INTERESTING ARTICLES

KeskusteluClub Read 2020

Liity LibraryThingin jäseneksi, niin voit kirjoittaa viestin.

INTERESTING ARTICLES

1RidgewayGirl
joulukuu 18, 2019, 3:31 pm

Post those literary articles here!

2RidgewayGirl
tammikuu 1, 2020, 2:59 pm

To start the year off, here is a literary map that will suck hours from your day if you're not careful.

https://www.literature-map.com

3Dilara86
tammikuu 4, 2020, 12:22 pm

>2 RidgewayGirl: a literary map that will suck hours from your day if you're not careful.
Yes, I can confirm this...

4thorold
tammikuu 5, 2020, 5:12 am

Graeme Macrae Burnett on why we should still read Maigret:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/04/the-enduring-depth-and-genius-of-i...

5markon
tammikuu 12, 2020, 12:07 pm

> Interesting. I've only read one or two of these, but my library has many, as well as a couple of DVDs

6markon
Muokkaaja: tammikuu 17, 2020, 4:14 pm

I'm reposting an article from a discussion group I'm part of titled Why Liberals aren't as tolerant as they think. The article is from Politico magazine, and is written about predjucide from a social psychological viewpoint. Basically it's reporting on studies that show both "conservative" and "liberal" groups have equal amounts of predjudice towards groups they see as opposing their values.

I continue to struggle with the way various groups are portrayed in the media as entrenched in their positions and unwilling to compromise (of course they are - they can't alienate their base, and also, the media doesn't report if their isn't a sharp conflict to begin with.)

I also am seeing more people I value who express this in their personal lives - they can't understand why someone holds this viewpoint (but they aren't on healthy speaking terms with anyone who holds this viewpoint either), and they don't want to talk with them - in fact they'll use a label that puts them down.

I don't know what to do about this divide that seems to be getting worse. Anyone know of any groups who are working to get people together from different viewpoints to talk? I do participate in my neighborhood organziation, where I assume we don't all think alike about social, economic, and politial issues, but we also only talk about what is directly affecting our neighborhood or county.

7dchaikin
Muokkaaja: tammikuu 12, 2020, 5:26 pm

>6 markon: Links goes back here (making a fun infinite loop, but presumably unintended.)

8stretch
tammikuu 15, 2020, 10:43 am


I found this interesting about a woman writer balancing marriage, motherhood, and a writing career.

Whatever happened to _____?

9markon
tammikuu 17, 2020, 4:15 pm

>6 markon: >7 dchaikin: Ooops! Think #the link is fixed now.

10markon
tammikuu 17, 2020, 4:30 pm

>8 stretch: Awesome essay, and painful to read.

11RidgewayGirl
tammikuu 17, 2020, 4:49 pm

>8 stretch: That is an incredibly gut-punching essay. I did keep trying to figure out who the author is, before deciding that it didn't matter.

13dchaikin
tammikuu 28, 2020, 9:34 pm

>12 RidgewayGirl: Makkai’s take in Lithub was very interesting.

14RidgewayGirl
Muokkaaja: tammikuu 29, 2020, 3:50 pm

Let’s talk about fonts baby
Let’s talk about Century
Let’s talk about all the good fonts
And the bad fonts
(Calibri)
Let’s TALK about fonts


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/29/when-fonts-fight-times-new-roman-c...

15LadyoftheLodge
tammikuu 30, 2020, 2:54 pm

>14 RidgewayGirl: Interesting article. I am a Times New Roman 12 point gal myself. I like the serif fonts and find them easier to read. I wonder if the "War of the Fonts" will be like the "War of the Worlds."

16lisapeet
tammikuu 30, 2020, 5:55 pm

>14 RidgewayGirl: That's funny. I'm Calibri 11 for work, Cambria 12 for my own writing, because I like to keep 'em separate in my lizard brain. But 1.15 line spacing for both.

17klarusu
helmikuu 3, 2020, 9:19 am

>14 RidgewayGirl: I remember when I was embarking on my PhD thesis, I spent so long picking a font. I still maintain that it was the most important part of the process (Garamond Pro). I was forced to use Times New Roman in my MA submissions but now I'm going rogue with Dante. Work is dull old Calibri, though ;-) I really enjoyed reading Just My Type a few years back. Worth a look if fonts are your thing.

18LadyoftheLodge
helmikuu 5, 2020, 6:34 pm

>17 klarusu: Lucky you! I did not get a choice for my Ph.D. thesis. They told me what I had to do. I remember spending hours picking over my dissertation, looking for format errors pointed out by the dissertation secretary--and crying a lot.

19thorold
helmikuu 6, 2020, 5:04 am

>17 klarusu: >18 LadyoftheLodge: I think we had the choice between Courier and Letter Gothic: most people were still employing typists to prepare the final version at that time, but I had the luxury of Wordstar under CP/M and a dot-matrix printer with a ribbon that was good for about 100 pages before it became too fuzzy to photocopy...
I can still remember the tedious job of splitting the continuous paper into A4 sheets for the binders.

20kidzdoc
helmikuu 12, 2020, 5:23 am

I'm with Lisa. Calibri 11 is my font and size of choice.

21edwinbcn
helmikuu 14, 2020, 1:30 pm

Penelope Lively on Virginia Woolf: Serious Gardener?
On the Rich Landscapes of To the Lighthouse and "Kew Gardens"

Penelope Lively on Virginia Woolf

22thorold
helmikuu 20, 2020, 6:51 am

This might be interesting for those gearing up for the duck-shoot:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/19/top-10-random-encounters-in-litera...

Coleridge once described poetry as “wild ducks shaping their rapid flight in forms always regular”. That’s one way of looking at literature, everything unusual being absorbed into the larger flight pattern of a given work. But another perspective might focus less on the regular forms than on the wild ducks. This way of looking at literature places the onus on the random encounter – the moment when one duck peels off.

23dchaikin
helmikuu 20, 2020, 7:16 am

A nice perspective, Mark.

24lilisin
helmikuu 26, 2020, 3:28 am

For the French readers: why book covers in France are so subdued?

http://www.slate.fr/story/69737/pourquoi-france-couvertures-livres-sobres

25LadyoftheLodge
helmikuu 28, 2020, 10:10 am

Here is one about the supposed loss of reading deeply, commenting on the book Reader, Come Home.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/just-read-the-book-already?utm_source=pocket-...

26BLBera
maaliskuu 1, 2020, 6:41 pm

Nice article about Louise Erdrich's new book, coming out next week: http://www.startribune.com/in-louise-erdrich-s-night-watchman-tribal-and-persona...

27RidgewayGirl
maaliskuu 29, 2020, 5:36 pm

Here's a good article about why that free archive of new books is not a great idea, despite being lauded by npr and The New Yorker.

https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/internet-archives-uncontrolled-di...

28japaul22
maaliskuu 29, 2020, 8:32 pm

>27 RidgewayGirl: Thanks for sharing that. I had seen that this "National Emergency Library" existed, but I wasn't that interested since my own library has plenty of on line options to keep me happy. Always good to remember there are two sides to every story.

29dukedom_enough
maaliskuu 30, 2020, 9:49 am

>27 RidgewayGirl: The authors I follow on Twitter are unanimous in their opposition to this idea.

30RidgewayGirl
maaliskuu 30, 2020, 5:38 pm

If anyone is bored, here's a fun way to make your own Penguin covers.

https://nullk.github.io/penguin.html

31ELiz_M
huhtikuu 4, 2020, 7:30 am

I know Kay posted a link to this site somewhere a while back, but here it an article about how to support independent bookstores (more necessary than ever for book purchases, with libraries closed and amazon only shipping "essential" items):

https://www.insidehook.com/article/bookshop-independent-bookstores-amazon

32RidgewayGirl
huhtikuu 4, 2020, 1:31 pm

>31 ELiz_M: I just placed my first order at https://bookshop.org and I'll let everyone know how it goes. Interface is easy to use.

33kidzdoc
huhtikuu 6, 2020, 4:10 am

>31 ELiz_M: Thanks, Liz!

34RidgewayGirl
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 20, 2020, 11:22 am

World Book Day is coming up and amazon has nine kindle books by authors from different countries available for free download.

https://www.amazon.com/article/read-the-world-2020/ref=s9_acss_bw_cg_WBD202_1a1_...

35NanaCC
huhtikuu 21, 2020, 10:16 am

This was an event that introduced me to the Viveca Sten Sandhamn series two years ago.

36dchaikin
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 21, 2020, 1:26 pm

>31 ELiz_M: Thanks! I will try this bookshop.org out.

37kidzdoc
huhtikuu 21, 2020, 3:18 pm

>31 ELiz_M: Thanks, Liz! I just placed my first Bookshop.org order.

38ELiz_M
huhtikuu 21, 2020, 5:05 pm

>36 dchaikin: >37 kidzdoc: I got my first order (from clear across the country) exactly a week after placing it :)

39RidgewayGirl
huhtikuu 21, 2020, 5:16 pm

I've ordered from bookshop.org and found the site easy to navigate and the books arrived within a week of ordering them.

40lisapeet
huhtikuu 23, 2020, 10:18 am

Neat interview with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in the NYT, notable for the great number of books she mentions—largely by African or African descent writers—that I'd never heard of. I wish I had all the time in the world and could just read down all her mentions.

41thorold
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 24, 2020, 4:32 am

>40 lisapeet: I wish I had all the time in the world and could just read down all her mentions

— Yes, that would probably be very interesting. Just a pity she hardly says anything at all about the long list of books and authors she dumps on the interviewer, so it's a pretty pointless interview unless you do have time to go off and explore them all one by one for yourself, or maybe if you already know 90% of them and get inspiration from that overlap to explore the other 10%... (I probably recognised about 10% of the names, if that)

42lisapeet
huhtikuu 24, 2020, 7:06 am

>41 thorold: True, but probably with the help of Amazon, Librarything, and the internet in general you could go through the titles and see which ones appealed, just like any book you heard about in passing. I did say all the time in the world...

43thorold
huhtikuu 24, 2020, 8:25 am

>42 lisapeet: Yes, of course, we do that all the time anyway, but it would be so much more interesting to know just why she thinks those authors worth naming. And strange that the interviewer never asked.

44lisapeet
huhtikuu 24, 2020, 9:39 am

>43 thorold: Good point. Having been in the interviewer's shoes many times, there's a good chance they might have dug into that and it got cut for the word count. Or... not, and we'll never know.

45thorold
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 24, 2020, 11:38 am

>44 lisapeet: Yes, lists are fashionable, maybe that was what the paper wanted.

46AlisonY
huhtikuu 26, 2020, 12:14 pm

Some of the UK literary festivals that are now cancelled have come together to create the virtual Big Book Weekend on 8-10 May.

https://bigbookweekend.com/

47thorold
huhtikuu 27, 2020, 6:20 am

Springer has made a bunch of "essential textbooks" freely available as ebooks for the duration. Mostly stuff you wouldn't read for fun, but it might be your big chance if you've always wanted to get to grips with quantum physics or semiotics:

https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/the-source/blog/blogposts-life-in-...

48kidzdoc
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 27, 2020, 9:11 am

>47 thorold: I looked at the first two pages of Introduction to Partial Differential Equations, which were included in the Advanced Calculus course I took as part of my undergraduate chemical engineering curriculum nearly four decades ago, before I decided to major in microbiology. I've poured myself a large glass of bourbon, and I'll now go back to bed.

49thorold
huhtikuu 27, 2020, 12:22 pm

>48 kidzdoc: Sounds like a sensible reaction!

50wandering_star
Muokkaaja: toukokuu 29, 2020, 11:14 am

Here's an interview with Chan Koonchung, about his ten-year-old satirical novel The Fat Years in which China goes through a period of crisis and yet all the population seem to forget about it very quickly - and the parallels with China today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/business/china-coronavirus-amnesia.html

51janemarieprice
kesäkuu 19, 2020, 5:51 pm

I've been getting lots of emails from various organizations regarding race, equality, etc. This offering from the Art Institute was particularly intersting.
Over the course of eighteen months in 2015 and 2016, Chicago-based artist Cauleen Smith produced a series of 57 drawings, each representing a specific book that she has read. Together, these drawings propose a reading list, a new canon of humanistic literacy so urgently needed here and now.

52lisapeet
kesäkuu 19, 2020, 7:36 pm

>51 janemarieprice: Oh I love that collection! Those work on so many levels—the book itself, appreciation of the cover art, and her own art. Really nice, thank you!

53LolaWalser
heinäkuu 10, 2020, 7:40 pm

Here we are in the 21st century and Hawthorne's outrage about "those damned scribbling women" lives on in new iterations...

The novel is dead – again. And this time, it's women who have murdered it

...Whenever a woman or a person of colour deigns to make art that reflects who they are (as all art has a tendency to do), it is “identity politics”. This is often framed as some newfangled trend, when really it has always been with us: it’s just that the culturally dominant identity has historically been white and male. But because it’s been the default for so long, people have trouble seeing this as explicitly political. Contrary to what you might hear about the decline of the great white male author, he’s still cloaked in too high a regard for some to see he has as much of an identity as anyone else. ...

54LolaWalser
Muokkaaja: heinäkuu 10, 2020, 7:41 pm

sorry, double post

56RidgewayGirl
heinäkuu 27, 2020, 7:53 pm

Here's the Booker Longlist!

58stretch
Muokkaaja: elokuu 13, 2020, 10:21 am

I don't know if this has been a thing buzzing around the reading, but I just came across it, Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction has launched/republished 25 ebooks of works written by women under their real names:

Reclaim Her Name

A pretty cool way to celebrate their 25th anniversary. I didn't even know some of these classics were written by women. And that box collection looks gorgeous.

59RidgewayGirl
elokuu 14, 2020, 11:37 am

>58 stretch: It really is a beautiful set.

60lisapeet
elokuu 16, 2020, 9:45 am

>58 stretch: Unfortunately you can only get them as ebooks. And while I have nothing whatsoever against ebooks, a nice set like that should be available to regular folks, not just "selected libraries across the country" (which I assume is the UK). That's a bit of a bait and switch, if you ask me.