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- Why is writing alternative text image descriptions a task of literary translation? | Lit Hub Technology
- April Davila explores the neuroscience of writer’s block (and what we can do to overcome it). | Lit Hub Craft
- How Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and other writers of the Harlem Renaissance examined disability and medical racism. | Lit Hub History
- Antonio Romani introduces you to fellow travel book sellers in the medieval Italian countryside. | Lit Hub History
- “In Chapman’s enthusiasm for Homer, Keats forgets / Who discovered the Pacific Ocean – not strong Cortez / With eagle eyes, but Balboa on a ridge of Darien.” Read “The Romantics,” a poem by Maya C. Popa from the collection If you love that woman. | lit hub poetry
- “This life, this sorrow. Both were imagined. This was a time when many things were bought instantly and forgotten just as quickly.” Read from the novel by Christian Kracht AirTranslated by Daniel Bowles. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “What to do with the creative impulse still alive at the end of life, even when it feels like there is nothing left to say?” David Schurman Wallace honors Fanny Howe posthumously this bad book. | Poem
- Why odyssey won my battle Against the “Chudosphere”. | Jacobean
- AI companies are buying old books to train LLMs (Because other sources of data are also full of AI sloppiness). | 404 media
- Bookseller Anna Bell talks about His brother Daniel Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for carrying a box of zines: “If you were going to tell me that the contents of the box, the zines, the stickers, the poetry, that’s a crime – then we have a bigger problem here, which is free speech.” | new republic
- While America faces a literacy crisis, Teachers in Jefferson County, Mississippi are doing something right. | wired
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