Musical Storytelling: Librettist Gene Scheer On Transforming Novels Into Operas
Viviana Freyer Shares a Look Inside Two Current and Upcoming Literary Adaptations For the Stage
Musical Storytelling: Librettist Gene Scheer On Transforming Novels Into Operas
Viviana Freyer Shares a Look Inside Two Current and Upcoming Literary Adaptations For the Stage
Guess it’s up readers to promote the book in the author’s place then. I support it and her and recommend getting a copy.
I am downright delighted to announce that my latest book, YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION, has a brand new look. I really love it, and I hope you do too.
Here’s a look at what’s changed and—maybe more importantly—what’s stayed the same:
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/refresh-a-new-look-for-you-deserve-a-tech-union/
Leviathan Resurrected: Illustration and Astronomy
In the 1840s, the Leviathan of Parsonstown, built by William Parsons, third Earl of Rosse, became the largest telescope in the world.
By: Danny Robb
https://daily.jstor.org/leviathan-resurrected-illustration-and-astronomy/
"The strong man is strongest when alone."
Tell, Act I, sc. iii
#OTD in 1804.
The first performance of Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell takes place at Weimar under the direction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tell_(play)
William Tell at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2782
After Meta Blocks Whistleblower's Book Promotion, It Becomes an Amazon Bestseller
#books #bookstodon #publishing m
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/16/1836242/after-meta-blocks-whistleblowers-book-promotion-it-becomes-an-amazon-bestseller
«Todas las imágenes realizadas por IA se parecen bastante, con un dibujo fotorrealista con gente anodina y que responde a cánones de belleza estrictos: narices pequeñas, pómulos altos, cuellos imposiblemente largos y los ojos son de dos personas distintas» explica el ilustrador David López a El País
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#generativeAI #books #editorial
Parece que Grupo Planeta no escarmentó lo suficiente con el rechazo masivo que sufrió en 2024 cuando uno de sus sellos, Destino, publicó la edición española de Juana de Arco, de Katherine J. Chen, con una portada hecha por IA generativa.
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#editorial #books #generativeAI
Unearthed notebooks shed light on Victorian genius who inspired Einstein
Michael Faraday’s illustrated notes that show how radical scientist began his theories at London’s Royal Institution to go online
by Donna Ferguson
Beyond “Dickensian”: 7 Quirky Words Created by Charles Dickens
https://wordsmarts.com/dickensian-words/
Charles Dickens at PG
"Il y a aujourd'hui trois cent quarante-huit ans six mois et dix-neuf jours que les parisiens s'éveillèrent au bruit de toutes les clochés sonnant à grande volée dans la triple enceinte de la Cité, de l'Université et de la Ville."
#OTD in 1831.
Victor Hugo's historical romantic Gothic novel Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, is published by Gosselin in Paris.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame
Notre-Dame de Paris at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2610
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."
#OTD in 1850.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical novel The Scarlet Letter is published by William Ticknor and James T. Fields in Boston, Massachusetts, where it is set. It sells 2,500 copies in ten days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letter
The Scarlett Letter at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/33
The SF I write was always "not mainstream"—YA then singularity stuff but not the way many in the genre showcased SV's toxic tech religion...
But since I've been writing #solarpunk, it's the clearest rebuttal to this history of fashy SF.
Good review: http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/03/review-speculative-whiteness-science.html
Is there somewhere to buy ebooks that supports local book stores? I buy print books from Bookshop.org and my audiobooks from Libro.fm, but don't know where to go for ebooks. I'd like it to be DRM-free so I don't lose it when I'm on "unsupported devices".
The great American classic we’ve been misreading for 100 years
The Great Gatsby is more than cocktail parties and color symbolism.
by Constance Grady
https://www.vox.com/culture/402406/great-gatsby-f-scott-fitzgerald-centennial-100
The Great Gatsby at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64317
Help me pick my next read.
Or dont.
IDGAF.
I gave up on Fortune Falls because book 1 was communalist survivalism & book 2 is " oh btw yall get Super Soldier Serum " out of literally nowhere.
So yeah, a paradigm shift of that magnitude is jumping the shark for me.
So with that in mind..what is next?
Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him
#BookBanning #TechnoFascism #books #publishing
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/14/mark-zuckerberg-free-speech-meta-sheryl-sandberg?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
#OTD in 1773.
Oliver Goldsmith's comedy She Stoops to Conquer is performed for the first time, at the Covent Garden Theatre in London.
Initially the play was titled Mistakes of a Night and the events within the play take place in one long night. In 1778, John O'Keeffe wrote a loose sequel, Tony Lumpkin in Town.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Stoops_to_Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/383
"Ce n'est pas une cause
Que j'attaque ou que je défends
Et ceci n'est pas autre chose
Que l'histoire d'un pauvre enfant."
#OTD in 1900.
Sarah Bernhardt stars in premiere of Edmond Rostand's l'Aiglon. The title of the play comes from a nickname for Napoleon II, the French word for "eaglet" (a young eagle).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Aiglon
L´Aiglon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66793