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Going mad trying to find the section in Martin Eden where he puts a list of his stories along the left margin and a list of publications across the top, and sends the stories off in succession to each publication @bookstodon

@bookstodon And this is the difference between here and the birdsite - or that site as it used to be before the takeover and its right-wing swing and the verminous cruelty that now infests it. In its good days - because of the vast number of people on that site, and their general kindness, and their variety - I could ask a question like this and someone would answer it before an hour was out

@bookstodon Here, there are fewer people, and it's less of a haunt of academics

@bookstodon Martin Eden is a wonderful story about a tough guy determined to make it as a writer - if it wasn't for his suicide at the end, it would be widely read still as a classic. The only place it really survived was in Russia, where I think it was on the school curriculum…? Probably their equivalent of