BREAKING NEWS: Cormac McCarthy, a preeminent voice in American literature over the better part of the past half-century, died today at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., his publisher, Knopf, confirmed. He was 89. Full obit to follow.

— Publishers Weekly (@PublishersWkly) June 13, 2023

>we open on a lifelong arthoe who is likely over 50, but presents as early 40s

>preggers by an absent father, but horselord sister totally vibes and no stress bc "so young so fun"

>end of world things happen

>arthoe births her child

>But Also another braphog births at the same time

>everyone but arthoe and children die bc end of world stuff

>art hoe huffs and puffs and names the kids Boy and Girl, because end of world

>birds are maybe important bc sometimes they alert you or don't, plot twist

>several end of the world things happen

>she arrives at the avian utopia and realizes she loves both her own child and the adopted child she both refused to name.

>she names them each in honor of lost men in a moment of maternal ecstasy that makes no comment on the emotional labor imposed on single mothers

The bestselling author of “Eat, Pray, Love” is indefinitely delaying the publication of her new book set in the Russian province of Siberia following backlash from Ukrainian readers, she announced on social media Monday morning.

Elizabeth Gilbert said she is halting publication of her novel, "The Snow Forest," originally slated to publish in February 2024, after receiving "an enormous, massive outpouring of reactions and responses from my Ukrainian readers expressing anger, sorrow, disappointment, and pain about the fact that I would choose to release a book into the world right now — any book, no matter what the subject of it is — that is set in Russia."

"I want to say that I have heard these messages, have read these messages and I respect them. And as a result I'm making a course correction and removing the book from its publication schedule," she continued.

"It is not the time for this book to be published. And I do not want to add any harm to a group of people who have already experienced, and are continuing to experience, grievous and extreme harm," Gilbert added.

Gilbert described the novel as “set in the middle of Siberia in the middle of the last century and told the story of a group of individuals who made a decision to remove themselves from the society to resist the Soviet government and to try to defend nature against industrialization.”

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Though Gilbert's announcement doesn't mention them specifically, more than 500 reviewers appear to have given the book one-star ratings on the book reviewing website Goodreads in recent days, with several accusing Gilbert of "romanticizing " Russia while living at a safe distance from the country's devastating war with Ukraine.

Maybe I should lay off /r/writing posters for a bit, published authors regularly beat them in cringe.

I've never written anything more than essays for college, but I can't help but be curious of the literary prowess that my fellow dramatards may possess

To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks, papers, etc.

I’ve been very slow this week, currently should start act III of Hamlet. So far is very good. It looks like Ophelia has BPD, and if I had to choose, Claudius seems much saner than Hamlet even if wicked, and therefore a better ruler. Queen Gertrude is a c*nt though.

From Goethe to Kafka, there have been many renowned German Language authors. From the 1800s onwards german literature flourished, acquiring worldwide notoriety.

I haven’t read german authors so I’ll just follow the recommendations and .

A follow up to these previous posts:

https://rdrama.net/h/lit/post/176004/in-2002-penguin-books-republished-all

https://rdrama.net/h/lit/post/176100/2008-michael-gillette-james-bond-covers

@GayPoon as you can see; no sign of the man himself on the cover.

Follow-up to this post:

https://rdrama.net/h/lit/post/176004/in-2002-penguin-books-republished-all

@Summerland here is the answer to your question.

@ForcedRegistrycel see your black kween on Man With the Golden Gun & Live and Let Die (although Solitaire and Goodnight were actually white)

@KITTYGROYPER @kaamrev @GayPoon @Fabrico maybe these ones suit you more?

Apparently the Fleming estate did not want Bond himself on any of the covers. They also initially said that they didn't want nude women but then they kind of gave up on that idea.

To discuss your weekly readings. Be it books, papers, taextbook’s, etc.

Started Hamlet yesterday, still on act one, Bernardo, Marcellus and Francisco were kind of funny.

Just curious what you frickos pretend to read.

Mine are

• The Coming of Neo Feudalism by Joel Kotkin (Never read it, just have it so I can bring it up as a hailmary to force people out of my house if they over-stay)

• War Diary of Yi Sun-sin (no reason except to prove my gook superiority over other gooks)

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (I read 5 pages and called it a day and haven't opened it since 2016)

• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino (/lit/ meme book I kinda like)

Might throw on Journey to the End of the Night by some Frenchman so I look fancy.

From Dante to Tolstoy to Dan Brown, it seems like self inserts are and old technique with very different results depending of the author.

What are your favorite and most hated self inserts books or characters?

Have you guys seen any lines that'd be funny out of context from whatever book they're from? Not hilarious or intentionally funny, but things that just give you a small chuckle

Stuff like,

Thus we can say that we owe our reason, like our language, to intercourse with other men.

-Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies

Or,

Much of the carrying−trade of England, even, was then done in Dutch bottoms.

-Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History

To discuss your favorite Bible stories, characters and verses.

Personally I always liked the story of Joseph, and how after being sold by his brothers he became the Vizier of Egypt. Samuel and the book of Kings are also great. From the New Testament my favorite gospel is the Gospel of Mark as it seems to be the oldest, Jesus is more human in Mark as well when compared to John.

To discuss your weekly readings. Be it books, textbooks, papers or whatever.

To discuss plays of ancient Greece. I’m a complete ignorant on the subject. I only watched a video about Aristophanes and that he mocked Socrates by portraying him as a Sophist in “The Clouds” and that Socrates felt super embarrassed as per Plato on his trial (supposedly he said the laughter at the theater was way harder to confront than any of the accusations on his trial), and that sounds very based to me.

Who were the best playwrights and their best plays?

Cervantes was truly the ahead of his time. If Don Quixote was made today it would be about a delusional capeshit fanboy, who one day decided to dress up like Captain Amerika with the help of some hobo. He would go on “quests” fighting “nazis” who are actually just regular people, all while simping for some broad he never talked to.

Some of the most important statistics from the National Institute for Literacy, National Center for Adult Literacy, The Literacy Company, and U.S. Census Bureau underscore the critical need to address illiteracy in the United States:

• As of 2019, 45 million Americans are functionally illiterate and cannot read above a fifth-grade level

• 50% of adults cannot read a book written at an eighth-grade level

• 57% of students failed the California Standards Test in English

• 1/3 of fourth-graders reach the proficient reading level

• 25% of students in California school systems are able to perform basic reading skills

• 85% of juvenile offenders have problems reading

• 3 out of 5 people in American prisons can’t read

• 3 out of 4 people on welfare can’t read