@jackewilson.bsky.social talks to author @thezhm.bsky.social on @holpod.bsky.social about her book Courting Disaster, which compares classic novels by Austen & others with historic court records to show today's arguments about consent are nothing new:
Book cover. Ina Coolbrith, Songs from the Golden Gate
Author photo. Ina Coolbrith
"O foolish wisdom sought in books!
O aimless fret of household tasks!
O chains that bind the hand and mind—
A fuller life my spirit asks!"
– Ina Coolbrith #botd
#poetry #literature #books
I'd love to read all of Willa Cather's work!!! Read My Antonia in high school (must re-read) & Death Comes For The Archbishop in 2023 (his vocation, the American Southwest in 1800s, faith).
Must listen to this amazing episode: www.historyofliterature.com/316-willa-ca...
@holpod.bsky.social
English author and garden designer Vita Sackville-West was born on this day in 1892. A selection of writing from her column is collected in A Joy of Gardening.
#vitasackvillewest #Gardening #WarblerPress #Indiebooks
Book cover. V. Sackville-West, The Garden
Author photo. Vita Sackville-West
"But winter passes. March is not yet done
Before the solace of a warmer sun
Strokes on our hands and takes us by surprise
With a forgotten touch on naked skin."
– Vita Sackville-West, The Garden
#botd #books #literature #garden
@jackewilson.bsky.social talks to Dr. Zoë McGee about her new book Courting Disaster, which compares classic novels by Jane Austen, Frances Burney, and others with historic court records to show that today's arguments about consent are not a new phenomenon. #books @manchesterup.bsky.social
For more about Richardson's book, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with author Megan Marshall who wrote the forward to this book.
#books @princetonupress.bsky.social
Book cover. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
Author portrait. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Yet, behold, Behold!—the world of books is still the world;
And worldlings in it are less merciful
And more puissant. For the wicked there
Are winged like angels. Every knife that strikes,
Is edged from elemental fire to assail
A spiritual life."
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#botd #poetry
Book cover. Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Author photo. Gabriel García Márquez
"The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later."
– Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
#botd #literature #books #novels #nobelprize
Book cover. Frank Norris, McTeague
Author photo. Frank Norris
"McTeague remained stupidly looking around him, now at the distant horizon, now at the ground, now at the half-dead canary chittering feebly in its little gilt prison."
– Frank Norris, McTeague
#botd #books #literature
In the immediate aftermath of her death at the age of 53, Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) was considered one of the greatest writers of her day, but her reputation soon faded. From the archives – @jackewilson.bsky.social looks at one of her most famous stories "Miss Grief."
#literature #botd
@jackewilson.bsky.social talks to New York Times bestselling author Laurie Frankel about her novel Enormous Wings, in which a woman who should be enjoying her golden years is suddenly forced to contemplate a return to an earlier stage of life. #books #literature @henryholtbooks.bsky.social
Aphorisms—those sharp, compact sentences that map our dilemmas—are more than clever turns of phrase. As our podcast of the week shows, aphorisms are portable tools for resisting and unsettling both official dogma and algorithmic distraction.
With James Geary on @holpod.bsky.social
buff.ly/8kCcesL
Congratulations to Richard Kopley on his award-winning book, Edgar Allan Poe: A Life!
For more about the book, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with Richard Kopley in this episode of the History of Literature Podcast. #books #literature #biography @uvapress.bsky.social
Book cover. Irina Ratushinskaya, Pencil Letter: Poems
Author photo. Irina Ratushinskaya
"Stay in my dream
Open the window. The pillow is hot.
Footsteps at the door, and a bell tolling in the tower:
Two, three . . . Remember, you and I never said
Goodbye. It doesn't matter.
Four o'clock . . . That's it. How heavily it tolls."
– Irina Ratushinskaya #botd
#literature #poetry #books
Hilton Als considers the influence of class and queerness on James Merrill’s A Different Person.
Congratulations to Bruce Robbins for winning the René Wellek Prize!
For more about his prize-winning book, take a listen to the conversation between @jackewilson.bsky.social and Bruce Robbins on the History of Literature Podcast. #books #literaryhistory @stanfordpress.bsky.social
‘It is not Christopher Marlowe’s life story that we still need, but his plays and poems: we might well want to avert our eyes from the bathetically dismal life of the man who wrote them.’
Michael Dobson on Stephen Greenblatt’s new study of the playwright.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Book cover. James Merrill, Collected Poems
Author photo. James Merrill
"That day the eggshell of appearance split
And weak of its own translucence lay in the dew.
A child fond of natural things discovered it."
– James Merrill, "Transfigured Bird"
#botd #poetry #literature #books
Book cover. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories. Translated by Jay Rubin with an introduction by Haruki Murakami
Author photo. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
"It was a chilly evening. A servant of a samurai stood under the Rashōmon, waiting for a break in the rain."
– Ryūnosuke Akatuagawa (b. March 1, 1892), "Rashōmon"
#literature #shortstories #stories #film #rashomon
Book cover. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Author photo. Ralph Ellison
“I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids, and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, simply because people refuse to see me.”
– Ralph Ellison, b. March 1, 1913
#books #literature
"The snow has not yet left the earth, but spring is already asking to enter your heart." – Anton Chekhov
@jackewilson.bsky.social talks to editor Bob Blaisdell about the book Chekhov on Writing. #books #booksky #writing @doverpublications.bsky.social
For more about Mansfield, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with author Gerri Kimber about her book Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life.
#books #literature @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Book cover. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Selected Poems
Author portrait. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"A cry of defiance, and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo forevermore!"
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Paul Revere's Ride"
#botd #poetry #books
To my followers on Bluesky: If you love books of all types published in any century, and if you enjoy thoughtful, funny, and fascinating discussions about those books, you will love The History of Literature Podcast. Follow @holpod.bsky.social and listen to an episode today!
“You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.” – Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway's economical prose style is a hallmark of #modernism. In Episode 779, @jackewilson.bsky.social and Mike @literaturesc.bsky.social take a look at The Sun Also Rises (1927). #books #literature
Such a pleasure to talk with @jackewilson.bsky.social about my translation of Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni and why she was one of the most popular writers in 18th-century France (and how she practically disappeared from literary history).
Wilhelm Grimm, b. Feb. 24, 1786.
From the archives, @jackewilson.bsky.social takes a look at the famous Grimm's Fairy Tales, or as it was originally called, Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales). #books #fairytales
‘As judges, we’ve been spoilt for choice’
We are delighted to reveal the longlist for the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies.
Congratulations to the authors and translators who make up this year's longlist.
➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2026
