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From Lahore’s literary circles to radio drama and fiction Krishan Chander transformed lived history into timeless compassionate storytelling.
By Dr. Shahid Siddiqui

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January 5, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Men get credited for inventing everything, but a woman invented the novel 1000 years ago.
Without Murasaki Shikibu, would we even understand our own emotions?
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December 31, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Did you know Rodney Hall's poetry collection "A Soapbox Omnibus" blends lyrical craftsmanship with sharp social commentary? The Australian writer (author of "The Yandilli Trilogy") weaves history and identity into verse. #AustralianPoetry #LiteraryHistory (Q131422432)
December 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
December 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
James Baldwin wrote the first draft of Go Tell It on the Mountain in three fevered days at age 24.

He said it felt less like writing a novel and more like “an eruption.”

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December 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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My first book pubs today, and among other things it is a love letter to Chicago — the city and the communities that have been a tenth muse for me.

Margaret C. Anderson's story is also, I hope, a reminder that good art requires taking big risks.

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December 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' Was Initially Rejected by a Publisher. It Later Became One of the World's Most Beloved Novels: The British author wrote six novels, but it's her second… @SmithsonianMag #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice #ClassicLiterature #BookRecommendations #LiteraryHistory
Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' Was Initially Rejected by a Publisher. It Later Became One of the World's Most Beloved Novels
The British author wrote six novels, but it's her second published book that has resonated the most in the 250 years since her birth in 1775
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December 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Followers! If you don't know #KitWilliams "Masquerade" and the scandal around it, you should change this now. It was a hare-raising (pun intended) mystery

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November 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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From peculiar authors to peculiar plots, this is a journey through the delightful oddities of literature! 🤓📖 buff.ly/3PsOc8X
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November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
A new entry for the most unreliable Encyclopaedia imaginable: the man who claimed he shaped postwar British literature but never published a word of his own...

#booksky #literaryhistory #litcrit #HistoryIsAFiction #shortfiction

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Alfie Sloane (1944–1998)
A Literary Parasite's Guide to Fifty Years of British Letters, Bad Debts, and Beautiful Lies
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November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Turns out writers create more than just stories—check out how Barbara Pym’s diaries reveal real-life stalking, obsession & fiction mirroring life. Wild. buff.ly/RSGCU8Y #WritingLife #LiteraryHistory #AuthorLife #Bookish #WritingCommunity #NovelWriting
On Barbara Pym, Author… and Stalker?
Barbara Pym, a novelist sometimes described as the twentieth-century Jane Austen, was a stalker. Her diaries describe her methods of “finding out” her objects of interest in vivid detail: looking t…
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November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Why people should read and how they should read William Faulkner’s works youtu.be/wYQWh8VGL3M?... #WilliamFaulkner #LiteraryHistory
How (and why) to read William Faulkner - Sascha Morrell
YouTube video by TED-Ed
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November 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
🐋 On this day in 1851, Melville's "Moby-Dick" hit American shores! This epic tale of obsession & the white whale became a literary legend. Call me Ishmael? We still do, 173 years later! 📚⚓

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November 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
On procrastination, perfectionism, and the terror of "good enough." New Calling the Abyss entry: the story of a man who writes perfectly but cannot finish.

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Finch, Dr. Alastair (1955–? )
A Biography of Almost
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November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Charlotte Brontë - Napoleon and the Spectre
Charlotte Brontë wrote “Napoleon and the Spectre” in 1833, when she was 17. The story is taken from the manuscript of her novella The Green Dwarf. In its original context, the tale is overheard being told by “a little dapper man” to a group of Frenchmen at an inn (1996, 127). When it is finished, Napoleon himself enters the inn and arrests the little man for having recounted such a “scandalous anecdote” (1996, 130). Although extracts from the story appeared in a literary journal in 1897, it was not published in its entirety until 1919, when Clement Shorter printed a limited edition for private circulation. It was published for a wide audience for the first time in The Twelve Adventurers and Other Stories (1925) and has since appeared in editions of Brontë’s juvenilia and in various short story anthologies. (https://literariness.org/2022/09/26/analysis-of-charlotte-brontes-napoleon-and-the-spectre)
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November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A reminder that #LaborHistory is also #WomensHistory is also #LiteraryHistory and even #QueerHistory

A reminder that the "Lowell Offering" written by the "mill girls" of Lowell, MA (1840-1845) was the first literary magazine edited by women in the US.
The Lowell Offering, 1840s · Women and Labor Movements · Duke University Library Exhibits
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October 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Nothing says October like vampires. "On the Twisted Trail of Bram Stoker’s Notes for ‘Dracula’" just dropped.

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October 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
What began as an anonymous publication in 1847 became one of the most enduring works in English literature. Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre continues to speak across time.

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October 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM