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

https://lithub.com/musical-storytelling-librettist-gene-scheer-on-transforming-novels-into-operas?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lit%20Hub%20Daily:%20March%2017%2C%202025&utm_term=lithub_master_list

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

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

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/15/notebooks-michael-faraday-victorian-scientist-einstein

Beyond “Dickensian”: 7 Quirky Words Created by Charles Dickens

https://wordsmarts.com/dickensian-words/

Charles Dickens at PG

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5zyq0250wo

"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.

#SF #sciencefiction #books

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