literature

  1. From Our Blog

    Blog Post: WTF, Will! parts 27 – 29

    New blog post by Vagabond Heart – discussions in this thread, please --- This part of the book had the men taking centre stage. Shakespeare had hit his stride. At least, that’s what I’d heard, and I was interested to see if they lived up to the hype. Were they really mad, bad, and dangerous to...
  2. From Our Blog

    Blog Post: WTF, Will! parts 21 – 23

    New blog post by Vagabond Heart – discussions in this thread, please --- I was approaching the halfway mark of my Shakespeare-a-thon, and methought it was time for some top scores. The Big H was coming up, so I was well excited. That’s got to deliver the goods, I thought, otherwise why was it...
  3. From Our Blog

    Blog Post: WTF, Will! parts 16 – 18

    New blog post by Vagabond Heart – discussions in this thread, please --- I was cracking on with my stupidly self-imposed lockdown challenge to read The Complete Works of Shakespeare. I’d met a few Henry’s now, and although I knew one of them was meant to be rousing stuff, I had no clue which...
  4. Pamela Jo

    Self-Publishing Spine? If Only Publishers Had a Backbone

    Subscriber OnlyOpinion We are up to our necks in a rising tide of AI-generated slop A person who thinks a book can be ‘edited’ by a piece of software is a person who simply doesn’t know what editing is Expand A majority of the study’s participants preferred a poem generated by AI in the style...
  5. From Our Blog

    Blog Post: WTF, Will! parts 5 – 8

    New blog post by Vagabond Heart – discussions in this thread, please --- Full of enthusiasm for my lockdown project of reading The Complete Works of Shakespeare, I wandered blindly on to play number 5. Some time later I stumbled back out, wondering if there’s any wriggle-room on those do not...
  6. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day We cannot simply sit and stare at....

    We cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever. Haruki Murakami
  7. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day It is only by witing, not....

    'It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.' P. D. James
  8. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day We read in bed because reading is....

    We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind. Anna Quindlen
  9. Bloo

    Book Club P.G. Wodehouse - The Code of the Woosters: JttR

    When is it ??? Just starting Chapter 3. I may need one of Jeeves' tissue restoratives to get through this.
  10. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Talking about how I might write.....

    Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it. Louise Erdrich
  11. AgentPete

    Service Update This Month's "One Perfect Sentence" Contest is Open!

    Like some reanimated mutilated corpse in a giallo B-movie filmed by Dario Argento… It’s back! This month’s One Perfect Sentence is open. So is your mind. Let them communicate with each other. https://colony.litopia.com/threads/one-perfect-sentence-october-2024.14989/
  12. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Electronic books are a bad thing because....

    Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbours and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what. J. P. Donleavy
  13. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day To gain your own voice....

    To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard. Allen Ginsberg
  14. Pamela Jo

    Dandelion Break David Bowie OnLine Book Club

    . The man who read the world: David Bowie’s son launches an online book club in his honour. Something not well known about Bowie: he was an avid reader, sometimes finishing a book in a single day. Rock star David Bowie was “a beast of a reader,” according to his son, Duncan Jones; so Jones...
  15. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Everything's already been....

    Everything’s already been said, but since no one was listening, we have to start again. André Gide
  16. Jason L.

    Book Club 21 September 2024: Susanna Clarke - Piranesi

    Update: this has been rescheduled, per Jonny's request. Join us for a discussion of Piranesi, presented by Jonny! Jason Locke is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: 21 September 2023: Susanna Clarke - Piranesi Time: Sep 21, 2024 08:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time Join Zoom Meeting...
  17. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day To go wrong in.....

    To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  18. Pamela Jo

    Fanfare! A tiny trumpet trill- Thru to the next round of the Old Fogey SF Competition

    Hi Pamela, It's my pleasure to notify you that your submission has moved forward to the second round of jury deliberations for the SLF's Older Writers Grants. We hope to have a final decision for you soon, but we are currently working through a higher than usual number of applications. Please...
  19. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Happiness can exist....

    "Happiness can exist only in acceptance." George Orwell
  20. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Literature is....

    Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Fernando Pessoa
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