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The Public Domain Review
An online journal and not-for-profit project that focuses on the exploration of interesting public-domain works.
public domain, literature, art, library
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The George Orwell Library
A collection of Orwell's works, all in a 2000s web format. Various other works are here too like bibliographic works and Huxley's Brave New World
library, literature
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Spitalfields Life
A daily blog of the anonymous author's life in Spitalfields, London. Pictures, well-written stories and blog posts, and fascinating little slices of life in a really historic area. Hard to describe adequately.
blog, archaeology, literature
Added by reed
the textfile directory
A collection of plain-text files, primarily from the mid-1980s, when person-to-person-via-computer communication happened almost exclusively in plain text. Think of these as the original memes, before computers were good at sending and displaying graphics. See the Top 100 to get a sense of what kind of material is here.
retrocomputers, culture, literature, tech, computers, hackers
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Eat Your Words
A recipe series centered around the food in the lives and works of famous authors. Released by The Paris Review literary magazine.
food, literature
Added by reed
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