Happy Halloween y’all! Here’s some more stuff I’ve read that you should too:
- Are Prose Poets Trolling Us?Selling Books in London from a 100-Year-Old Dutch Barge
- Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction (by Zadie Smith)
- Malfunctioning Sex Robot (by Patricia Lockwood)
- Can Fiction Introduce Empathy Into AI? Do We Want It To?
- On audiobooks and literature in the post-digital age
- What makes the sympathetic plot a universal story-type?
- Jane Eyre translated: 57 languages show how different cultures interpret Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel
- On Monsieur Bovary, One of Literature’s Most Necessary Characters
- Climate Messaging: A Case for Negativity
- On the Darkness at the Heart of Jamaica Kincaid’s Children’s Mystery
- On the Endless Parade of Literary Dead Girls
- Why Campaigns to Change Language Often Backfire
- Earliest book found in tomb written off by archaeologists
- Students at a Georgia University Burn a Latina Author’s Book After She Gives Talk on White Privilege
- How the internet is changing language as we know it (ikr lol)
- Lost chapter of world’s first novel found in Japanese storeroom
- Who Decides Which Books Are “Great?”
- 50 Fictional Librarians, Ranked
- Literary Wedding Ideas For People Who Don’t Really Understand Books
- British Library accused of ripping off historians
- Spoken word the new focus for Spotify
- Can Everyone Stop Slagging Off Brighton, Already? (by Lynne Truss)
- The Book People surveys national reading habits
- Calls for trade to tackle ‘shocking’ lack of black British male children’s writers
- Panic is Worse Than Pain: How Fiction Failed Me After Trauma
- Opinion: I paid my fee at the DMV with $24 and a book of my poetry. Miracles do happen
- PICTURING THE FUTURE: How a shadowy consortium controls the evolution of emoji
- ‘It’s an escape’: the Americans who want to live like Jane Austen
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