Great article for all you autofiction readers and writers: 'Experience is the memoir’s trump card. In autofiction, by contrast, memory is warped. Capturing a subjective feeling or a specific narrative is more important than a faithful reconstruction.' dissentmagazine.org/article/auto...

The Confessions of Rachel Cusk - Dissent Magazine

Autofiction collapses the distance between creator and product. But in her latest novel, Life of M, Rachel Cusk seeks an escape from this confessional mode.

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Love, cast all thought aside. I cast aside all thought. Wendell Berry

PEN America stands in support of citizen journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias, who has spent nearly 300 days in an ICE detention center. theintercept.com/2026/08/16/r...

ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He’s Approaching 300 Days Behind Bars With a Festering Wound.

With the case of Carlitos Ricardo Parias, the U.S. has broken its own record for holding a journalist in custody.

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She saved lives. Thats her legacy - in so many charities and purposes, Dolly Parton saved lives. She never hoarded anything. She came from poverty, and knew to care for community. She is fundamentally - and fortunately for all of us - the opposite of what we see today. She was the best of us.

Amadi Lovelace@amaditalks.bsky.social · last wk.

Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.

We’re teaming up with @hanumaneds.bsky.social for a conversation this Wednesday at 6:30 PM with writers and translators @antonhur.com and @naravive.bsky.social on the art of translation, how to translate ideas, and temporalities between the ancient and the highly contemporary in literature.

Translating Ideas in Literature: Vivek Narayanan & Anton Hur

A conversation presented with Hanuman Editions between the poet and translator Vivek Narayanan and the writer and translator Anton Hur, on translating ideas, temporalities between the ancient and the ...

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Particles in the universe are grouped into two categories, based on their statistical properties. Force carriers are named after the scientist on the left. The building blocks of matter are named after the one on the right. Pictured: Satyendra Nath Bose and Enrico Fermi #Science #Physics

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈@kennedytcooper.bsky.social · 2w ago

Mid Century Modern tableware and where I think it would stand on trans issues, a thread

One of the amazing things about #WomenInTranslation month is discovering authors and books you have never heard of. Thank you to everyone posting their #WITmonth picks!

Andrea Meador Smith@andreamsmith.bsky.social · last mo.

One of the most original novels I’ve read in a long time, Underground Barbie by Maša Kolanović, recounts the effects of the Yugoslav Wars on kids playing in the basement as fighting rages around them. Translated from Croatian by Ena Selimović 🇭🇷 Great pick for #WITMonth 📘🤩 #WomenInTranslation

This was a wild ride

Cara Giovanetti@idontevencara.bsky.social · 4w ago

In the 1970s, a group of farmers digging a well stumbled upon one of the greatest archaeological finds in history. They had found the terracotta army—some 8,000 life-size clay soldiers, buried over 2,000 years ago. The soldiers had real weapons, **which were still sharp**. How? 1/8 ⚛️🧪

A good time to reintroduce mutuals to my book, which in chapters 1 & 2 documents the classicisation of Hindustani music that occurred on Aurangzeb's watch (who loved music but renounced it around his 50th solar birthday as an alcoholic might renounce wine): books.google.co.uk/books/about/...

Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India

Based on a vast, virtually unstudied archive of Indian writings alongside visual sources, this book presents the first history of music and musicians in late Mughal India c.1748-1858 and takes the liv...

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I can't wait to read Munis' new book on Aurangzeb But I am sick to death of having to correct this myth (the reviewer's not the author's error): Auranzgeb DID patronise musicians — until at least 1698 — and he DID patronise artists — there are 100s of portraits. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Despot or conquering hero? Revisiting the rule of India’s last great Mughal emperor

Reviled by Modi, revered in Pakistan — Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir left a legacy that Munis D Faruqui now re-examines with the help of rare contemporaneous accounts

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‘Poetry is needed in an emergency, when ordinary ways of writing or speaking can’t get at the moment, or the feeling, or the thought.’ #ukpoets #poetrysky www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is poetry booming? It’s the only language for times of violence and chaos | Charlotte Higgins

From the Odyssey to conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, we can see how poetry fills the gap when ordinary ways of writing or speaking aren’t enough, says Guardian chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins

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D. A. Denison@daveadenison.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I call to your attention several overlooked but worthy books. open.substack.com/pub/davedeni...

"My understanding of what it means to translate really began with a seminar I took with Professor Ramanujan in 1992. What I loved was how pragmatic he was about translation," Daisy Rockwell told Chintan Girish Modi. Read the interview here: scroll.in/article/1094...

Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Wachowski sisters didn't use 120 cameras to film one shot just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

this debut book of poems by Daniel Khalastchi is quickly becoming an all-timer for me (Manoleria, Tupelo Press, 2011)

Hélène Bessette on sorrow - from Lili is Crying

My letter in this week’s issue of @thetls.bsky.social Finding myself in uncharted waters, I felt it necessary. Share if you care about making room in our literary culture for work that swims against the tide.

James Schuyler writing in his diary, 58 years ago today, at Fairfield Porter’s home on Great Spruce Head Island in Maine

From James Schuyler’s Diary (August 5, 1968)

Fairfield Porter, “Islands” (1968) Here is an excerpt from James Schuyler’s diary on August 5, 1968, written 58 years ago today, at Fairfield Porter’s home on Great Spruce H…

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#BannedBookSkyClub schedule: August 2026: Kindred by Octavia Butler September 2026: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett October/November 2026: Fun Home by Alison Bechdel December 2026: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Link to feed in replies. #BookSky Please join us.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you early Flannery O’Connor- every moderator’s nightmare. I don’t think there’s a single question in this interview that garners an answer more than two sentences long #MyYearWithFOC

Ah, rock of Cashel, how like unto ‘vast Persepolis on her mountain stand, /Or Thebes half buried in the desert sand’, as Aubrey de Vere so helpfully suggested.

Adolphus Cooke of Westmeath instructed his servants to genuflect to a turkey, which he believed to be his reincarnated father, once entered into hand-to-hand combat with a bull, and ended his life believing he had been transformed into a screech owl.

Most recently: Sara Suleri. Tove Jansson (her adult stuff). Helen DeWitt.

Nose Stuck in a Book Blog@nsiabblog.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve done this more than a few times actually. #booksky

Thank you @sarahbell.bsky.social! 🙏

Sarah Bell@sarahbell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Bellingham-based poet @sati-m.bsky.social’s book Ways of Being is a mesmerizing work weaving landscape and life. I highly recommend it. #PNWauthor

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@waldokanto.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

“Recreation of something I saw in a dream” is basically my favorite genre of post, always send me this, send me yours, I am here for it

A good poem to read before bedtime. This is by Ryler Dustin from a Green Linden Press chapbook entitled "Something Bright."

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

Everlee Has Disappeared

Everlee Wihongi was transferred by ICE to the notorious "Camp East Montana" at Fort Bliss, Texas. Then she disappeared.

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