June 18, 2015

Architecture firm reveals plans for Brooklyn Heights Public Library branch that look exactly like the Flatiron building

The new building that will replace the Brooklyn Heights Public Library branch in downtown Brooklyn might end up looking exactly like the Flatiron building in Manhattan. According to plans unveiled… 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

This just in: Hipsters are silly dorks; love inappropriately recontextualizing old shit

Simon Reichley

Typewriters are cool! Just ask Tom Hanks! They are clicky-clacky write-boxes that gave almost a century of writers and other word obsessed people a fantastically clunky tool to write with,… Read more »

The case of the missing “Grey” gets Greyer

Bradley Babendir

A week ago, our own Liam O’Brien bragged like a 1920s bank robber about the heist of the century, snagging a copy of Grey before its release. Now, it appears that his story… Read more »

Top EU antitrust official: “We fear that [Amazon] has grown so big that they think they can… close competition”

Alex Shephard

A week ago, the European Commission, the EU’s governing body, made a major announcement: it was launching an antitrust investigation into Amazon’s ebook contracts with publishers. At the time, details… Read more »

Poetry For Robots!

Andrew Karpan

For millennia, the multifarious language of man was ours and ours alone and we were (generally) given to understand that the robot (and before that, golums and minotaurs) world communicated… Read more »

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