March 24, 2014

Ah, elephant ivory and whale meat: two great tastes that taste great to goddamned monsters. According to a report issued by the UK-based Environmental Investigation Agency along with the Humane… Read more »

Booksellers & bookselling

Ask a bookseller---Book Court's Bonnie Chau — Melville House
Customer threatens Northshire Bookstore for displaying the Qur’an — Kait Howard
Isis Books & Gifts changes signage, dodges blind wrath of ignorant brick-throwers — Simon Reichley
Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien

Whose reading room is it, anyway?

Sal Robinson

Is taking a photo of a library’s reading room copyright infringement? That’s the question that arose last week when two researchers, one at the British Library and one at the New York Public… Read more »

The heartbreaking tale of the Detroit Public Library’s Mark Twain branch

Claire Kelley

The Mark Twain branch of the Detroit Public Library opened to the public on February 22, 1940 with over 20,000 books. The building’s architect was the prolific and celebrated Wirt… Read more »

Gollum actor to direct a new Jungle Book movie

Nick Davies

Actor Andy Serkis, best known for his performance as Gollum in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies has taken over as director for a new film… Read more »

Jason Segel is playing David Foster Wallace in a movie and he looks very silly

Alex Shephard

Jason Segel is currently filming The End of the Tour, a biopic of David Foster Wallace which is based on the book Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip… Read more »

Melville House Books

Kobo owners Rakuten also run the world’s leading marketplace for whale meat

Dustin Kurtz