January 27, 2014

Another week, another chapter in the fight over The New York Public Library’s divisive Central Library Plan. On January 16, patrons of the library received an email from Theresa Myrhol, “Director,… Read more »

Libraries & librarians

University of Iowa president makes badly-timed joke, librarian calls him out — Chad Felix
Tolstoy’s great-great-granddaughter organizes four-day marathon reading of War and Peace — Ena Brdjanovic
French Booksellers Association releases reading list meant to shed light on Paris attacks — Kait Howard
Uproar over publication of Haruki Murakami's high school library records — Liam O'Brien

Journalists under threat in Ukraine

Sal Robinson

As protests continue in Ukraine, journalists are finding themselves increasingly under threat. The Committee to Protect Journalists reported last week that “at least 42 local and international reporters were attacked” on… Read more »

Amazon buys yet another block of Seattle, but not to build a drone hive, probably, I’m sure it’s fine

Dustin Kurtz

Amazon paid $52.2 million for another entire block of downtown Seattle last week, most likely to house new office towers or a steely drone cloaca or a company rec center.… Read more »

Binyavanga Wainaina on coming out, homophobia, and the powers of the imagination

Wah-Ming Chang

“I cannot say the word gay until I am thirty-nine.” In 2002, the Kenyan intellectual, writer, and satirist Binyavanga Wainaina won the Caine Prize for African Writing for the short story “Discovering Home”… Read more »

Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood take to Google Hangout for an event

Nick Davies

Last week, Margaret Atwood was scheduled to appear at Symphony Space in New York to host a celebration of Alice Munro’s receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature. Munro hasn’t made… Read more »

Melville House Books

New York Public Library: sign our petition, but don’t read it too closely….

Kelly Burdick