libraryjournal: You told LJ about over 390 of your favorite Tumblrs. Here they are, from most to least popular: thelifeguardlibrarian, with 29 mentions libraryjournal, with 16 mentions fishingboatproceeds, with 13 mentions (sorry John Green, Kate & LJ won this battle) librarianproblems, with nine mentions nypl, with six mentions oupacademic schoollibraryjournal todaysdocument motherjones, with five mentions neil-gaiman slaughterhouse90210 theatlantic theparisreview therumpus betterbooktitles, with four mentions bookriot chicagopubliclibrary darienlibrary doctorwho edwardspoonhands ilovecharts johndarnielle laura-in-libraryland libraryadvocates mentalflossr nprfreshair shortformblog theartofgooglebooks unypl wilwheaton Read More 41 out of 390 ain’t bad considering all of the awesome blogs on this list. However if you want even more great Tumblr goodness (and in particular you want things related to books, art and photography), you should check out our three-part Guide to the Best Literary Tumblr Blogs: Dashboard? More Like Bookshelf: Your Guide to Literary Tumblrs The Great Taxonomy of Literary Tumblrs: Round Two Tumblr Index: Your Guide to Artistic and Literary Tumblrs, Part III
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You told LJ about over 390 of your favorite Tumblrs. Here they are, from most to least popular:

  1. thelifeguardlibrarian, with 29 mentions
  2. libraryjournal, with 16 mentions
  3. fishingboatproceeds, with 13 mentions (sorry John Green, Kate & LJ won this battle)
  4. librarianproblems, with nine mentions
  5. nypl, with six mentions
  6. oupacademic
  7. schoollibraryjournal
  8. todaysdocument
  9. motherjones, with five mentions
  10. neil-gaiman
  11. slaughterhouse90210
  12. theatlantic
  13. theparisreview
  14. therumpus
  15. betterbooktitles, with four mentions
  16. bookriot
  17. chicagopubliclibrary
  18. darienlibrary
  19. doctorwho
  20. edwardspoonhands
  21. ilovecharts
  22. johndarnielle
  23. laura-in-libraryland
  24. libraryadvocates
  25. mentalflossr
  26. nprfreshair
  27. shortformblog
  28. theartofgooglebooks
  29. unypl
  30. wilwheaton

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41 out of 390 ain’t bad considering all of the awesome blogs on this list. However if you want even more great Tumblr goodness (and in particular you want things related to books, art and photography), you should check out our three-part Guide to the Best Literary Tumblr Blogs:

So the Romans, like us, had a primary relationship between the body and the idea of obscenity – though their sexual schema was a little different, with shame attaching, above all, to sexual passivity. Sexual obscenity also, to complicate things, had a sacramental function – as witness the fruity ways of the god Priapus. Some of that shit was holy.
This article on swearing is really goddamned interesting.
There are lots of conversations in the world about writing which focus on the benefit of the reader and what works for him or her, and of course all writers should care about that, but at the same time, the magic act of making something out of nothing is happening in the writer’s head, and it’s that brain that needs to be tended to first.
Edan Lepucki, “The Chemistry between Fiction and Reality: The Millions Interviews Ramona Ausubel”
Here’s how funny it is: It’s funnier than A Confederacy of Dunces. It’s funnier than Money or Lucky Jim. It’s funnier than any of the product that any of your modern literary LOL-traffickers (your Lipsytes, your Shteyngarts) have put on the street. It beats Shalom Auslander to a bloody, chuckling pulp with his own funny-bone. And it is, let me tell you, immeasurably funnier than however funny you insist on finding Fifty Shades of Grey.
Nothing Funnier Than Unhappiness: A Necessarily Ill-Informed Argument for Flann O’Brien’s The Poor Mouth as the Funniest Book Ever Written by Mark O’Connell