One hundred years overdue
A 500-year-old book, which has been missing from Archbishop Marsh’s Library in Dublin for more than a century, has been returned. The book was one of a 5 volume set… 2 / Read more »
Valerie Merians
Valerie Merians is the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.
La Oprah shows them how it’s done
View the video below to see Oprah Winfrey as she promos the ultimate book club, in a skit on Jimmy Kimmel’s post-Oscar show — Oprah’s “Book Club Fight Club.”
Phone booth libraries: They’re everywhere
A new take on the public library seems to be sweeping the nation, in one form or another. Last week Moby posted about Columbia University architecture school grad John Locke’s project of… Read more »
The best children’s book of all time?
In their newly-released March issue, Scholastic’s Parents magazine announces a list of the top one hundred books for kids. Culled from over 500 titles suggested by literacy experts, educators, and parents, the… 4 / Read more »
Technology 1.0 vs Technology 2.0
We read the following exchange in a tech column by Steve Alexander in the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Q: I bought a Sony e-book reader last year, but now I’d prefer… Read more »
Why are certain books banned for prisoners?
In honor of Black History Month, Leonard Pitts tells a story to give readers pause in a column for the Orlando Sentinel. According to Pitts, Bryan Stevenson, director of the Equal Justice Initiative,… Read more »
Court rules against web censorship for high school students
Good news out of the Jefferson City, MO, Federal District Court yesterday, according to this report from the American Civil Liberties Union: A federal district court ruled today that the… Read more »
Amazon has far fewer Prime subscribers than analysts thought, says report
It’s often noted — but seems in another way to be generally disregarded, by Wall Street and media alike — that the terrific sales often touted by Amazon are, well,… Read more »
Stylin’ Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
“Fashion designer Carlos Campos first read Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera when he was a teenager. And the book stayed with him: The designer, now 39,… Read more »
Good thing it wasn’t an ebook: One of four surviving Maga Cartas on display in the U.S.
The National Archive has unveiled the centerpiece of the David M. Rubentstien Exhibition and Visitor Center, its new exhibition gallery: a newly restored and encased 1297 Magna Carta, which is on loan… 2 / Read more »