A Quiet Journey through Literary Depths
Litsketches where authors, characters, and classics get a modern literary makeover. Satirical, insightful takes on poetry, novels, and literary legends. Where authors, poems, and literary classics get the ABS treatment—sharp, bold, and never boring. Dive into scrolls on Shakespeare, Plath, Dickens, Austen, and more, with wit as your bookmark.
By ABS, The Literary Scholar(Who firmly believes that every woman needs a room, a lock, and a polite sign that says “Not now, I’m writing history.”) Before coworking cafes and aesthetically filtered writing retreats… before motivational mugs and #BossLady hashtags… before anyone thought of monetizing silence… there was Virginia Woolf, walking across a cloistered university […]
By ABS, The Literary Scholar(Who firmly believes that giving a bunch of unsupervised British schoolboys a conch and some coconuts is not a social experiment—it’s a horror story waiting for footnotes) Somewhere in the literary wild, past the pipe-smoking headmasters and the crisply ironed uniforms, lies a novel that dared to ask: What if we
By ABS, The Literary Scholar(Who firmly believes the real danger wasn’t in the caves—it was in the assumptions everyone walked in with) You know you’re reading a classic when it begins with polite colonial tea and ends with the complete dismantling of friendship, trust, and any illusion that East and West will ever politely agree
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By ABS, The Literary Scholar(Who firmly believes no baby name ever escapes its baggage—especially if it comes with a Russian novelist and parental expectations) In the tender chaos of immigration, one thing always seems simple: the name. A syllable. A sound. A label. But when Bengali parents in America name their child after a Russian
By ABS, The Literary Scholar(Who knows that sometimes literature doesn’t rescue you—it just sits beside your sorrow with quiet understanding) There are books you read. And then there are books that read you back, like a tailor measuring you for a suit you’ll never grow out of. Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance is one such
By ABS, The Literary Scholar(Who firmly believes that if hope were edible, the Joads still would’ve gone hungry) There are road trips that start with playlists and picnic baskets. And then there’s the Joad family’s journey to California—a desperate, dusty pilgrimage across a broken America that doesn’t know whether it’s collapsing or just rearranging the
By ABS, The Literary Scholar(Who has always suspected that Edna Pontellier’s true sin was having a soul before it was socially scheduled) It begins on a porch. It ends in the sea. And somewhere between parasols, piano music, and polite dinner parties, Edna Pontellier realizes what every well-bred Victorian woman was trained not to say
By ABS, The Literary Scholar(Who firmly believes Charles Dickens invented the term “it’s complicated” long before modern romance and plotlines did) If you’ve ever wished life came with more eccentric characters, more dramatic coincidences, and more men with tragic backstories and suspicious facial hair—look no further than the pen of Charles Dickens, the man who
By ABS, The Literary Scholar(Who’s fairly certain Orwell is haunting our routers in silent judgment) In the grand year of 1948, a man named George Orwell sat down to write a book not because he was paranoid, but because the world wasn’t paranoid enough. He switched the last two digits of the year and gifted
By ABS, The Literary Scholar(Who still wants to ask Jane Eyre, “Out of all the men in that mansion… him?”) Once upon a moody English morning, a small, plain orphan named Jane Eyre decided she would not, under any circumstances, be silent, submissive, or spiritually gaslit by the patriarchy. And thus, Charlotte Brontë’s legendary novel