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太宰治『人間失格』 Osamu Dazai - Ningen Shikkaku

'It's Ningen Shikkaku, which is translated to No Longer Human. A theatrical film version of Madhouse's Aoi Bungaku Series anime. The film re-edited the four episodes based on Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human novel.'

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On This Day in 1964 the US Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling that found “Tropic of Cancer” to be obscene…

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Denis Diderot qt. in Edgar Saltus, The Anatomy of Negation

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#OnThisDay in 1956, playwright Arthur Miller testified before HUAC and refused to name names, which won him a conviction for contempt of court - later reversed by the SCOTUS. Testimony took place about a week before Miller married Marilyn Monroe.

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June 20, 2025

Today, we’re thinking about book tour best practices, iconic author pseudonyms, lesbian lit, and more!

On Lit Hub dot com:

Kamila Shamsie gives a close and highly critical reading of English PEN’s charter. | Lit Hub Politics

“Remember to rest.” In which Maris Kreizman attempts to heed her own advice about publishing a book and going on a book tour. | Lit Hub Advice

Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott explore how Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and more chose their pen names. | Lit Hub Biography

Catherine Lacey’s TBR  includes books by Jen Calleja, Tezer Özlü, and Georgi Gospodinov! | Lit Hub Criticism

“While reading Next to Heaven, I sometimes thought I could feel individual cells in my body trying to die.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks

Siouxzi Connor recommends Sapphic books that explore hydrofeminism by Dylin Hardcastle, Julia Armfield, Sophie Mackintosh, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

How Edna Lewis became a queer icon of Southern cooking. | Lit Hub Food

Radha Vatsal remembers the literary legacy of her great-great grandfather, Nandshankar Mehta, and traces the forgotten history of South Asian cosmopolitanism. | Lit Hub History

Catherine Lacey’s The Möbius Book, Michelle Huneven’s Bug Hollow, and Jan Gradvall’s The Story of ABBA all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks

Jane Smiley and Susan Swan discuss the importance of women who take up space: “Being unusually tall makes you feel set apart because mostly everybody else sees someone with the same weight, height and coloring every day.” | Lit Hub In Conversation

 “Upstairs, I paused at my bedroom door, hearing Rick’s delicate, papery snore, and walked down the hall, pushing open the door to Alex’s room.” Read from Jayson Greene’s new novel, UnWorld. | Lit Hub Fiction

From around the internet:

“Few have cared so deeply for the poor or taken the quest to both know and live out truth more seriously.” Ben Woollard on Tolstoy’s Christian anarchism. | JSTOR Daily

“If we value the medicine the land offers us so generously, we must become medicine for the land.” Robin Wall Kimmerer explores the precious forest pharmacy of the Adirondacks. | Orion

“Brian’s genius was bound up in his fixation on these paradoxes: the absence that haunts every presence; the love that’s most vital just before it drains away; pain and beauty too enmeshed to be pulled apart.” Charlotte Shane on Ben Greenman’s I Am Brian Wilson and the late musician’s legacy. | n+1

Sophie Gonick considers the construction of migrant spaces in New York. | Public Books

“Italian rhythm is obviously different from that of English, but it has a pronounced physiognomy: this aspect allowed the translator to hear it naturally and render it instinctively into its linguistic twin.” On poetry in translation between English and Italian. | Asymptote

Authors are taking to TikTok to prove they aren’t using generative AI. | Wired

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Harlan Ellison – Pay the Writer

A memorable (and timely) rant from the upcoming feature documentary on Harlan Ellison, “DREAMS WITH SHARP TEETH”.

DREAMS WITH SHARP TEETH trailer: https://youtu.be/dmfzKKM49uY

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‘He identified with the endangered’ … Crazy Man, 1988.

Photograph: Jonathan Greet/© Estate of William S Burroughs

“As someone else said of him, he was a Nostradamus – certainly when it came to climate catastrophe, which he foresaw clearly. He imagined, too, that anyone could achieve inner and outer liberation from the ravages being inflicted on the world. That’s why his art matters to me – and why it’s worth seeing right now.”

William S Burroughs is at the October Gallery, London, until 5 April

"Burroughs was a prolific writer. He also practiced visual art throughout his life. For decades he produced photographs, collages and films. In visual diaries he noted juxtapositions of personal with public events, identifying with those who suffered, later exemplified in paintings Burn Unit and Warhol, A Portrait in TV Dots….In multimedia collaborations with Brion Gysin, they pioneered incisive tools - ‘cut-ups’- to deconstruct mechanisms of institutionalized control systems that corrupt inborn intelligence. On the death of Gysin, he became a painter. In 1987, he began painting every day. Although his literature had been censored in Britain, he lived in London during the late 1960’s and early ‘70s, making strong connections with many noteworthy figures of the British art scene such as Francis Bacon."

William S Burroughs Burn Unit, 1987. Photograph: Jonathan Greet/© Estate of William S Burroughs

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Ed Sanders

Fuck You/ A Magazine of the Arts was a literary magazine founded in 1962 by the poet Ed Sanders on the Lower East Side of New York City. Sanders later co-founded the musical group the Fugs. Sanders produced thirteen issues of Fuck You/ A Magazine of the Arts from 1962 to 1965.

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“We protect our minds by an elaborate system of abstractions, ambiguities, metaphors and similes from the reality we do not wish to know too clearly; we lie to ourselves, in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes”

― Aldous Huxley, The Olive Tree and other essays

(Book: https://amzn.to/3HnQgy7 )

#ad #Huxley #englishliterature

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Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s famously controversial novel LOLITA had its New York premiere on June 13, 1962.

Pictured: Kubrick and Sue Lyon on set.

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“The Dial-A-Poem concept was pretty neat and involved a consortium of artists leaving their poems and fragmented avant-garde utterances on an answering machine for listeners to dial into.  It was later released to LP as a  series of collections by Giorno Poetry Sytems.“ [source: chromophobia] Tutta bella gente: Giorno Poetry Systems / Dial-a-Poem Poets [via Ubu - I love this site!] 1. David Johansen - “Imaginatin’ Cocktail” 2. John Giorno - “Exiled in Domestic Life” 3. William S. Burroughs - “Dinosaurs” 4. Psychic TV - “Unclean” 5. Lydia Lunch - “What it is” 6. Meredith Monk - “Candy Bullets and Moon” 7. Jim Carroll - “A Peculiar-Looking Girl” 8. Anne Waldman - “Uh-Oh Plutonium” 9. Richard Hell - “The Rev. Hell Gets Confused” 10. Arto Lindsay - “Alisa” From the LP The Dial-A-Poem Poets: “Better An Old Demon Than A New God” (1984), GPS 033 

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Curse Go Back! https://youtu.be/JnXJXXCVJbI Music by Clarke Blacker, Text by William S. Burroughs Voice: William S. Burroughs All Guitars, effects, etc. by Clarke Blacker © 2020 We Don't Have the Time Music

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Harry Eugene Crews

(June 7, 1935 – March 28, 2012)

"There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with"