Mississippi banning . . .
Dennis Johnson
“I’ve been a librarian for 40 years and this is the only book I’ve objected to so strongly that I wouldn’t allow it to circulate . . . If they… Read more »
“I’ve been a librarian for 40 years and this is the only book I’ve objected to so strongly that I wouldn’t allow it to circulate . . . If they… Read more »
A long-time employee of a Waterstone’s bookstore in Edinburgh, Scotland has been dismissed by the chain because of things he said about the store on his blog. As Jo Best… Read more »
To giant publishing conglomerate Pearson, owner of Penguin and the Financial Times newspaper, it was “potential paradise”: a “massive book distribution center” in Rugby, Warwickshire, with state-of-the art equipment.” It… Read more »
The new Sony Librie may be the e-book reader of the future. In a brief report for PC Magazine, Critic Sascha Segan says at a recent show “it turned all… Read more »
“If you read a medieval English or French text, for example, it is difficult to grasp its meaning,” observes Zeina Hashem Bec. But “Old texts written in Classical Arabic such… Read more »
January 7 was the 33rd anniversary of the suicide of John Berryman. As Robert Lacy writes in an essay for Poetry Daily, “Art Hitman, a carpenter employed by the university,… Read more »