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1.
Is It or Isn't It? How Generative AI Is Poisoning the Literary Well for Everyone
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3 points
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theanonymousone
19 days ago
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Pulp Cover Treatments of Classic Works of Literature
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8 points
by
ohjeez
24 days ago
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The Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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2 points
by
ohjeez
30 days ago
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So, Gutenberg Didn't Invent Printing as We Know It
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3 points
by
axiologist
31 days ago
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6 comments
5.
The Conveniences I Used to Write a Book About Inconvenience
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1 point
by
celadevra_
44 days ago
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A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W
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203 points
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NaOH
44 days ago
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109 comments
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Emily St. John Mandel on Writing a Novel of Dystopian Counterlives
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3 points
by
mooreds
49 days ago
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Are library e-books hurting book sales?
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3 points
by
ohjeez
49 days ago
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Open Letter on the Massacre in Gaza from an Editor in Israel (2025)
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17 points
by
sanbor
53 days ago
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10.
Edmond Albius, the Enslaved Man Who Pioneered the Pollination of Vanilla
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2 points
by
ynac
60 days ago
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11.
American Bureaucracy (Literally) Steals Years from Your Life
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4 points
by
speckx
61 days ago
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12.
Fish bad, sugar good, and other medieval ideas about food
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100 points
by
mooreds
64 days ago
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86 comments
13.
Television to the Rescue Camille Acker on the Craft Potential of TV
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2 points
by
ynac
74 days ago
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1 comment
14.
How orchids inspired the work of Charles Darwin
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19 points
by
prismatic
75 days ago
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That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis
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39 points
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pseudolus
77 days ago
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28 comments
16.
Welcome to Toronto, World Capital of the Urban Raccoon
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3 points
by
Insanity
79 days ago
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1 comment
17.
Eight Books to Read If You're Still Thinking About the Roman Empire
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19 points
by
theanonymousone
84 days ago
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3 comments
18.
Eight Books That Puncture the Myths of Silicon Valley
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3 points
by
spy888
86 days ago
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19.
How–and Why–To Cull Your Book Collection
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2 points
by
herbertl
3 months ago
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20.
Medieval Ideas About Food
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17 points
by
simplegeek
3 months ago
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5 comments
21.
The Many Mysteries of the European Eel
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3 points
by
geneticdrifts
3 months ago
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22.
Welcome to Toronto, World Capital of the Urban Raccoon
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4 points
by
herbertl
3 months ago
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1 comment
23.
When We Fight, We Win: Why I Am Suing Northwestern University and US Government
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22 points
by
speckx
3 months ago
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24.
The Cell Phone Novel Craze of Early 2000s Japan Did Not Destroy Literature
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2 points
by
theanonymousone
3 months ago
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25.
The Side That Won the Civil War Is Now Banning Books About Why It Was Fought
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6 points
by
Geekette
3 months ago
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1 comment
26.
Walter Mosley: "A Novel is Not a Machine"
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1 point
by
bookofjoe
4 months ago
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27.
Tom Stoppard's Arcadia saved lives
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2 points
by
speckx
4 months ago
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28.
Writers and Drugs
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39 points
by
dang
4 months ago
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20 comments
29.
Ian Fleming Explains How to Write a Thriller
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3 points
by
frereubu
4 months ago
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30.
A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline
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4 points
by
pseudolus
4 months ago
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