It’s another great week for the labor movement in publishing, at small presses and big. As of this afternoon, the University of Chicago Press Workers Guild (UCPWG) has won its union election, with a majority of the group’s 134 members voting to become a unit. Chicago News Guild. In a decisive victory, 89% of workers
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Today: In 1923, Nella Larson graduated from the NYPL’s library school and became the first professionally trained black librarian. How Jane Austen destroyed the romance she had mastered by writing it emma. | lit hub criticism Lisa Owens explores the “taboo” ways in which women writers balance creativity with family. | Lit Hub Craft Why
It’s hard to believe that the year has already passed. As you take stock of how your year of reading has been so far, it’s also a good time to reflect on the books that meant the most to you this year. Whether they rose to the top of your Best Of because of their
Jane Austen’s most dramatic moments emmaAnd, arguably, in his entire oeuvre, there is nothing to do with romance. After all, Emma Woodhouse’s reaction to George Knightley’s proposal occupies little space. The scene in the gardens outside Hartfield becomes hilarious when Knightley talks to Emma about her desperate, unquenchable longing, and then Austin writes “What did
TeaHere, M.R. James tells us, there are five conditions that must be met for an ideal ghost story: a pretense of truth, a “pleasant terror”, no explanation of machinery, no unnecessary terror, and that the story be of the author’s (and the reader’s) “own day”. In Lauren Mooney’s first look at the novel, Danielle is
ICh, on a European holiday, you get nervous greeting people – should you kiss? how often? – Leave a Comment on Dutch theologian Desiderius Erasmus. Visiting England in 1499, he found a nation of enthusiastic kissers. “Wherever you go, you are welcomed with kisses by all hands; when you take leave you are dismissed with
Let’s say that during my twenties, all I did – literally – was write; All I could do was hope that my parents would read this, see me, grow up and care. Let’s say that during my twenties, I published three books in three genres and each time, my life got significantly worse. When book