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Book cover. Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

Book cover. Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

Author portrait. Henry Fielding

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

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730 "To Autumn" by John Keats | The Invention of Charlotte Brontë (with Graham Watson) | My Last Book with Sara Charles Jacke looks forward to a new season by exploring the language and imagery of John Keats's famous ode to autumn. Then he talks to Graham Watson about his new book Th…

"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

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Book cover. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Book cover. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Author portrait. Charlotte Brontë

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

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The Power of Public Libraries: Toni Morrison Reflects on the New York Public Library's Impact
The Power of Public Libraries: Toni Morrison Reflects on the New York Public Library's Impact YouTube video by Life Stories

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...

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794 E.T.A. Hoffmann (with Ritchie Robertson) | My Last Book with… In addition to being an accomplished lawyer and a highly influential music critic, the nineteenth-century German Romantic Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822)…

"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

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Book cover. Thornton Wilder, Old Town

Book cover. Thornton Wilder, Old Town

Author photo. Thornton Wilder

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

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Book cover. Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

Book cover. Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

Author photo. Kingsley Amis

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

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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

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I greatly enjoyed the conversation with Jacke. Thank you for having me!

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793 The Secret Order of Shandeans: Laurence Sterne in Early Sovi… The 1920s were a tumultuous time for Russia, as the nation careened from the aftermath of revolution to the death of Lenin, the establishment of the Soviet Union, a…

"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

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For more about Mansfield, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with author Gerri Kimber. #books #literature #katherinemansfield @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

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679 The Jolly Corner by Henry James - Part 1 Although the writer Henry James (1843-1916) was born in New York City's Washington Square, he spent most of his adulthood in Europe, where he wrote such masterpiece…

“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

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#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.
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Book image. Noah Webster on the title page of the 1828 first edition of the American Dictionary of the English Language

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

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

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The Oyster Diaries by Nancy Lemann When I learned of his transgression I threw myself into Dante and Shakespeare, seeking to understand the world that I had failed to see.

discovering nancy lemann thanks to @meginj.bsky.social !

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Buster Keaton and Samuel Beckett during the making of FILM (1965)

Beckett was BOTD in 1906

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📚🎉 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.
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#EudoraWelty #MississippiWriters #LiteraryLegacy #ReadingList

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Book cover. Seamus Heaney, 100 Poems

Book cover. Seamus Heaney, 100 Poems

Author photo. Seamus Heaney

Author photo. Seamus Heaney

"Vowels ploughed into other: opened ground."
– Seamus Heaney

#botd #poetry #literature #books

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The Flora & Fauna of Seamus Heaney: Fauna

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.

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Book cover. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

Book cover. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

Author photo. 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

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Where to start with: Muriel Spark From an extraordinary debut inspired by a real-life breakdown to a creepy masterpiece, here’s a guide to the Scottish novelist’s works

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...

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Book cover. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

Book cover. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

Author photo. Samuel Beckett

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

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Book cover. Nella Larsen, Passing

Book cover. Nella Larsen, Passing

Author photo. Nella Larsen

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

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792 Death and Decay in Early Modern Lyric Poetry (with Eileen Sp… In this episode, Jacke 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 o…

@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

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Book cover. William Hazlitt, Selected Writings

Book cover. William Hazlitt, Selected Writings

Author portrait. William Hazlitt

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

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Book cover. David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

Book cover. David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

Author photo. David Halberstam

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

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Book cover. Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil. Translated by Aaron Poochigian. Introduction by Dana Gioia. Afterword by Daniel Handler

Book cover. Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil. Translated by Aaron Poochigian. Introduction by Dana Gioia. Afterword by Daniel Handler

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"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

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Book cover. The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer

Book cover. The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer

Author portrait. 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

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The Stranger review – lustrously beautiful and superbly realised modern take on the Camus classic François Ozon’s adaptation of the 1942 novella L’Etranger passionately honours the original text while bringing a contemporary perspective to its themes of empire and race

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

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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

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