Every morning, we open our still-sleepy eyes, turn over, and reach out for our phone-slash-alarm. Stop. Stop. Stop. After snoozing all the noisy alarm rings, we always check out the notifications that piled up all night. This is a routine for every modern person. Notifications full of messages, news, and emails. Now, there can be a small variation happening in the repetition. According to SERIAL BOX, you can turn your phone into a snapread of short stories as long as you have their app Serial Box Publishing. Beginning July 9th, the app with its newly launched program, Microfiction …
Every morning, we open our still-sleepy eyes, turn aside, and reach out to our phone-as-alarm. Stop. Stop. Stop. After closing all the shouting alarms sets, we always check out the notifications piled up all night. This is a routine for every modern person. Notifications full of messages, news, and emails. Now, there can be a small variation happening in the repetition. According to SERIAL BOX , you can turn your phone into a snapread of short stories as long as you have their app Serial Box Publishing. Beginning July 9th, the app with its newly launched program－Microfiction Mondays－will send a 150-character-or less …
There’s a common saying that goes, “Let’s make a long story short”. Though being neat is a good thing, for some people it’s a big challenge because it takes your organization skills and language sensitivity. In literary history, there was a frontiersman who was good at this—Ernest Hemingway. He’s a literary legend. While having dinner with his fellow writers and friends of the famous Algonquin Round Table in NYC, Ernest Hemingway made a bet that he could write a story in just six words. His friends didn’t believe it and bet that he couldn’t do it. Without saying further words, the …
As long as you’re book-lovers or Bookstr fans, you may have already known that, unfortunately, the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature has been cancelled due to the explosion of sexual assault scandals in the Swedish Academy. But the celebration of humanities never stops. As an alternative and temporary for Prize in Literature, the New Academy just announced the shortlist of four authors for the 2018 New Academy Prize in Literature: Neil Gaiman, Maryse Condé, Haruki Murakami, and Kim Thúy. Books of the final four | Image Via stadsbibblanstockholm Feeling shame about the scandal in a used-to-be distinguished and respectful Swedish Academy, Alexandra Pascalidou, a …
If you’re fans of Disney movie, you must know Mulan. If you’re fans of Bookstr, you must know that we’ve followed Disney’s upcoming live-action feature movie Mulan since 2017. But do you know Mulan is actually a very famous piece of feminist Chinese literature? Before we get into the literary part, let’s have something hot: recently, the first official photo of the live-action Mulan was released. Yife Liu, the famous Chinese actress who plays her, wears a traditional red robe and holds a sword, staring toward the camera. This is a brilliant photo which perfectly embodies the feminist spirit of …
