November 21, 2013

Just how many scholars and researchers are running into paywalls as they go about their work? A new initiative, the Open Access Button, is in the process of making it… Read more »

Education

The scientific theory behind what makes Dr. Seuss funny — Zeljka Marosevic
Tea Party chair calls for UN fund-raising book by Kermit the Frog to be banned — Taylor Sperry
Uproar over publication of Haruki Murakami's high school library records — Liam O'Brien
A new pronoun in the Mx. — Taylor Sperry

The ten best self-help books of 2013 are the ten worst gifts of 2013

Dustin Kurtz

Giving gifts is hard. Sometimes you know the person too well (“he doesn’t deserve this”) and sometimes you don’t know them well enough (“I think I once saw her touch… Read more »

This week in 1913: Kaiser Wilhelm hates dancing, Kafka weeps, Joyce talks Hamlet, and Musil writes about love

Melville House

Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century’s most exciting year . . . It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the… Read more »

Another Fitzgerald adaptation, but this time it’s not Gatsby

Julia Fleischaker

F. Scott Fitzgerald is hardly uncharted territory for screen adaptations; 1925’s The Great Gatsby has alone been made into no fewer than 5 movies, most recently in 2013. Now, HBO… Read more »

A “book bandit” is on the loose at a library in Tennessee

The Columbia Daily Herald has reported that a “book bandit” has struck at the Maury County Library in Tennessee. After three hardcover books were stolen within two weeks, librarians posted… Read more »

Melville House Books

Mapping Open Access, or the lack thereof

Sal Robinson