“Firestorm on Fifth Avenue”: Vanity Fair on the NYPL renovation
Kelly Burdick
An in-depth look at the NYPL library’s $300 million renovation plan… Read more »
Libraries & librarians
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University of Iowa president makes badly-timed joke, librarian calls him out
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Tolstoy’s great-great-granddaughter organizes four-day marathon reading of War and Peace
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French Booksellers Association releases reading list meant to shed light on Paris attacks
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Uproar over publication of Haruki Murakami's high school library records
They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our slightly larger jpgs! 
Translation in the age of social media 
When poetry and politics converge, Part III 
David Simon, creator of The Wire defends infidelity and calls media coverage of Petraeus affair “grist for the usual mill” 
