Book cover. Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
Author portrait. Henry Fielding
“At length my friend was removed from me, and I was again left to my solitude, to the tormenting conversation with my own reflections, and to apply to books for my only comfort. I now read almost all day long."
– Henry Fielding #botd
#books #literature #novels #henryfielding
"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun"
– Keats, "To Autumn"
Episode 730 – @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to @grahamwatson.bsky.social about his book on #Charlottebronte and @saracharles.bsky.social about her choice of a "last book."
#autumn #booksky
Book cover. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Author portrait. Charlotte Brontë
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you."
– Charlotte Brontë
#botd #books #literature #novels #charlottebrontë
In honor of National Library Week, an extensive video interview with Toni Morrison about the New York Public Library.
And Morrison's 2018 statement "Tell City Leaders to Invest in Libraries."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxr5...
wayback.archive-it.org/18689/202203...
"It was horror at the bloody deed which had just been committed, which passed out beside them. The bright morning came and revealed to the light what had been begun in the hours of darkness."
– E.T.A. Hoffmann, "Mademoiselle de Scudéri"
#books #literature @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Book cover. Thornton Wilder, Old Town
Author photo. Thornton Wilder
“If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good.”
– Thornton Wilder
#botd #books #literature #novels #thorntonwilder
Book cover. Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
Author photo. Kingsley Amis
“He disliked this girl and her boy-friend so much that he couldn't understand why they didn't dislike each other.”
– Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
#books #literature
For more about Pessoa, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with Bartholomew Ryan, author of Fernando Pessoa: A Critical Life.
#books #biography @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
I greatly enjoyed the conversation with Jacke. Thank you for having me!
"When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion, or, in other words, when his hobby-horse grows headstrong, farewell cool reason and fair discretion!"
– Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
#books #literature @academic.oup.com
For more about Mansfield, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with author Gerri Kimber. #books #literature #katherinemansfield @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
“He found all things come back to the question of what he personally might have been, how he might have led his life and 'turned out,' if he had not so, at the outset, given it up.”
– Henry James, The Jolly Corner
#botd #henryjames #novels #books #literature
#AWP27 Event Proposals are now open! If anyone is looking for a seasoned panelist, drop me a line. Perhaps a #horror panel at #AWP? My novel, Chicano Frankenstein, has been optioned by a major studio and under development with a producer.
awpwriter.secure-platform.com/applications...
Book image. Noah Webster on the title page of the 1828 first edition of the American Dictionary of the English Language
Book image. From the title page of the 1828 first edition of the American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster
April 14, 1828. Noah Webster published the first American Dictionary of the English Language, containing 70,000 entries. #otd #books #dictionary #englishlanguage
Buster Keaton and Samuel Beckett during the making of FILM (1965)
Beckett was BOTD in 1906
📚🎉 Celebrating Eudora Welty—Mississippi’s own master of literature and brilliant photographer—on what would have been her 117th birthday.
Want to read more about Welty and her work? Start here with our reading list.
buff.ly/aQK6QoL
#EudoraWelty #MississippiWriters #LiteraryLegacy #ReadingList
Book cover. Seamus Heaney, 100 Poems
Author photo. Seamus Heaney
"Vowels ploughed into other: opened ground."
– Seamus Heaney
#botd #poetry #literature #books
The Flora & Fauna of Seamus Heaney: #Fauna
📅 Sat, 18 April at 2pm: https://ow.ly/lBZr50YALVq
#SeamusHeaney: Listen Now Again welcomes Paolo Viscardi, Keeper of Natural History at the NMI. Explore the animals in Heaney’s poetry through readings + insights into Ireland’s wildlife.
Book cover. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Author photo. Eudora Welty
“It doesn't matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.”
– Eudora Welty #botd
#books #literature #stories
What a way to end publication day! For the Guardian, I’ve written a piece on navigating the weird and wonderful word of Muriel Spark.
Read it, and do give my book a read, too.
LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK is out right now! 🐈⬛
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
Book cover. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Author photo. Samuel Beckett
"The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh." – Samuel Beckett #botd
#books #literature #samuelbeckett
Book cover. Nella Larsen, Passing
Author photo. Nella Larsen
"Pain, fear, and grief were things that left their mark on people. Even love, that exquisite torturing emotion, left its subtle traces on the countenance. – Nella Larsen #botd
#books #literature #nellalarsen
@jackewilson.bsky.social talks to author Eileen Sperry about her book This Body of Death: Form and Decay in Early Modern Lyric, which examines how the lyric poetry of Shakespeare and his contemporaries shaped our understanding of what it means to be mortal. #books @cornellupress.bsky.social
Book cover. William Hazlitt, Selected Writings
Author portrait. William Hazlitt
"Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for any thing else."
– William Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Poets
#botd #poetry #literature
Book cover. David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
Author photo. David Halberstam
"He tended to see the world in terms of deep historical forces that, in his mind, formed a nation's character in ways almost beyond the consciousness of the men who momentarily governed it.” – David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter
#botd #books #history
Book cover. Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil. Translated by Aaron Poochigian. Introduction by Dana Gioia. Afterword by Daniel Handler
"It is Death that consoles—yea, and causes our lives;
'Tis the goal of this Life—and of Hope the sole ray,
Which like a strong potion enlivens and gives
Us the strength to plod on to the end of the day."
– Charles Baudelaire #botd
#books #poetry #literature
Book cover. The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer
Author portrait. Aemilia Lanyer
In Episode 791, @jackewilson.bsky.social takes a look at Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645), the first Englishwoman to publish a volume of poetry, the protofeminist Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611). #books #literature #poetry
François Ozon’s black-and-white film adaptation of Albert Camus's novella The Stranger looks amazing in its portrayal of Meursault – a man who thinks "Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why"? #film #albertcamus #stories #literature
For more about this beautifully written book, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with author Megan Marshall, who wrote the forward to Three Roads Back. @princetonupress.bsky.social #books #literature #biography
