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3 votes
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Ta-Nehisi Coates talks to Jesmyn Ward about writing fiction, reparations, and the legacy of slavery
4 votes -
Orwell knew: We willingly buy the screens that are used against us
10 votes -
Disappointed love and dangerous temptations: Textile factories and true crime
4 votes -
Women Between the Wars: In Jean Rhys’s novels, women exhibit a particular kind of English suffering, a perfect illustration of the female condition in the interwar years
7 votes -
To build a movement: Michael Walzer’s "Political Action" contains many useful guidelines for organizers today, but social movements are often messy and unpredictable affairs
5 votes -
What are you reading these days? #25
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it. Notes First of all, I'm again having to post the topic...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Notes
First of all, I'm again having to post the topic earlier b/c travel. Sorry.
Seconly, big news! It's already been almost a year that we do these threads! It's been a beautiful time for me, but I've decided that the time has come that I pass the torch on to another Tildista to post and manage these threads. I posted a topic on ~tildes declaring my decision; we held a vote and elected @acdw as the new maintainer of these threads. This is the last one of these topics that I'll post; from the next thread on @acdw will be taking over. FWIW, I'll stay around and comment on these threads when I can.
Hey @acdw, hope you'll have a great time doing this! Good luck!
Previous topics
Previous topics are listed in the wiki.
16 votes -
The Installation: A dystopian science fiction short that imagines the future of big pharma
4 votes -
What does Amazon want with the notoriously fickle world of publishing? To own your every reading decision
4 votes -
Democracy is a puzzle
7 votes -
Beloved author Toni Morrison has died at 88
18 votes -
Despite being a best-selling author, Jane Austen was paid very little
6 votes -
Millennial socialism and its limits
6 votes -
Are today’s young readers turning on The Catcher in the Rye?
9 votes -
Poetry: “The Places We Are Not” by Sarah Kay
3 votes -
Eight crime writers who wrote other forms of literature, including literary novels, memoirs, and even works of history
7 votes -
Twice a year this floating library delivers thousands of books to the remote islands of Stockholm's archipelago
4 votes -
What are you reading these days? #24
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it. Notes Sorry for posting late this time round. I had an...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Notes
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Sorry for posting late this time round. I had an intense week, and was basically too lazy to post yesterday.
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I will not include a list of past topics in the topic text anymore, given it is redundant with the listing in the wiki. Below you'll find a link to the relevant section in the relevant wiki page instead. If you think this is a bad change, PM me about it; if a lot of you don't like it I might end up reverting this.
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Have a nice weekend!
Previous topics
Previous topics are listed in the wiki.
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Hell is Other Internet People: Gretchen McCulloch’s new book unpacks the language of the internet
7 votes -
How Michael Palin introduced North Korea to Monty Python
6 votes -
Rebuilding Jane Austen’s library
6 votes -
Bookstores: How to read more books in the golden age of content
7 votes -
'We're Really Like Them': Somali Book Authors Write About Experience Settling In Green Bay
6 votes -
Jo Nesbø, master of Norway noir, returns with his creepiest yet
5 votes -
One family’s ordeal with schizophrenia: In “The Edge of Every Day,” Marin Sardy struggles to make sense of a deeply mysterious disease and its effects on her mother and brother
7 votes -
Torn apart: The vicious war over young adult books
11 votes -
What are you reading these days? #23
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it. Past weeks Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 ·...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Past weeks
Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 · Week #6 · Week #7 · Week #8 · Week #9 · Week #10 · Week #11 · Week #12 · Week #13 · Week #14 · Week #15 · Week #16 · Week #17 · Week #18 · Week #19 · Week #20 · Week #21 · Week #22
7 votes -
They Called Us Enemy: George Takei has talked about his family’s internment before. But never quite like this.
9 votes -
“I did not die. I did not go to heaven.”: How the controversy around a Christian bestseller engulfed the evangelical publishing industry—and tore a family apart.
10 votes -
Novelists have condemned the Staunch prize – for thrillers without violence against women – as a ‘gagging order’, after organisers said the genre could bias jurors
7 votes -
Sandra Boynton is tweaking some of her beloved children’s books. But why mess with perfection?
7 votes -
What are you reading these days? #22
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it. Notes: I am aiming to make a list of all the books mentioned...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Notes: I am aiming to make a list of all the books mentioned in toplevel comments in these threads, see this wiki page. If you want to help with that, that'd really be appreciated, PM me please.
Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 · Week #6 · Week #7 · Week #8 · Week #9 · Week #10 · Week #11 · Week #12 · Week #13 · Week #14 · Week #15 · Week #16 · Week #17 · Week #18 · Week #19 · Week #20 · Week #21
15 votes -
Romance novelists write about sex and pleasure. On the internet that makes them targets for abuse
9 votes -
Future Library is one of the most interesting projects happening in Europe right now that connects literature, art and the environment
4 votes -
What are some of the best free ebooks available online?
Project Gutenberg is a great resource for free books, but its 50,000+ titles are intimidating in number (if not outright impenetrable). The same goes for other free ebook aggregators/feeds, of...
Project Gutenberg is a great resource for free books, but its 50,000+ titles are intimidating in number (if not outright impenetrable). The same goes for other free ebook aggregators/feeds, of which there are many. There are also lots of authors who offer up their books for free. And, of course, there are tons of free options available in, say, the Kindle store. While it's nice to have so many choices, it hinders discoverability. Individual books get lost in all the noise.
As such, I'd like to know: what are some standout, recommended books that are available to readers for free?
Obvious disclaimer: I am not interested in pirated content.
24 votes -
International literature #6: French
I'd put this series on hold, because of lack of activity. Now I'll give it another go, with French, one of the languages with huge amounts of influential literature. So, without further ado,...
I'd put this series on hold, because of lack of activity. Now I'll give it another go, with French, one of the languages with huge amounts of influential literature.
So, without further ado, please share your favourite French books and authors!
14 votes -
Exile | Exil | ⴵⵘⴵ̇ⵔⴵ̇ⵙ, a poem by Hawad
6 votes -
Prisons are banning books that teach prisoners how to code
8 votes -
Liu Cixin’s war of the worlds
12 votes -
What are you reading these days? #21
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it. Notes: I am aiming to make a list of all the books mentioned...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Notes: I am aiming to make a list of all the books mentioned in toplevel comments in these threads, see this wiki page. If you want to help with that, that'd really be appreciated, PM me please.
Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 · Week #6 · Week #7 · Week #8 · Week #9 · Week #10 · Week #11 · Week #12 · Week #13 · Week #14 · Week #15 · Week #16 · Week #17 · Week #18 · Week #19 · Week #20
18 votes -
How the hell has Danielle Steel managed to write 179 books?
13 votes -
1982 video interview with Asimov, Wolfe, and Ellison
9 votes -
Dream Seminar, a poem by Tomas Tranströmer, translated from the Swedish by Patty Crane
4 votes -
A Brilliant Void: A Selection of Classic Irish Science Fiction edited by Jack Fennell
7 votes -
A very happy 50th birthday to 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'
9 votes -
Ten surprising facts about books of beasts from the European middle ages
9 votes -
For remote communities in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, mobile libraries are a lifeline
7 votes -
What are you reading these days? #20
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it. Notes: I'm starting this a couple days earlier because I will...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Notes: I'm starting this a couple days earlier because I will not be able to do it on Friday this time round. This is a one-time deviation from the usual schedule. Sorry for the inconvenience if it causes any trouble to anybody. Have a nice time!
Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 · Week #6 · Week #7 · Week #8 · Week #9 · Week #10 · Week #11 · Week #12 · Week #13 · Week #14 · Week #15 · Week #16 · Week #17 · Week #18 · Week #19
19 votes -
Have you guys read "Without Their Permission" by Alexis Ohanian?
It's about u/kn0thing (the reddit user, not the tildes user, I don't think they're related), the reddit co-founder, and how to start a startup, It's very interesting, you guys should check it out.
10 votes -
Emily Dickinson Museum receives $22 million gift
6 votes