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@r_literature
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8subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
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| Telegram ID | -1002383849585 |
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| Type | Channel |
| Username | @r_literature |
| Description | R/Literature subreddit aggregator bot Powered by @reddit2telegram & @r_channels |
| Created | Between 1 September 2024 and 31 March 2025 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 12 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 7 November 2026 |
| Measurements held | 2 |
| On Telegram | t.me/r_literature |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
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| 12 Aug 2026, 16:02 | 8 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 18:08 | 8 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 23 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 4 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 12 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
Print is Dead. One Hundred Years of Solitude is One Hour of Screen Time. I recently got into a heated debate with some friends. One is a film guy with an impressive IMDB and the other a Professor of Cultural studies out west. The conversation left me feeling very hollow. First some hard reality. Reading for pleasure has fallen 40% in the last decade and 40% of Americans did not read a book in 2025. The avg only fi…
Othello + Cuckoldry themes Something I just realised doing my A level lit revision and thought was so clever! In my class, two of the themes we focus on for Othello are race and cuckoldry—when Iago says “a black ram is tupping your white ewe”, is it a double meaning? he is, on one hand, dehumanising him, and on the other, which is my discovery, he is foreshadowing the cuck plot? In early modern england, I believe …
Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus — Is it worth it for a beginner? I’ve been really fascinated by Faustian bargain stories lately—the whole concept of trading your soul for temporary genius or power. I read Part 1 of Goethe’s Faust and absolutely loved it. But Part 2 was a total nightmare for me to get through because the language was way too dense and complex. Before this, most of my experience with classic stories cam…
A flurry of Martin Amis-related activity Seeing some posts on Insta and X about Martin Amis recently. There's a new book coming out, A Cambridge Companion, and the author's organised a full-day book launch in London for August 25th. He's also brought back the old Martin Amis Web, which is far better than I remember. https://martinamisweb.com/. The event has a page there as well, I see. I wonder when we'll get an…
The Booker Prize 2026 Longlist has been announced https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/2026 https://redd.it/1v8ymwc @r_literature
The Easy Life in Kamusari Hello everyone, I have a question about The Easy Life in Kamusari (神去なあなあ日常) by Shion Miura for those who've read it. I would have posted this on a more specific subreddit like r/JapaneseLiterature but all those subs have been inactive for ages. I read a lot of Japanese literature, from 19th century classics authors like Kawabata, Soseki, Dazai to contemporary writers. There is an underlyin…
Hemingway’s ‘Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises’ is Outstanding I tried to read this book two years ago and just couldn’t get into it. I picked it up the other week and I think it might be the best book I’ve ever read. When I finished the book, I cried for a while lol. Those last few lines at the end are just so quietly devastating. It’s just so beautifully written. A lot of people say not a lot happens in this book. In m…
John Irving TW: SA I read A Prayer for Owen Meany when I was a teenager and absolutely loved it. I'm a bit older, and back then I would read things that were a bit misogynistic and I would notice it, but it wouldn't necessarily ruin my enjoyment of something. The discourse around gender inequality was just completely different when I was younger, and I remember a lot of women my age openly endorsing this 'boys will…
Franny and Zooey I’ve read Franny and Zooey a few times in my life and I recently reread it again. Reading it again reminded me of how much I love this book and Salinger’s work in general. He captured grief so beautifully in his words and it isn’t just the beauty of it but what really stayed with me is the way he captured how grief becomes ingrained in our lives and how the processing of it may not look exactly the…
Nabokov's Pale Fire: questions I've jotted down after 2 reads (SPOILERS) First read: I struggled. It felt like a fever dream, an unpleasant one. Second read: super fun, I kept track of dates, events and wrote down what I felt could be explained but wasn't able to. Was hoping we could crack this together! Here we go: - Gradus, glass and Sudarg! 1) Gradus Jakob = Sudarg of Bokay!! What's the link between the two??…
Bukowski, society and women Apparently Bukowski gained fame and became a womanizer pretty late, after gaining literary success. Prior to that he considered himself a loser, an outcast, someone who was undesirable due to his social status and his severe acne scars. However, how much of that is true? Was he an outcast because of the things listed or because he believed in those things? What changed in his behavior? Wa…
What is your favourite book written by Yōko Ogawa ? I discovered her novels and I instantly fell in love with her writings. I started with やさしい訴え (not available in English => trad. "The Tender Complaints"). I was in a difficult period where I felt lost in life and this book felt like breathing out.. I feel like characters of Yōko Ogawa's universe are so relatable. And I like the theme of memory and mourning being t…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @r_literature. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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