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It’s the 40th anniversary of the Prison Book Program, based in Qunicy, MA, said to be the oldest such book donation program in the country, according to this story in… Read more »

Across mainland Europe this summer bars will be full of Brits abroad, speaking loud English accompanied by spirited gesticulations, unidentifiable European-ish lilts, or both of the above. It’s far from… 1 / Read more »

After the much-discussed VIDA results, which illustrated just how little women are reviewed or published by the major literary press, Roxane Gay writing in The Rumpus was left wondering whether as a… 1 / Read more »

The BBC reported this week that the town of Bradford, England, will start an Imagination Library, following the lead of Rotherham and other towns in England and Scotland. Launched by… Read more »

The physics behind making a novel Eating library paste will kill you Simon Winchester’s mother tongue Lehrer’s creative interpretation of Dylan’s creativity An omnipotent man does not write sex well… Read more »