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"Around us fear, descending
Darkness of fear above."
#OTD in 1927
James Joyce's collection Pomes Penyeach is published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris.
Although paid scant attention on its initial publication, this slender volume has proven surprisingly durable, and a number of its poems (particularly "Tilly", "A flower given to my daughter", "On the beach at Fontana", & "Bahnhofstrasse") continue to appear in anthologies to this day.
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Ancient Library in Tibet Creating Digital Archive of Its 84,000 Scriptures.
Tibet's Sakya Monastery is home to many wonders. Founded in 1073, its collection includes some of the oldest Tibetan artwork, as well as 84,000 ancient manuscripts and books.
By Regina Sienra via @mymodernmet
Every year, millions of books are pulped by the book industry’s big distribution companies when they are returned by retail outlets and on-line stores. Last month, we purchased another pallet of "damaged" books from our distributor before they were destroyed.
The majority of returns in the book industry come from Amazon, but small retailers are also forced to send good books to the landfill. Why?
While Amazon and Barnes & Noble receive great rates from the industry’s big distributors, small bookstores are squeezed–their margins are substantially smaller. For a small bookstore, selling a new book is only profitable when you sell it at full price. It’s impossible to compete with Amazon’s prices, and returning unsold stock is the only way to ensure that you aren’t losing money.
We pay to save our books from the landfill to challenge the absurd capitalistic logic forcing booksellers everywhere to destroy perfectly good books. …
Every year, millions of books are pulped by the book industry’s big distribution companies when they are returned by retail outlets and on-line stores. Last month, we purchased another pallet of "damaged" books from our distributor before they were destroyed.
The majority of returns in the book industry come from Amazon, but small retailers are also forced to send good books to the landfill. Why?
While Amazon and Barnes & Noble receive great rates from the industry’s big distributors, small bookstores are squeezed–their margins are substantially smaller. For a small bookstore, selling a new book is only profitable when you sell it at full price. It’s impossible to compete with Amazon’s prices, and returning unsold stock is the only way to ensure that you aren’t losing money.
We pay to save our books from the landfill to challenge the absurd capitalistic logic forcing booksellers everywhere to destroy perfectly good books. Most major publishers have little physical contact with their stock, but our warehousing experience allows us to offer these books back to our readers at a steep discount. We do this to mitigate large losses and to get radical books into more hands.
So, pick up a few great books cheap while helping us fight back against capitalist profligacy.
All damages are 70% off with coupon code "Damages" until August 1st. https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=195
Kafkiano: significado y origen del adjetivo más allá de Kafka
> La obra del escritor checo Franz Kafka no solo influyó en la literatura posterior, sino que también ha dado lugar a un término de uso cotidiano: kafkiano
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"The most violent element in society is ignorance..."
Anarchism and Other Essays
Lithuanian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer Emma Goldman was born #OTD in 1869.
In 1906, she founded the anarchist journal "Mother Earth," which became a key platform for anarchist ideas and social critique. In 1919, due to her anti-war stance and anarchist activities, Goldman was deported to Russia during the Red Scare.
Emma Goldman at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/840
Holy moly.
For the first time ever, The Way of the Wielder has entered the "Top 500 books" in a category (Women's Fantasy Fiction) on the Kindle Store! 🥳
I know it won't last long, but I'll revel in this milestone for as long as I can.
The Way of the Wielder is on sale for just $2.99 through Monday night, EDT. If you haven't already, do yourself a favor and buy it today! 😇
#IndieAuthor #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Reading #Books #Bookstodon #Fantasy #Romance #SelfPromo
Di solito il #Caturday è quando voi bipedi avete più tempo libero - anche se servirci come meritiamo non conosce sosta - e, nel pieno spirito della giornata, a chi di voi ama leggere, segnalo questo libro di Giorgio Celli, un bipiede che si era impegnato parecchio per conoscere e capire noi e le altre creature di questo pianeta. Famoso etologo, qui lo si scopre nella veste meno nota di autore di gialli.
Usually #Caturday is when you bipeds have the most free time-although serving us as we deserve knows no rest-and, in the full spirit of the day, for those of you who like to read, I point out this book by Giorgio Celli, a biped who had put a lot of effort into knowing and understanding us and the other creatures on this planet. A famous ethologist, here we discover him in the lesser-known capacity of …
Di solito il #Caturday è quando voi bipedi avete più tempo libero - anche se servirci come meritiamo non conosce sosta - e, nel pieno spirito della giornata, a chi di voi ama leggere, segnalo questo libro di Giorgio Celli, un bipiede che si era impegnato parecchio per conoscere e capire noi e le altre creature di questo pianeta. Famoso etologo, qui lo si scopre nella veste meno nota di autore di gialli.
Usually #Caturday is when you bipeds have the most free time-although serving us as we deserve knows no rest-and, in the full spirit of the day, for those of you who like to read, I point out this book by Giorgio Celli, a biped who had put a lot of effort into knowing and understanding us and the other creatures on this planet. A famous ethologist, here we discover him in the lesser-known capacity of mystery author.
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Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist Giacomo Leopardi died #OTD in 1837.
Around 1816, Leopardi experienced what he called his "literary conversion," shifting his focus from philological studies to poetry and philosophical reflection. His early lyrical poems, or "canti," began to reflect his developing philosophical ideas. In 1816 the idylls Le rimembranze and Inno a Nettuno were published.
Books by Giacomo Leopardi at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8593
Opening The Immutable Library
Why Dara’s Project Gutenberg Archive is a Big Deal
https://theimmutable.medium.com/opening-the-immutable-library-7c40a704fcbd
via @dara_proj
Project Dara has made a copy of the Project Gutenberg collection in the interplanetary filesystem.
You can browse the collection here: https://gutenberg.dara.global/
Anarchist transhuman sci-fi collective Radon have published multiple digital journals over the last few years exploring themes including dystopia, rebellion and social conflict. Rob Ray interviews the editors. https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/06/09/interview-radon-and-the-new-wave-of-anarchist-sci-fi/ #anarchism #scienceFiction #books #transhumanism #dystopia
In June 1905.
Virginia Stephen, the future Virginia Woolf, writes her first work of fiction, a short story which becomes known as "Phyllis and Rosamond" when first published, posthumously.
"Phyllis and Rosamond" is a short story included in "The complete shorter fiction of Virginia Woolf" (1985). It is a lesser-known work that reflects her early experimentation with narrative form and character development.
