The unlikely pen pal who shaped Tolkien’s later years When deaf fan Eileen Elgar wrote to the author with notes for improvement, they began a remarkable friendship based on a shared interest in langua…
Same art, different name: would you see or hear it the same way? A mislabelled concerto and other errors and tricks show that reputation affects how art is perceived, sometimes radically by Rikki A Wo…
Is Moby-Dick the Greatest American Novel? Michael Dirda on the Alluring Ambiguity of Melville’s Quintessentially American Masterpiece https://lithub.com/is-moby-dick-the-greatest-american-novel/ Moby-…
#OTD 106 years ago, Hollywood’s ultimate power couple, Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks, arrived in the Soviet Union. Drawn by their admiration for Soviet cinema, they visited Moscow. At Mezhrapom St…
Meet Julia Ward Howe, the Remarkable Poet Who Wrote the ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’ and Fought for Women’s Suffrage Poet, philosopher, and suffragist Julia Ward Howe wrote a rallying cry in 1861 tha…
📖 Family cookbooks aren’t just collections of recipes; they’re scrapbooks of daily living. Those handwritten notes, magazine clippings, and adjustments to favorite dishes...none of that survives when …
This Week in Literary History: Ernest Hemingway is Wounded on the Italian Front “When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you.” https://lithub…
@dandylover1 Your comments are always extremely useful, thanks once again!
🌐 The web changes every day. Too much of it disappears. 🕳️ Nearly 40% of URLs that existed just 10 years ago are no longer available on the live web. The Internet Archive's Mark Graham & Chris Freeland…
When a Journalist Took on Corruption, He Used a Tool That Hadn’t Been Used Much in American History: the Unvarnished Truth Lincoln Steffens was a reporter so dogged that political party bosses called …
Among All the Great Things Benjamin Franklin Invented or Discovered, His Alter Egos Gave Him the Most Freedom Silence Dogood. Richard Saunders. Benevolus. Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim. All were pen names that…
Project Gutenberg at ALA Annual Meeting At the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Meeting in Chicago, the Executive Director represented PG—marking the organization's first appearance there in …
Writing As Spiritual Practice: Inside the World of Medieval Scribes Joel Halldorf on the Monks Who Helped Preserve Generations of Cultural Heritage https://lithub.com/writing-as-spiritual-practice-ins…
@dandylover1 Thank you so much Georgiana since we were concerned about some special characters and we wanted to have your feedback to be sure we are in the right track. Thanks once again, really appre…
🔦 We turn the Public Domain Spotlight on ALWAYS (1925) 🎼 Written by Irving Berlin in 1925, ALWAYS became one of the most beloved love songs ever published. This scene from the 1928 film Lonesome lets …
#OTD in 1893 Guy de Maupassant died. He "was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story and associated with the naturalist literary school of thought, depicting human live…
Ivy Compton-Burnett’s forgotten genius by Nigel Andrew The unique novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett have slipped out of the canon, but this true one-off deserves a place alongside contemporaries such as E…
@davidculley It's always some addition to this subject
Exploring the life and work of 'reclusive' writer by Emma Ruminski https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3g7zyrzjdo More about Daphne du Maurier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_du_Maurier #books…
