are you a dick in real life too?
Wednesday, 25 March 2026

Michel Chaouli: "Do You Actually Have to Finish That Novel?"

quote [ A critic and self-described "nonfinisher" considers why we feel guilty about abandoning books?and what the endings of novels can teach us about the? ]

You're like the finish of a novel that I'll finally have to take to bed
[SFW] [literature] [+2]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT] [6 comments]

Monday, 9 March 2026

Readers Are Embracing a Shift in Perspective in Books. It Could Reshape Literary Culture.

quote [ There?s been a profound shift in perspective preferences when it comes to romance novels. ]

Now I'm reading romance novels and I'm dreaming of yesterday
[SFW] [literature] [+2 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@12:04pmGMT] [4 comments]

Tuesday, 20 January 2026

You Can See a Swirling Sculpture Made of 8,000 Books at a Library in Prague

quote [ Officials are managing an influx of tourists coming to see ?Idiom,? a seemingly infinite tunnel of books by the artist Matej Krén, at the Municipal Library ]

Like a tunnel book
[SFW] [literature] [+3]
[by ScoobySnacks@7:04amGMT] [1 comment]

Wednesday, 7 January 2026

Joan Lowell and the Birth of the Modern Literary Fraud

quote [ A century ago, an aspiring actress published a remarkable autobiography. She made up most of it. ]

Now is that book a fraud or is it really truth
[SFW] [literature] [+3]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:00amGMT] [0 comments]

Saturday, 6 December 2025

The Claims of Close Reading

quote [ Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical. ]

They'll study me like literary
[SFW] [literature] [+2 Underrated]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:01amGMT] [1 comment]

Thursday, 2 October 2025

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem

quote [ Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it ]

Will you write the next bestseller
[SFW] [literature] [+2 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT] [0 comments]

Monday, 18 August 2025

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster, 1963

quote [ The story of how and line learned to adapt and get the girl ]

Impermissible after math love
[SFW] [literature] [+3 Good]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:01amGMT] [1 comment]

Wednesday, 13 August 2025

The Bejeweled Poetry Collection That Sank With the Titanic

quote [ This luxurious collection of Persian poetry sank to the bottom of the ocean in 1912. ]

Like poetry, a collection of each moment you looked at me
[SFW] [literature] [+1 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT] [0 comments]

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Authors hit by bad reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated

quote [ Authors are being hit by negative reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated, with the review site allegedly failing to remove reviews.  ]

You're updating Goodreads
[SFW] [literature] [+2 Informative]
[by ScoobySnacks@8:08amGMT] [8 comments]

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