Obama administration pledges millions in e-books for low-income children
Late last week, President Obama unveiled a new plan to donate e-books to children from low-income families. Cory Turner reports for “All Things Considered” on NPR that he made the… Read more »
The Art of the Novella challenge 24: Michael Kohlhaas
Title: Michael Kohlhaas Author: Heinrich von Kleist First published: 1810 Page count: 133 First line: Toward the middle of the sixteenth century, there lived on the banks of the Havel… Read more »
This week in textbook theft and fraud
Textbooks. They’re heavy, expensive, and omnipresent, and they’re chained to education, which makes their demand fairly inelastic. And as we’ve previously covered, this makes them a fairly attractive object of… Read more »
Neil Gaiman and Art Spiegelman will cross the picket line for the PEN gala
After numerous writers including Peter Carey, Rachel Kushner and Teju Cole pulled out of PEN’s annual gala in protest of its decision to offer the Freedom of Expression Courage Award to the French… Read more »
Oakland-based arts collective designs an innovative pop-up library for the Bay Area Book Festival
The Bay Area Book Festival is a new literary festival that will take place in Berkeley on the weekend of June 6th and 7th. The organizers received a donation of… Read more »
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