#LiteraryEssay hashtag - Bluesky

@markaz-review.bsky.social

2 days ago

Stricken by mysterious numbness on a trip to her homeland, Amy Omar wonders: could an attempt at establishing an autonomous identity be the cause?

🔗 Discover the essay: https://bit.ly/culture-got-your-tongue

#AmyOmar #MotherTongue #ArabWriters #LanguageAndIdentity #DiasporaLit #LiteraryEssay

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز

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1 week ago

In her latest essay, Farah Ahamed reflects on how multiple languages in a family become a perfect conduit for grief and acceptance.

🔗 Read the full piece now: https://bit.ly/language-and-the-mother-eternal

#TheMarkazReview #TMR58 #MotherTongue #Bookstagram #Reading #LiteraryEssay #Grief

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز

@markaz-review.bsky.social

1 week ago

For an Arab writer, English as a mother tongue can be a lonely place. Mai Al-Nakib's latest essay explores what it means to exist at the periphery of the literary establishment.

🔗 https://bit.ly/english-and-my-mothers-ghost

#MotherTongue #ArabWriters #DiasporaLit #LiteraryEssay

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Orleans Saltos

@grawlix-stories.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Illustration of a solemn priest in white robes holding a cross, standing beside an ATM marked “Out of Service,” evoking themes of broken systems and quiet endurance.

My essay Gospel of the Broken ATM is out now in Disco Kitchen.

A story about faith, systems, and what happens when both stop working.

Read here:
www.discokitchenmag.com/nonfiction-v...

#CreativeNonfiction #LiteraryEssay #FlashNonfiction #WritingCommunity #IndieLit

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E. R. Paine

@publiuspaine.bsky.social

4 months ago

On the Eve of Requiem The table waits, still set for ghosts.

November holds its breath.
On the Eve of Requiem — new reflection live.
#NotesOfPaine #LiteraryEssay #Autumn

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E. R. Paine

@publiuspaine.bsky.social

5 months ago

Notes of Paine No. 1 — On Candles in an Age of Floodlights 🕯️ The clocks have turned back; some lights are meant to flicker.

The clocks have turned back; some lights still resist the dark.
Notes of Paine No. 1 — On Candles in an Age of Floodlights. #NotesOfPaine #WritingCommunity #LiteraryEssay #Autumn

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@djaehnig.bsky.social

5 months ago

The Quiet Violence of Knowing: Reading Conversations with Friends There’s a particular kind of silence that lives between people who believe themselves to be honest. It isn’t empty; it hums with restraint, ...

Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends captures the quiet violence between people who want to be honest but can’t bear the cost.
Read my full essay → tinyurl.com/4msw7wjk

#SallyRooney #ConversationsWithFriends #LiteraryEssay #ArsMendacium

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@djaehnig.bsky.social

6 months ago

Freedom and Guilt: The Rehearsal for Huckleberry Finn I’ve always thought it strange how easily we forgive Tom Sawyer. Maybe it’s the grin. Maybe it’s because the book feels sun-washed and harml...

Before Huckleberry Finn forced America to face its conscience, Tom Sawyer taught it how to fake innocence and smile while doing it.

Read the full essay → tinyurl.com/y7n2f39d

#MarkTwain #TomSawyer #LiteraryEssay #AmericanLiterature #ArsMendacium

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KrishinAsnani

@krishinasnani.bsky.social

6 months ago

Book cover - Quarterlife by Devika Rege

South Bombay's skyline (Marine Drive)

Identity, tradition, modernity & ambition collide in Mumbai’s elite. Devika Rege’s novel Quarterlife made me reflect on 1980s US immigrant life.
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#Literature #IdentityAndCulture #CulturalReflection #CulturalCriticism #GlobalLiterature #LiteraryEssay

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Micah Jones

@micahjoneswrites.bsky.social

6 months ago

Fear the Old Sea Parallels between "Our Wives Under the Sea" and "Bloodborne"

I wrote about Bloodborne and Our Wives Under the Sea on my substack, check it out! open.substack.com/pub/micahjon... #horror #bloodborne #literaryessay #juliaarmfield #authorsky #substack