It's the last day to #submit to the #opencall at the #MockingOwlRoost! Send your #fiction #poetry #creativenonfiction #essays #music #photography #artwork #performances #scripts #reviews and more now. Forms close as soon as our EIC wakes up tomorrow. https://shorturl.at/mTxko

As you have likely heard by now, Mrs #Dalloway has just turned one hundred. She keeps good company. 2025 is the 100th anniversary of Carry On Jeeves, The Great #Gatsby,The Trial, and The Painted Veil. Mrs Dalloway is not the Woolf book I have come to praise. This year is the anniversary of her first collection of critical #essays, The Common Reader. #Woolf was the great critic
and The Common Reader deserves as much praise and celebration as all its fellow centenarians.
https://libertiesjournal.com/online-articles/woolfishperception/

Idiot America

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/05/26/idiot-america/

#book #BronsonPinchot #CharlesPPierce #essays #Humor #Nonfiction #PoliticsEconomy #review #SocialScience #TPolyphilus

#Hivemind: the book I’m reading, Progress Without People by #DavidFNoble refers to “a number of short #essays on #technological #progress by #ChristopherLasch but, frustratingly, doesn’t provide any further details about them. Does anyone know what he might be referring to?

In today’s edition of the Top 5:

-Seeking salvation, finding darkness
-AI’s college years
-What’s keeping you alive today?
-A million crushing ways to write
-A blueprint for experience

https://longreads.com/2025/05/23/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-564/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#writing #nonfiction #Top5 #longreads #essays #picks #reading

A video essay on lamps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEJnsBeQ_Y8

A journey through the evolution of light bulbs. Loved this.

#essays #lightBulbs #youtube

I’ve decided that May will be #BookList Month! Each day there will be a new category. #Authors, if your #Book fits that category, comment with a link to it. #Readers, bookmark interesting categories to find new books.

The category for May 21st is: books of #Essays

Thief II: The Original Anti-Tech Bro Game

Despite its medieval setting, Thief II's take on the exploitation of the working class by powerful wielders of technology is eerily prescient.

https://sidequest.zone/2025/05/19/thief-ii-the-original-anti-tech-bro-game/

#Essays #Opinion #VideoGames #EidosInteractive #LookingGlassStudios #ThiefII

Margaret Atwood’s 10 best books – ranked! https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/may/19/margaret-atwoods-10-best-books-ranked #MargaretAtwood #Culture #Fiction #Essays #Books

“Confessions: Chapter 2: Bogart (1973-74),” by Ken Norris
By the time I was graduating from university in the Spring of 1972, I'd made the decision to go to graduate school. For fifteen minutes, it looked like I’d be following in the footsteps of T.S. Eliot by heading for the British Isles. I had some notion about maybe moving to Dublin and studying Yeats at Tri
https://thetypescript.com/confessions-chapter-2-bogart-1973-74-by-ken-norris/
#Arts #ArtsAndLiterature #Essays #Nonfiction

Just taking a look at those booklets I have in my shelf, still unread and even with those rotten rubbers. xD

I will start to read all of them in the next week!

#books #booklets #essays #shorts #readingforpleasure #reading #Readers #TBR #TBRList

Just taking a look at those booklets I have in my shelf, still unread and even with those rotten rubbers. xD

I will start to read all of them in the next week!

#books #booklets #essays #shorts #readingforpleasure #reading #Readers #TBR #TBRList

In this week’s Top 5:

-The audacious hackers of North Korea
-The immense value of a cake tin
-The veil across a disconnected mind
-The demise of Skype
-The importance of a (very) old tree

https://longreads.com/2025/05/09/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-562/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#longreads #top5 #writing #nonfiction #reading #essays

Timothy Garton Ash — Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

https://www.timothygartonash.com/homelands.php

#europe #reading #essays #nonfiction #books

Oh nein, jetzt hat es auch mich erwischt: Ich hab jetzt Newsletter! Hört auf den Namen “Zettelwirtschaft” und enthält neben kuratierten Kulturtipps den einen oder anderen aktuellen Gedankengang. Kostenlos und nur 1x im Monat. Na gut, eine uralte oder brandneue Kurzgeschichte gibt’s zwischendurch auch noch. Schaut mal rein: https://jensprausnitz.de/2025/zettelwirtschaft/

#Newsletter #Zettelwirtschaft #Kulturtipps #Musik #Literatur #Film #Serien #Podcasts #Kurzgeschichten #Essays

The #MockingOwlRoost is #openforsubmissions! In particular, we're looking for #essays and #creativenonfiction on practically any topic. #writingcommunity #emergingwriters and #veteranwriters welcome! We love being a home for hard-to-publish pieces & for #newwriters! Learn more: https://shorturl.at/RR1aV

👆 “Signs & Wonders” is one of 47 pieces of Morgan’s prose – journalism, book & theatre reviews, essays & lectures, drama & radio scripts, forewords & afterwords – collected in EDWIN MORGAN: IN TOUCH WITH LANGUAGE, ed. John Coyle & James McGonigal

6/12

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/edwin-morgan-in-touch-with-language/

#Scottish #literature #essay #essays #EdwinMorgan

Literarischer #27April

„Die Jahre lehren viel, was die Tage niemals wissen.“

#RalphWaldoEmerson #Essays Tod 1882

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝘆𝘁𝗵𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗥𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗵 𝗔𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗲 -

This too-brief pair of essays nevertheless is a righteous and needed accusation against the publishing industry and the writers and readers who feed from it.

https://youtu.be/P6vTd5Ey7y0

#bookreviews #literature #books #bookworm #read #book #readreadread #rabihalameddine #comfortingmyths #nonfiction #essays #liberalism #politics

“Erro Extremo III”, Miguel Tamen, Tinta da China, 2025.

“Depois de dois volumes anteriores com o mesmo título, nestes 90 breves ensaios Miguel Tamen dá continuidade a uma espécie de saga de análise do mundo, em que ângulos outrora mortos para nós ganham uma vida heterodoxa.”

#nonfiction #books #essays