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Host of the History of Literature Podcast. Check it out at historyofliterature.com.
@manderleypress.bsky.socialReposted by @jackewilson.bsky.socialAn illustration by Oliver Messel that I am considering for one of next year’s book covers - Letters from Paris by Dodie Smith. This work was inspired by the short story by Henry James - The Reverberator - and was a stage play in London, the sets of which were designed by Mr Messel himself!
@holpod.bsky.socialReposted by @jackewilson.bsky.social"My Poetry
explains nothing
clarifies nothing
renounces nothing
embraces no whole
fulfills no hope
creates no new rules of the game
takes no part in play
has a fixed territory
which it must fill"
– Tadeusz Różewicz #botd
@bookshop.orgReposted by @jackewilson.bsky.socialHaving trouble deciding which books to buy from Amazon during Prime Days? Try this: None, then go support an independent bookstore instead. 😌
@holpod.bsky.socialReposted by @jackewilson.bsky.socialIn this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to author Sean Keilen about his book Shakespeare's Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal Arts.
#books #literature #shakespeare @princetonupress.bsky.social
@holpod.bsky.socialReposted by @jackewilson.bsky.socialIn this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to Malcolm Guite about his new book Galahad and the Grail, the first of a four-volume Arthuriad, which poetically retells the Arthurian legend of Galahad's quest to find the Holy Grail.
#books #literature #arthurianlegend
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@ianrankin1.bsky.socialReposted by @jackewilson.bsky.social@drjamesbailey.bsky.social I didn’t think I needed another biography of Muriel Spark. Turns out I was wrong. Kudos.
@holpod.bsky.socialReposted by @jackewilson.bsky.social"Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders."
– William Faulkner, Light in August
For more about Faulkner, check out @jackewilson.bsky.social's talk with author Carl Rollyson.
#botd #books #literature #faulkner @uvapress.bsky.social
@holpod.bsky.socialReposted by @jackewilson.bsky.social"When Iola opened her school she took pains to get acquainted with the parents of the children, and she gained their confidence and co-operation. Her face was a passport to their hearts. Ignorant of books, human faces were the scrolls from which they had been reading for ages." – Frances E.W. Harper
@holpod.bsky.socialReposted by @jackewilson.bsky.socialFrom the archives – In this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social takes a look at the life and works of Stendhal, whose innovative novels The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma made him one of the greatest and most influential novelists of all time.
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@holpod.bsky.socialReposted by @jackewilson.bsky.social"One could not stand and watch very long without becoming philosophical, without beginning to deal in symbols and similes, and to hear the hog squeal of the universe."
– Upton Sinclair, b. Sept. 20, 1878
@holpod.bsky.socialReposted by @jackewilson.bsky.social"Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change."
– H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
@holpod.bsky.socialReposted by @jackewilson.bsky.socialFor more about the book, take a listen to this History of Literature Podcast episode in which @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to Phillip Lopate, author of A Washington Irving Sketchbook.
@holpod.bsky.socialReposted by @jackewilson.bsky.socialIn Episode 831, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to author Rachel Pastan about her novel We're So Lucky to Live Here, in which a woman copes with a tragic loss by staging a production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard in her childhood home.
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@jackewilson.bsky.social@literaturesc.bsky.social they’re playing the hits
@holpod.bsky.socialReposted by @jackewilson.bsky.social"Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practise."
– Samuel Johnson #botd
For more about Johnson's life and work, listen to this episode from the archives! #books #literature @livunipress.bsky.social
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@reaktionbooks.bsky.socialReposted by @jackewilson.bsky.socialDesk Revolutionaries: The Men of the French Directory, 1795-9 by Biancamaria Fontana sets the record straight on the French Revolution’s great experiment in governance.
@holpod.bsky.socialReposted by @jackewilson.bsky.socialFor more about the book, take a listen to this interview with author Marjorie Garber on the History of Literature Podcast.
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@lorraineelizab6.bsky.socialReposted by @jackewilson.bsky.socialAnother shout out today on the 1 year anniversary of @saracharles.bsky.social wonderful book in paperback (out 2 years in hardback)! Published by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social. This book really is fantastic. 🥳🎂 #medievalsky