trees in winter, but it’s just as much about us.

https://grammaticus.blog/2025/01/22/winter-trees-by-william-carlos-williams/

#poem #poetry #williamcarloswilliams #literature #americanliterature #learningenglish #englishteacher

My review of Water Music by Marcia Peck is on Medium. Set on Cape Cod in the summer of 1956, the novel follows a family unraveling, told through the eyes of a child trying to make sense of a mother who cannot right herself. Peck uses the Beaufort wind force scale as chapter headings, measuring escalating tension the way a sailor reads weather. A 5-star read.
#BookReview #Fiction #AmericanLiterature #HistoricalFiction
https://medium.com/@AngieMangino/water-music-e9e1d9054b38?sk=fd091bb74bb1ae27a8447857f1f79af4

Happy Lunar New Year of the Horse 🐴
Our collection houses many books on #horses - from #EnglishLiterature & #AmericanLiterature to the #History of horses in war, in racing, in the Wild West, in #Australia to horses in #Poetry & #Fiction - so many options to explore!

#YearOfTheHorse #LunarNewYear

Nicholas A. Basbanes's "Cross of Snow" is the 1st major literary #biography on #AmericanPoet & translator #HenryWadsworthLongfellow in 50 years & traces the tragedies & achievements of his life, w new material & a fresh look at #Longfellow 's 2nd wife Fanny

#AmericanLiterature #Poetry #biographies

James Baldwin's "Giovanni's Room" impressed me both for its exploration of love, sex, and sexual identity and for the skill with which the author has the narrative unfold; I was gripped from beginning to end.

Although the protagonist is white, I know that some critics believe that the theme of race is obliquely present by virtue of the salience of various kinds of minority identity throughout the novel.

Quite aside from it being a "good read", I would recommend it to anybody interested in the literary treatment of bisexuality.

Expatriation also figures as an important theme. These words hit home with this migrant:

>> You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back. <<

"Home", of course, can be more than a geographical location.

#Books #GiovannisRoom #JamesBaldwin #Fiction #AmericanLiterature #USLiterature #AfricanAmericanLiterature #QueerFiction #LiteratureInEnglish #Sexuality #Bisexuality #20thCenturyLiterature #1950s #Homosexuality #Gay #Expatriates #Migrants

I finished Nabokov's "Pnin" last night.

What a delight it was! Funny, clever, and oddly moving.

I would recommend getting hold of the Everyman's Library edition, as the introduction by David Lodge is both informative and perceptive.

#Books #Pnin #Nabokov #Fiction #Literature #AmericanLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish #20thCenturyLiterature #CampusNovel #DavidLodge

I finished Nabokov's "Pnin" last night.

What a delight it was! Funny, clever, and oddly moving.

I would recommend getting hold of the Everyman's Library edition, as the introduction by David Lodge is both informative and perceptive.

#Books #Pnin #Nabokov #Fiction #Literature #AmericanLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish #20thCenturyLiterature #CampusNovel #DavidLodge

I finished Nabokov's "Pnin" last night.

What a delight it was! Funny, clever, and oddly moving.

I would recommend getting hold of the Everyman's Library edition, as the introduction by David Lodge is both informative and perceptive.

#Books #Pnin #Nabokov #Fiction #Literature #AmericanLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish #20thCenturyLiterature #CampusNovel #DavidLodge

I finished Nabokov's "Pnin" last night.

What a delight it was! Funny, clever, and oddly moving.

I would recommend getting hold of the Everyman's Library edition, as the introduction by David Lodge is both informative and perceptive.

#Books #Pnin #Nabokov #Fiction #Literature #AmericanLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish #20thCenturyLiterature #CampusNovel #DavidLodge

I finished Nabokov's "Pnin" last night.

What a delight it was! Funny, clever, and oddly moving.

I would recommend getting hold of the Everyman's Library edition, as the introduction by David Lodge is both informative and perceptive.

#Books #Pnin #Nabokov #Fiction #Literature #AmericanLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish #20thCenturyLiterature #CampusNovel #DavidLodge

An author reads James. Brilliant.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/05/james-talks-truth/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

“Belief has nothing to do with truth. Believe what you like. Believe I’m lying and move through the world as a white boy. Believe I’m telling the truth and move through the world as a white boy anyway. Either way, no difference.”

Percival Everett #Novel #Reading #AmericanLiterature #Classic #PhilosophicalFiction #Race #Identity #blog #podcast #Belief #Truth #Reality #Power #Perception #Injustice #Ideology #Literature #Philosophy

It's 1 year since the #BarbieMovie came out & caught everyone in a whirl of pink energy! 🎀
What novel would #Barbie read today? Maybe this new #ClimateFiction: "Plastic" by Scott Guild about a plastic girl in an all-American plastic world?

#queerwriters #AmericanLiterature