Month: December 2023

TODAY: In 1960, English suffragette and literary journal editor Dora Marsden dies. This image captures Marsden’s the arrest for disrupting a meeting at Manchester University in 1909.     Also on Lit Hub: On the creative collaboration of Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse • Phyllis Rose on writing about real people, making your diaries public, and
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In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle enjoys Alex Johnson’s new compendium of ‘on this day’ literary nuggets I began this blog eleven years ago to this day, back on 1 December 2012. Since then, I have broadened my range from curious facts about literary genres and specific authors to more
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Of all the authors whose works most follow Kafka, Ferenc Karinthy is unlikely to be a name to leap to most readers’ lips. He remains virtually unknown in English-speaking countries. And yet his 1970 novel Metropole is a quintessential Kafkaesque piece which also, at times, manages to take Kafka’s
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was an important twentieth-century writer whose work often explored some of the ‘biggest’ and most important ideas of his day. The following pick of his best books include a work documenting his experiences of drug-taking, classic dystopian fiction, radical utopian vision, and social satires of the
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In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle enjoys a new study of the unexpected worlds of C. S. Lewis December has always been the month read C. S. Lewis. Perhaps it was growing up reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and the land of Narnia being in the grip
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Time is ticking down to the highly anticipated solar eclipse next April, and the Texas Eclipse festival has proven to be the place to be not just to catch this celestial sighting, but also for an incredibly unique 5 day experience where people, music, art, space, and technology will converge. Building onto their already massive
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Born-and-raised in Chicago, Gusted is the brainchild of 21-year-old Danny Dickmann. Drawing inspiration from an eclectic mix of artists such as Patrick Topping, Justin Jay, Narciss, Marlon Hoffstadt, and Salvatore Ganacci, Gusted’s sonic identity surpasses his years, as evidenced by his meteoric rise in the industry. His debut chart-topping single, “Jet Plane,” released in late
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Following a year filled with extensive tour dates across various continents that included performances at renowned events like Parookaville Festival 2023 & Tomorrowland 2023, tech-house maestro Bleu Clair is capping off the year with an incredible single “Boom Boom” via Matroda’s Terminal Underground imprint. This track seamlessly blends Bleu Clair’s distinctive tech house style with
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