#Prose

Lockdown Book Detective

BookLockdown

Following the appearance of the photograph of Toni Morrison’s library, we decided to attempt a deep reading of the shelves. Hopefully, this is the first of a series to discern

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rebeca6169

"The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people

M L Clark -- en periodo sabático / on sabbatical!

M_L_Clark

I chuckle sometimes at how truly, truly difficult nuanced discourse is online.A'ight, I'll start! I don't think this story from my 2020 faves got enough love, because it's not free-to-read:Dare

𑀧𑁆𑀭𑀺𑀬𑀁𑀓𑀸 𑀬𑀸𑀤𑀯

Priyanka_8288

Thread : List of Famous Indian Mathematicians.1. BaudhayanaBorn: Around 800 BCNotable Work: Approximation of the square root of 2 and the statement of a version of the Pythagorean Theorem2. KatyayanaBorn: Around 300 BC

David Perell

david_perell

My Favorite Reading Quotes1. “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” — Descartes2. “If you only read the books that

Connor Goldsmith

dreamoforgonon

"Objectively, [person] was a barbarian" is just an absolutely hilarious sentence because 'barbarian' is by definition a subjective word. It just meant foreigner. You can't have a barbarian without subjectivity!

Ventus09 @ Yakuza 0 / FFXIV

Umutsol02

Alright, I've thought long and hard about whether making a statement about this would be worthwhile.I didn't want to fan the flames.I was scared of antagonizing people I held in

emmet f. cameron

emlfc

I think there’s a conversation to be had about (perceived as) straight authors *being centred* by the publishing industry while also being aware that that’s not purely a choice that

Mike Duncan

mikeduncan

As a change of pace from the usual onslaught of horror, I thought it might be fun to take a brief look at how I go about structuring my work.

The Strix

the_strix

Today I want to talk about the most secret of secret sauce; narrative resonance in games, and why it pays to think like a poet. Resonance, while easy for me

Damien Rourke

RourkeMind

1/22 For as long as I have been alive I have had to depend on the world of the unseen for my very existence.Sounds dramatic, I know. Just hear me

Joan McAlpine

JoanMcAlpine

This is my personal tribute to Katharine Whitehorn the former @guardian (Observer) columnist who has died aged 92. She taught me how to write and how to cook.https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/08/pioneering-observer-columnist-kathar

Nilah Magruder, horse feminist

nilaffle

When I sold my first picture book, How to Find a Fox, the publisher gave me three weeks to illustrate forty pages. My agent at the time negotiated the timeframe

Bad COVID-19 Takes

BadCOVID19Takes

The “just 6%” takes flooding this site are dumb. MASTER TREAD CDC didn’t change anything.No change to CDC # of deaths.In fact, 187,000 dead underestimates #.Over 200,000 excess deaths occurred.People

Sarah Holland-Batt

the_shb

Had some requests from readers of the #poetsvoice column in @australian looking for a spot where they can find all the columns together. Here's a thread; I'll add to it

Dr Alice Tarbuck

atarbuck

So it is a driech day here, and things are tricky for all of us, so- Like this tweet and I will say something nice (and anonymous ) about you.

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