February 19, 2015

Planning is underway for the 2nd Annual Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, with events to be held worldwide. According to organizers, the day of editing is meant to combat statistics showing that… 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

Beyond Harper Lee: This Season’s Hottest Literary Rediscoveries

Mark Krotov, Alex Shephard, & Eric Jett

Yesterday’s announcement of the publication of a newly discovered book by Dr. Seuss has confirmed what Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman only hinted at: rediscoveries are the most exciting… Read more »

If you want to build a robot fleet, the FAA has some polite suggestions

Liam O'Brien

The FAA has a lot on their plate. Every day they coordinate an impossible worldwide ballet of airborne hurtling rocket machines that are filled with precious cargo, like packages or… Read more »

One Book Two Book Old Book New Book

Taylor Sperry

Forgotten manuscripts keep popping up out of nowhere. Just after the controversial and expertly-reported news about Harper Lee’s forthcoming novel Go Set a Watchman, Random House announced they will be… Read more »

Love, Nina adapted for the BBC by Nick Hornby

Zeljka Marosevic

It was the unexpected hit of 2013, a memoir written by the one-time nanny to the editor of the London Review of Books, Mary-Kay Wilmers. Nina Stibbe’s Love, Nina told… Read more »

Melville House Books

Feminists organize editing sessions to address Wikipedia’s “gender trouble”

Claire Kelley