#lit-hub — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lit-hub, aggregated by home.social.
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America’s First War on Drugs Was Also a War on Jazz #LitHub #books #jazz https://lithub.com/americas-first-war-on-drugs-was-also-a-war-on-jazz/
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AI paranoia is a symptom of a larger problem: a corporate culture that values quantity over quality.
https://lithub.com/its-getting-harder-to-spot-ai-in-contemporary-publishing-and-thats-very-very-bad/
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I have never understood why so many apps exist for websites but Cory Doctorow explains that the reason is to avoid regulation:
https://lithub.com/how-american-tech-cartels-use-apps-to-break-the-law/
#lithub #literaryhub #corydoctorow #tech #technology #regulation #monopoly #trust #antitrust #smartphones #cartels #oligarchy #scams
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📚 Ah, another #groundbreaking revelation: #trauma and #drugs are linked! Who would've thought? 🤯 Lit Hub has achieved the impossible—turning a basic #psychology fact into a #pretentious novella full of words that say a lot but mean nothing. 🚀
https://lithub.com/the-link-between-trauma-drug-use-and-our-search-to-feel-better/ #LitHub #revelation #HackerNews #ngated -
"Ours is a dark and chaotic world. We are all in need of lights to follow. On that island I felt I had met someone who had made a life on her own terms."
No small thing to achieve in life. No small thing. A beautiful read about one of my favourite places in the world.
https://lithub.com/last-outposts-rediscovering-hope-for-humanity-on-norways-remote-northern-coast/
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"The idea that the need for language and translation will be eradicated with immediate machine equivalencies is as ridiculous as the idea that our differences as a species will be similarly eradicated. Language is just the symptom, not the cause, it is our differences made manifest. In the end, these differences cannot be eradicated, they cannot be killed, or flattened, or simplified, or ignored, or hacked, only translated. And lucky for you, we are still here to do that."
https://lithub.com/the-future-will-be-translated-a-manifesto-in-three-lies/
#LitHub #Translation #LiteratureInTranslation #TranslatorLife
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"...woe betide the man or woman who runs to Amazon for a copy of The Great Gatsby. The listings are a great dumpster fire of indiscrimination, where wretched independently published copies are given prime billing next to, and sometimes above, the classic Scribner version." #books #literature #publishing #LitHub #fiction
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From yesterday's #LitHub article about the banning of EricCarle's Draw Me A Star.
“Hitler dictated not only politics and everything, he also dictated art,” he told NPR in 2011.
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From yesterday's #LitHub article about the banning of EricCarle's Draw Me A Star.
“Hitler dictated not only politics and everything, he also dictated art,” he told NPR in 2011.
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just hearing to this weeks #LithubPodcast i.e. why it is bad for authors to link back to their books in #amazon „now is the time when our decisions matter … the best time to leave amazon“ #book #lithub #podcast
https://lithub.com/this-week-on-the-lit-hub-podcast-amazon-bookstores-and-villains/
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Wow! What a great literary find this is. Thanks, #LitHub
#bookstodon #LiteraryRoadTrip #LiteraryTravel #readingA Literary Road Trip Across America
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What #book are you especially glad to see on #LitHub's list? For me, it's #Remainder by #TomMcCarthy.
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What #book are you especially glad to see on #LitHub's list? For me, it's #Remainder by #TomMcCarthy.
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"I Stand With Penguins!"
yasaman posted "How to Comment on Social Media" by Rebecca Solnit and mefites are offering their cheeky addendums.
https://www.metafilter.com/202363/How-to-Comment-on-Social-Media-by-Rebecca-Solnit
#commenting #lithub #RebeccaSolnit #satire #SocialMedia #funny
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The World Poetry Conference that Jim Harrison coordinated was $50k over budget in 1968–good thing he’d already decided he was leaving!
Nick Ripatrazone on the case for #LitHub:
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@hannu_ikonen I don’t have specific suggestions, but a great resource for finding books and authors is CrimeReads. It’s free to subscribe and highlights lots of different mystery, suspense, true crime, etc. books and authors in daily and weekly newsletter-type emails.
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Sun Ra and Henry Dumas, Recorded in Conversation
https://lithub.com/disappearing-archives-sun-ra-and-henry-dumas-recorded-in-conversation/
> There are moments that must not go missing in orbit, interactions that must vibrate beyond our capacity to comprehend them intellectually, rhythms that we need in the universe to help us cohere as a culture, moments that we must immortalize without knowing why.
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The “trauma” of publishing a novel by Megan Nolan
I once found it risible to hear authors describe the publication process as “traumatising”. Then my first novel came out, and I went crazy.
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One of our previous #BowieBookClub picks, #InColdBlood by #TrumanCapote popped up today on #LitHub
@bookstodon"Truman Capote became the “it” author of his generation after publishing In Cold Blood. That wasn’t necessarily a good thing."
https://lithub.com/how-truman-capote-was-destroyed-by-his-own-masterpiece
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Email heading from LitHub---"Lit Hub Weekly: Going Gray, Grieving Pets, and Tracing the Origins of 'Kafkaesque'"
Subscribe and stay up on the haps.
https://link.lithub.com/view/602ea758180f243d6532cb0ej28uq.jpk/ed2499d8
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My back log on the #Lithub Most Anticipated List is probably down to 2019, but anyways: What to read in the second half of 2023. Some really interesting sounding titles, some absolute nonstarters with me. AND: There will be #BarbraStreisand #Memoirs
#books #reading
https://lithub.com/lit-hubs-most-anticipated-books-of-2023-part-two/5/?single=true -
YES! Local #library has #TheCharioteer by #MaryRenault. It's an early #LGBTQ book about “A WWII soldier embarks on affairs with two very different men in a landmark novel that "transcends categorizations" (The Telegraph)." #CatSebastian wrote an article about it for #LitHub (https://lithub.com/the-lesser-known-novel-of-the-1950s-that-presaged-queer-liberation/). The book was written in 1953 which was radical at the time. As Sebastian points out, funny how a book in 1953 seems more accepted than in 2023. Can't wait to read it! #AmReading
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@jhupress is having a sale through June 6. The 30% off discount code is HMOR23, and if you spend $50 or more you get free shipping. The #memoir I wrote with #neurologist #Dr.BruceMiller -- #FindingTheRightWords: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain -- is included in the sale. If you decide to read it, I hope you find our words helpful. Here's a link to the #book website. https://weinsteinandmiller.com #bookstodon, #narrativemedicine, #lithub, #EndAlz
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@jhupress is having a sale through June 6. The 30% off discount code is HMOR23, and if you spend $50 or more you get free shipping. The #memoir I wrote with #neurologist #Dr.BruceMiller -- #FindingTheRightWords: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain -- is included in the sale. If you decide to read it, I hope you find our words helpful. Here's a link to the #book website. https://weinsteinandmiller.com #bookstodon, #narrativemedicine, #lithub, #EndAlz
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"Language evolution...loves a mouth that isn’t afraid to let it all hang out. And snooty talkers tend to be a bit too linguistically uptight."
How Lower-Class Innovation, Like, Changes the Langwage
https://lithub.com/how-lower-class-innovation-like-changes-the-langwage/
#Language #WritingTips by Valerie M. Fridland, Ph.D. via #LitHub