Macro Literature

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Room scenes by Edward Hopper (1882-1967)

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“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the small, uncaring ways.”

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Stephen Vincent Benét (b. 22 July 1898)

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Happy birthday, Selena Gomez (b. 22 July 1992)

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He was evicted for having too many books.

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Literary history that happened on 22 July

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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Giveaw@y: We’re giving away 12 vintage paperback classics! (Included are four editions from the collection of Alan Churchill Jones.) Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? Enter to win by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 16 August 2026. Good luck!

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The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway

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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

Shooting an Elephant George Orwell

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It’s Hemingway’s birthday (b. 21 July 1899), and I happen to be reading a 1932 copy of A Farewell to Arms. This book is quickly becoming a favorite… not so much for the writing itself (it’s pretty good but not great) but for the history of this particular edition. I posted earlier about the old wedding announcement I found between the pages, but I didn’t mention that this book evidently became part of the library of St. Ignatius Residence in Portland, Maine. (No one checked this book out?) And somehow it made it from Maine to California, where I bought it several years ago. So even though it has been owned and given away multiple times, I may be the first person to actually read it. :)

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Literary history that happened on 21 July

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“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”

— A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway (b. 21 July 1899)

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The Hemingway Reader and The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

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Giveaw@y: We’re giving away 12 vintage paperback classics! (Included are four editions from the collection of Alan Churchill Jones.) Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? Enter to win by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 16 August 2026. Good luck!

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