For bookish Tumblrs, I suggest you start following Awesome People Reading, Writers No One Reads, and CoverSpy.
Looking for Some Literary Tumblrs?
Autobiographical Revisionism
“‘It is the novelist’s innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself.’ The autobiography of the imagination then is an autobiography of our base desires, the things we haven’t done but have longed for. It is our fantasies, our secrets from which we curate by redaction how someone else sees us. It is an autobiography of instinct, desire.” Emilia Phillips on poetry as the autobiography of the imagination, over at Ploughshares.
Burrito Lit
“What’s the kindest thing you almost did?” You’ll find this sentence by Jonathan Safran Foer on a Chipotle cup next time you eat a burrito there. The fast food restaurant will feature the short stories five authors, including Foer, Malcolm Gladwell, Toni Morrison, George Saunders, and Michael Lewis, on its cups, and unlike guacamole, they won’t cost extra. Unsurprisingly, Cormac McCarthy didn’t make a cup.
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A Liquid State
“Thus it is our [feminists’] historical task … to define what we call oppression in materialist terms, to make it evident that women are a class, which is to say that the category ‘woman’ as well as the category ‘man’ are political and economic categories, not eternal ones.” This essay in remembrance of Alexis Arquette touches on everything from VIP guest lists to feminist theorist Monique Wittig.
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Gone but Not Forgotten
“Their relative obscurity is what makes their fans so passionate — these are voices that never quite found the right audience when they were alive.” Longreads has a reading list of forgotten women writers, including Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Anita Brookner, whom we profiled in our own pages last year.
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Winning Women
Eleanor Catton has been getting a lot of press for being the youngest author ever to win the Man Booker prize, but she claims that the new fame is a mixed blessing that often brings up sexism. “In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are – about luck and identity and how the idea struck them,” she told The Guardian.
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I would like to add:
Housing Works Bookstore, http://housingworksbookstore.tumblr.com/
Books Matter, http://booksmatter.tumblr.com
Books I Just Read, http://booksijustread.com/
Great finds, Tiffany.
I’ll tack on:
Bookshelf Porn (this IS safe for work, despite its title), http://bookshelfporn.com/
Proustitute, http://proustitute.tumblr.com/
Slaughterhouse 90210, http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/
NYPL, http://nypl.tumblr.com/
Dostoyevsky, http://dostoyevsky.tumblr.com/
McNally Jackson, http://mcnallyjackson.tumblr.com/
Also these publishers and magazines have good ones:
W. W. Norton, http://wwnorton.tumblr.com/
A. A. Knopf, http://aaknopf.tumblr.com/
Hobart Pulp, http://hobartpulp.tumblr.com/
NYRB Classics, http://nyrbclassics.tumblr.com/
LARB, http://lareviewofbooks.org/
The Missouri Review, http://themissourireview.tumblr.com/
Scribner Books, http://scribnerbooks.tumblr.com/
The Paris Review, http://theparisreview.tumblr.com/
Thanks for mentioning my tumblr “Writers No One Reads”! I’m embarrassed by the lazy name (at least I deleted the “f*ck yeah” after the first day), especially when learning of SLAUGHTERHOUSE 90210.
What about a literary tumblr of short stories from an aspiring writer who’s too easily enticed by the instant gratification of followers’ Likes to pursue real publication elsewhere? Does that count?
http://paintedfictions.tumblr.com/
Tumblr is a platform that encourages quick, image oriented scroll-down browsing anyway, but it is encouraging to follow the New Yorker and The Atlantic on it…makes me feel like I have a way closer relationship with them than is realistic!
The Los Angeles Review of Books (lareviewofbooks.org) has consistently marvelous content. It’s a great and vital literary venture, though I don’t think it will be a Tumblr for much longer, since they’re supposedly launching a new site soon.