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Laudator Temporis Acti
“A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts….” By Michael Gilleland.Updated
A Wrestling Hold Michael B. Poliakoff, Combat Sports in the Ancient World: Competition, Violence, and Culture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987), p. 4, with note on p. 163: [W]e learn, for instance, from ancient lexica that a …
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Boris Dralyuk
“Essays, Translations, and Other Writings.” 🇺🇸Updated
“Good-bye, Dear Europe”: Vladimir Nabokov and Alexander Voloshin Say “Prash-chai” Alexander Voloshin in The World and the Flesh (1932),playing a peasant breaking into a ritzy restaurantduring the Russian Revolution. In 1941, a year after he and his family escaped Europe by the skin of their …
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Wuthering Expectations
“A Distinguished Crankologist.” 🇺🇸Updated
Thanks and praise to celebrate the happiness of this great event – the end of the Greek play readalong I am quoting the end of Alcestis by Euripides, his early whatever it is, not a tragedy, not a satyr play, not a comedy. Admetos has won back his wife and the play is at …
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XIX век
“Notes on nineteenth-century Russian poetry and prose.” By Erik McDonald. 🇺🇸Updated
Khvoshchinskaia before Krestovskii Natal’ia Kulikova: Another gem of our collection is a portrait in miniature of Nadezhda Dmitrievna Khvoshchinskaia as a child. Here she is four or five years old. The artist is unknown. (2:44–2:56) The same picture …
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Russian Dinosaur
“A blog mostly about Russian literature and translation issues, as retailed by a small stuffed dinosaur.” 🇬🇧Updated
Thank you for the radishes: Edmund Wilson in dialogue with Helen Muchnic In 1942, the literary critic and Princeton graduate, Edmund Wilson, then forty-seven, made friends with a scholar of Russian literature slightly younger than himself, Helen Muchnic. Born in Baku in 1902, Helen emigrated to the …
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Poemas del río Wang
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Swallow calendar In the Sicilian Nicosia, next to Bar Antica Gelateria in the main square, on the façade of which fragments of Mussolini’s Victory Day speech of May 9, 1936 still can be read, a steep staircase …
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Lizok's Bookshelf
“Reading ideas from Russian classic and contemporary fiction.” By Lisa C. Hayden. 🇺🇸Updated
Hey, Dima! Congratulations on Your Awards for Hey, Sasha! I’m days late and many dollars short here but very happy to write that Dmitry Danilov won two awards this fall for his novel Саша, привет! (Hey, Sasha!). He won Prose of the Year about …
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Far Outliers
“Exploring migrants, exiles, expatriates, and out-of-the-way peoples, places, and times.” By Joel. 🇺🇸Updated
Fate of Meskhetian Turks From Troubled Water: A Journey Around the Black Sea, by Jens Mühling (Armchair Traveller series; Haus, 2022), Kindle pp. 34-36: When he revealed to me on our first taxi journey that he was a Turok …
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the cassandra pages
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librarian.net
“putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999.” By Jessamyn West. 🇺🇸Updated
Ask A Librarian: Getting News to Our Patrons From our local librarian mailing list: Is it possible for library patrons to have free access to newspapers like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and those other big, famous ones? Or even little, …
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DC Rainmaker | Blog
“I’m just a triathlete and runner like you: I run, I bike, and I do something resembling swimming. And at the end of the day…I blog about it.” 🇺🇸Updated
Wahoo Fitness Dismisses Smart Trainer Lawsuit Against JetBlack, Sets Timetable Against Zwift As you may be aware, earlier this fall Wahoo Fitness decided to sue Zwift over Zwift’s introduction of their $499 Zwift Hub smart trainer into the market. Wahoo argues that the Zwift Hub infringes on …
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Travel Photographer - Austin Mann — Journal
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iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: Scotland Hi from Scotland!We’re here on the beautiful Dunton Kilchoan Estate in the Scottish Highlands with the iPhone 14 Pro cameras — we’ve been hiking, biking, and boating all around the area, pushing these new cameras …
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Publishing ... and Other Forms of Insanity
“Erica Verrillo has written seven books and published five. She doesn't know why anyone with an ounce of self-preservation would ever want to publish….” 🇺🇸Updated
16 Literary Magazines Open NOW - SFF, Horror, Essays, Poetry, Genre Fiction, and more - Paying markets Here are 15 publications that are open to submissions right now (no deadlines). All are paying markets, and none charge submission fees. You can find upcoming calls for submissions with deadlines on my page: Calls …
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Jem – UK blogger - Developer - Entrepeneur
“Web developer & work at home mama Jem’s personal UK lifestyle blog on family, fitness & work.” By Jem Turner. 🇬🇧Updated
What I’m Doing Now I recently found out about ‘Now’ pages via Mastodon (@[email protected] and @[email protected] in case you’re wondering) and found the concept intriguing – especially someone who 3 months ago lamented my failure to update regularly. The …
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Spectre Collie
“The Journal of Poorly-Explained Phenomena.” By Chuck Jordan. 🇺🇸Updated
Glass Onion and the Post-Whodunnit Detective Story I loved Knives Out, so I was excited about its sequel Glass Onion even before the casting announcements seemed to be attracting so many great people that it became a running joke on Twitter. I …
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