Katie Hardy writes about life as a marathon reader. (Book Riot)
Hannah Kent writes about how her curiosity led her to historical research, which led to writing historical fiction. (LitHub)
Lisa Peet had a complicated relationship with her mother and her mother’s library. (The Millions)
Yash Kesanakurthy lists the things she hates hearing from bookstore shoppers. I completely agree with all of them. (Book Riot)
Ian Dreiblatt writes about a curious crime committed by a Hong Kong activist, in which books were thrown out of a library because of the script they were written in. (Moby Lives)
Frankie Thomas explains why she loved (and still does love) studying Latin. (The Paris Review)
Giles Scott writes about trying to get his high school students to think critically about their assigned reading. (The Millions)
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re: the chinese literary crime. Since democracy is so limited in HK that rebellion expresses itself in convoluted ways. That said, the persistence of two parallel ways of writing Chinese is a problem. Traditional Chinese is just for HK and Taiwan, the latter having a vibrant literary life, but it’s so small that it feels doomed. Foreigners don’t bother learning both and mainland Chinese is so much more powerful. Sigh.
re: the chinese literary crime. Since democracy is so limited in HK that rebellion expresses itself in convoluted ways. That said, the persistence of two parallel ways of writing Chinese is a problem. Traditional Chinese is just for HK and Taiwan, the latter having a vibrant literary life, but it’s so small that it feels doomed. Foreigners don’t bother learning both and mainland Chinese is so much more powerful. Sigh.