#literature

Who Are The Ainu People? Inside The Rich History And Culture Of The East Asian Indigenous Group By Ella Spitz | Edited By Cara Johnson The Ainu were hunter-gatherers who lived across Japan and into southeastern Russia, but centuries of forced assimilation have virtually eliminated their language and traditions. https://allthatsinteresting.com/ainu Books about Ainus at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/15285 #books #literature #folklore #indigenous_people #history #culture

One week to THE HYENA, a fantastical surrealist novel by Emmy Award winner David Quantick! "A heartfelt tale told at breakneck speed" with many thanks to Jake Arnott for the quote. Preorder from your favorite bookseller. https://www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-hyena/ #books #literature #surrealism

hi i'm neouss i'm a bit burnt out overall, so trying to find stuff i'm interested in and can be motivated about. need to get a life outside of work. and also hoping to have some interesting conversations here

to start, any folks/hashtags i should follow? i'm interested in:

• furry art and stuff
• anime/manga (particularly flcl, gintama, evangelion, romcom trash)
• gaming (casual, mostly jrpgs)
• philosophy/critical theory
• literature
• dariacore/hyperflip

#introduction #furry #literature #anime #philosophy #gaming

Halloween is almost here! Why not pick up one of our horror classics? Check out the 10 most downloaded books from our catalog. Happy reading! https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5200 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8492 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41445 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2148 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6087 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10007 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/209 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68283 PG's Horror bookshelf: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/42 #books #literature #horror #halloween

A forgotten 1890 first edition of Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of Four arrived among ordinary charity-shop donations in England; staff spotted its significance and it sold for £11,520 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/a-forgotten-1890-first-edition-of-sherlock-holmes-novel-the-sign-of-four-arrived-among-ordinary-charity-shop-donations-in-england-staff-spotted-its-significance-and-it-sold-for-11520/articleshow/135117224.cms The Sign of Four at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2097 #books #literature #firstedition

The lingering legacies of 'The Sun Also Rises' 100 years on Ernest Hemingway's debut novel, about lost and wayward young people after World War I, turned 100 this week. We look at its legacy and how the book has aged. by Andrew Limbong https://www.npr.org/2026/10/23/nx-s1-5974093/the-lingering-legacies-of-the-sun-also-rises-100-years-on The Sun Also Rises at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67138 #books #literature #culture

#introduction I'm Jason, in Kansas City. Literature grad. I wrote a monograph on John Hawkes and a novel called Masters X. Here for the postmodernists, the Gothic, Eco, and anything with an archive in it. Strangest book on my shelf: The Red Lion, by Mária Szepes. A 1946 alchemical novel the Hungarian regime ordered destroyed. Four copies survived; it circulated in samizdat. Tell me yours. #bookstodon #books #literature #WritersOfMastodon

Ali Khamenei regularly talked about his favorite western books, Les Misérables, The Grapes of Wrath and Uncle Tom's cabin. He told tactical thinkers in the Iranian regime to read Uncle Tom's cabin in particular to fully grasp how evil the US is. When Khamenei said "this book [Uncle tom's cabin] still lives"... I don't think he meant that figuratily. From all oh Khamenei's statements on Black Americans he clearly means it literally. #Khamenei #UncleTomsCabin #Literature #GrapesOfWrath

New essay published today! I found a weird little illustrated book in the Posner Collection at Carnegie-Mellon University and chased down its origins because it seemed like a fun thing to do. It was! Cameo appearance by @overholt@glammr.us, who was very helpful, as librarians tend to be. #books #literature

“I have a harmonium and it’s going to explode in two minutes” Ivor Cutler (1923–2006) – poet, singer, musician, songwriter, artist, humorist – was born #OTD, 15 Jan In 2013, to mark what would have been his 90th birthday, BBC Radio 4 celebrated his life & career: 1/7 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0381jzt #Scottish #literature #poetry #music #humour #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

“Funes the Memorious" and Other Cases of Extraordinary Memory In Jorge Luis Borges's story of barely 12 pages, the celebrated writer plays with the infinite in a context of vast labyrinths of memory and the consequences of having an unlimited capacity to remember. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/borges-memory-funes-the-memorious/ Books by Pliny, the Elder at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/50041 #books #literature #neuroscience

#Memes are a good way to get the attention of students. Not mine, but it worked in class… #FediTeachers #FediLZ #School #Teaching #Literature #datacenters #AI

Why Ghosts Are Haunting Us in 2026 (For Real) https://lithub.com/why-ghosts-are-haunting-us-in-2026-for-real/ #Literature #Culture #Ghosts

First women of philosophy Philosophy was once a woman’s world, ranging across Asia, Africa and Latin America. It’s time to reclaim that lost realm by Dag Herbjørnsrud https://aeon.co/essays/before-the-canon-the-non-european-women-who-founded-philosophy?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a39fa187e5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_09_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972 Books about or by women philosophers at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=women+philosophers #books #literature #philosophy #womeninart

Paulina Borsook 'The most virulent form of philosophical technolibertarianism is a kind of scary, psychologically brittle, prepolitical autism...It’s an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with the demands of participating in society … these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect' #siliconValley #culture #bookstodon #literature #cyberselfish

KISS MINE ARSE. An offer, as Fielding observes, very frequently made, but never, as he could learn, literally accepted. A kiss mine arse fellow; a sycophant. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785) -- #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons@a.gup.pe

📚️ 🇸🇾 A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture and Literature "A Primer on Ugaritic is an introduction to the language of the ancient city of Ugarit, a city that flourished in the second millennium BCE on the Lebanese coast, placed in the context of the culture, literature, and religion of this ancient Semitic culture." 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511996962 #AncientNearEast #Syria #Religion #Language #Linguistics #Literature #Culture #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon

"All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you - digger, listener, runner.... Be full of tricks, and your people shall never be destroyed."

• Richard Adams, "Watership Down"

#BookWormSat #InternationalRabbitDay #Fiction #Literature #RichardAdams #WatershipDown #Animal #Rabbit

Remembering Grazia Deledda, the Sardinian Nobel Prize-Winner We Should All Be Reading Jeff Biggers on the Legacy of a Little-Known Writer on the 100th Anniversary of Her Prize https://lithub.com/remembering-grazia-deledda-the-sardinian-nobel-prize-winner-we-should-all-be-reading/ Books by Grazia Deledda at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/33472 #books #literature #nobelprize

Charges of A.I. Writing in a Lauded Novel, and a Fight Over the Literary Future https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/world/europe/thelyson-orelien-ai-canada-haiti-france.html #AI #Literature #Publishing