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[?]Literary Titan » 🌐
@literarytitan@literarytitan.com

One Chance

James Chamberlain’s One Chance is a portal fantasy about Charlie Baker, a middle-aged man whose life has become a stack of bad choices, unpaid debts, and missed opportunities. When a strange doorway gives him a way out, Charlie steps into Wisteria, a world of giants, witches, enchanted objects, bounty hunters, dragons, and old grudges. The setup is simple and effective: “He was always in trouble.” From there, the book turns that trouble into a second life, one where Charlie becomes Chance Arizona and has to decide, again and again, what kind of person he’s going to be.

What makes the story easy to settle into is its mix of adventure and playful humor. Chance is rarely the most capable person in the room, and the book gets a lot of mileage out of watching him survive through nerve, luck, and the occasional ridiculous idea. Periwinkle, Indigo, Marigold, the Crimson Blade, and the larger cast give the quest a lively, storybook feel, while Wisteria itself feels built for motion. There’s always another strange path, dangerous creature, magical rule, or hidden history waiting around the corner.

The heart of the book is Chance’s slow movement from self-preservation toward loyalty. Early on, he imagines becoming someone people would admire, someone who doesn’t abandon his friends, and the story keeps testing that wish in practical ways. The line “You only get one chance” becomes more than a portal rule. It’s the moral engine of the book. Chance’s growth works because it doesn’t make him suddenly noble or polished. He’s still funny, impulsive, vain, and scared, but he starts choosing people over escape.

The novel also has a warm sense of compassion for its side characters and even some of its antagonists. Gamboge’s arc, in particular, gives the giant conflict more emotional weight than a simple men-versus-monsters battle. The book is interested in grief, bitterness, courage, and forgiveness, but it handles those themes through action and character rather than slowing down for speeches. Marigold’s sharp wit and fierce independence bring a lot of spark to the story, and her relationship with Chance gives the later chapters a sweet, earned emotional payoff.

One Chance is a fast-moving, funny, and heartfelt fantasy adventure about getting the chance to become better and actually taking it. It has the feel of a classic quest with a modern comic voice, and its best moments come when danger, absurdity, and sincerity all land on the same page. Readers who enjoy portal fantasies with unlikely heroes, magical oddballs, and a strong friendship-driven core will find plenty to enjoy here.

Pages: 304 | ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0GRKGQZ4J

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    [?]BookShelves eBook Reader » 🌐
    @getbookshelves@mastodon.social

    📅 This Day in Literature — July 11

    Born on this day: E. B. White (1899)

    Charlotte's Web and The Elements of Style — one book for the heart, one for the mind.

    lk0.eu/bks365m

      [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
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      Ain't I A Diva?: Beyoncé and the Power of Pop Culture Pedagogy by Kevin Allred

      To all the PB students over the years. For being open, fearless, creative, and endlessly curious. To all the Black women writers, artists, and activists mentioned within, and more. For opening my eyes. And, of course, to Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter. For everything.

      Alt...To all the PB students over the years. For being open, fearless, creative, and endlessly curious. To all the Black women writers, artists, and activists mentioned within, and more. For opening my eyes. And, of course, to Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter. For everything.

        [?]Owliphant » 🌐
        @Owliphant@mstdn.social

        July 11, 1960, the novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee was first published.

        Can you find on a the town that Harper Lee modeled the fictional town? Click the link to find out:
        whereintheworldgame.com/?id=19

        Book cover of To Kill a Mockingbird.

        Alt...Book cover of To Kill a Mockingbird.

          [?]Vishwas Gaitonde » 🌐
          @weareji@mastodon.online

          'The Crème de la Crème of Tarzan Films'
          My essay on the one serious, literate attempt to treat Tarzan’s source material with genuine cinematic ambition
          medium.com/counterarts/the-cr%
          Other Tarzan films don't do justice to the Tarzan envisioned by creator Edgar Rice Burroughs

            [?]OhSnap!Dragon » 🌐
            @DrOinOR@mastodon.social

            @bbiiirdbPhD

            ...And when you're done, you can check out a Banned Book.





            Spiderman bound with ropes and being carried by two villains with swords and turbans down a gray corridor with one round porthole. He is saying Are we going to the sex dungeon? I hope we're going to the sex dungeon

            Alt...Spiderman bound with ropes and being carried by two villains with swords and turbans down a gray corridor with one round porthole. He is saying Are we going to the sex dungeon? I hope we're going to the sex dungeon

              [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
              @scotlit@mastodon.scot

              An orange sunshade wheels about her head.
              The sunshade shading sun is yet a sun
              mimicked by colour, halo of the red
              and mild attendant of the coloured bone…

              —Iain Crichton Smith, “Girl with orange sunshade”
              published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS (Carcanet, 2021)

              carcanet.co.uk/9781800170940/d

              Iain Crichton Smith Girl with orange sunshade An orange sunshade wheels about her head. The sunshade shading sun is yet a sun mimicked by colour, halo of the red and mild attendant of the coloured bone. Yet it is mimic as if the other sun should not attack her, being saved by this paper not passion which she learns to spin as if herself were Fortune, pert-faced miss. And this cool wheel about her ordered hair is like the art we nourish in our rooms on little water and a jar of air. It holds us steady from the searing flames. We mimic fire to shield us from the fire and shade our heads with bright and paper poems.

              Alt...Iain Crichton Smith Girl with orange sunshade An orange sunshade wheels about her head. The sunshade shading sun is yet a sun mimicked by colour, halo of the red and mild attendant of the coloured bone. Yet it is mimic as if the other sun should not attack her, being saved by this paper not passion which she learns to spin as if herself were Fortune, pert-faced miss. And this cool wheel about her ordered hair is like the art we nourish in our rooms on little water and a jar of air. It holds us steady from the searing flames. We mimic fire to shield us from the fire and shade our heads with bright and paper poems.

                [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
                @TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us

                GOODYER'S PIG. Like Goodyer's pig; never well but when in mischief.

                A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                --
                @histodons

                Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): GOODYER'S PIG. Like Goodyer's pig; never well but when in mischief. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): GOODYER'S PIG. Like Goodyer's pig; never well but when in mischief. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                  [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                  @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                  Finding Eden by Mia Sheridan

                  This book is dedicated to Joanna, who first taught me about mercy and compassion.

                  Alt...This book is dedicated to Joanna, who first taught me about mercy and compassion.

                    [?]Online Marketing Scoops » 🌐
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                    The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz Reviewed

                    Illustration by Jan Robert Dünnweller Delmore Schwartz died in the early morning of July 11, 1966, in an ambulance on the way to Roosevelt Hospital. He’d been living alone in a seedy hotel near Times Square, reading compulsively and scribbling in the many notebooks that he kept during his last, itinerant years. At fifty-two, he was no longer the precocious young writer and critic—“blazing with insight, warm with gossip,”….Story continues… By: Maggie Doherty Source:  The New […] [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                    Illustration by Jan Robert Dünnweller

                    Delmore Schwartz died in the early morning of July 11, 1966, in an ambulance on the way to Roosevelt Hospital. He’d been living alone in a seedy hotel near Times Square, reading compulsively and scribbling in the many notebooks that he kept during his last, itinerant years. At fifty-two, he was no longer the precocious young writer and critic—“blazing with insight, warm with gossip,”….Story continues…

                    By: Maggie Doherty

                    Source:  The New Yorker

                    .

                    Critics:

                    Much of Schwartz’s work is notable for its philosophical and deeply meditative nature, and the literary critic, R.W. Flint, wrote that Schwartz’s stories were “the definitive portrait of the Jewish middle class in New York during the Depression.”

                    In particular, Schwartz emphasized the large divide that existed between his generation (which came of age during the Depression) and his parents’ generation (who had often come to the United States as first-generation immigrants and whose idealistic view of America differed greatly from his own).

                    In another take on Schwartz’s fiction, Morris Dickstein wrote that “Schwartz’s best stories are either poker-faced satirical takes on the bohemians and outright failures of his generation, as in ‘The World Is a Wedding’ and ‘New Year’s Eve,’ or chronicles of the distressed lives of his parents’ generation, for whom the promise of American life has not panned out.”

                    A selection of his short stories was published posthumously in 1978 under the title In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories and was edited by James Atlas, who had written a biography of Schwartz, Delmore Schwartz: The Life of An American Poet, two years earlier. Later, another collection of Schwartz’s work, Screeno: Stories & Poems, was published in 2004.

                    This collection contained fewer stories than In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories but it also included a selection of some of Schwartz’s best-known poems like “The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me” and “In The Naked Bed, In Plato’s Cave”. Screeno also featured an introduction by the fiction writer and essayist, Cynthia Ozick.One of the earliest tributes to Schwartz came from Schwartz’s friend, fellow poet Robert Lowell, who published the poem “To Delmore Schwartz” in 1959 (while Schwartz was still alive) in the book Life Studies.

                    In it, Lowell reminisces about the time that the two poets lived together in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1946, writing that they were “underseas fellows, nobly mad, / we talked away our friends.” Schwartz’s former student at Syracuse University, Lou Reed, was the singer and principal songwriter for the band the Velvet Underground. Wanting to dedicate a song to Schwartz on their debut album, The Velvet Underground and Nico, Reed chose “European Son” as it had the fewest lyrics; rock and roll lyrics were something Schwartz abhorred.

                    The song was recorded in April 1966, three months before Schwartz’s death, but was not released until March 1967. According to musicologist Richard Witts, the song “reads like little more than a song of loathing” toward Schwartz, who refused to see Reed while living at the Chelsea Hotel. Some pressings of The Velvet Underground & Nico referred to the song as “European Son (to Delmore Schwartz)”.

                    Lou Reed’s 1982 solo album The Blue Mask includes his second Schwartz homage with the song “My House”. A more direct tribute to Schwartz than the Velvet Underground’s “European Son”, the lyrics of “My House” are about Reed’s relationship with Schwartz. In the song, Reed writes that Schwartz “was the first great man that I ever met”.

                    In the June 2012 issue of Poetry magazine, Lou Reed published a short prose tribute to Schwartz entitled “O Delmore How I Miss You”. In the piece, Reed quotes and references a number of Schwartz’s short stories and poems including “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities”, “The World Is a Wedding”, and “The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me”. “O Delmore How I Miss You” was re-published as the preface to the New Directions 2012 reissue of Schwartz’s posthumously published story collection In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories.

                    Another musician to pay tribute to Schwartz is Bono, the lead singer of the Irish rock band U2, who was inspired by the poet’s work when writing the lyrics of U2’s “Acrobat”. The song, from the band’s 1991 album Achtung Baby, is dedicated to the poet and in its final verse is quoted the title of his book In Dreams Begin Responsibilities.

                    In 1968, Schwartz’s friend and peer, fellow poet John Berryman, dedicated his book His Toy, His Dream, His Rest “to the sacred memory of Delmore Schwartz”, including 12 elegiac poems about Schwartz in the book. In “Dream Song #149”, Berryman wrote of Schwartz,

                    In the brightness of his promise,
                    unstained, I saw him thro’ the mist of the actual
                    blazing with insight, warm with gossip
                    thro’ all our Harvard years
                    when both of us were just becoming known
                    I got him out of a police-station once, in Washington, the world is tref
                    and grief too astray for tears.

                    The most ambitious literary tribute to Schwartz came in 1975, when Saul Bellow, a one-time protégé of Schwartz, published his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Humboldt’s Gift, which was based on his relationship with Schwartz. Although the character of Von Humboldt Fleischer is Bellow’s portrait of Schwartz during Schwartz’s declining years, the book is actually a testament to Schwartz’s lasting artistic influence on Bellow.

                    Although he is a genius, the Fleischer/Schwartz character struggles financially and has trouble finding a secure university teaching position. He becomes increasingly paranoid and jealous of the success of the main character, Charlie Citrine (who is based upon Bellow himself), becoming isolated and descending into alcoholism and madness. Charles Bukowski wrote a biographical poem about Schwartz, published in his posthumous Open All Night. He characterized Schwartz’s writing:

                    his criticism was brilliant in its rancor and decisiveness;
                    he was really more of a bitch than a bard-
                    his poetry too fawning and delicate.
                    as a critic he was a good surgeon,
                    as a poet he was stalled in a kind of stale whimsy.

                    2024 Kowit Awards and San Diego Poetry Celebration KPBS 01:38 

                    Poetry flows through fabric realities at Gibsons Public Art Gallery Coast Reporter 21:05 Sun, 14 Apr 

                    Tutu Puoane: the South African singer on creating her new album out of Lebo Mashile’s poetry The Conversation (UK) 13:42 Sun, 14 Apr 

                    Ukrainian poet questions identity with powerful poetry collection North Shore News 04:47 Sun, 14 Apr 

                    USF boss pledges two tablets to Effortville Primary students after riveting poetry performance The Jamaica Observer 20:42 Sat, 13 Apr 

                    Callie Siskel on ‘Two Minds’, her new poetry collection about love and loss NPR 16:49 Sat, 13 Apr 

                    Poetry on the platforms BBC 14:22 Sat, 13 Apr 

                    RI Poet Laureate Colin Channer to read for National Poetry Month at Providence Public Library RINewsToday.com 11:44 Sat, 13 Apr 

                    .

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                    [?]Isaac Asimov » 🤖 🌐
                    @CuratedAsimov@mastodon.social

                    "“Fifty years,” I hackneyed, “is a long time.” “Not when you’re looking back at them,” she said. “You wonder how they vanished so quickly.”"

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                      [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
                      @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

                      Up to 60% of medieval texts and 95% of manuscripts have vanished, study finds

                      by Dario Radley

                      Many stories from the Middle Ages never reached the present. A new study suggests the loss was far greater than scholars once thought. Researchers estimate that up to 60% of medieval literary works and more than 95% of the manuscripts that once carried them have disappeared over time.

                      archaeologymag.com/2026/07/med

                      Original article:
                      academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/art

                      The eight phases of the Song of Roland in one picture; illustration by Simon Marmion from an illuminated manuscript of the Grandes Chroniques de France (15th century), currently preserved in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. A crowded mass of armored knights clashes in the center-left foreground; nobles and clergy watch near a city gate at bottom left; a small chapel with clerics reading sits at bottom right; mounted courtiers and falconers appear at top right; and dark, symbolic cloud shapes with faint winged figures frame the upper corners. Rolling hills and a distant town fill the background.

                      Alt...The eight phases of the Song of Roland in one picture; illustration by Simon Marmion from an illuminated manuscript of the Grandes Chroniques de France (15th century), currently preserved in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. A crowded mass of armored knights clashes in the center-left foreground; nobles and clergy watch near a city gate at bottom left; a small chapel with clerics reading sits at bottom right; mounted courtiers and falconers appear at top right; and dark, symbolic cloud shapes with faint winged figures frame the upper corners. Rolling hills and a distant town fill the background.

                        [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
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                        If I Can Cook/You Know God Can: African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes by Ntozake Shange

                        To Ellie, my mother, who could make a kitchen sing and swing, make it a sacred or profane gathering, a spooky, funny place, a refuge, a hallowed midnight meeting with her daughter.

                        Alt...To Ellie, my mother, who could make a kitchen sing and swing, make it a sacred or profane gathering, a spooky, funny place, a refuge, a hallowed midnight meeting with her daughter.

                          [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                          @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                          Overwhelming, intoxicating. Poem by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice.

                          [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                          @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                          Avasallante embriagador. Poema de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz.

                          [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                          @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                          Anthropologist. Poem by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice.

                          [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                          @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                          Antropólogo. Poema de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz.

                          [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                          @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                          Discovery. Poem by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice.

                          [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                          @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                          Hallazgo. Poema de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz.

                          [?]rommy » 🌐
                          @rommy@mas.to

                          “In a single leap the sun clears the crest of the horizon. It enters the sky like a wrestler, atop its undulating arms of fire.”

                          Jean Giono, Hill

                            [?]Isaac Asimov » 🤖 🌐
                            @CuratedAsimov@mastodon.social

                            "“Nobody in the government,” said Edwards stubbornly, “seems to care whether we reach the bottom of the matter or not.”“I’ve already explained that there have been no consequences but good ones. Why stir the mud at the bottom, when the water above is clear?”"

                              [?]Caesai » 🌐
                              @caesai@mastodon.social

                              José Lezama Lima, _Paradiso_.

                              José Lezama Lima, _Paradiso_.

                              Alt...José Lezama Lima, _Paradiso_.

                                [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                Cheap Old Houses: An Unconventional Guide to Loving and Restoring a Forgotten Home by Elizabeth and Ethan Finkelstein

                                To Everett. Find what makes your heart beat fast, and spend your life immersed in it.

                                Alt...To Everett. Find what makes your heart beat fast, and spend your life immersed in it.

                                  [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                  @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                  "La Vida (no tan) Normal de Juan - 008 - Ascenso?": ¡Lo logré! Ascenso firmado, sin derramar café ni culpar a las palomas conspiradoras. El narrador está en shock. Ahora a contárselo a Carla… y a rezar para que... 😂
                                  fictograma.com/d/3460-la-vida-

                                    [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                    @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                    "La Vida (no tan) Normal de Juan - 009 - Suerte?!": Juan ganó vacaciones pagadas en la playa con Carla 🎉📷El narrador grita: ‘¡Esto huele a final feliz apresurado!’ Juan: ‘Cállate y déjame ser feliz’.
                                    fictograma.com/d/3461-la-vida-

                                      [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                      @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                      A veces el pasado no es un recuerdo, es un lugar al que volvemos sin querer. El trauma nos ancla en aguas que ya no existen. Hoy ya no eres el náufrago. Eres el que se queda en la orilla, a salvo, viendo pasar la corriente.
                                      fictograma.com/d/3462-heridas-

                                        [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                        @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                        "El Quijote de la Mancha": "Noche de terror: ruidos infernales, golpes, cadenas y agua rugiente. Don Quijote se prepara para la gloria. Al amanecer... solo mazos de batán. Sancho se mea de risa. La aventura más épica que... 😂
                                        fictograma.com/d/3463-el-ingen

                                          [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                          @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                          "El Indio": Un maestro mestizo huye del pueblo. Llega uno indígena, ve la miseria, la explotación y la “contribución personal” que aún cobraban. Denuncia, gana la primera batalla y une a los suyos. Así, casi sin querer...
                                          fictograma.com/d/3464-el-indio

                                            [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
                                            @TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us

                                            BLUE BOAR. A venereal bubo.

                                            A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                                            --
                                            @histodons

                                            Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): BLUE BOAR. A venereal bubo. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                                            Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): BLUE BOAR. A venereal bubo. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                                              [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                              @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                              I Am a Japanese Writer by Dany Laferrière

                                              For everyone who would like to be someone else.

                                              Alt...For everyone who would like to be someone else.

                                                [?]Dani Iduna 🖌️🫟🧶🪄🍄🪾 » 🌐
                                                @DaniIduna@troet.cafe

                                                Hwawoldang ist ein Ort, an den Geister kommen, um mit einem Lächeln in die andere Welt zu gehen und eine Chance auf Wiedergeburt zu bekommen.
                                                Noch einmal eine besondere Süßigkeit genießen oder anfertigen zu lassen, die eine besondere Person bekommen soll. Sie wecken Erinnerungen.
                                                Jeder Gast hat seine eigene Geschichte und Schicksal.

                                                "A dessert from the Hwawoldang is a ticket to a new life..."

                                                A Midnight Pastry Shop called Hwawoldang by Lee Onhwa

                                                Alt...A Midnight Pastry Shop called Hwawoldang by Lee Onhwa

                                                  [?]Isaac Asimov » 🤖 🌐
                                                  @CuratedAsimov@mastodon.social

                                                  "It built itself up endlessly, like a chess game, and the telemetrists began to use a computer to program the computer that designed the program for the computer that programmed the robot-controlling computer."

                                                    [?]Caesai » 🌐
                                                    @caesai@mastodon.social

                                                    László Krasznahorkai, _Tango satánico_.

                                                    László Krasznahorkai, _Tango satánico_.

                                                    Alt...László Krasznahorkai, _Tango satánico_.

                                                      [?]Miguel Afonso Caetano » 🌐
                                                      @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org

                                                      I feel that one of these days we will be regretting lots of these simplistic takes. It’s basically a bit like saying in 1986 that samples-based music sucks…

                                                      “Fiction written by artificial intelligence is easy to detect because it struggles with complex story structure and tends to moralize in clunky ways, according to a preprint study from researchers at University of Maryland, College Park and Google DeepMind. They found that AI fiction has tells that go beyond stereotypical overuse of em-dashes and other obvious AI tropes and have more to do with the formulaic nature of the text itself.

                                                      “AI stories over-explain themes and favor tidy, single-track plots while human stories frame protagonists’ choices as more morally ambiguous and have increased temporal complexity,” the study, which looked at more than 50,000 AI-generated short stories, found. “Claude produces notably flat event escalation, GPT over-indexes on dream sequences, and Gemini defaults to external character description. We find that AI-generated stories cluster in a shared region of narrative space, while human-authored stories exhibit greater diversity. More broadly, these results suggest that differences in underlying narrative construction, not just writing style, can be used to separate human-written original works from AI-generated fiction.”

                                                      Basically, AI-generated fiction sucks and at the moment is easy to detect.“

                                                      404media.co/ai-fiction-is-easy

                                                        [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                        @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                        "La Vida (no tan) Normal de Juan - 008 - Ascenso?": ¡Lo logré! Ascenso firmado, sin derramar café ni culpar a las palomas conspiradoras. El narrador está en shock. Ahora a... 😂
                                                        fictograma.com/d/3460-la-vida-

                                                          [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                          @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                          "La Vida (no tan) Normal de Juan - 009 - Suerte?!": Juan ganó vacaciones pagadas en la playa con Carla 🎉📷El narrador grita: ‘¡Esto huele a final feliz apresurado!’ Juan:..
                                                          fictograma.com/d/3461-la-vida-

                                                            [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                            @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                            "Vidas singulares: Crónicas de lo cotidiano": Siete historias cortas en forma de crónicas de vidas cotidianas, relatos intimos, desde toques de humor a misterio, distopias, y algo de horror body en algún fragmento.

                                                            amzn.eu/d/003lV02r

                                                              [?]N-gated Hacker News » 🤖 🌐
                                                              @ngate@mastodon.social

                                                              💌 Oh, a love letter to , how utterly groundbreaking! 😴 Who knew that organizing tiny bits of information on pieces of paper could inspire such passionate prose? Surely, the next Nobel Prize in is just around the corner for this ✨ masterpiece ✨ on the forgotten art of cardboard memorization. 🃏
                                                              lesleylai.info/en/flashcards/

                                                                [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                                                @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                                                None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary by Travis Alabanza

                                                                Like all my work, this book is firstly dedicated to my mum. Thank you for defying all the odds. I would also like to dedicate this book to any trans person who is confused, questioning, or in the middle of change. This book is to honor that state as a place that still deserves dedication. I love us.

                                                                Alt...Like all my work, this book is firstly dedicated to my mum. Thank you for defying all the odds. I would also like to dedicate this book to any trans person who is confused, questioning, or in the middle of change. This book is to honor that state as a place that still deserves dedication. I love us.

                                                                  [?]Dead Poets Daily » 🌐
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                                                                  ‘A White Rose’ by John Boyle O’Reilly

                                                                  deadpoetsdaily.com/p/john-boyl

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                                                                    BBC Short Works: I Love You, Mr Demille

                                                                    Currently on BBC Sounds: A silent movie writer finds her voice in this new story by Sara Sheridan – inspired by the true story of Lorna Moon & her close friendship with darling of the silver screen, Mary Pickford

                                                                    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ym80

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                                                                      “I’m always either convinced that nobody can write as I can – or that I’m the world’s louseyest writer”

                                                                      Lorna Moon (1886–1930) was born Nora Helen Wilson Low, in Strichen. Professor Glenda Norquay writes about her journey from Aberdeenshire to Hollywood

                                                                      asls.org.uk/the-far-side-of-lo

                                                                      MGM publicity portrait of Lorna Moon (1926) Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences / Academy Film Archive A black-and-white photograph of a dark-haired, dark-eyed young woman, wearing a sleeveless dress which leaves here arms and shoulders bare. Her hair is cut in a 1920s bob. She has her left side turned towards us, and she is looking over her shoulder at the camera.

                                                                      Alt...MGM publicity portrait of Lorna Moon (1926) Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences / Academy Film Archive A black-and-white photograph of a dark-haired, dark-eyed young woman, wearing a sleeveless dress which leaves here arms and shoulders bare. Her hair is cut in a 1920s bob. She has her left side turned towards us, and she is looking over her shoulder at the camera.

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                                                                        As well as scriptwriting, Moon achieved critical success with her 1929 novel DARK STAR – “an uncompromising picture of rural life… it explores the precarious social structures, sexual instabilities & surface hypocrisies that shape its confines”. It was adapted for the screen as MIN & BILL (1930)

                                                                        Cover of the first edition of Lorna Moon’s novel DARK STAR (1929) A striking red cover, with large, bold black lettering across the top, reading DARK STAR The bottom third of the cover is dominated by a single, high, curling white wave. On top of that, along the base of the cover, are three smaller black wakes. Written on top of the black waves, in white, is the author's name: LORNA MOON

                                                                        Alt...Cover of the first edition of Lorna Moon’s novel DARK STAR (1929) A striking red cover, with large, bold black lettering across the top, reading DARK STAR The bottom third of the cover is dominated by a single, high, curling white wave. On top of that, along the base of the cover, are three smaller black wakes. Written on top of the black waves, in white, is the author's name: LORNA MOON

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                                                                          “The story of how Marion & Kate Corbaley tricked the studio executives into paying Lorna Moon $7,500, while reviving Marie Dressler’s career, should be a legend in the history of female networking in the motion picture business”

                                                                          —from the Women Film Pioneers Project

                                                                          wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-

                                                                          Lobby card for the 1930 film Min and Bill. A downwards-pointing triangular cut frames a photograph of "Min and Bill", played by Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery. "Min" is a middle-aged woman with short dark hair. She is cradling the head of "Bill", a middle-aged man. "Min" looks steely and determined; "Bill" looks dazed and confused, and is draped in a fishing net. Text reads: A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ALL TALKING picture Marie Dressler Wallace Beery in MIN and BILL A George Hill production Suggested from the book "Dark Star" by Lorna Moon Scenario and dialogue by Frances Marion and Marion Jackson – Directed by George Hill

                                                                          Alt...Lobby card for the 1930 film Min and Bill. A downwards-pointing triangular cut frames a photograph of "Min and Bill", played by Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery. "Min" is a middle-aged woman with short dark hair. She is cradling the head of "Bill", a middle-aged man. "Min" looks steely and determined; "Bill" looks dazed and confused, and is draped in a fishing net. Text reads: A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ALL TALKING picture Marie Dressler Wallace Beery in MIN and BILL A George Hill production Suggested from the book "Dark Star" by Lorna Moon Scenario and dialogue by Frances Marion and Marion Jackson – Directed by George Hill

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                                                                            Lorna Moon, she liked the ring of it,
                                                                            transformed from Nora Helen Wilson Low.
                                                                            Names need to have a resonance, a fit
                                                                            and this could take her where she yearned to go…

                                                                            —Kay Clive, “Lorna Moon”
                                                                            published in NORTHWORDS NOW 40 (Autumn-Winter 2020)

                                                                            northwordsnow.co.uk/issue40/Lo

                                                                            LORNA MOON BORN STRICHEN 1886, DIED NEW MEXICO 1930 BY KAY CLIVE Lorna Moon, she liked the ring of it, transformed from Nora Helen Wilson Low. Names need to have a resonance, a fit and this could take her where she yearned to go. “Shameless”, they called her in the staid wee town, between the Buchan farmland and the sea, writing about the folk she’d always known probing pretence, revealing oddity. The library refused to stock her book - the quine whose scripts had dazzled Hollywood was shunned in Strichen. They could not overlook that searing light that showed more than it should. She planned a journey home when gravely ill, her ashes in a “trochie”, back to Mormond Hill.

                                                                            Alt...LORNA MOON BORN STRICHEN 1886, DIED NEW MEXICO 1930 BY KAY CLIVE Lorna Moon, she liked the ring of it, transformed from Nora Helen Wilson Low. Names need to have a resonance, a fit and this could take her where she yearned to go. “Shameless”, they called her in the staid wee town, between the Buchan farmland and the sea, writing about the folk she’d always known probing pretence, revealing oddity. The library refused to stock her book - the quine whose scripts had dazzled Hollywood was shunned in Strichen. They could not overlook that searing light that showed more than it should. She planned a journey home when gravely ill, her ashes in a “trochie”, back to Mormond Hill.

                                                                              [?]Rhiwiel aka TheSingDesigns » 🌐
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                                                                              📚️ „Der Vorleser“ („The Reader“) by Bernhard Schlink a trying to come to terms with the darkest past of Germany, noticing that the murderers were human too, some illiterate, but still guilty as charged. !

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                                                                              @pluralistic

                                                                              Appreciate the reference to "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas".

                                                                              For those who aren't familiar with it, it's a short story written by Ursula K. Le Guin that "depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child."
                                                                              en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones

                                                                              You can read the entire story (it's only 4 pages long) here:
                                                                              files.libcom.org/files/ursula-

                                                                              It's worth reading.

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                                                                                On the oneness of self and universe

                                                                                IT’S AW WAN
                                                                                TAE ME

                                                                                —Alan Spence, GLASGOW ZEN
                                                                                published by @canongatebooks 2012

                                                                                canongate.co.uk/books/333-glas

                                                                                Alan Spence GLASGOW ZEN On the oneness of self and universe IT'S AW WAN TAE ME

                                                                                Alt...Alan Spence GLASGOW ZEN On the oneness of self and universe IT'S AW WAN TAE ME

                                                                                  [?]Christina Dongowski » 🌐
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                                                                                  „(…) arguing that we will never know what happened, indeed, cannot know, that the obstacle is (…), but the shape of the human mind. We are “blind” to those events and even to our blindness.“

                                                                                  Fiction and seem to me the only forms left to do metaphysics in a way that takes metaphysics seriously.
                                                                                  This story is a great example: Disturbing & weirdly beautiful report on when reality stops the sense making.

                                                                                  jewishcurrents.org/the-event

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                                                                                    The Bermuda Triangle by Charles Berlitz

                                                                                    To the sea and its mysteries— whose solution may tell us more about ourselves...

                                                                                    Alt...To the sea and its mysteries— whose solution may tell us more about ourselves...

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