Today is Harper Lee’s 100th birthday.

Born in a small town in Alabama, where her father worked as a lawyer, Lee loved #books. One of her childhood friends was Truman Capote, who spent time in #Monroeville as a boy. Years later, she turned the world she knew into a novel about the difficult bravery of doing what is right when the world refuses to do so.

Do you like her novel To Kill a Mockingbird?

#writers #HarperLee #reading #literature #bookstodon #booksky
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"The em-dash was not invented last November in a Silicon Valley server farm. It has been a staple of English prose since roughly the seventeenth century, and a darling of the literary canon for nearly as long. Laurence Sterne built Tristram Shandy on it. Lord Byron reached for it to grieve."

~ Chitown Kev

#EmDash #SiliconValley #AI #language #writing #literature
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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The aftermath isn’t aftermath-ing…in some respects

Heather Cox Richardson writes at her “Letters from an American” Substack about Trump’s comments to White House Correspondents Dinner attendees following shots…

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Dear #fediverse, please send more readers my way.

I’d love to connect with more people who read books, post about #books, write #reviews, share #recommendations, and enjoy thoughtful conversations about #literature.

#bookstodon #reading #booksky #bookreview #booklovers #readingcommunity #bookclub
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“What the hell do the love letters of that old fraud H.P. Lovecraft have to do with the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs?”

A slight departure for National Unicorn Day – the Hugo Award-winning novella “Equoid” by Charles Stross @cstross
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#Scottish #literature #unicorn #NationalUnicornDay #sciencefiction #scifi #lovecraft #horror #squamous #rugose #batrachian

Equoid - Reactor

Winner of the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Novella. Charles Stross's "Equoid" is a new story in his ongoing "Laundry" series of Lovecraftian secret-agent bureaucratic dark comedies, which has now grown to encompass four novels and several works of short …

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Today is (the very first) National Black Bookstore day!

Celebrate with a treat from a Black-owned indie bookstore.

Brittany Allen

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Today is (the very first) National Black Bookstore day!

The National Association of Black Bookstores (NAB2), a group launched last Juneteenth by Kevin Johnson of Sacramento’s Underground Books, has announced a new holiday: National Black Bookstore…

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Who Were the Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance?

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At PG:

Gwendolyn Bennett

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Alice Dunbar Nelson

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Anne Spencer

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Zora Neale Hurston

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Anne Spencer

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