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“Hogg defied categorisation. A prolific poet, songwriter, playwright, novelist, short story writer & parodist, he wrote with equal skill in Scots & English”
James Hogg, AKA “the Ettrick Shepherd” (1770–1835, DOB unknown) was baptised #OTD, 9 Dec
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#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury
“Hogg defied categorisation. A prolific poet, songwriter, playwright, novelist, short story writer & parodist, he wrote with equal skill in Scots & English”
James Hogg, AKA “the Ettrick Shepherd” (1770–1835, DOB unknown) was baptised #OTD, 9 Dec
🧵
1/10
#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury
"...we present a #dataset of 134,352 unique #openresearch #software projects and 134,154 source code #repositories referenced in open access #literature"
OpenDORS: A dataset of openly referenced open research software https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01570v1 #OpenAccess #OpenScience #research
The Absent Silence (2010)
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/3-the-absent-silence
#HackerNews #TheAbsentSilence #UrsulaKLeGuin #ScienceFiction #Literature #BlogPost #2010
Literary Maps: Real Maps for Imaginary Places
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/12/literary-maps-your-imaginary-guide-to-famous-fictional-places/
Treasure Island at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Treasure+Island
This month's Distributed Proofreaders (DP) Blog is a book that was one of the special projects to celebrate DP's 25th anniversary. "Here foloweth a lytell treatyse of the beaute of women" was published around 1525.
https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/12/01/on-the-beauty-of-women/
The book at PG:
“[P]ay attention to the moments of contradiction and uncertainty threaded through character dialogue and self-reflection […] Watch his tone. Watch his humour. For me, that’s where the sharpest lessons are.”
—Bethany Jacobs on the worldbuilding of Iain M. Banks
#Scottish #literature #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #ScienceFiction #Scifi #worldbuilding
BREEZE. To raise a breeze; to kick up a dust or breed a disturbance.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons
Literary Maps: Real Maps for Imaginary Places
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/12/literary-maps-your-imaginary-guide-to-famous-fictional-places/
Treasure Island at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Treasure+Island
"...we present a #dataset of 134,352 unique #openresearch #software projects and 134,154 source code #repositories referenced in open access #literature"
OpenDORS: A dataset of openly referenced open research software https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01570v1 #OpenAccess #OpenScience #research
Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known by George M. Johnson #books #literature #dedication
This month's Distributed Proofreaders (DP) Blog is a book that was one of the special projects to celebrate DP's 25th anniversary. "Here foloweth a lytell treatyse of the beaute of women" was published around 1525.
https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/12/01/on-the-beauty-of-women/
The book at PG:
I am looking for the original Italian text of Italo Calvino’s Cibernetica e fantasmi. Appunti sulla narrativa come processo combinatorio. So far, I only managed to find its English translation, “Cybernetics and Ghosts”.
Can someone help me find it?
#help #literature #archive #Calvino #library #essay #lecture #research
“Scottishness is not some pedigree lineage. This is a mongrel tradition!”
William McIlvanney (1936–2015) – author & poet (& provider, at a rally in Edinburgh in 1992, of our profile header, as quoted in Neal Ascherson’s 2002 book STONE VOICES) – was born #OTD, 25 November
A 🎂 🧵
1/9
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #Scottishness #identity
“[P]ay attention to the moments of contradiction and uncertainty threaded through character dialogue and self-reflection […] Watch his tone. Watch his humour. For me, that’s where the sharpest lessons are.”
—Bethany Jacobs on the worldbuilding of Iain M. Banks
#Scottish #literature #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #ScienceFiction #Scifi #worldbuilding
Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known by George M. Johnson #books #literature #dedication
How Arthur Conan Doyle Explored Men's Mental Health Through Sherlock Holmes
#HackerNews #ArthurConanDoyle #SherlockHolmes #MentalHealth #Literature #Exploration #MensWellbeing
An increasing number of bookstores in Japan are leasing out their shelves to book lovers to allow them to sell the works they want to recommend, fostering communities of such “shelf owners.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/27/japan/society/japan-bookstore-shelves-lease/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #books #publishers #literature #jinbocho
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