literature

<p>Yee-haw, 26 July is <a href="/tags/cowboyday/" rel="tag">#CowboyDay</a> 🤠…</p><p>Bud Neill’s newspaper comic strips (1949–1956) are one of Scotland’s most notable contributions to cowboy fiction, featuring Lobey Dosser, the sheriff of Calton Creek; his 2-legged horse El Fideldo; &amp; resident masked villain Rank Bajin </p><p><a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lobey-dosser" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.atlasobscura.com/places/lobey-dosser"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.atlasobscura.com/places/lo</span><span class="invisible">bey-dosser</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/comics/" rel="tag">#comics</a> <a href="/tags/comicstrips/" rel="tag">#comicstrips</a> <a href="/tags/glasgow/" rel="tag">#Glasgow</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/lobeydosser/" rel="tag">#lobeydosser</a> <a href="/tags/publicart/" rel="tag">#publicart</a> <a href="/tags/cowboy/" rel="tag">#cowboy</a> <a href="/tags/cowboys/" rel="tag">#cowboys</a></p>

<p>What Are You Reading? </p><p>I’m at the car dealership this morning for some maintenance. What are you reading? For me it is The Fall by Albert Camus. Here’s an early excerpt from the book: “Anyone who has considerably meditated on man, by profession or vocation, is led to feel nostalgia for the primates. They at least don’t have any ulterior motives.”</p><p><a href="/tags/whatareyoureading/" rel="tag">#WhatAreYouReading</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/camus/" rel="tag">#Camus</a> <a href="/tags/primates/" rel="tag">#Primates</a> <a href="/tags/anthropology/" rel="tag">#Anthropology</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1856 playwright George Bernard Shaw was born.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B</span><span class="invisible">ernard_Shaw</span></a></p><p>George Bernard Shaw books at PG</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/467" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/467"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/467</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/plays/" rel="tag">#plays</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>James Hogg &amp; Mikhail Bulgakov</p><p>In the latest London Review of Books podcast, Marina Warner &amp; Adam Thirlwell look at how James Hogg’s JUSTIFIED SINNER &amp; Bulgakov’s THE MASTER &amp; MARGARITA represent fanaticism, be it Calvinism or Bolshevism, &amp; consider why both writers used the fantastical to test reality</p><p>@litstudies </p><p><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/close-readings-james-hogg-and-mikhail-bulgakov" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/close-readings-james-hogg-and-mikhail-bulgakov"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-vid</span><span class="invisible">eos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/close-readings-james-hogg-and-mikhail-bulgakov</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/russian/" rel="tag">#Russian</a> <a href="/tags/soviet/" rel="tag">#Soviet</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/jameshogg/" rel="tag">#JamesHogg</a> <a href="/tags/mikhailbulgakov/" rel="tag">#MikhailBulgakov</a> <a href="/tags/gothic/" rel="tag">#gothic</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a> <a href="/tags/fanaticism/" rel="tag">#fanaticism</a> <a href="/tags/calvinism/" rel="tag">#Calvinism</a> <a href="/tags/bolshevism/" rel="tag">#Bolshevism</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a></p>

<p>I am pulled to the river by the hook in<br>my teeth. Swans, herring gulls, flick<br>of a cormorant, a bridge in lunular arch:<br>write down each…</p><p>—Siobhan Mulligan, “Salmon Run”<br>published in The Last Good Year: New Writing Scotland 38 (ASL, 2020)</p><p><a href="https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/newwriting/nws38/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="asls.org.uk/publications/books/newwriting/nws38/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">asls.org.uk/publications/books</span><span class="invisible">/newwriting/nws38/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/naturewriting/" rel="tag">#naturewriting</a></p>

<p>Here Stewarts once in triumph reign’d,<br>And laws for Scotland’s weal ordain’ d;<br>But now unroof’d their Palace stands,<br>Their Sceptre’s fall’n to other hands;<br>Fall’n indeed, and to the Earth<br>Whence grovelling reptiles take their birth…</p><p>—Robert Burns, “Lines etched on a window at Wingate’s Inn, Stirling, 26 August 1787”</p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/18thcentury/" rel="tag">#18thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/satire/" rel="tag">#satire</a> <a href="/tags/robertburns/" rel="tag">#RobertBurns</a> <a href="/tags/graffiti/" rel="tag">#graffiti</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a><br><a href="/tags/exploring/" rel="tag">#Exploring</a></p><p>So I decided to pull some older works from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gutenberg_org</span></a></span> and see what I can learn.</p><p>I need to reread some of Shakespeare and maybe take advantage of the library to read some older philosophical works.</p><p>Need to read more in general.</p>

<p>What Is an Artist According to Sigmund Freud?</p><p>According to Freud, artists have a unique quality of sublimating their desires into creative fantasies and sharing them with their audience.</p><p>by Anastasiia Kirpalov</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-artist-according-sigmund-freud/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/what-is-artist-according-sigmund-freud/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/what-is-a</span><span class="invisible">rtist-according-sigmund-freud/</span></a></p><p>Books about Freud -- Views on art at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/10788" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/10788"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/10788</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#Art</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a></p>

<p>Transmission <a href="/tags/28/" rel="tag">#28</a> – From the Head of Sericulture<br>Transmission from: Briony Ash, Head of Sericulture, Luxembourg Base, Copernicus D Crater, Moon<br>Earth Received Time: 12 June 2045, 10:13:49 UT</p><p>The latest report from Project Abeona, a small group of poets living off-world in a speculative future</p><p>(Transmission <a href="/tags/28/" rel="tag">#28</a> by Pippa Goldschmidt)</p><p><a href="https://projectabeonapoetry.substack.com/p/transmission-28-from-the-head-of" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="projectabeonapoetry.substack.com/p/transmission-28-from-the-head-of"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">projectabeonapoetry.substack.c</span><span class="invisible">om/p/transmission-28-from-the-head-of</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/prosepoem/" rel="tag">#prosepoem</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/speculativefiction/" rel="tag">#speculativefiction</a></p>

<p>I had a holiday from awkwardness. Can you have sex? was solved. Most people have been or known a doubled self like us…</p><p>—Nuala Watt, “Pregnant &amp; Squint”<br>from The Department of Work &amp; Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish (Blue Diode, 2024)</p><p>1/2</p><p><a href="https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/the-department-of-work-and-pensions-assesses-a-jade-fish-by-nuala-watt" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/the-department-of-work-and-pensions-assesses-a-jade-fish-by-nuala-watt"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bluediode.co.uk/product-pa</span><span class="invisible">ge/the-department-of-work-and-pensions-assesses-a-jade-fish-by-nuala-watt</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#disability</a> <a href="/tags/pregnant/" rel="tag">#pregnant</a> <a href="/tags/pregnancy/" rel="tag">#pregnancy</a> <a href="/tags/motherhood/" rel="tag">#motherhood</a></p>

<p>Pan-Asianism Redux, or Why We Think Japan Is Special</p><p>Observers have long hailed Japan’s aptitude for cultural synthesis. Is this characterization warranted, or does it reflect a collective fantasy about exceptionalism?</p><p>By: Waiyee Loh </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/pan-asianism-redux-or-why-we-think-japan-is-special/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/pan-asianism-redux-or-why-we-think-japan-is-special/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/pan-asianism-r</span><span class="invisible">edux-or-why-we-think-japan-is-special/</span></a></p><p>Japanese literature at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=japanese+literature" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=japanese+literature"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">cts/search/?query=japanese+literature</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/japan/" rel="tag">#Japan</a></p>

<p>Elizabeth Hamilton (1756?–1816) was (probably) born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 25 July. We republished her 1808 novel THE COTTAGERS OF GLENBURNIE, edited by Pam Perkins: an entertaining &amp; skilful dissection of 18th-century class issues, British imperialism, &amp; war </p><p>@litstudies </p><p>1/2</p><p><a href="https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/glenburnie/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/glenburnie/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">asls.org.uk/publications/books</span><span class="invisible">/volumes/glenburnie/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/18thcentury/" rel="tag">#18thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/19thcentury/" rel="tag">#19thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/womenwriters/" rel="tag">#womenwriters</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1883, Franz Kafka is born</p><p>Books by Kafka at PG</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1735</span></a></p><p>Cover of Der Prozess (German version of The Trial)</p><p><a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks</p><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12015.Feersum_Endjinn" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.goodreads.com/book/show/12015.Feersum_Endjinn"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.goodreads.com/book/show/12</span><span class="invisible">015.Feersum_Endjinn</span></a></p><p>1 of thi moust entataynink syfy reeds ov ol, hooj recomindayshn :)</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/amreading/" rel="tag">#amreading</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/kindle/" rel="tag">#kindle</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/booktoot/" rel="tag">#booktoot</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/knihy/" rel="tag">#knihy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> @bookstodon @scifi @knihy</p>

<p>“Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye’re sleeping.”</p><p>—The Laird of Dumbiedikes, on his death-bed, to his son (in THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN, by Walter Scott)</p><p>28 July is World Conservation Day. Here’s “Dumbiedikes”, by James Robertson – you can listen to him read the poem online here:</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z2ZrMu__OY" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z2ZrMu__OY"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z2ZrM</span><span class="invisible">u__OY</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/scots/" rel="tag">#Scots</a> <a href="/tags/scotslanguage/" rel="tag">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="/tags/walterscott/" rel="tag">#WalterScott</a> <a href="/tags/worldconservationday/" rel="tag">#WorldConservationDay</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a></p>

<p>Call for papers:<br>(Un)natural Stevenson: Wild transgressions across literature, ecology, science &amp; gender<br>Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 11–12 May 2026</p><p>This conference aims to explore the concept of nature/natural in Robert Louis Stevenson’s work, &amp; to investigate Stevenson both as a writer of dichotomies/dualisms &amp; of their wild transgressions</p><p>@litstudies </p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EoselkYayxzSXzW36aDZTbZv_SQt8cCG/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="docs.google.com/document/d/1EoselkYayxzSXzW36aDZTbZv_SQt8cCG/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">docs.google.com/document/d/1Eo</span><span class="invisible">selkYayxzSXzW36aDZTbZv_SQt8cCG/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/19thcentury/" rel="tag">#19thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/victorian/" rel="tag">#Victorian</a> <a href="/tags/robertlouisstevenson/" rel="tag">#RobertLouisStevenson</a> <a href="/tags/literarystudies/" rel="tag">#LiteraryStudies</a> <a href="/tags/ecology/" rel="tag">#ecology</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/gender/" rel="tag">#gender</a></p>

<p>Explore an Online Archive of 2,100+ Rare Illustrations from Charles Dickens’ Novels </p><p>via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://toot.community/@openculture" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>openculture</span></a></span> (from the archives)</p><p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2024/12/explore-an-online-archive-of-2100-rare-illustrations-from-charles-dickens-novels.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.openculture.com/2024/12/explore-an-online-archive-of-2100-rare-illustrations-from-charles-dickens-novels.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.openculture.com/2024/12/ex</span><span class="invisible">plore-an-online-archive-of-2100-rare-illustrations-from-charles-dickens-novels.html</span></a></p><p>Charles Dickens books illustrations are available to download for free here:<br><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=charles+dickens+books+Illustrations&amp;title=Special%3AMediaSearch&amp;type=image" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=charles+dickens+books+Illustrations&amp;title=Special%3AMediaSearch&amp;type=image"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.</span><span class="invisible">php?search=charles+dickens+books+Illustrations&amp;title=Special%3AMediaSearch&amp;type=image</span></a></p><p>Charles Dickens at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/37</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#Art</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/bookillustration/" rel="tag">#bookillustration</a></p>

<p>150 years of the bizarre Hans Christian Andersen</p><p>His oddball stories were driven by his outsider status and strange appearance.</p><p>By Frances Wilson</p><p><a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2025/07/150-years-of-the-bizarre-hans-christian-andersen" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2025/07/150-years-of-the-bizarre-hans-christian-andersen"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.newstatesman.com/culture/b</span><span class="invisible">ooks/book-of-the-day/2025/07/150-years-of-the-bizarre-hans-christian-andersen</span></a></p><p>Hans Christian Andersen at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2298" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2298"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2298</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/literarycriticism/" rel="tag">#literarycriticism</a></p>

<p>For years I wandered hill and moor<br>Half looking for the road<br>Winding into fairyland<br>Where that blacksmith kept a forge</p><p>Who’d heat red hot the dragging links<br>That bound me to the past…</p><p>—Kathleen Jamie, “The Tradition”<br>published in THE BONNIEST COMPANIE (Picador, 2015)</p><p><a href="https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/the-bonniest-companie/9781509801718" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/the-bonniest-companie/9781509801718"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.panmacmillan.com/authors/k</span><span class="invisible">athleen-jamie/the-bonniest-companie/9781509801718</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

<p>ALT Book Fringe 2025<br>4–29 August, Edinburgh</p><p>Entirely run &amp; curated by three of Scotland’s leading indie bookshops – Argonaut Books, Lighthouse – Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop, &amp; Typewronger – ALT Book Fringe is a free, alternative August literary festival</p><p><a href="https://www.lighthousebookshop.com/events/book-fringe-2025-alt-edition-returns" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.lighthousebookshop.com/events/book-fringe-2025-alt-edition-returns"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.lighthousebookshop.com/eve</span><span class="invisible">nts/book-fringe-2025-alt-edition-returns</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/edinburgh/" rel="tag">#Edinburgh</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookfestival/" rel="tag">#bookfestival</a></p>

<p>Robert Burns’s POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT was published <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 31 July 1786.</p><p>Copies are 3 times rarer than the Shakespeare First Folio: Patrick Scott &amp; Allan Young are tracking the histories of surviving Kilmarnock Editions</p><p>1/3</p><p><a href="https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/kilmarnock-burns-book-history/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/kilmarnock-burns-book-history/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/1</span><span class="invisible">1/kilmarnock-burns-book-history/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/robertburns/" rel="tag">#RobertBurns</a> <a href="/tags/scots/" rel="tag">#Scots</a> <a href="/tags/scotslanguage/" rel="tag">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="/tags/18thcentury/" rel="tag">#18thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/bookhistory/" rel="tag">#BookHistory</a> <a href="/tags/rarebooks/" rel="tag">#RareBooks</a></p>

<p>30 Years of Creative Writing Festival<br>28 Feb &amp; 1 March, University of Glasgow – free </p><p>A 2-day festival of readings, workshops, panel discussions &amp; activities celebrating the discipline of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, featuring alumni, current students &amp; staff</p><p>@writingcommunity </p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/30-years-of-creative-writing-festival-tickets-1980884011402" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/30-years-of-creative-writing-festival-tickets-1980884011402"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/30-year</span><span class="invisible">s-of-creative-writing-festival-tickets-1980884011402</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/creativewriting/" rel="tag">#creativewriting</a> <a href="/tags/glasgow/" rel="tag">#Glasgow</a></p>

<p>How reading books regulates your nervous system</p><p>Books don’t just stimulate the mind — they trigger physiological changes throughout the body.</p><p>by Anne-Laure Le Cunff</p><p><a href="https://bigthink.com/mind-behavior/how-reading-books-regulates-your-nervous-system/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bigthink.com/mind-behavior/how-reading-books-regulates-your-nervous-system/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bigthink.com/mind-behavior/how</span><span class="invisible">-reading-books-regulates-your-nervous-system/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Was The Importance of Being Earnest the most scandalous opening run of all time? How Oscar Wilde’s greatest play kicked off his tragic fall from grace</p><p>By Ben Jureidini</p><p><a href="https://www.tatler.com/article/the-importance-of-being-earnest-opening-run-scandal" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.tatler.com/article/the-importance-of-being-earnest-opening-run-scandal"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.tatler.com/article/the-imp</span><span class="invisible">ortance-of-being-earnest-opening-run-scandal</span></a></p><p>The Importance of Being Earnest at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/844" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/844</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#Theatre</a></p>