<p>The debut of a dramatic duo</p><p>Moss Hart wrote the first draft of Once in a Lifetime, a comedy about Hollywood's transition to "talkies", as a 25-year-old unknown.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/24/the-debut-of-a-dramatic-duo/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/24/the-debut-of-a-dramatic-duo/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/24/the-debut-of-a-dramatic-duo/</span></a></p><p>More information about it:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_in_a_Lifetime_(play)" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_in_a_Lifetime_(play)"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_in_</span><span class="invisible">a_Lifetime_(play)</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#publicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>
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<p>📚 1929 by: Andrew Ross Sorkin</p><p>In 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders, another drama unfolded—one of visionaries and fraudsters, titans and dreamers, e...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/1929" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/1929</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/businesseconomics/" rel="tag">#businesseconomics</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a></p>
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<p>Tonight I’m wishing that Becky Chambers would add more books to the Monk and Robot Series. I’d love to learn more about that calm, hopeful world. </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/beckychambers/" rel="tag">#BeckyChambers</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/monkandrobot/" rel="tag">#MonkAndRobot</a> <a href="/tags/hopepunk/" rel="tag">#HopePunk</a> <a href="/tags/solarpunk/" rel="tag">#SolarPunk</a> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
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<p>I’m enjoying listening to The Gentleman and his Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide, one of the new crop of murder-mystery/fantasy mixed-genre books, with a good amateur investigatory team and a slow(ish)-burn gay romance. </p><p>But I did get very immature about this line: “…with a moan that emanated straight from his groin”.</p><p>…ah, chatty little fellow, is he? 😂 </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
<p>Yeats and the Occult Imagination</p><p>Beneath his poems lay a lifelong devotion to magic, divination, and a visionary system that shaped his most prophetic work.</p><p>By: Gus Mitchell </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/yeats-and-the-occult-imagination/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/yeats-and-the-occult-imagination/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/yeats-and-the-</span><span class="invisible">occult-imagination/</span></a></p><p>Yeats at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1719" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1719"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1719</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>
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<p>50% off @ <a href="/tags/smashwords/" rel="tag">#Smashwords</a>: <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1559436" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/books/view/1559436"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/books/view/</span><span class="invisible">1559436</span></a></p><p>Spies, aliens, trolls, wizards and a disowned prince use a time machine, but Levi Jacobs stands in their way, despite having just lost his parents in war. Will he stop them or will they kill his father at a pivotal moment, on which the fate of the galaxy hangs?</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/eoysale25/" rel="tag">#EOYSale25</a> <a href="/tags/ebook/" rel="tag">#ebook</a> <a href="/tags/sale/" rel="tag">#sale</a> <a href="/tags/books2read/" rel="tag">#books2read</a> <a href="/tags/indiebooks/" rel="tag">#indiebooks</a></p>
<p>Favorite quotes from favorite books, </p><p>"In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive."<br>― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch</p><p><a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/quotes/" rel="tag">#quotes</a> 📚💙 @bookstodon@a.gup.pe <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="/tags/fantasybooks/" rel="tag">#FantasyBooks</a></p>
<p>Three women translators who bridged cultures</p><p>Stories of Birgitte Thott, Sarah Austin, and Émilie du Châtelet.</p><p>by Małgorzata Szynkielewska via @Europeanaeu</p><p><a href="https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/three-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.europeana.eu/en/stories/three-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.europeana.eu/en/stories/th</span><span class="invisible">ree-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/translator/" rel="tag">#translator</a></p>
<p>How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?</p><p>As a royally appointed playwright, Shakespeare was deeply affected by the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, as is clear in the writing of the great tragedy Macbeth less than a year later.</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/how-did-guy-fawkes-influence-shakespeare/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/how-did-guy-fawkes-influence-shakespeare/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/how-did-g</span><span class="invisible">uy-fawkes-influence-shakespeare/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>
<p>Franz Kafka’s papers metamorphose into National Library exhibit.</p><p>Wide-ranging exhibition ‘Kafka: Metamorphosis of an Author’ features the institution’s singular archives and marks 100 years since the Czech author’s death</p><p>By Jessica Steinberg </p><p><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/franz-kafkas-papers-metamorphose-into-national-library-exhibit/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.timesofisrael.com/franz-kafkas-papers-metamorphose-into-national-library-exhibit/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.timesofisrael.com/franz-ka</span><span class="invisible">fkas-papers-metamorphose-into-national-library-exhibit/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>Banned in Texas</p><p>Struggle over academic freedom in Texas state universities has a long history. Today it's often over race and gender; in the 1940s, it was over things like John Dos Passos's USA trilogy. <br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/27/banned-in-texas/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/27/banned-in-texas/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/27/banned-in-texas/</span></a></p><p>John Dos passos at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2015" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2015"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2015</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>Working to Preserve The Man Who Weighed the World</p><p>By Corinne Mona</p><p><a href="https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/ex-libris-universum/working-preserve-man-who-weighed-world" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/ex-libris-universum/working-preserve-man-who-weighed-world"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.aip.org/history-programs/n</span><span class="invisible">iels-bohr-library/ex-libris-universum/working-preserve-man-who-weighed-world</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p>Science history: Sophie Germain, first woman to win France's prestigious 'Grand Mathematics Prize' is snubbed when tickets to award ceremony are 'lost in the mail' — Jan. 9, 1816</p><p>By Tia Ghose</p><p><a href="https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/science-history-sophie-germain-first-woman-to-win-frances-prestigious-grand-mathematics-prize-is-snubbed-when-tickets-to-award-ceremony-are-lost-in-the-mail-jan-9-1816" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/science-history-sophie-germain-first-woman-to-win-frances-prestigious-grand-mathematics-prize-is-snubbed-when-tickets-to-award-ceremony-are-lost-in-the-mail-jan-9-1816"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.livescience.com/physics-ma</span><span class="invisible">thematics/mathematics/science-history-sophie-germain-first-woman-to-win-frances-prestigious-grand-mathematics-prize-is-snubbed-when-tickets-to-award-ceremony-are-lost-in-the-mail-jan-9-1816</span></a></p><p>More about Sophie Germain:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_G</span><span class="invisible">ermain</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/womeninstem/" rel="tag">#womeninstem</a></p>
<p>Edgar Allan Poe’s Mechanical Imagination</p><p>Behind The Raven’s melancholy lies a theory of composition shaped by magazines, machines, and modernity.</p><p>By: Danny Robb </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/edgar-allan-poes-mechanical-imagination/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KJVCCCNCPMWJ7N0E01YF4D4S&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/edgar-allan-poes-mechanical-imagination/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KJVCCCNCPMWJ7N0E01YF4D4S&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/edgar-allan-po</span><span class="invisible">es-mechanical-imagination/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KJVCCCNCPMWJ7N0E01YF4D4S&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>The Raven at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14082" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14082</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17192" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17192</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25525" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25525</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45484" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45484</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55749" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55749</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>In November 1907. </p><p>While tutoring a Trieste businessman in English, James Joyce reveals that he is a writer, and his pupil, known to Joyce as Ettore Schmitz, proves to be the published novelist Italo Svevo. A literary friendship ensues.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Svevo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Svevo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Sv</span><span class="invisible">evo</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>In November 1852.</p><p>Leo Tolstoy's debut novel, Childhood («Детство», Detstvo), is published under the initials L. N. in this month's issue of the Saint Petersburg literary journal Sovremennik.</p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2142" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/2142</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
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<p>Leave the Internet Archive alone!</p><p>Except for book publishers, the Internet Archive has done no one any harm. But that hasn't stopped hackers from beating up on the site over and over again.</p><p><a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3593110/leave-the-internet-archive-alone.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.computerworld.com/article/3593110/leave-the-internet-archive-alone.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.computerworld.com/article/</span><span class="invisible">3593110/leave-the-internet-archive-alone.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/digitallibrary/" rel="tag">#digitallibrary</a></p>
<p>How Colette Was Inspired By Her Many Cats</p><p>Susannah Fullerton on the French Writer’s Feline Muses</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/how-colette-was-inspired-by-her-many-cats/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/how-colette-was-inspired-by-her-many-cats/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/how-colette-was-ins</span><span class="invisible">pired-by-her-many-cats/</span></a></p><p>Books by Colette at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2065" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2065"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2065</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#animals</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1938.</p><p>Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States.</p><p>The War of the Worlds at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/36" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/36</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>📚 Learn A Lot While You Sit On The Pot by: Jack. Haynes</p><p>On average, humans will spend 92 days sitting on the toilet over their lifetime. To put this in perspective, that's about one-third of a year in the bathroom relieving yourself. That's where LEARN A LOT WHILE YOU SIT ON THE POT comes in. Since the average time spent on t...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/learn-a-lot-while-you-sit-on-the-pot" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/learn-a-lot-while-you-sit-on-the-pot"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/learn-a-lo</span><span class="invisible">t-while-you-sit-on-the-pot</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#humor</a> <a href="/tags/form/" rel="tag">#form</a> <a href="/tags/triviareference/" rel="tag">#triviareference</a> <a href="/tags/trivia/" rel="tag">#trivia</a></p>
<p>Becoming Beatrice</p><p>Dante adored her so much that he cast her as his guide in the Divine Comedy. But who was Beatrice Portinari?</p><p>By: Emily Zarevich </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/becoming-beatrice/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/becoming-beatrice/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/becoming-beatr</span><span class="invisible">ice/</span></a></p><p>Divine Comedy at PG<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1004" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1004</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>