‘I wanted to be No 1. But a certain JK Rowling came along’: Jacqueline Wilson on rivalry, censorship – and love (www.theguardian.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/HSmIX...
Please provide me the best materials to understand Macbeth. (sh.itjust.works)
Was recently watching this www.arte.tv/en/videos/…/giuseppe-verdi-macbeth/...
‘I can’t stress how much BookTok sells’: teen literary influencers swaying publishers (www.theguardian.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/Uz7ql...
Viberary - Vibe based book search engine (viberary.pizza)
It gives you book recommendations based on ✨vibes. ✨ You enter a search query like “funny scifi” and it returns a list of (hopefully!) good recommendations.
12 reasons to stop using Goodreads - selected by Goodreads staff (help.goodreads.com)
It could be kind of lame to poke fun at a site that I don’t use (anymore), but I find this funny enough to share: Goodreads has started changing and updating their site last year, but apparently they’ve broken a ton of things in the process, and now they’ve published an announcement with the list of 12 bugs they’re...
One Can Scarcely Help Clarifying Him: On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s "The Brothers Karamazov" By Michael R. Katz (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (www.hpmor.com)
1984 by George Orwell (sh.itjust.works)
I don’t really know how to write this one as I am not really one of those who report on books....
Rebecca F Kuang: Goodreads is right to divide opinions, wrong to boil them down (www.theguardian.com)
Emotions run high on Goodreads. In fact, I tell every author navigating their first book launch to stay off it. They’re not going to listen to me, because who doesn’t want to know whether their manuscript – this precious thing they’ve toiled on in solitude for years – has found its readers? And because I’ve been...
A crosspost from lemmy.world for federated alternative to goodreads. (lemmy.world)
Bullshit Jobs - Wikipedia (en.m.wikipedia.org)
read it? is it worth a read?...
How Manga Was Translated for America - NY Times (www.nytimes.com)
Gift link, read freely :-)
‘Does it really matter who wrote it?’: the rise of ghostwritten celebrity fiction (www.theguardian.com)
The indie publishing mavericks shaking up the UK books world (www.theguardian.com)
Last year, all of literature’s big prizes went to small publishers. In a risk‑averse climate, edgy debuts and ‘tricky-to-sell’ foreign titles have found a home at the likes of Fitzcarraldo Editions and Sort Of Books – and the gamble has paid off.
Review: What About Men? by Caitlin Moran (The Guardian) (www.theguardian.com)
What About Men? by Caitlin Moran review – bantz gone badA tendentious take on masculinity that takes unoriginal thoughts and confirms them in the echo chamber of TwitterStuart Jeffries Wed 12 Jul 2023 09.00 BST...
Hoopla, Overdrive/Libby Now Banned for Those Under 18 in Mississippi (bookriot.com)
Despite the age of consent in Mississippi being 16, no one under the age of 18 will have access to digital materials made available through public and school libraries without explicit parental/guardian permission....
Czech-born writer Milan Kundera dies aged 94 (www.euronews.com)
Misery by Stephen King (bookwyrm.social)
“I’ll be good, I’ll be good for goddess’ sake!”...
Ra - a series exploring a world where magic was discovered to be real (qntm.org)
2023 Hugo Award Finalists (www.tor.com)
Nobel literature laureate Annie Ernaux on gender and social class (www.france24.com)
For decades, Annie Ernaux has written fearlessly about sex, abortion and illness - laying bare herself and society. Deeply intimate and political work that earned the French writer the Nobel Prize for literature last October. Ernaux spoke to France 24’s Fatimata Wane at the Taormina book festival in Sicily, where she was among...
Interesting sci-fi space opera written in the 2nd century (www.google.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/708274...
Recommendation: House of Hollow (www.goodreads.com)
I saw that there were no posts in this community so I thought I’d try to kick things off with a recommendation!...
AI-Generated Books of Nonsense Are All Over Amazon's Bestseller Lists (www.vice.com)
Unreleased Books Now Impacted by Review Bombing (archive.ph)
I guess it makes sense for this sort of thing to happen now. Goodreads doesn’t have a way to prove someone bought a book and with folks there that get review copies, probably won’t get the features. If authors didn’t have a hard enough time publishing, yet another thing to worry about.