Kate Deimling (The Story of the Marquis de Cressy by Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni) tells @jackewilson.bsky.social about an eighteenth-century Frenchwoman who was a bestseller in her day, but whose best novels are only now available in English, after more than 200 years. #books @modernlanguage.bsky.social

"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives." – Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize Lecture 1993 #botd #books #literature #tonimorrison

Celebrating the Lunar New Year: the Year of the Fire Horse! #lunarnewyear

“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.” – Ruth Rendell #botd #books #novels #mysteries #reading #booksky

*Southern Imagining:* An art/literature conversation, with images, between Elleke Boehmer and Lola Frost to explore the synergies between their work. 📍 Artvark Gallery, Kalk Bay 🗓 Thu 12 March 2026 🕕 6–8.30pm 🎟 R300 ticket 📩 RSVP 5 March *Bookings via Quicket* www.quicket.co.za/events/34160...

“The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.” – Mary Shelley @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to poet and biographer Fiona Sampson (In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl who Wrote Frankenstein) about the new book Mary Shelley in Bath. #books #literature @manderleypress.bsky.social

BOTD Georges Simenon!! Source material for Renoir, Melville, Tavernier, Tarr, Leconte, Amalric, Chabrol (!!) More: @pulpcurry.bsky.social: crimereads.com/simenon-roma... Cara Black/ @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/fall... @bampfa.bsky.social: bampfa.org/program/dark...

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin This Black History Month, we celebrate the authors, stories, and legacies that inspire us to think critically, live truthfully, and dream bigger: bit.ly/4tuOkqV

An excellent review in the Tablet of a fascinating new biography @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Actual physical paperback now sighted! Here it is, just as lovely as the hardback but with some lovely quotes from reviews added (all but one in alt text) - thanks to everyone who has read and commented. Head to @reaktionbooks.bsky.social or your local bookshop to preorder!

“It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.” – Georges Simenon #botd #books #georgessimenon #literature #novels

“Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.” – Charles Darwin #botd For more about Darwin, listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with Allen MacDuffie, author of Climate Denial. @stanfordpress.bsky.social #books #darwin #climate

In Episode 775, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to author Sarah Allison (The Rise of Celebrity Authorship) about the creation of literary celebrity from the nineteenth century's pop culture print forms, including antislavery writing. #books #authorship @columbiaup.bsky.social

watched LITTLE CAESAR for the first time last night and the young Ed G. Robinson is as captivating as screen presence as anyone I’ve ever seen. a crackerjack performance!

The cover of my book This Is Shakespeare - translated into Ukrainian and forthcoming. I am speechless, really. Thankyou, colleagues.

For more about Amazing Worlds, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with author Keith Cooper. @reaktionbooks.bsky.social #books #sciencefiction #sciencefact

Tomorrow, a download button will appear on our webpage and that’s also when most In Our Time listeners outside the UK will get to hear Misha’s first programme via usual providers including bbc.com. (UK BBC Sounds listeners are always 28 days ahead.) We enjoy making these & hope you enjoy listening

Get a feel for what gives director Ernst Lubitsch's films their sophisticated and sensual “je ne sais quoi" with six films from the German-born filmmaker beginning tonight at 8pm ET.

Thank you! It’s always a good time talking to @literaturesc.bsky.social. I’m glad you enjoyed it!

What a sweet and funny episode of the History of Literature where Jacke Wilson shares favorite lines from Rob Reiner's films with Mike Palindrome. open.spotify.com/episode/3k6P... #RobReiner @holpod.bsky.social

"Yes, I had gone to bed Henry Jekyll, I had awakened Edward Hyde. How was this to be explained?" – Robert Louis Stevenson @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to author Leo Damrosch about his biography, Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. @yalepress.bsky.social #books #literature #biography

Poet Elizabeth Bishop, born on this day in 1911, on why everyone should experience at least one prolonged period of solitude in life www.themarginalian.org/2016/02/08/e...

On this day in 1850, the American writer Kate Chopin was born in St. Louis, Missouri. #WarblerPress #indiebooks #feminism #KateChopin

A lovely visit to the 13th century St Peter’s at Preston Park, with surviving wall paintings #medievalsky

“We parted company at the moment when all kinds of things were about to find their way into words.” Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.

BOTD François Truffaut!!! MCCT5: 5)Green Room 4)Finally Sunday 3)Day for Night 2)Soft Skin 1)400 Blows Highly rec Truffaut on Cinema: midcenturycinema.org/node/129 More: @davidlsims.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen... @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

"Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things" – Christopher Marlowe #botd For more about Marlowe, listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's talk with Stephen Greenblatt, author of Dark Renaissance. #books @wwnorton.com

#ComingUpOnTCM ROMEO AND JULIET (1936) Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore Dir.: George Cukor 1:45 AM PT Middle-aged members of feuding families fall in love, leading to tragic results. 2h 7m | Romantic Tragedy | TV-G #TCM #TCMParty #WilliamShakespeare

In which @oldfortunatus.bsky.social, Laurence Publicover and I did a thing... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Wow: thank you!

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Since Emilia Bassano was busy writing the works attributed to the Stratford man, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum must be the work of Edward DeVere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

"I did not understand what the title meant until my recent recovery. The title means exactly what the words say: NAKED Lunch – a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork." – William S. Burroughs #botd #books #williamsburroughs

@jackewilson.bsky.social sky.social and Mike @literaturesc.bsky.social sky.social celebrate Rob Reiner's amazing run of indelible films in the 1980s and early 1990s, including a selection of their Top 10 favorite lines from Reiner's films. #films #robreiner

Thank you to everyone who donated and attended the reading of Hannah Arendt's essay "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship" last night. Here's the recording: substack.com/home/post/p-...

"This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying." – Thornton Wilder, Our Town Wilder's Our Town opened on Broadway, February 4, 1938, and received the Pulitzer Prize later that year. #otd #thorntonwilder #plays #books #literature

“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.” – Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons #botd #poetry #prose #gertrudestein #books @jackewilson.bsky.social @scribnerbooks.bsky.social

"The true patriot isn't the man who refrains from attacking his city when he's been unjustly deprived of it, but the one whose loyalty is so ardent that he does all he can to get it back." – Thucydides #books #history @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social @jackewilson.bsky.social

"Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past." – James Joyce, Ulysses #botd #books #literature #jamesjoyce For more Joyce, take a listen to a past HOL episode, in which @jackewilson.bsky.social and Mike @literaturesc.bsky.social discuss Ulysses.

I’ve read this book a few times. And need to read some other Muriel Spark.

“One’s prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.” ― Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie #botd #murielspark #books #literature

"I, too, am America." –Langston Hughes #botd @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to authors Vera Kutzinski and Anthony Reed about their book, Langston Hughes in Context. #books @universitypress.cambridge.org #literature #poetry #langstonhughes

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." – Thomas Paine, The American Crisis #books #history

I went down lots of rabbit holes on this one, but none so fun as chatting with @saracharles.bsky.social about hawthorn ink - which she then went and made/tested!

“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances" – Shakespeare #books #literature #shakespeare #performingarts @jackewilson.bsky.social

@jackewilson.bsky.social talks to Bob Blaisdell, author of Chekhov Becomes Chekhov, about the two-year period in which #Chekhov went from a virtual unknown to a promising literary star admired by Tolstoy himself. #botd #literature @pegasusbooks.bsky.social

"I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each other some of the time." Baldwin on how to live through your darkest hour www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/28/j...

Love that quote. Colette always cuts right to the heart of things. Looking forward to the convo with Kathleen!